USFS National Forest System Trails · George Washington and Jefferson National Forest · Virginia · Updated June 2026
Guest River Gorge (USFS trail 216) is a 5.5 mi trail in George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, Virginia. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Guest River Gorge?
| 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 | — |
This trail carries an accessibility designation in the USFS record.
Zooming out: across George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, 90% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
Guest River Gorge (USFS trail 216) is a 5.5 mi trail in George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, Virginia. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for George Washington and Jefferson 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 imported compacted material. Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band +10-12%) — a moderate steepness profile derived from USFS slope data, not a technical mountain-bike 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 4 on the agency's 1-to-5 development scale, where 1 is the most primitive, minimally maintained tread and 5 is the most developed, and the record carries an accessibility designation for this trail. 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 Guest River Gorge?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Guest River Gorge in George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Guest River Gorge?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Guest River Gorge in the USFS data.
- How long is Guest River Gorge?
- Guest River Gorge measures about 5.5 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Guest River Gorge?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Guest River Gorge as imported compacted material.
- How difficult is Guest River Gorge?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band +10-12%), 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 George Washington and Jefferson National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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