well, since no body else is on, guess I will entertain myself by writing a ride review for the two parks my wife and I visited Saturday.
FOr Iowa atv parks, you need only register your atv once per year. Do not pay by the day. $16.50 out of state registration. $16.75 Ia registration.
1st: Bluff Creek OHV. Bussey Ia. Approx 5 miles Southwest of Oskaloosa, Ia. Abandoned coal mine.Preddy was right. This place is awesome. All the trails are excellent for high speed sport quads. Plenty of hillclimbs, and rough trails too, if you want. Everything well maintained. 3 tracks to ride, one of which is called the "tot spot" nothing bigger than 100cc's can ride. Fun for the kids. This is the first time in over a year Nichole has got to go to a real riding park. Now she is addicted.
Which means: I will get to go more.
It was alot bigger than it appeared at first. Make sure you register your quad. DNR ranger on site all the time.
Anybody nearby should check this place out.
after that, we went to:
Lake
Rathbun OHV area. South west side of Lake Rathbun. Iowa.Views were nice, but coolness mostly ends there. Very rough in spots. 50% of trails I had to turn around and go back. They had a practice track that had a great table top on it though. And, besides 3 guys on YFZ's, we were the only two people there. No Rangers or anything. Much less popular. (bussey is less than 35 miles away) It had one really good trail that went down the hill to the Lake. And ride along the bank, watching people on their boats. Great view....but Won't be going back there. Bussey is the same distance from here, so that is my new stomping ground.
