USFS National Forest System Trails · Salmon-Challis National Forest · Idaho · Updated June 2026
Continental Divide Nst (USFS trail 6111) is a 80.4 mi trail in Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with Class 1 e-bikes also designated.
Can I bike Continental Divide Nst?
| 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 Salmon-Challis National Forest, 26% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of C.
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About this trail
Continental Divide Nst (USFS trail 6111) is a 80.4 mi trail in Salmon-Challis National Forest, 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. Based on slope, this is a Advanced trail (grade band +12-20%); that reflects steep gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. Mountain bikes are allowed, open year-round in the data. 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 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 Salmon-Challis National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Continental Divide Nst?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Continental Divide Nst in Salmon-Challis National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Continental Divide Nst?
- Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are designated on Continental Divide Nst in the USFS data.
- How long is Continental Divide Nst?
- Continental Divide Nst measures about 80.4 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Continental Divide Nst?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Continental Divide Nst as native material.
- How difficult is Continental Divide Nst?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Advanced (grade band +12-20%), 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 Salmon-Challis National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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