Planning a road trip across America? Considered cycling? Major US cycle routes mapped

A collaboration between Los Angeles media outfit GOOD, designer Gregory Hubacek and organic sports nutrition company CLIF Bar aims to open Americans' eyes to the travel options provided by cycling. Their map, shown above, includes both urban and rural routes as well as details such as the total length of cycle lanes in major US cities. Much as the railroads once did - and in fact several stretches of the cycle routes follow disused railway lines - the networks stretch from coast to coast, offering the chance to pedal all the way from New York to San Francisco, for example, on dedicated cycle paths. Three routes - the Northern and Southern Tiers and the Transamerica Trail - reach all the way from coast to coast, with dozens of regional links branching off along the way. At 4262 miles in length the Northern Tier is the longest single route, edging the Transamerica Trail into second by a mere 20 miles. Paths such as the Great Divide and Great Parks North cross the border into Canada. As far as urban networks are concerned, new York has the longest offering - its routes stretch for a total of 620 miles - while L.A. comes in second with 481 miles. More data More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter • Like us on Facebook