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FOUND: FUN PLACE TO RIDE IN THE U.P.

Baraga Plains is a great place to ride if your looking for something different. It’s located in Upper Michigan in Baraga County. ( Western UP)near hwy 28 & 41. Baraga is a narrow and very twisty trail that offers a moderate challenge. No high speed straights her, just turn after turn after turn. No time to daydream, you have to concentrate here. The trails very from sparse wooded forest to moderate forest and down into deep forest and then back again. Sand / dirt mix trail only, no gravel roads. In about 3-4 hours we road 65 miles 3/4 of a tank of fuel.
Bring your lunch, there are no town nearby.

DNR – ORV/ATV Trail Maps

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FOUND: FUN PLACE TO RIDE IN THE U.P.

Baraga Plains is a great place to ride if your looking for something different. It’s located in Upper Michigan in Baraga County. ( Western UP)near hwy 28 & 41. Baraga is a narrow and very twisty trail that offers a moderate challenge. No high speed straights her, just turn after turn after turn. No time to daydream, you have to concentrate here. The trails very from sparse wooded forest to moderate forest and down into deep forest and then back again. Sand / dirt mix trail only, no gravel roads. In about 3-4 hours we road 65 miles 3/4 of a tank of fuel.
Bring your lunch, there are no town nearby.

DNR – ORV/ATV Trail Maps

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Good rides in New Hampshire

Looking for some good riding in New Hampshire. Would like something similar to Rockhouse in West Virginia. I have watched a few Youtube videos and the Ride the Wild promo stuff and not seeing anything. Chose NH because it is closer to Ontario than WV, and have already been to WV. Thanks for your help.
Pat

Taylor Park, CO – Sep 2015

A bunch of us got together and went to Taylor Park, CO.

For me, this was the first time there and it was something spectacular! The views were first class as well as the company. (Ransom, Brad(Red Rocket), Glen(Rio), Phil & Carl)

We stayed at Taylor Park Trading Post and rode every day out of there. For 5 days we had fun in the sun….well the mornings were a little chilly. I kept telling everyone that it was around 45 degrees everyday when we got up…..thinking positive!

Over all we rode approximately 459 miles and I took 342 pictures. Brad (Red Rocket) and I rode a couple extra miles one day because we missed the turn.

Below is the link to my Photobucket account with a bunch of pictures in it.

Taylor Park CO – 2015 by Robert Reuter | Photobucket

I will let everyone browse through the pictures but the one below is one of my favorites:

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Taylor Park, CO – Sep 2015

A bunch of us got together and went to Taylor Park, CO.

For me, this was the first time there and it was something spectacular! The views were first class as well as the company. (Ransom, Brad(Red Rocket), Glen(Rio), Phil & Carl)

We stayed at Taylor Park Trading Post and rode every day out of there. For 5 days we had fun in the sun….well the mornings were a little chilly. I kept telling everyone that it was around 45 degrees everyday when we got up…..thinking positive!

Over all we rode approximately 459 miles and I took 342 pictures. Brad (Red Rocket) and I rode a couple extra miles one day because we missed the turn.

Below is the link to my Photobucket account with a bunch of pictures in it.

Taylor Park CO – 2015 by Robert Reuter | Photobucket

I will let everyone browse through the pictures but the one below is one of my favorites:

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Sad News… DurhamTown Tellico OHV ride area in Murphy NC is closing

Here are the FaceBook posts from Mike, the owner of the place…

Thanks to the Division of Minerals ,Energy and Land Rersources,
Durhamtown Tellico will close on Sept 8 permanently They are declaring the Timber cutting on the property is for the sole purpose of building atv trails. Therefore we must comply by commercial development standards. Permits and paper work will excede $350,000 or I can fight them in Federal Court. This is our government still controlling our private property rights. I am sadden to announce this for I have spent over $250,000 and operated in a professional standard of land preservation. 2 govt agencies agree with me buy the 3rd wants the ultimate motive.
Timber cutting has been part of this property for over 100 years
mike

