USFS National Forest System Trails · Superior National Forest · Minnesota · Updated June 2026
Rock And A Hard Place Pincush (USFS trail 21365C) is a 0.7 mi trail in Superior National Forest, Minnesota. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed, May–Oct, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Rock And A Hard Place Pincush?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | May–Oct |
| 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 Superior National Forest, 22% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of D.
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About this trail
Rock And A Hard Place Pincush (USFS trail 21365C) is a 0.7 mi trail in Superior National Forest, Minnesota. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Superior 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. Based on slope, this is a Easy trail (grade band +5-8%); that reflects gentle gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. Mountain bikes are allowed, with a May–Oct season in the data. The agency lists no Class 1, 2 or 3 e-bike designation here; absent a local order to the contrary, that means e-bikes are not an allowed use on this trail. 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 Rock And A Hard Place Pincush?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Rock And A Hard Place Pincush in Superior National Forest, typically May–Oct, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Rock And A Hard Place Pincush?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Rock And A Hard Place Pincush in the USFS data.
- How long is Rock And A Hard Place Pincush?
- Rock And A Hard Place Pincush measures about 0.7 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Rock And A Hard Place Pincush?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Rock And A Hard Place Pincush as native material.
- How difficult is Rock And A Hard Place Pincush?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Easy (grade band +5-8%), 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 Superior National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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