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Day 1:
If you haven't heard of this place, it's a bit north east of Austin, it's a large mixed SXS/ATV/Full Size/Moto park that also has a very feature rich gun range. They have both primitive and improved camping sites and a ton of RV hookups. The terrain is mixed rock/dirt with anything from child beginner to terror grade. It is EXPENSIVE, for one person to camp overnight and ride Sat/Sun it was nearly 100 dollars. There are NO ALCOHOL signs literally everywhere here, it's in the park rules, posted on roads, posted at the front, etc.
I drove down from north Texas with my best friend of many years, we got there, checked in, and went to our improved camp site. It's a free for all, tons of blaring music from several SXS folks parked at one end. We found the only decent spot left and set our stuff up so we could have a claimed area to dump our junk and get changed for riding. There is automatic gunfire from the gun range, 5 different flavors of Latin music, periodic blasting country, some ****** rock, and assorted engine sounds. There are a few people just driving a SXS in circles around in the parking lot for the entire time we are getting unloaded, set up, and changed to ride.
We were meeting a friend there who was there with his brother and 10 year old nephew, this is officially all of us. We have a mixed bag of bikes, a WR450 (me), Husky 300, KTM 250, XR650, and a TTR90. Finally time to toot around! We picked South Loop (despite several people here saying it would be horribly muddy) as it was closest to our camp and it was a treat, absolutely loved it! Really nice mix of flowy single track punctuated by some mildly technical climbs and descents. The 10 year old was new on a bike and quickly realized he was not meant for that trail, luckily it is easy to find bypasses or exits to many of the trails we rode, this was no exception so they went to ride around on some of the connector roads so he could get his sea legs under him.
We rode South Loop (somewhere in the 10-15 mile range) and went back to the camp site to get some snacks and water. Our camp neighbors had rolled up (three Jeep guys) and they looked upset, started talking to them and they had rolled up on a death scene, he had never seen a dead human in this type of context and was very shook. Guy with his family in their utility SXS wasn't buckled in, got ejected and skull crushed in by the cage/ground. Kids were ok although I'm sure this will **** them up pretty bad mentally. A few minutes later, we started seeing sheriffs, ems, fire, and a medical helicopter roll in. This put the old uneasy feeling of should I be here this weekend in all of us. We rode up to the on site store to check it out, plenty of reasonably priced snacks, shirts, riding gear, camping supplies, medical stuff, etc along with a friendly lady working there.
We did some more exploring that day and the sheer quantity of people riding quads, SXS, etc with open alcohol, no helmets, no seat belts, etc kept us on the single track and being cautious through blind corners on connector roads. 90% of the SXS were blaring music so loud I could hear them LONG before I could see them which was sort of nice albeit obnoxious. We found a group of SXS parked on a road with folks dancing, falling over and yelling at each other (lots and lots of alcohol, starting to see a theme) and by this point it was about time for dinner.
Made a fire, made dinner, cleaned up, and got ready for bed around 10:30ish. We expected noise since they allow night riding until midnight, there was a ton of assorted blaring music and shouting at each other until about 2am, ear plugs made it reasonable but shouldn't have been necessary.
Day 2:
Nursing some mild injuries from riding the day before, we made breakfast, packed up our tents, and got riding pretty early. Ended up on the North West side of the park and rode Vista Loop a couple times, tons of fun, tighter trails and more flowy with a few drops/step ups and we had a blast out that way. One of our friends hurt a collar bone that has had previous damage and the TTR90 lost its air filter and consequently decided to unalive itself from dust/mud intake. It's hard to fault a kid who didn't notice and was otherwise riding really well. We ended up recruiting a SXS guy who helped us bring the kids bike back to camp. I rode solo through a bunch of other areas for the scenery and fun of it. It's a pretty place with a lot of cool views and the trails are pretty well maintained, I appreciated the care put into some of the more difficult areas that allowed some of the less seasoned riders bypasses that suited their skill level. Nothing is super tight or would benefit from narrow bars, you have plenty of width in 99% of the single track to move at a good clip.
We packed up, and headed home around 3-4 pm, most of the bustle had died down at that and there were only a few people in the day use area left, nobody at our camp site other than us. Many more bikes on Sunday which was nice to see.
Takeaways:
Not a place for peace and quiet, way way way more busy and loud than I expected it to be. Definitely not cheap. Park personnel clearly don't enforce seat belt, helmet, alcohol, trash, or other rules. I absolutely don't care about people having drinks when camping/done for the day but getting drunk and endangering others is not cool on the trails and we saw plenty of it. If you have kids riding here, be wary of riding on connector trails, plenty of blind corners and folks moving faster than they can stop/avoid. This place is absolutely MUCH better with a gummi style tire, my DOT knobs were awful on a lot of the rocky areas, rode some on my friend's husky with gummis and it was much easier to handle a lot of things. Overall we had a good time, it was a nice change of scenery, beautiful weather, and "good enough" on the camping area if you have tempered expectations for noise levels. The trails vary nicely and there is good variety in degree of challenge. I have a trip out of country coming up in a week so I wasn't going to get too frisky as I didn't want to risk any major injuries. I probably will not make the drive out there again.
