USFS National Forest System Trails · White Mountain National Forest · New Hampshire · Updated June 2026
Moat Mineral Site Trail (USFS trail 96727) is a 3.7 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 Moat Mineral Site Trail?
| 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, Moat Mineral Site Trail (USFS trail 96727) covers 3.7 mi of National Forest System trail. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for White Mountain National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. The tread is mapped as native material. Its grade-based difficulty is Easy (grade band 5-8%) — a gentle steepness profile derived from USFS slope data, not a technical mountain-bike rating. Bike use is designated as allowed year-round. 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. 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 White Mountain National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Moat Mineral Site Trail?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Moat Mineral Site Trail in White Mountain National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Moat Mineral Site Trail?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Moat Mineral Site Trail in the USFS data.
- How long is Moat Mineral Site Trail?
- Moat Mineral Site Trail measures about 3.7 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Moat Mineral Site Trail?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Moat Mineral Site Trail as native material.
- How difficult is Moat Mineral Site Trail?
- 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 White Mountain National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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