USFS National Forest System Trails · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · California · Updated October 2026
Upper Howe Ditch (USFS trail 09W80) is a 1.6 mi trail in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
- Trail length
- 1.6 mi
- Grade-based difficulty
- Unknownno grade band recorded
- Surface
- Native Material
- USFS trail class
- Class 41 primitive · 5 developed
Can I bike Upper Howe Ditch?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 1 e-bike (pedal-assist, 20 mph) | Restricted | — |
| Class 2 e-bike (throttle, 20 mph) | Restricted | — |
| Class 3 e-bike (pedal-assist, 28 mph) | Restricted | — |
Zooming out: across Shasta-Trinity National Forest, 80% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
In Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California, Upper Howe Ditch (USFS trail 09W80) covers 1.6 mi of National Forest System trail. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Shasta-Trinity 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. 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 4 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 Upper Howe Ditch?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Upper Howe Ditch in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Upper Howe Ditch?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Upper Howe Ditch in the USFS data.
- How long is Upper Howe Ditch?
- Upper Howe Ditch measures about 1.6 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Upper Howe Ditch?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Upper Howe Ditch 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 Shasta-Trinity National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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