USFS National Forest System Trails · Eldorado National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
West Bald Mountain (USFS trail 11E25) is a 2.5 mi trail in Eldorado National Forest, California. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with Class 1 e-bikes also designated.
Can I bike West Bald Mountain?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 1 e-bike (pedal-assist, 20 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 2 e-bike (throttle, 20 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 3 e-bike (pedal-assist, 28 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
Zooming out: across Eldorado National Forest, 94% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
In Eldorado National Forest, California, West Bald Mountain (USFS trail 11E25) covers 2.5 mi of National Forest System trail. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Eldorado National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. USFS records list its surface as native material. Based on slope, this is a Advanced trail (grade band 12-20%); that reflects steep gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. Mountain bikes are allowed, open year-round in the data. The record additionally permits Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bike use; recall that Class 1 is pedal-assist, while Class 2 adds a throttle and Class 3 a higher cutoff speed. 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. Treat this as a planning reference rather than a live conditions report, and verify any time-sensitive closure or order with the ranger district that manages Eldorado National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on West Bald Mountain?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on West Bald Mountain in Eldorado National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on West Bald Mountain?
- Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are designated on West Bald Mountain in the USFS data.
- How long is West Bald Mountain?
- West Bald Mountain measures about 2.5 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of West Bald Mountain?
- USFS data records the tread surface of West Bald Mountain as native material.
- How difficult is West Bald Mountain?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Advanced (grade band 12-20%), 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 Eldorado National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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