USFS National Forest System Trails · Prescott National Forest · Arizona · Updated June 2026
Cement Troughs (USFS trail 0918) is a 0.5 mi trail in Prescott National Forest, Arizona. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Cement Troughs?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 1 e-bike (pedal-assist, 20 mph) | — | |
| Class 2 e-bike (throttle, 20 mph) | — | |
| Class 3 e-bike (pedal-assist, 28 mph) | — |
Zooming out: across Prescott National Forest, 85% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
Cement Troughs (USFS trail 0918) is a 0.5 mi trail in Prescott National Forest, Arizona. Everything below comes straight from the US Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset — length, surface, slope-derived difficulty, and the specific bike and e-bike designations on record — so you can check legality before you load up. Underfoot, the trail is recorded as native material. Based on slope, this is a Intermediate trail (grade band 8-10%); that reflects moderate gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. Mountain bikes are allowed, open year-round in the data. No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on this trail in the USFS data, so treat it as a non-motorized route unless a posted order says otherwise. The route is mapped as USFS Trail Class 2 on the agency's 1-to-5 development scale, where 1 is the most primitive, minimally maintained tread and 5 is the most developed. Because conditions, closures, and local orders change between data refreshes, confirm the current status with the managing ranger district before you ride.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Cement Troughs?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Cement Troughs in Prescott National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Cement Troughs?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Cement Troughs in the USFS data.
- How long is Cement Troughs?
- Cement Troughs measures about 0.5 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Cement Troughs?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Cement Troughs as native material.
- How difficult is Cement Troughs?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band 8-10%), derived from USFS slope data. This reflects steepness, not technical mountain-bike difficulty.
How we read this data
Grade-based difficulty above is the USFS grade (route steepness), not a technical mountain-bike rating — a gentle-grade trail can still be rocky or technical, and vice versa. Bike and e-bike status come verbatim from the USFS managed-use fields for this trail; we never infer access we can't cite. See our methodology for how the dataset is built and what each field means.
Where it is
Approximate location of Prescott National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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