USFS National Forest System Trails · Colville National Forest · Washington · Updated October 2026
Long Alec (USFS trail 43.1) is a 0.7 mi trail in Colville National Forest, Washington. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
- Trail length
- 0.7 mi
- Grade-based difficulty
- Intermediategrade band +8-10%
- Surface
- Native Material
- USFS trail class
- Class 31 primitive · 5 developed
Can I bike Long Alec?
| 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 Colville National Forest, 64% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
Long Alec (USFS trail 43.1) runs 0.7 mi through Colville National Forest in Washington. The figures here are pulled from the official US Forest Service trail data for Colville National Forest, covering the trail's mileage, tread, grade band, and the bike and e-bike uses the agency lists as designated. USFS records list its surface as native material. USFS slope data puts it in the Intermediate band (grade band +8-10%), meaning a moderate climb — keep in mind this measures steepness, not trail technicality. 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 Colville National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Long Alec?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Long Alec in Colville National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Long Alec?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Long Alec in the USFS data.
- How long is Long Alec?
- Long Alec measures about 0.7 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Long Alec?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Long Alec as native material.
- How difficult is Long Alec?
- Its grade-based difficulty is Intermediate (grade band +8-10%), 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 Colville National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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