USFS National Forest System Trails · White River National Forest · Colorado · Updated June 2026
North Vail Spur (USFS trail 1896A) is a 0.8 mi trail in White River National Forest, Colorado. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed, Jun–Nov, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike North Vail Spur?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | Jun–Nov |
| 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 | — |
This trail carries an accessibility designation in the USFS record.
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
North Vail Spur (USFS trail 1896A) is a 0.8 mi trail in White River National Forest, 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. The tread is mapped as native material. No grade band is recorded, so a steepness-based difficulty isn't available for this trail. Mountain bikes are allowed, with a Jun–Nov season in the data. 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, and the record carries an accessibility designation for this trail. 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 North Vail Spur?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on North Vail Spur in White River National Forest, typically Jun–Nov, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on North Vail Spur?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on North Vail Spur in the USFS data.
- How long is North Vail Spur?
- North Vail Spur measures about 0.8 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of North Vail Spur?
- USFS data records the tread surface of North Vail Spur 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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