USFS National Forest System Trails · Cibola National Forest · New Mexico · Updated June 2026
401 (USFS trail 05401) is a 2.5 mi trail in Cibola National Forest, New Mexico. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike 401?
| 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 Cibola National Forest, 53% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
401 (USFS trail 05401) is a 2.5 mi trail in Cibola National Forest, New Mexico. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Cibola 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 Easy band (grade band 5-8%), meaning a gentle climb — keep in mind this measures steepness, not trail technicality. 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 Cibola National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on 401?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on 401 in Cibola National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on 401?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on 401 in the USFS data.
- How long is 401?
- 401 measures about 2.5 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of 401?
- USFS data records the tread surface of 401 as native material.
- How difficult is 401?
- 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 Cibola National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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