USFS National Forest System Trails · Lassen National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
Potato Butte 7 (USFS trail 53007) is a 0.6 mi trail in Lassen National Forest, California. Mountain-bike use here is accepted but discouraged in USFS data, with Class 1 e-bikes also designated.
Can I bike Potato Butte 7?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Accepted but discouraged | — |
| 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 Lassen National Forest, 35% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of C.
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About this trail
Potato Butte 7 (USFS trail 53007) is a 0.6 mi trail in Lassen National Forest, California. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Lassen National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. The tread is mapped as native material. No grade band is recorded, so a steepness-based difficulty isn't available for this trail. For traditional mountain bikes, use is discouraged according to USFS data. On the electric side, Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are also designated — Class 1 being pedal-assist only, Classes 2 and 3 adding a throttle and higher assisted speed. 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 Potato Butte 7?
- Mountain-bike use on Potato Butte 7 is discouraged in USFS records, though Class 1 e-bike use is designated. Confirm current rules with the managing ranger district.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Potato Butte 7?
- Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are designated on Potato Butte 7 in the USFS data.
- How long is Potato Butte 7?
- Potato Butte 7 measures about 0.6 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Potato Butte 7?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Potato Butte 7 as native material.
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 Lassen National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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