USFS National Forest System Trails · Lincoln National Forest · New Mexico · Updated June 2026
Lower Cedar Creek (USFS trail 120A) is a 1.5 mi trail in Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Lower Cedar Creek?
| 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 Lincoln National Forest, 17% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of D.
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About this trail
In Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, Lower Cedar Creek (USFS trail 120A) covers 1.5 mi of National Forest System trail. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Lincoln 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. No grade band is recorded, so a steepness-based difficulty isn't available for this trail. 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 2 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 Lincoln National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Lower Cedar Creek?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Lower Cedar Creek in Lincoln National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Lower Cedar Creek?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Lower Cedar Creek in the USFS data.
- How long is Lower Cedar Creek?
- Lower Cedar Creek measures about 1.5 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Lower Cedar Creek?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Lower Cedar Creek 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 Lincoln National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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