Welcome to the Safe Routes Mapping Site

Principals & Districts, please see below for information and tips to navigate the new site.

A Safe Routes to School map serves as a vital blueprint for safety, providing families with a clear guide to the most secure paths for walking and biking to campus. Its primary purpose is to eliminate guesswork by highlighting designated crosswalks, the presence of crossing guards, and established traffic signals, ensuring students avoid high-risk hazardous areas. Beyond individual safety, these maps also offer benefits to the broader community. They significantly reduce the gridlock and air pollution caused by the school “drop-off” line, create more vibrant and connected neighborhoods, and provide a data-driven foundation for city planners to advocate for new sidewalks and safe infrastructure. When a community uses these maps, it’s not just planning a route, it’s investing in a culture of health, independence, and shared responsibility for our children’s well-being.

Parents, go here to find your school's safe routes map.

Quick Facts: The Impact of a Great Map

Benefit	How it Helps
Safety First	Standardized maps have been shown to help reduce pedestrian injury rates by up to 44% through better route selection.
Traffic Relief	Up to 14% of morning rush hour traffic is school-related. Every child walking or biking is one less car in the drop-off line.
Academic Focus	Students who follow active routes arrive at school more alert and ready to learn, with improved concentration.
Community Value	Infrastructure improvements identified through mapping (like new sidewalks) increase property values and neighborhood livability.

Information for Principals and Districts

Safe Routes Utah has updated the mapping process to make it more streamlined and collaborative. Please follow these three steps to ensure your school is in compliance and ready for the school year.

Step 1: Identify Your Safe Routes Utah Safety Committee To create a high-quality plan, schools should assemble a safety committee of local experts and stakeholders. This committee should be based in your Community Council and should also include:
- School Administration: Principal or Vice Principal.
- Technical Experts: Local law enforcement and a City/County engineer, public works official, or a city planner.
- Community Representatives: PTA/PTO members and interested parents, guardians, or other school employees.
Step 2: Create or Update Your Map
Once your committee has vetted the routes, identified hazards and outlined the safest routes from each neighborhood, log in to the portal to Create/Update your Safe Routes Map and submit it for District Approval.
Step 3: Generate Your Safe Routes Report
This is a new, essential step located directly under the “School Resources” section where you edit your map.
- The Process: After completing your map, select “Create Safe Routes Report.”
- Delivery: A PDF of the report will be sent to your specified email address within 24 hours.
- Distribution: This PDF is your official document for cities, partners, and should be posted on your school’s website.
- Future Updates: You only need to create the initial report once. Moving forward, you can simply select previous versions by date and make necessary edits.

Reminders for Principals and Districts

Usernames are associated with the schools, not individuals. However, the contact information for the school can be updated and changed by contacting maps@saferoutesutah.com.
Your school’s map will only be visible on the public view if it has been approved by the district within the last year. If a map does not show up, it means it has not been approved, by the district.
School maps need to be submitted and approved annually, but can be updated and approved at any time and as often as needed.
If a school makes changes after the district has approved their map, those changes will not show up on the public map until the district has re-approved the map.
Once a school is ready to submit their map, they will need to click on their school icon on the map. This will auto-fill the submit form.

Below you will find helpful resources to help you on the new site, including a planning guide to help you in the process, a great example of how one school does their safe routes, and video tutorials to help you on the new mapping site.

Safe Routes Plan

A Safe Routes Plan informs and encourages students to walk and bike safely to school. It can also identify areas that require improvements.

Under Utah law (opens in a new tab), every elementary, middle and junior high school is required to create a Safe Routes Plan. It should be reviewed annually to see if there have been changes to the school attendance boundary, walk zone or the adjacent neighborhoods.

After the Safe Routes Plan has been reviewed and accepted by all involved parties–including the school, district, city, county and UDOT–it is the principal’s responsibility to distribute the approved safe routing map plan accompanied by a text description to every student enrolled in the school.

If you have any questions about the mapping site or your login information, please contact maps@saferoutes.com

Resources

Mapping Video Tutorials

School Login Overview

Safe Route Lines

Symbols

District Login Overview & Approvals

Safe Routes Reports

There is growing concern in Utah and across the nation about the safety of children who walk or bike to school. With increased traffic congestion around schools, students who choose to walk or bike have limited safe routes, which discourages this healthy activity. The main goal of the Safe Routes Grants program is to encourage and assist students living within 1.5-2 miles to safely walk or bike to school. Available grant funding can be used for projects that include non-infrastructure; e.g. education and encouragement, and infrastructure physical improvements; new sidewalks, school pavement markings, signage, bicycle parking, etc. For questions, please email Travis Evans, Active Transportation Safety Program Manager.