General Tools

byway.world

Provides tools to search and explore America's scenic byways, lookouts, and road trip itineraries.

1 endpoint10 known toolsFirst detected July 17, 2026Last detected August 29, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://www.byway.world/api/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: byway
Version: 1.7.1

Capabilities

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Known tools 10

search_byways

Search scenic byways and signed routes — the US federal roster plus regional routes (Québec, France, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand today; growing).

Inferred read-only

get_byway

Full detail for one scenic byway or regional route: designation, states or country, length, scenic lookouts on the route, and itineraries that ride it.

Inferred read-only

search_lookouts

Scenic lookouts (viewpoints) along a specific byway, or across a US state.

Inferred read-only

get_itinerary

A classic road-trip itinerary: waypoints, states, and the scenic byways along the route.

Inferred read-only

search_places

Search the Byway atlas of typed places — waterfalls, hot springs, lighthouses, covered bridges, historic sites, beaches, peaks, rest areas, ghost towns, museums and attractions.

Inferred read-only

get_place

Everything the Byway atlas holds on one place: its own description, the records it traces to (OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata), reconciled public records (GNIS, National Register), the scenic byways that pass near it, and the nearest verified lookouts.

Inferred read-only

places_on_byway

Atlas places along one scenic byway: every place of a kind within a band of the drawn route, nearest to the road first, each marked whether it sits on the byway itself or is a detour off it.

Inferred read-only

search_destinations

Find US destination cities by name or state, with the day trip around each one: the scenic byways, national parks, public land units and campgrounds Byway's registries place within 30 miles.

Inferred read-only

plan_drive

Plan a scenic drive with the Byway engine: real verified stops, honest timing, official scenic byways.

Inferred read-only

places_along_route

Atlas inventory along a routed drive: every place of a kind within a band of the corridor between two points.

Inferred read-only

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.byway]
url = "https://www.byway.world/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "byway": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.byway.world/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: byway
Remote MCP URL: https://www.byway.world/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "byway": {
      "url": "https://www.byway.world/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "byway": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.byway.world/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "byway",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.byway.world/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

Trust Data Available

BuiltWith Trust API v2 evidence for byway.world was fetched 2026-08-11T20:34:15.562Z.

Trust status Neutral

byway.world is assessed as Neutral: No suspicious signals found, but no strong positive signal either

Indexed

Evidence is source-attributed and does not guarantee that a third-party server is safe. Risk labels are conservative metadata heuristics.