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Hillclimb#42:
Its even easier than they said it would be. I went downtown to the government buliding, and it only took about 5 minutes to get my OHV sticker. Already cleaned up and remounted the sparky, last night.
Thanks for the links, they will come in handy for me and some of my internet-challenged buddies. Alright! I am stoked. It opens April 4th and I expect it to be the best area to ride that I've been to. It has been the best place to date, but I have become alot better rider since I have seen the place, and several years of weather and a few years of property management may have changed it from what I remember. 2500 acres of deep pine forest with lots of elevation changes sounds like heaven. I have been riding 700 acres of sand dunes with a small portion of wooded trails at a riding park called Badlands. I wonder how long it will be before I go back to the sand whoops. :evil:
 

Hillclimb#42:
For anyone looking for a place to ride in Kentucky or Indiana....

Well, went out to my annual Rip-Trip. Me and a couple buddies took our 250's out for a two-day free-for all to the Land Between the Lakes OHV(in Kentucky) and a gloomy rain-day exporatory mission at Redbird OHV(in Indiana). Land Between the Lakes is a humongous Park surrounded by Kentucky Lake, between Kentucky and Tennessee. Thousands of acres of wooded trails. 15 bucks for one day or 15 bucks for three days. Thats right, 15 bucks either way. Its only 60 for an annual pass. The best trail system we have went to in the midwest. Required; spark arrestor, pay for the pass at the gate. keep arm-band on handel bars. Terrain is mostly a medium density packed dirt with small stone mixed in for easy traction, some areas are heavier concentrations of natural gravel, and some sections of lake trails are all shale or shells. It sounds like riding on broken glass along the water's edge. Trails are very well managed, marked and maintained. The only downside to LBL, is that its not closer.
  On Sunday, we checked out Redbird OHV, located in Dugger Indiana. Its a relatively new, park, although the trails are decades old. They are mid-stride in making a park out of existing trails, although a worn and eroded area. Jeeps and trucks call the place home mostly. They are said to have 2400 acres, but my research on google earth, says about 1400, but there are no recent maps of the trail system. The area is dense pine forest with many jeep and truck trails, many bike and quad only trails and still more single track goat hills. Nothing like the elevations in our mountaineous states, but plenty of trees to keep it challenging. Lots of up 50 -100 ft and then back down. There are some very steep and big hillclimbs. Ride a ridge or a valley a ways, then back to up and down single track. Lots of super challenging areas. Some areas were like 2" deep pine needles, the whole trail, others were leaf-filled rain ruts. It rained on us early in the afternoon, kinda getting us hung up in the woods in some tricky hills and valleys. Redbird would be better during good weather. They have trails alot like LBL, except in LBL trails are wider and used more often. On the other hand, no bikes or quads hardly at all, at Redbird and more of an exploratory feel to the place. Redbird requires a spark arrestor, plus bike registered in your home state, like I explained above. Its 10 bucks a day, Saturday-Sunday 9-5. They said they are looking at Thursday-Sunday depending on demand. (Noone is riding there) Both places are waaaaaaay fun, and worth checking into. Sorry no helmet -cam. :|

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