USFS National Forest System Trails · Payette National Forest · Idaho · Updated June 2026
Grand Traverse (USFS trail 402) is a 1.7 mi trail in Payette National Forest, Idaho. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed, May–Oct, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Grand Traverse?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | May–Oct |
| 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 | — |
Zooming out: across Payette National Forest, 20% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of D.
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About this trail
Grand Traverse (USFS trail 402) runs 1.7 mi through Payette National Forest in Idaho. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Payette National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. USFS records list its surface 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 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. For day-of certainty on closures or seasonal orders, check directly with the ranger district, since this reflects the USFS data as of the latest refresh.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Grand Traverse?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Grand Traverse in Payette National Forest, typically May–Oct, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Grand Traverse?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Grand Traverse in the USFS data.
- How long is Grand Traverse?
- Grand Traverse measures about 1.7 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Grand Traverse?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Grand Traverse 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 Payette National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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