USFS National Forest System Trails · Kisatchie National Forest · Louisiana · Updated June 2026
Sugar Cane Nrt (USFS trail 6001) is a 5.1 mi trail in Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Sugar Cane Nrt?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| 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 Kisatchie National Forest, 29% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of C.
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About this trail
Sugar Cane Nrt (USFS trail 6001) runs 5.1 mi through Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. 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. Its grade-based difficulty is Easy (grade band 0-5%) — a gentle steepness profile derived from USFS slope data, not a technical mountain-bike rating. Bike use is designated as allowed year-round. 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 Kisatchie National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Sugar Cane Nrt?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Sugar Cane Nrt in Kisatchie National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Sugar Cane Nrt?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Sugar Cane Nrt in the USFS data.
- How long is Sugar Cane Nrt?
- Sugar Cane Nrt measures about 5.1 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Sugar Cane Nrt?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Sugar Cane Nrt as native material.
- How difficult is Sugar Cane Nrt?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Easy (grade band 0-5%), 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 Kisatchie National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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