USFS National Forest System Trails · Deschutes National Forest · Oregon · Updated June 2026
Deschutes River Hiking (USFS trail 2.1) is a 14.2 mi trail in Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Deschutes River Hiking?
| 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 | — |
This trail carries an accessibility designation in the USFS record.
Zooming out: across Deschutes National Forest, 59% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
In Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, Deschutes River Hiking (USFS trail 2.1) covers 14.2 mi of National Forest System trail. Everything below comes straight from the US Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset — length, surface, slope-derived difficulty, and the specific bike and e-bike designations on record — so you can check legality before you load up. USFS records list its surface 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 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, and the record carries an accessibility designation for this trail. For day-of certainty on closures or seasonal orders, check directly with the ranger district, since this reflects the USFS data as of the latest refresh.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Deschutes River Hiking?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Deschutes River Hiking in Deschutes National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Deschutes River Hiking?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Deschutes River Hiking in the USFS data.
- How long is Deschutes River Hiking?
- Deschutes River Hiking measures about 14.2 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Deschutes River Hiking?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Deschutes River Hiking 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 Deschutes National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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