USFS National Forest System Trails · Payette National Forest · Idaho · Updated June 2026
Weiser/Council Boundary Trail (USFS trail 236) is a 4.7 mi trail in Payette National Forest, Idaho. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with Class 1 e-bikes also designated.
Can I bike Weiser/Council Boundary Trail?
| 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 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
Weiser/Council Boundary Trail (USFS trail 236) is a 4.7 mi trail in Payette National Forest, 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. 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, open year-round in the data. The record additionally permits Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bike use; 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 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 Weiser/Council Boundary Trail?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Weiser/Council Boundary Trail in Payette National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Weiser/Council Boundary Trail?
- Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are designated on Weiser/Council Boundary Trail in the USFS data.
- How long is Weiser/Council Boundary Trail?
- Weiser/Council Boundary Trail measures about 4.7 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Weiser/Council Boundary Trail?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Weiser/Council Boundary Trail 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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