Trail difficulty ratings are easy to understand, but can be hard to get right.

By Jeff Barber
July 6, 2025
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Mountain bike trail difficulties tend to follow a pretty straightforward scale, from easiest to hardest, but assigning the right difficulty rating to a trail is an art just as much as it’s a science. Given how challenging rating trails can be, we want to know how accurate you think the ratings are, generally speaking.

Give us an example of a trail you think is correctly (or incorrectly) rated in the comments below.