USFS National Forest System Trails · Deschutes National Forest · Oregon · Updated June 2026
Upper Butte Loops (USFS trail 4093.1) is a 11.6 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 Upper Butte Loops?
| 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
Upper Butte Loops (USFS trail 4093.1) is a 11.6 mi trail in Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Deschutes 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 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 Deschutes National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Upper Butte Loops?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Upper Butte Loops in Deschutes National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Upper Butte Loops?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Upper Butte Loops in the USFS data.
- How long is Upper Butte Loops?
- Upper Butte Loops measures about 11.6 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Upper Butte Loops?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Upper Butte Loops 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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