USFS National Forest System Trails · National Forests in Texas · Texas · Updated June 2026
Start Hill (USFS trail 870) is a 0.9 mi trail in National Forests in Texas, Texas. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Start Hill?
| 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 National Forests in Texas, 100% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
Start Hill (USFS trail 870) is a 0.9 mi trail in National Forests in Texas, Texas. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for National Forests in Texas, 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. Based on slope, this is a Easy trail (grade band 5-8%); that reflects gentle gradient and is not the same as a technical MTB difficulty rating. 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. 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 National Forests in Texas.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Start Hill?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Start Hill in National Forests in Texas, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Start Hill?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Start Hill in the USFS data.
- How long is Start Hill?
- Start Hill measures about 0.9 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Start Hill?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Start Hill as native material.
- How difficult is Start Hill?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Easy (grade band 5-8%), derived from USFS slope data. This reflects steepness, not technical mountain-bike difficulty.
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 National Forests in Texas (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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