USFS National Forest System Trails · Six Rivers National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
French Hill (USFS trail 2E25) is a 2.8 mi trail in Six Rivers National Forest, California. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike French Hill?
| 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 Six Rivers National Forest, 28% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of C.
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About this trail
French Hill (USFS trail 2E25) is a 2.8 mi trail in Six Rivers National Forest, California. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Six Rivers National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. Underfoot, the trail is recorded as native material. Based on slope, this is a Intermediate trail (grade band +8-10%); that reflects moderate gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. Mountain bikes are allowed, open year-round in the data. No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on this trail in the USFS data, so treat it as a non-motorized route unless a posted order says otherwise. 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 Six Rivers National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on French Hill?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on French Hill in Six Rivers National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on French Hill?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on French Hill in the USFS data.
- How long is French Hill?
- French Hill measures about 2.8 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of French Hill?
- USFS data records the tread surface of French Hill as native material.
- How difficult is French Hill?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band +8-10%), 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 Six Rivers National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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