USFS National Forest System Trails · Hoosier National Forest · Indiana · Updated June 2026
Hickory Ridge 17 (USFS trail 401.170) is a 1.9 mi trail in Hoosier National Forest, Indiana. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Hickory Ridge 17?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| 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 Hoosier National Forest, 100% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
Hickory Ridge 17 (USFS trail 401.170) runs 1.9 mi through Hoosier National Forest in Indiana. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Hoosier National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. Underfoot, the trail is recorded as native material. Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band 10-12%) — a moderate steepness profile derived from USFS slope data, not a technical mountain-bike rating. Mountain bikes are allowed, open year-round 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 4 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 Hoosier National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Hickory Ridge 17?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Hickory Ridge 17 in Hoosier National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Hickory Ridge 17?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Hickory Ridge 17 in the USFS data.
- How long is Hickory Ridge 17?
- Hickory Ridge 17 measures about 1.9 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Hickory Ridge 17?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Hickory Ridge 17 as native material.
- How difficult is Hickory Ridge 17?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band 10-12%), 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 Hoosier National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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