USFS National Forest System Trails · Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests · Oregon · Updated June 2026
Taylor Creek (USFS trail 1142) is a 10.7 mi trail in Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests, Oregon. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with Class 1 e-bikes also designated.
Can I bike Taylor Creek?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 1 e-bike (pedal-assist, 20 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 2 e-bike (throttle, 20 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 3 e-bike (pedal-assist, 28 mph) | Allowed | year-round |
Zooming out: across Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests, 53% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
Taylor Creek (USFS trail 1142) is a 10.7 mi trail in Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests, Oregon. This profile summarizes what the official US Forest Service trail record says about riding it: how long the trail is, what it's built on, how steep the route grades out, and which forms of bike use the agency has 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. Bike use is designated as allowed year-round. The record additionally permits Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bike use; recall that Class 1 is pedal-assist, while Class 2 adds a throttle and Class 3 a higher cutoff speed. 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 Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Taylor Creek?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Taylor Creek in Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Taylor Creek?
- Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 e-bikes are designated on Taylor Creek in the USFS data.
- How long is Taylor Creek?
- Taylor Creek measures about 10.7 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Taylor Creek?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Taylor 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 Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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