USFS National Forest System Trails · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · Wisconsin · Updated June 2026
Mainline Lake Hwt (USFS trail 55294) is a 3 mi trail in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed, Jan–Mar, May–Dec, with no Class 1 e-bike designation on record.
Can I bike Mainline Lake Hwt?
| Use | Status | Season on record |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain bike | Allowed | Jan–Mar, May–Dec |
| 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 Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, 99% of rideable trail miles are open to mountain bikes — a Bike Access Grade of A.
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About this trail
Mainline Lake Hwt (USFS trail 55294) runs 3 mi through Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin. Everything below comes straight from the US Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset — length, surface, slope-derived difficulty, and the specific bike and e-bike designations on record — so you can check legality before you load up. 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, with a Jan–Mar, May–Dec season 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 2 on the agency's 1-to-5 development scale, where 1 is the most primitive, minimally maintained tread and 5 is the most developed. 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 Mainline Lake Hwt?
- Yes. Mountain bikes are designated as allowed on Mainline Lake Hwt in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, typically Jan–Mar, May–Dec, per USFS data.
- Are e-bikes allowed on Mainline Lake Hwt?
- No e-bike class (1, 2 or 3) is designated on Mainline Lake Hwt in the USFS data.
- How long is Mainline Lake Hwt?
- Mainline Lake Hwt measures about 3 mi in total, summed across its mapped National Forest System segments.
- What is the surface of Mainline Lake Hwt?
- USFS data records the tread surface of Mainline Lake Hwt 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 Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest (USFS trail geometry isn't mapped).
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