Bicycling

Upcoming Active Connections projects

• Active Connections: California Street - This project will create a comfortable corridor for people biking, rolling and walking (also known as “active modes”) on California Street, connecting downtown Everett with the US 2 trail.
• Active Connections: Fulton Street Pedestrian and Bicycle Corridor - This project will build bicycle facilities and fill in missing sidewalk on Fulton Street between Pacific Avenue and California Street.

Recently completed bike projects

• Active Connections: West Casino Road - This project built buffered bike lanes adjacent to the curblines of both sides of West Casino Road as a part of the 2024 street resurfacing project.
• Active Connections: Madison Street - This project built buffered bike lanes along the curb of both sides of Madison Street as a part of the 2023 street resurfacing project.
• Active Connections: Fleming Bicycle Boulevard - This project constructed a new north/south bicycle boulevard on Federal Avenue, College Avenue and Fleming Street from Madison Street to the pedestrian and bicycle overpass of Mukilteo Boulevard at Forest Park. 
• Active Connections: Citywide Bicycle Wayfinding - Everett constructed 28 lane-miles of bike wayfinding on existing bike routes in 2024 to help bicyclists navigate to different parts of the City.

Sharing the road with bicyclists – Everett’s bicycle friendly driver course

This 30-minute interactive course will give you a better understanding of how to share the road with bicyclists and the most common crashes involving people driving cars and people riding bikes as well as how to avoid them. 

Upon course completion, visit this link to take the self-assessment and request your bicycle friendly driver sticker!

Everett has been named a bronze level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists for 2025 to 2029. The bronze BFC award recognizes Everett’s commitment to improving conditions for all people who bike through investments in bike education programs, regular bike events that promote and encourage people to choose biking, pro-bike policies, and bike infrastructure. This award recognizes the continuing work the City has done to develop its bicycle network, making Everett a safer, more accessible community for cyclists of all abilities and encouraging healthy and sustainable transportation choices. Everett was first awarded the Bicycle Friendly Community award in 2021. The award is given on a four-year cycle.  

This round of awards includes 79 new and renewing awardees, joining a total of 444 current Bicycle Friendly Communities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Over 900 communities have applied for recognition by the Bicycle Friendly Community program, which provides a roadmap to making biking better for communities of all shapes and sizes. While the award process considers very visible elements such as bike infrastructure, other essential elements include efforts around adult and youth bike education, encouragement through events like Bike to Work Day, evaluation mechanisms, and enforcement all through the lens of equity.

Everett Public Works is focused on improving bicycle facilities in the City of Everett. This map highlights bike facilities and amenities you can find throughout the city.

The Bicycle Master Plan Citywide map shows existing bicycle facilities along with current and planned projects.

Interactive bike tours

Are you looking for ideas for new routes to ride in Everett? Click here to visit our City of Everett bike route tours!

Tours include a route that connects 16 of our Everett neighborhoods, multiple park tours, a transit station tour and even a tour that connects all three golf courses in the City of Everett!

Click the image to learn about the progress on Everett's Bicycle Master Plan from adoption through late 2023!

The City is updating its Bicycle Master Plan and incorporating it into a new Active Transportation Plan that also includes pedestrian safety. Completion is expected in late 2027. The current master plan was adopted by the Everett City Council as an amendment to the Transportation Comprehensive Plan on April 20, 2011. The plan is used as the basis for future transportation projects and applying for federal and state grant funds. The recommended cross sections are used to improve existing bike lanes during ongoing maintenance projects.

• Bicycle master plan (PDF)
• Bicycle master plan appendix (PDF)
• Everett 2017 master plan update presentation (PDF)

The Bicycle Master Plan Citywide map shows existing bicycle facilities along with current and planned projects.

City of Everett bike terminology basics

For a complete list of current bicycle typology definitions, see "Types of bike and pedestrian facilities in the Puget Sound" under Biking Resources to the right.

• Bike boulevard: Streets with low motorized traffic volumes and speeds, designated and designed to give bicycle travel priority. Bicycle boulevards use signs, pavement markings, and speed and volume management measures to discourage through trips by motor vehicles and create safe, convenient bicycle crossings of busy arterial streets. Active Connections: Fleming Bicycle Corridor is an example.
• Buffered bike lane: A bike lane with a striped buffer between the bike lane and the vehicle lane. Active Connections: Madison Street is an example.
• Cycle track: A two-way protected bike lane. Active Connections: California Street will be an example.
• Edge lane road (also known as advisory bike lanes or advisory shoulders): An area on the edge of a roadway that offers prioritized space for bicyclists. Visit our edge lane roads page for a full description and information about our edge lane on Elk Hill Drive. 
• Multiuse path: A path designated for shared use by nonmotorized users and separated from the roadway, usually by landscaping. The Interurban Trail is an example.
• Protected bike lane: A bike lane with vertical and horizontal separation between the bike lane, the vehicle lane and the sidewalk. These often include a vertical protection treatment, like flexible delineators or landscaping. 
• Sidepath: A path designated for shared use by nonmotorized users adjacent to the roadway. The Mill Town Trail is an example.
• Trail: A path that serves both bicyclists and pedestrians, providing additional width over a standard sidewalk. The path is located in an independent corridor and separated from a roadway by open space, private property, landscaping or parks.

Safety resources

Cascade Bicycle Club and The League of American Bicyclists have safety resources for riders of all levels.  Here are some of our favorites:

Cascade Bicycle Club

• Riding in the rain
• ABC Quick check for kid’s bikes

The League of American Bicyclists

• How to choose a bike
• Proper bike helmet fit
• Basic bike safety check
• Traffic laws