USFS National Forest System Trails · Custer Gallatin National Forest · Montana · Updated June 2026
Palisade Mountain Foothills (USFS trail 676) is a 1.1 mi trail in Custer Gallatin National Forest, Montana. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Palisade Mountain Foothills?
| 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 Custer Gallatin National Forest, 98% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
In Custer Gallatin National Forest, Montana, Palisade Mountain Foothills (USFS trail 676) covers 1.1 mi of National Forest System trail. 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. 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. 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. 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 Palisade Mountain Foothills?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Palisade Mountain Foothills in Custer Gallatin National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Palisade Mountain Foothills?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Palisade Mountain Foothills in the USFS data.
- How long is Palisade Mountain Foothills?
- Palisade Mountain Foothills measures about 1.1 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Palisade Mountain Foothills?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Palisade Mountain Foothills 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 Custer Gallatin National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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