USFS National Forest System Trails · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · Colorado · Updated June 2026
Rock Creek (USFS trail 1000.1) is a 4.5 mi trail in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, Colorado. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Rock Creek?
| 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) | — |
This trail carries an accessibility designation in the USFS record.
Zooming out: across Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, 14% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of D.
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About this trail
Rock Creek (USFS trail 1000.1) is a 4.5 mi trail in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, Colorado. Everything below comes straight from the US Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset — length, surface, slope-derived difficulty, and the specific bike and e-bike designations on record — so you can check legality before you load up. USFS records list its surface as native material. USFS slope data puts it in the Advanced band (grade band 12-20%), meaning a steep climb — keep in mind this measures steepness, not trail technicality. 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 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, and the record carries an accessibility designation for this trail. 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 Rock Creek?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Rock Creek in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Rock Creek?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Rock Creek in the USFS data.
- How long is Rock Creek?
- Rock Creek measures about 4.5 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Rock Creek?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Rock Creek as native material.
- How difficult is Rock Creek?
- 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 Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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