USFS National Forest System Trails · White Mountain National Forest · New Hampshire · Updated June 2026
Ledges (USFS trail 97621) is a 2.8 mi trail in White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Ledges?
| 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 White Mountain National Forest, 19% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of D.
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About this trail
In White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Ledges (USFS trail 97621) covers 2.8 mi of National Forest System trail. Everything below comes straight from the US Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset — length, surface, slope-derived difficulty, and the specific bike and e-bike designations on record — so you can check legality before you load up. USFS records list its surface 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 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. Because conditions, closures, and local orders change between data refreshes, confirm the current status with the managing ranger district before you ride.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Ledges?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Ledges in White Mountain National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Ledges?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Ledges in the USFS data.
- How long is Ledges?
- Ledges measures about 2.8 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Ledges?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Ledges 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 White Mountain National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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