USFS National Forest System Trails · Tahoe National Forest · California · Updated June 2026
Plum Valley Ditch (USFS trail 10E13) is a 5.8 mi trail in Tahoe National Forest, California. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Plum Valley 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 Tahoe National Forest, 30% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of C.
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About this trail
Plum Valley Ditch (USFS trail 10E13) is a 5.8 mi trail in Tahoe National Forest, California. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Tahoe National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. USFS records list its surface as native material. Based on slope, this is a Easy trail (grade band 0-5%); that reflects gentle gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. Bike use is designated as allowed year-round. 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. 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 Plum Valley Ditch?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Plum Valley Ditch in Tahoe National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Plum Valley Ditch?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Plum Valley Ditch in the USFS data.
- How long is Plum Valley Ditch?
- Plum Valley Ditch measures about 5.8 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Plum Valley Ditch?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Plum Valley Ditch as native material.
- How difficult is Plum Valley Ditch?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Easy (grade band 0-5%), 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 Tahoe National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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