USFS National Forest System Trails · Cleveland National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
Pine Mountain (USFS trail 5E08) is a 2.3 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 Pine Mountain?
| 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
Pine Mountain (USFS trail 5E08) runs 2.3 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. Underfoot, the trail is recorded as native material. Based on slope, this is a Intermediate trail (grade band 10-12%); that reflects moderate gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. Bike use is designated as allowed year-round. 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 3 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 Pine Mountain?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Pine Mountain in Cleveland National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Pine Mountain?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Pine Mountain in the USFS data.
- How long is Pine Mountain?
- Pine Mountain measures about 2.3 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Pine Mountain?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Pine Mountain as native material.
- How difficult is Pine Mountain?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band 10-12%), 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 Cleveland National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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