diff --git a/public/js/hiking_trails.js b/public/js/hiking_trails.js
index 86940e8..8ad9916 100644
--- a/public/js/hiking_trails.js
+++ b/public/js/hiking_trails.js
@@ -13,7 +13,18 @@ const LAYER_ID = "hiking-trails-line";
 // hits from here. One query per click (not per pan/move like the
 // Wikipedia layer's live refetch), so this stays well within Overpass's
 // shared rate limits.
-const OVERPASS_API = "https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter";
+//
+// Three independent public mirrors (also CORS-open, verified), raced with
+// Promise.any rather than called one at a time — the shared free instances
+// vary a lot in load from one moment to the next, and a multi-second wait
+// on a single one was the main complaint. Whichever answers first wins;
+// the others are simply left to finish and get GC'd, not worth the extra
+// AbortController plumbing for a single one-off per-click request.
+const OVERPASS_APIS = [
+  "https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter",
+  "https://overpass.kumi.systems/api/interpreter",
+  "https://overpass.private.coffee/api/interpreter",
+];
 const CLICK_RADIUS_M = 40;
 // OSM colour tag values are free text (untrusted) — only used as a CSS
 // background if they look like an actual color (hex or a plain word),
@@ -128,14 +139,15 @@ export class HikingTrailsControl {
 // waymarkedtrails.org's own site. `out geom` inlines each member way's
 // full coordinate list right on the relation, so no separate stitching
 // step is needed to get real geometry back.
+async function queryOverpass(url, query) {
+  const response = await fetch(url, { method: "POST", body: `data=${encodeURIComponent(query)}` });
+  if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`overpass ${response.status}`);
+  return response.json();
+}
+
 async function fetchNearbyRoutes(lng, lat) {
   const query = `[out:json][timeout:15];way(around:${CLICK_RADIUS_M},${lat},${lng})->.w;rel(bw.w)["route"="hiking"];out geom;`;
-  const response = await fetch(OVERPASS_API, {
-    method: "POST",
-    body: `data=${encodeURIComponent(query)}`,
-  });
-  if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`overpass ${response.status}`);
-  const data = await response.json();
+  const data = await Promise.any(OVERPASS_APIS.map((url) => queryOverpass(url, query)));
   return (data.elements || []).filter((element) => element.type === "relation");
 }
 
@@ -151,16 +163,26 @@ function routeDistance(relation) {
 
 function routeHtml(relation) {
   const tags = relation.tags || {};
-  const name = tags.name || tags.ref || "Hiking trail";
+  const name = tags.name || tags.description || "Hiking trail";
   const swatch = SAFE_COLOR.test(tags.colour || "")
     ? `<span class="hiking-trail-popup__swatch" style="background:${tags.colour}"></span>`
     : "";
   const meta = [formatDistance(routeDistance(relation))];
+  if (tags.ref) meta.push(`#${tags.ref}`);
   if (tags.network) meta.push(tags.network);
   if (tags.operator) meta.push(escapeHtml(tags.operator));
 
-  return [
+  const parts = [
     `<div class="gpx-popup__header"><strong>${escapeHtml(name)}</strong>${swatch}</div>`,
     `<p class="gpx-popup__category">${meta.filter(Boolean).join(" · ")}</p>`,
-  ].join("");
+  ];
+  // description already used as the title above when there's no name — only
+  // shown again here as its own line if there both is a name *and* a
+  // description to add, so it's never rendered twice for the common
+  // no-name case.
+  if (tags.name && tags.description) parts.push(`<p class="gpx-popup__description">${escapeHtml(tags.description)}</p>`);
+  parts.push(
+    `<p class="gpx-popup__link"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/${relation.id}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on OpenStreetMap →</a></p>`,
+  );
+  return parts.join("");
 }