USFS National Forest System Trails · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · Idaho · Updated June 2026
Trail Canyon West (USFS trail 5251) is a 0.6 mi trail in Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Idaho. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with Class 1 e-bikes also designated.
Can I bike Trail Canyon West?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 1 e-bike (pedal-assist, 20 mph) | Allowed | May–Nov |
| Class 2 e-bike (throttle, 20 mph) | Allowed | May–Nov |
| Class 3 e-bike (pedal-assist, 28 mph) | Allowed | May–Nov |
Zooming out: across Caribou-Targhee National Forest, 98% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
Trail Canyon West (USFS trail 5251) is a 0.6 mi trail in Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Idaho. This profile summarizes what the official US Forest Service trail record says about riding it: how long the trail is, what it's built on, how steep the route grades out, and which forms of bike use the agency has designated. USFS records list its surface as native material. Based on slope, this is a Intermediate trail (grade band +8-10%); that reflects moderate gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. Bike use is designated as allowed year-round. The record additionally permits Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bike use, May–Nov; recall that Class 1 is pedal-assist, while Class 2 adds a throttle and Class 3 a higher cutoff speed. 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 Caribou-Targhee National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Trail Canyon West?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Trail Canyon West in Caribou-Targhee National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Trail Canyon West?
- Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are designated on Trail Canyon West in the USFS data.
- How long is Trail Canyon West?
- Trail Canyon West measures about 0.6 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Trail Canyon West?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Trail Canyon West as native material.
- How difficult is Trail Canyon West?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band +8-10%), 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 Caribou-Targhee National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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