Day 1:
If you haven't heard of this place, it's a bit north east of Austin, it's a large mixed SXS/ATV/Full Size/Moto park that also has a very feature rich gun range. They have both primitive and improved camping sites and a ton of RV hookups. The terrain is mixed rock/dirt with anything from child beginner to terror grade. It is EXPENSIVE, for one person to camp overnight and ride Sat/Sun it was nearly 100 dollars. There are NO ALCOHOL signs literally everywhere here, it's in the park rules, posted on roads, posted at the front, etc.
I drove down from north Texas with my best friend of many years, we got there, checked in, and went to our improved camp site. It's a free for all, tons of blaring music from several SXS folks parked at one end. We found the only decent spot left and set our stuff up so we could have a claimed area to dump our junk and get changed for riding. There is automatic gunfire from the gun range, 5 different flavors of Latin music, periodic blasting country, some ****** rock, and assorted engine sounds. There are a few people just driving a SXS in circles around in the parking lot for the entire time we are getting unloaded, set up, and changed to ride.
We were meeting a friend there who was there with his brother and 10 year old nephew, this is officially all of us. We have a mixed bag of bikes, a WR450 (me), Husky 300, KTM 250, XR650, and a TTR90. Finally time to toot around! We picked South Loop (despite several people here saying it would be horribly muddy) as it was closest to our camp and it was a treat, absolutely loved it! Really nice mix of flowy single track punctuated by some mildly technical climbs and descents. The 10 year old was new on a bike and quickly realized he was not meant for that trail, luckily it is easy to find bypasses or exits to many of the trails we rode, this was no exception so they went to ride around on some of the connector roads so he could get his sea legs under him.
We rode South Loop (somewhere in the 10-15 mile range) and went back to the camp site to get some snacks and water. Our camp neighbors had rolled up (three Jeep guys) and they looked upset, started talking to them and they had rolled up on a death scene, he had never seen a dead human in this type of context and was very shook. Guy with his family in their utility SXS wasn't buckled in, got ejected and skull crushed in by the cage/ground. Kids were ok although I'm sure this will **** them up pretty bad mentally. A few minutes later, we started seeing sheriffs, ems, fire, and a medical helicopter roll in. This put the old uneasy feeling of should I be here this weekend in all of us. We rode up to the on site store to check it out, plenty of reasonably priced snacks, shirts, riding gear, camping supplies, medical stuff, etc along with a friendly lady working there.
We did some more exploring that day and the sheer quantity of people riding quads, SXS, etc with open alcohol, no helmets, no seat belts, etc kept us on the single track and being cautious through blind corners on connector roads. 90% of the SXS were blaring music so loud I could hear them LONG before I could see them which was sort of nice albeit obnoxious. We found a group of SXS parked on a road with folks dancing, falling over and yelling at each other (lots and lots of alcohol, starting to see a theme) and by this point it was about time for dinner.
Made a fire, made dinner, cleaned up, and got ready for bed around 10:30ish. We expected noise since they allow night riding until midnight, there was a ton of assorted blaring music and shouting at each other until about 2am, ear plugs made it reasonable but shouldn't have been necessary.
Day 2:
Nursing some mild injuries from riding the day before, we made breakfast, packed up our tents, and got riding pretty early. Ended up on the North West side of the park and rode Vista Loop a couple times, tons of fun, tighter trails and more flowy with a few drops/step ups and we had a blast out that way. One of our friends hurt a collar bone that has had previous damage and the TTR90 lost its air filter and consequently decided to unalive itself from dust/mud intake. It's hard to fault a kid who didn't notice and was otherwise riding really well. We ended up recruiting a SXS guy who helped us bring the kids bike back to camp. I rode solo through a bunch of other areas for the scenery and fun of it. It's a pretty place with a lot of cool views and the trails are pretty well maintained, I appreciated the care put into some of the more difficult areas that allowed some of the less seasoned riders bypasses that suited their skill level. Nothing is super tight or would benefit from narrow bars, you have plenty of width in 99% of the single track to move at a good clip.
We packed up, and headed home around 3-4 pm, most of the bustle had died down at that and there were only a few people in the day use area left, nobody at our camp site other than us. Many more bikes on Sunday which was nice to see.
Takeaways:
Not a place for peace and quiet, way way way more busy and loud than I expected it to be. Definitely not cheap. Park personnel clearly don't enforce seat belt, helmet, alcohol, trash, or other rules. I absolutely don't care about people having drinks when camping/done for the day but getting drunk and endangering others is not cool on the trails and we saw plenty of it. If you have kids riding here, be wary of riding on connector trails, plenty of blind corners and folks moving faster than they can stop/avoid. This place is absolutely MUCH better with a gummi style tire, my DOT knobs were awful on a lot of the rocky areas, rode some on my friend's husky with gummis and it was much easier to handle a lot of things. Overall we had a good time, it was a nice change of scenery, beautiful weather, and "good enough" on the camping area if you have tempered expectations for noise levels. The trails vary nicely and there is good variety in degree of challenge. I have a trip out of country coming up in a week so I wasn't going to get too frisky as I didn't want to risk any major injuries. I probably will not make the drive out there again.
