USFS National Forest System Trails · Boise National Forest · Idaho · Updated June 2026
Brewers Byway (USFS trail 096-R2R) is a 0.9 mi trail in Boise National Forest, Idaho. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed, May–Oct, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Brewers Byway?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | May–Oct |
| 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 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
Brewers Byway (USFS trail 096-R2R) runs 0.9 mi through Boise National Forest in Idaho. 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. 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, with a May–Oct season 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. 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 Brewers Byway?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Brewers Byway in Boise National Forest, typically May–Oct, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Brewers Byway?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Brewers Byway in the USFS data.
- How long is Brewers Byway?
- Brewers Byway measures about 0.9 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Brewers Byway?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Brewers Byway 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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