USFS National Forest System Trails · Lincoln National Forest · New Mexico · Updated June 2026
Upper Raven (USFS trail 121A) is a 3.6 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 Upper Raven?
| 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, Upper Raven (USFS trail 121A) covers 3.6 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. 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. 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 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. 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 Upper Raven?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Upper Raven in Lincoln National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Upper Raven?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Upper Raven in the USFS data.
- How long is Upper Raven?
- Upper Raven measures about 3.6 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Upper Raven?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Upper Raven 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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