USFS National Forest System Trails · Flathead National Forest · Montana · Updated June 2026
Beardance (USFS trail 76) is a 6.8 mi trail in Flathead National Forest, Montana. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Beardance?
| 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 Flathead National Forest, 27% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of C.
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About this trail
Beardance (USFS trail 76) runs 6.8 mi through Flathead National Forest in Montana. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Flathead 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. USFS slope data puts it in the Intermediate band (grade band 10-12%), meaning a moderate climb — keep in mind this measures steepness, not trail technicality. 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 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. 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 Flathead National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Beardance?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Beardance in Flathead National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Beardance?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Beardance in the USFS data.
- How long is Beardance?
- Beardance measures about 6.8 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Beardance?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Beardance as native material.
- How difficult is Beardance?
- 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 Flathead National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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