RailTrailWx™
Your comfort. Prognosticated.
How do you enjoy rail trails?
Maybe you love long rides through river valleys or open fields. Maybe you are drawn to a quiet walk in the trees, a morning of birding, or exploring a trail town you have never visited. Maybe you are working through a bucket list. Rail trails make room for all of it.
But every rail trail outing meets the same challenge: planning for the weather. Ordinary forecasts are not built around your trail, your activity, or your personal comfort. RailTrailWx is.
RailTrailWx is built around your trail, your activity, and your personal comfort.
Instead of interpreting a generic weather forecast, you receive guidance tailored to each rail trail and your personal preferences.
When is the best time to go?
RailTrailWx Comfort Scoresᵀᴹ give you an at-a-glance read on the best times to go and the hours to avoid.
Where should I go?
Statewide maps color every rail trail by your comfort score, making it easy to compare options and choose where to go.
How will the weather conditions feel for me?
Your comfort score is built from your own thresholds for temperature, wind, humidity, and precipitation.
Best time recommendations for your trail and activity for the next five days
Compare your comfort scores across all rail trails in Pennsylvania
See your comfort scores and weather variables hour by hour
Generate custom comfort scores for your optimized route
Dive deeper into the weather variables impacting your comfort score
Live state-wide radar to see the big picture
Live local radar to know what's approaching before you go
National Weather Service alerts along the trail to avoid hazards and enhance safety
Pick a trail. Set your preferences. Know when to go.
Choose a rail trail
Begin with a rail trail you know, love, or want to explore.
Choose a default activity profile or personalize one
Tell RailTrailWx what matters for your activity: temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and more.
See your best window
You'll see at-a-glance best time recommendations.
Founded by a meteorologist and avid rail trail rider.
Hi, I’m Cory Baggett, and I built RailTrailWx after years of trying to compare wind, temperature, humidity, and precipitation across many rail trails and forecasted days just to decide where and when to ride. Weather shifts dramatically along trail corridors, and comfort shifts just as much from person to person. RailTrailWx exists to remove that mental load and help you make clearer, faster decisions about when and where to enjoy the trails.
About Cory Baggett and RailTrailWx's mission →Launching in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is home to more than 2,000 miles of rail trails across 100+ individual corridors, including Rails-to-Trails Hall of Fame destinations and some of the most celebrated bucket-list rides in the country. The trails pass through a living record of American rail history: stone viaducts, iron bridges, mountain tunnels, and the trail towns that grew up alongside the rails and still welcome visitors today. The variety of terrains and microclimates, from deep river gorges to open farm fields, canopied forests to exposed ridges, makes trail-specific weather guidance especially meaningful here.
What’s included
- RailTrailWx Comfort Scoresᵀᴹ for at-a-glance decisions about where, when, and how to enjoy the trails.
- Entrain Weather Microclimate Engineᵀᴹ, powering super high-resolution forecasts tuned to each rail trail's microclimate
- Activity profiles for biking and walking, with full customization of weather thresholds for any activity you choose.
- Weather forecasts derived from NOAA and ECMWF state-of-the art models1
- Rail trail maps with comfort score overlays, waypoint markers, and interactive features
- NEXRAD radar integrated into every trail view to help you see live, approaching precipitation before you go
- 100+ Pennsylvania rail trails with coverage expanding to more trails and states in the near future
- Wind forecasts that are direction-aware, providing headwind information for activities like biking
- Customizable routes along each trail
- Alerts from the National Weather Service for each trail, to help you stay aware of hazardous conditions
RailTrailWx™
Your comfort. Prognosticated.
RailTrailWx is at the beginning of a longer journey. The trails will expand beyond Pennsylvania, the guidance will sharpen with every season, and the science will keep improving. Join early and help shape what it becomes.