USFS National Forest System Trails · Deschutes National Forest · Oregon · Updated June 2026
Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop (USFS trail 50.6) is a 1 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 Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop?
| 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 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
Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop (USFS trail 50.6) is a 1 mi trail in Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. 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. Underfoot, the trail is recorded as imported compacted 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 4 on the agency's 1-to-5 development scale, where 1 is the most primitive, minimally maintained tread and 5 is the most developed. 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 Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop in Deschutes National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop in the USFS data.
- How long is Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop?
- Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop measures about 1 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Phil'S Trailhead Skills Loop as imported compacted 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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