USFS National Forest System Trails · Monongahela National Forest · West Virginia · Updated June 2026
Right Fork Trail # 453 (USFS trail 453) is a 3.2 mi trail in Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed year-round, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Right Fork Trail # 453?
| 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 Monongahela National Forest, 100% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of B.
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About this trail
Right Fork Trail # 453 (USFS trail 453) is a 3.2 mi trail in Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia. 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. USFS records list its surface as native material. USFS slope data puts it in the Intermediate band (grade band 10-12%), 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 Monongahela National Forest.
Frequently asked questions
- Can you mountain bike on Right Fork Trail # 453?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Right Fork Trail # 453 in Monongahela National Forest, year-round, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Right Fork Trail # 453?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Right Fork Trail # 453 in the USFS data.
- How long is Right Fork Trail # 453?
- Right Fork Trail # 453 measures about 3.2 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Right Fork Trail # 453?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Right Fork Trail # 453 as native material.
- How difficult is Right Fork Trail # 453?
- 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 Monongahela National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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