Iowa Riding Parks

[Peelz]

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. 

[Ranger]

That's...cheap haha. My local riding "parks" charge 75 and 60 dollars a YEAR.

[Peelz]

That's...cheap haha. My local riding "parks" charge 75 and 60 dollars a YEAR.

Yeah, I had no idea they were there. Our local private park was 200 a year. 300 for family.

G-A-Y!

[Ranger]

That's dumb...

[Alkire193]

60 bucks for an annual at Land Betwen the Lakes, TN. But its a really nice place to ride.

That place in Bussey looks great, I was checking some videos and im really diggin it

[Peelz]

60 bucks for an annual at Land Betwen the Lakes, TN. But its a really nice place to ride.

That place in Bussey looks great, I was checking some videos and im really diggin it

Heard land between the lakes is freekin' HUGE! like 70,000 acres....

[Alkire193]

One tank out, one tank back and I still havent seen it all. Gotta go during low tide before a big rainfall, you can ride the river bank for a half a day and never get to the other side. My favorite thing to do is the river rock hopping. People blowing donuts in groups makes bowls (like a skateboard park) and you hop in and out of the bowls. And of course one big non stop drift around and around till you get sick.

The main trail is a high 3rd gear area with some nice jumps and natural wide hillclimbs. Ill shoot some videos and post links whenever my top end shows up.

[Peelz]

nice

Hers are some pics I forgot we took.

the track at bussey. Very nice, little aggressive for a guy with a stock bike.

[kdanderson5]

I am trying to get a group together to go down to Bussey again this fall when it is nice and cool again. I know a guy that owns some ground by Knoxville that we are planning on camping on and then going back to Bussey the next morning again. Does anyone know if they charge you to camp at the park? I seen some camping spots, but never checked to see if it was free or not?

[preddy08]

I am trying to get a group together to go down to Bussey again this fall when it is nice and cool again. I know a guy that owns some ground by Knoxville that we are planning on camping on and then going back to Bussey the next morning again. Does anyone know if they charge you to camp at the park? I seen some camping spots, but never checked to see if it was free or not?

Pretty sure its free. Camping is pretty primitive there, no electricity.

Peels, did you see the jump that I have all the pics of?

[Peelz]

I am trying to get a group together to go down to Bussey again this fall when it is nice and cool again. I know a guy that owns some ground by Knoxville that we are planning on camping on and then going back to Bussey the next morning again. Does anyone know if they charge you to camp at the park? I seen some camping spots, but never checked to see if it was free or not?

Pretty sure its free. Camping is pretty primitive there, no electricity.

Peels, did you see the jump that I have all the pics of?

not sure. We were just fartin' around checkin' the place out.  Saw a decent jump in the woods, but didn't seem that crazy.

[poolboytoo]

I have some pic's of Bluff Creek I will share. I have been there 5-6 times one of my favorite places worth the trip 3.75 hrs for us. Let me see if I can even post a pic LOL 

[poolboytoo]

Holy crap! I suck at resizeing pic's I try again tonight

[Peelz]

good enough bro. let us know the next time you are goin'. Only 1.5 hrs for me.

[preddy08]

AWSOME place to ride!!! I hope to make it back before winter hits.