DEMLR has agreed to let the land owner continue to cut his timber until Sept 30 then must move out only if we stop the riding on the property on sept 8 if not fines begin immediately only Politicians with more power than us can apply pressure to get DEMLR to work with us….
$700/ linear ft for a 20 ft pipe or a rock stream or drainage run off
this is for the permit only not included is the construction to their specifications. Some areas it is impossible to to get crushed stone up that high… this is their way of taking the blame away from them by making it impossible to meet their request and demands so we stop using the property for any type of recreation…. …

From Mike McCommons:
First, I want to thank every one of you for supporting the project I began. I did not do this because I had to, but because I fell in love with the property, the area, and the people. I have enjoyed meeting many of the guests and my time on this mountain as well. It is unfortunate that it came to this, but I wanted to give a brief explanation of what has happened over the past two years.
A former friend, Dan Northington, from my area invited me here along with Mark Rogers from the television show “Moonshiners.” I fell in love with the property and was introduced to the land owned by Tom Thrash. Tom wanted to see the property maintained and utilized for recreation and the enjoyment of others. With all my experience from Durhamtown in Georgia, I saw a way to make this happen and enjoy it myself. Dan Northington wanted to capitalize off of my connections to sell real estate and make large profits from the land he had bought during the recession from struggling land owners. My “connections” were not interested in his land, they only wanted to come and enjoy Durhamtown Tellico. He became jealous and began an attack on me by calling the different government organizations claiming false accusations. Thus, they began their investigations. I have met all of their requests over the past 8 months and was ready to move forward with more marketing for Durhamtown Tellico. He also brokered some timber sales below Tellico and the loggers created a massive amount of soil disturbances and muddied the Little Snowbird stream. Several other timber sales created even more sediments over the past 4 months causing a lot more problems. Dan rallied all of his friends with property downstream (mostly Floridians with vacations houses) to generate excessive calls to the different government agencies. This relaunched a new investigation with one of them connected to one of the agencies. Dan and his rally group continued to point their fingers at Durhamtown Tellico visitors as the source of all the sediments, not the logging jobs of over 300 acres or raw soils. I fought for 3 months proving where the problem was coming from — not the riding but negligent logging practices. Two of the government agencies agreed with me and we established a simple compromise and Durhamtown Tellico remained open. However, The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources continued the attack by claiming that the logging on Tom Thrash’s property was solely for the purpose of building ATV trails. This put the property into a commercial category with extreme demands. Just permitting the water to cross the trail or road for runoff or a seasonal wet stream cost averages $14,000 per permit. With over 20 crossings, the cost would exceed $250,000 and that is not including building them to their specs. Also, it would need a certified land disturbance permit for the entire 3000 acres, which would cost over $150,000. This is all because I would not buy their expensive land and I removed many of the 18 who were part of Dan’s rally group on Little Snowbird from my property when they were trespassing. Some became aggressive when I asked them to leave or pay to ride on my property. A lot of this has also come down on the loggers as well and he began confronting the 18 land owners along Little Snowbird and they commented, “we are sorry we just wanted to run Mike away from the property so we could have it back to trespass on.” The government agencies were prepared to begin to levy massive fines if we did not stop the riding. Therefore, we had to agree; however, we hope they will see once the riding stops the sediment will still continue to come from the logging sites.
We have contacted our legislators to help with this, and other political parties have also asked for information. Everyone is in favor of Durhamtown Tellico as an economy booster and a place for family fun. We do not plan to lie down and walk away so easily, but this will take time.
Dan Northington and his fellow followers are the reason for this as they have been spreading false accusations for over 12 months. If you would like to discuss this with him or purchase some of his land, his number is (706) 318-1509.
Thanks for your support,
Mike

I am not trying to blame the logger for this they have been logging there for over 100 years the same way. they also have many exemptions in order to remove the large trees from the property, but it is how Dan and friends tried to move the blame to me to run me off the property. The logger has been punished for over $10,000 as well above normal.. DEMLR saw this as an opportunity to put enough permitting pressure to make it not feasible to operate and stop more recreation adjoining Govt lands. again 2 agencies support Durhamtown ( the agencies who closed Tellico) Logging will continue due to the huge demand and record high prices for the premium lumber and export fees.. I still support them
mike

…………. Seems so sureal… I was at Tellico on it’s opening weekend just over 2 years ago. They are closing this coming Teusday, and I plan on riding up there on Monday, thier last day open.

Hope they can come to terms and re open in the future!