USFS National Forest System Trails · Allegheny National Forest · Pennsylvania · Updated June 2026
Little Drummer Historical Path (USFS trail 85023) is a 1.4 mi trail in Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Little Drummer Historical Path?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | year-round |
| Class 1 e-bike (pedal-assist, 20 mph) | — | |
| Class 2 e-bike (throttle, 20 mph) | — | |
| Class 3 e-bike (pedal-assist, 28 mph) | — |
Zooming out: across Allegheny National Forest, 81% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
Little Drummer Historical Path (USFS trail 85023) runs 1.4 mi through Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. 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. 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. 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 Little Drummer Historical Path?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Little Drummer Historical Path in Allegheny National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Little Drummer Historical Path?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Little Drummer Historical Path in the USFS data.
- How long is Little Drummer Historical Path?
- Little Drummer Historical Path measures about 1.4 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Little Drummer Historical Path?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Little Drummer Historical Path 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 Allegheny National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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