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Byway MCP Server

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Byway is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 10 tools.

Byway MCP: call Byway Engine and Byway Atlas, the discovery engine for the real world.

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 0%
51 days agonow
1.1%
Uptime 24h
1 of 91 checks
10
Tools
read from the server
982 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 18

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

26 Aug a tool changed version
23 Aug 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_place, places_along_route, places_on_byway and 1 more
19 Aug a tool changed version
18 Aug 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_place, places_along_route, places_on_byway and 1 more
18 Aug a tool description was rewritten search_places
18 Aug a tool appeared search_destinations
17 Aug a tool description was rewritten plan_drive
17 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for plan_drive
11 Aug 4 tools appeared get_place, places_along_route, places_on_byway and 1 more

Byway does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.5% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

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 10

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

places
places_along_route
Atlas inventory along a routed drive: every place of a kind within a band of the corridor between two points. This returns the raw record, not a plan — to plan a drive with stops chosen for the traveler, use plan_drive. One limit, stated: ghost-town rows live in a separate Wikidata corpus the corridor read cannot see. Asking for one here is refused rather than answered empty; reach them with search_places by state.
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. Only routes with drawn geometry can answer. This is the atlas inventory beside a road, not an itinerary. One limit, stated: ghost-town rows live in a separate Wikidata corpus the corridor read cannot see. Asking for one here is refused rather than answered empty; reach them with search_places by state.
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. Locate by US state (which also needs a kind), by a point and radius, or by name; a name given alongside a locator narrows it. Every result links to the byway.world page for that place, and every place traces to its OpenStreetMap or Wikidata record. One limit, stated: ghost-town rows live in a separate Wikidata corpus that the point and name searches cannot read, so they are absent from a kind-less search. Reach them with state + kind, or with get_place. Asking for one any other way is refused, never answered empty.
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.
destinations
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. Only cities with a proven weave are listed — every result links to its own byway.world destination page.
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.
place
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. Takes the byway.world URL search_places returned, or the place's kind and slug.
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. budget_min is the whole time window (driving plus stops, default 240): a long drive needs a budget comfortably above its direct drive time or there is no slack to spend on stops. Requires a connected Byway account (OAuth sign-in). Set save=true to save the trip to your account.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.byway.world/api/mcp streamable-http answering 335 ms 5 min ago

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Byway — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Byway do?
It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_byway, get_itinerary, get_place, places_along_route, places_on_byway, plan_drive and 4 more. 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 1 of 91 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 982 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 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Byway?
It answers our handshake in 982 ms on average, which is faster than 11% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.