USFS National Forest System Trails · Cleveland National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
Big Laguna (USFS trail 5E06) is a 5.8 mi trail in Cleveland National Forest, California. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Big Laguna?
| 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 Cleveland National Forest, 75% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
Big Laguna (USFS trail 5E06) runs 5.8 mi through Cleveland National Forest in California. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Cleveland National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. The trail surface is not specified in the USFS record. No grade band is recorded, so a steepness-based difficulty isn't available for this trail. Bike use is designated as allowed year-round. The agency lists no Class 1, 2 or 3 e-bike designation here; absent a local order to the contrary, that means e-bikes are not an allowed use on this trail. 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. For day-of certainty on closures or seasonal orders, check directly with the ranger district, since this reflects the USFS data as of the latest refresh.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Big Laguna?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Big Laguna in Cleveland National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Big Laguna?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Big Laguna in the USFS data.
- How long is Big Laguna?
- Big Laguna measures about 5.8 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
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 Cleveland National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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