Who's been to the Gulches?

I like it. 90 acres with a loop trail, various skill levels can be accomodated. A good day trip. YOu can do the entire park in less than a day...then play around and take different lines etc. They have some nice competitions also.

$25 to play...a little also for a passenger. Some like it some dont. You make it what you want it to be. Skip (the owner) is a good guy and welcomes all and all makes/models.
 
Actually I think they said it was 80 acres. One loop trail and many inner winding trails within. Several decent obstacles. Degree of difficulty greatly increases when it's wet. It has a few primitive camping spots on the trail, and you can camp in the parking lot. If you stay in the parking lot you have access to a toilet and shower. Also a Microwave and a kitchen sink.

Draw backs for me:
Have to be OFF the trails at dusk. No night riding.
Can't start until 10 am
Can't start until either 11 or 12 on Sunday
 
It's the local park for me, and we have a lot of fun there.

It's a smaller park by comparison to the other SE trails, but they can be pretty action packed.

Don't confuse this park as a rock garden, or a chunk of mountain where you can bring your truck; it's property backs up to the river bed and has a lot of mud and packed dirt. He's excavating more and more rocky obstacles though

As said already, there are a good varying degree of trails, but everything becomes more difficult in the wet. Last time out it was dry in the morning and we conquered pretty much everything except shipwreck, then it rained about lunch and we went back to "attempt" all of what we walked over in the a.m.

He's constantly working on the trails kinda changing them up. There was kinuva easy hill-climb next to radical ravine that changed drastically last time we were there and made rollover possibilites much high and trail difficulty increased.

From Charlotte it's definitely worth the tow (especially because it's been a little wet lately and we're looking at another storm or 2 before Saturday).

I think he's got something like 8 primitive camp sites, but this time of year might bring mosquito's being so close to the river. Not sure if he lets you ride at night anymore, but I know last year he didn't care (then some campers got drunk and ended up putting their rigs in the river and about killing themselves, so who knows).
 
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