USFS National Forest System Trails · Dixie National Forest · Utah · Updated June 2026
Canal Trail (USFS trail 31031) is a 6.2 mi trail in Dixie National Forest, Utah. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Canal Trail?
| 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 Dixie National Forest, 13% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of D.
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About this trail
In Dixie National Forest, Utah, Canal Trail (USFS trail 31031) covers 6.2 mi of National Forest System trail. 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. The tread is mapped as native 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. 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. Because conditions, closures, and local orders change between data refreshes, confirm the current status with the managing ranger district before you ride.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Canal Trail?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Canal Trail in Dixie National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Canal Trail?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Canal Trail in the USFS data.
- How long is Canal Trail?
- Canal Trail measures about 6.2 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Canal Trail?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Canal Trail 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 Dixie National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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