Byway MCP Server

world.byway/mcp

not responding

Byway is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

AI scenic routing engine: byways, lookouts, itineraries, real drive planning. Zero hallucinations.

Uptime history 42 hours of history · worst hour 0%

42 hours agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

362 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://www.byway.world/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

byway

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.

byways

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). Filter by name, US state, or ISO-2 country. US byways carry byway.world links.

itinerary

get_itinerary

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

lookouts

search_lookouts

Scenic lookouts (viewpoints) along a specific byway, or across a US state. Every lookout is a real, verified place — coverage is growing.

plan

plan_drive

Plan a scenic drive with the Byway engine: real verified stops, honest timing, official scenic byways. Origin and destination are place names — the tool resolves each to the closest matching real place. Requires a connected Byway account (OAuth sign-in). Set save=true to save the trip to your account.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.byway.world/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	362 ms	14 min ago

Byway — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Byway do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_byway, get_itinerary, plan_drive, search_byways, search_lookouts. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Byway working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 362 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Byway as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Byway?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Byway need an API key?

No. Byway completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.