USFS National Forest System Trails · White Mountain National Forest · New Hampshire · Updated June 2026
Rib Tickler (USFS trail 97605) is a 1.8 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 Rib Tickler?
| 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
Rib Tickler (USFS trail 97605) runs 1.8 mi through White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. 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. Underfoot, the trail is recorded 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. 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. 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 Rib Tickler?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Rib Tickler in White Mountain National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Rib Tickler?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Rib Tickler in the USFS data.
- How long is Rib Tickler?
- Rib Tickler measures about 1.8 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Rib Tickler?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Rib Tickler 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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