Bicycle Friendly Business

National Park Service - National Mall and Memorial Parks| Silver Level

Business Highlights: The National Park Service – National Mall and Memorial Parks encourages both its employees and visitors to ride bicycles. They have a full-time bike cooridnator and offer bike safety education and maintenance classes to employees and provide them with ample secure bike parking, showers, lockers, a bike repair station equipped with maintenance supplies, a dedicated bike maintenance person, and a bike share program – bicycles are available for staff wanting to bike between work sites and the memorials. Employees are also offered the Bicycle Commuter Benefit if they commute to work by bicycle. Additonally, the National Park Service rangers lead free guided bike tours of the Nation’s Capital every Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m, March through November. 

Most Compelling Bike Related Statistic: Almost all of the rangers and staff have taken professionally trained on-site bike safety courses, especially beneficial for city biking and those biking to work.