USFS National Forest System Trails · Los Padres National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
Rattlesnake (USFS trail 27W15) is a 2.4 mi trail in Los Padres National Forest, California. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Rattlesnake?
| 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 Los Padres National Forest, 51% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
Rattlesnake (USFS trail 27W15) is a 2.4 mi trail in Los Padres National Forest, California. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Los Padres 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. USFS slope data puts it in the Intermediate band (grade band 10-12%), meaning a moderate climb — keep in mind this measures steepness, not trail technicality. Mountain bikes are allowed, open year-round in the data. 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 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 Los Padres National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Rattlesnake?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Rattlesnake in Los Padres National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Rattlesnake?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Rattlesnake in the USFS data.
- How long is Rattlesnake?
- Rattlesnake measures about 2.4 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Rattlesnake?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Rattlesnake as native material.
- How difficult is Rattlesnake?
- 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 Los Padres National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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