USFS National Forest System Trails · White River National Forest · Colorado · Updated June 2026
Buzzard Basin (USFS trail 1957W.2B) is a 4 mi trail in White River National Forest, Colorado. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Buzzard Basin?
| 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 White River National Forest, 99% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
Buzzard Basin (USFS trail 1957W.2B) runs 4 mi through White River National Forest in Colorado. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for White River 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. 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. 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. Its USFS Trail Class (the agency's 1-to-5 development rating) isn't recorded for this segment. 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 Buzzard Basin?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Buzzard Basin in White River National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Buzzard Basin?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Buzzard Basin in the USFS data.
- How long is Buzzard Basin?
- Buzzard Basin measures about 4 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Buzzard Basin?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Buzzard Basin 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 White River National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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