USFS National Forest System Trails · Lassen National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
Saddle Lake (USFS trail 612) is a 0.8 mi trail in Lassen National Forest, California. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with Class 1 e-bikes also designated.
Can I bike Saddle Lake?
| 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 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
Saddle Lake (USFS trail 612) runs 0.8 mi through Lassen National Forest in California. 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. The tread is mapped as native material. No grade band is recorded, so a steepness-based difficulty isn't available for this trail. Mountain bikes are allowed, open year-round in the 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 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. 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 Saddle Lake?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Saddle Lake in Lassen National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Saddle Lake?
- Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are designated on Saddle Lake in the USFS data.
- How long is Saddle Lake?
- Saddle Lake measures about 0.8 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Saddle Lake?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Saddle Lake 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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