USFS National Forest System Trails · Boise National Forest · Idaho · Updated June 2026
Bear Creek / Warm Lake (USFS trail 105004) is a 3.2 mi trail in Boise National Forest, Idaho. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with Class 1 e-bikes also designated.
Can I bike Bear Creek / Warm Lake?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 1 e-bike (pedal-assist, 20 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 2 e-bike (throttle, 20 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 3 e-bike (pedal-assist, 28 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
Zooming out: across Boise 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
Bear Creek / Warm Lake (USFS trail 105004) is a 3.2 mi trail in Boise National Forest, Idaho. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Boise 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. Bike use is designated as allowed year-round. On the electric side, Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are also designated — Class 1 being pedal-assist only, Classes 2 and 3 adding a throttle and higher assisted speed. 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. 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 Boise National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Bear Creek / Warm Lake?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Bear Creek / Warm Lake in Boise National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Bear Creek / Warm Lake?
- Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are designated on Bear Creek / Warm Lake in the USFS data.
- How long is Bear Creek / Warm Lake?
- Bear Creek / Warm Lake measures about 3.2 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Bear Creek / Warm Lake?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Bear Creek / Warm Lake 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 Boise National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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