USFS National Forest System Trails · Sequoia National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
Touhy Gap (USFS trail 30E13) is a 1.5 mi trail in Sequoia National Forest, California. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Touhy Gap?
| 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 Sequoia National Forest, 6% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of F.
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About this trail
Touhy Gap (USFS trail 30E13) runs 1.5 mi through Sequoia National Forest in California. This profile summarizes what the official US Forest Service trail record says about riding it: how long the trail is, what it's built on, how steep the route grades out, and which forms of bike use the agency has designated. The tread is mapped 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 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 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. 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 Sequoia National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Touhy Gap?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Touhy Gap in Sequoia National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Touhy Gap?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Touhy Gap in the USFS data.
- How long is Touhy Gap?
- Touhy Gap measures about 1.5 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Touhy Gap?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Touhy Gap as native material.
- How difficult is Touhy Gap?
- 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 Sequoia National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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