On July 18, People for Bikes announced their 2025 Best Places to Bike including a score of 72 and a ranking of 35th in the nation, 15th in the Midwest and 4th in Ohio.

"For 2025, we ranked nearly 3,000 cities worldwide, including 209 new U.S. cities. This year’s ratings feature the return of our best city for biking — the car-free Mackinac Island, Michigan — which boasts the first perfect score in City Ratings history. We also welcome a brand new best large U.S. city for bicycling — Brooklyn, New York — narrowly edging out Minneapolis, Minnesota, which took home the top spot in last year’s rankings."

To the People for Bikes rankings, visit https://cityratings.peopleforbikes.org/

ABOUT CITY RATINGS

PeopleForBikes’ City Ratings measures the quality of a city’s bike network. A bike network is a connected system of protected bike lanes, off-street paths, slow shared streets, and safe crossings that enables people to comfortably bike around a city.

Each city receives a City Ratings score on a scale of 0-100. A low score (0-20) indicates a weak bike network, meaning the city lacks safe bikeways or there are gaps in the network. A high score (80-100) indicates that most common destinations are accessible by safe, comfortable bike routes that serve people of all ages and abilities.

City Ratings scores are released annually each summer based on results from our Bicycle Network Analysis (BNA) data analysis software that measures the quality and connectivity of a city's bike network. The BNA assesses six factors captured in the acronym SPRINT:

• Safe speeds
• Protected bike lanes
• Reallocated Space
• Intersection treatments
• Network connections
• Trusted data