While the National Park Service has been studying the impacts of eBikes in the National Park System, the agency really knows little about the impacts on the environment or on other trail users, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
The draft “programmatic environmental assessment” on Use of Electric Bicycles Within the National Park System the Park Service released in June “provides no current information on the actual number of roads and trails in which 130 park units are now approved for eBikes, or even whether 130 units remains accurate in 2023,” PEER said Thursday in its comments on the PEA. “It provides zero indication of how many backcountry trails, i.e., the most significantly impacted trails in the system, have been approved or where they are.”