Washington, DC · separated · mixed
East Coast Greenway (DC/MD Anacostia Alternative)
The East Coast Greenway is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) pedestrian and bicycle route between Maine and Florida along the East Coast of the United States. The nonprofit East Coast Greenway Alliance was created in 1991 with the goal to use the entire route with off-road, shared-use paths; as of 2021, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) of the route (35%) meets these criteria. In 2020, the Greenway received over 50 million visits.
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Today's verdict
Workable day to get the road bike out.
Best for e-bike riding today
Route map
Orange marker is the start. Click the map to enable scroll-zoom — the polyline is approximate; use Ride with GPS or Komoot for turn-by-turn.
Atmosphere
- Air temp82°FClear
- Wind6 mphNW
- Rain0%Next 24h: 0.00"
- Humidity42%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrymixed surface
- Sunrise5:42 AM
- Sunset8:34 PM614 min remaining
Best time today
1 PM looks best — 86°F · 5 mph NW wind · sunny. 11 AM is a close second (61/100).
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Wind on this route
Light crosswind (6 mph).
Currently 6 mph from the NW (315°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a crosswind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 105° · quartering tailwind 0.4 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 123° · tailwind 0.4 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 83° · quartering tailwind 0.5 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 59° · crosswind 0.6 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 64° · crosswind 0.6 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 50° · crosswind 0.5 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 35° · crosswind 0.6 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 8° · quartering headwind 0.6 mi
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About this route
- Distance
- 6.5 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 52 ft
- Surface
- mixed
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- separated
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike
- Cycle network
- NCN · route ECG
- Operator
- East Coast Greenway Alliance
- Start
38.8720, -77.0174- City hub
- Washington, DC
- OSM
- relation 13327825
Description sourced from the Wikipedia summary.