USFS National Forest System Trails · Pike and San Isabel National Forests · Colorado · Updated June 2026
Silver Creek (USFS trail 1407) is a 4.3 mi trail in Pike and San Isabel National Forests, Colorado. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Silver 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) | — |
Zooming out: across Pike and San Isabel National Forests, 51% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
Silver Creek (USFS trail 1407) runs 4.3 mi through Pike and San Isabel National Forests in Colorado. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Pike and San Isabel National Forests, 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. Its grade-based difficulty is Advanced (grade band +12-20%) — a steep steepness profile derived from USFS slope data, not a technical mountain-bike 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 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 Pike and San Isabel National Forests.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Silver Creek?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Silver Creek in Pike and San Isabel National Forests, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Silver Creek?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Silver Creek in the USFS data.
- How long is Silver Creek?
- Silver Creek measures about 4.3 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Silver Creek?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Silver Creek as native material.
- How difficult is Silver 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 Pike and San Isabel National Forests (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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