It’s free. We attempt to check in when we get to/near the trail head. You don’t need to leave it up during the ride. If you don’t have service, attempt to check in when you get service again. If check in fails, you can email folks at BoH and they can take care of it for you.
You can close the app. It will save your check in. After you fill in the fields the first time. It will remember MOST of the fields. It will not save the state that you live in. Make sure you double check that. The app will require you to verify your address before the final submit is made. Check it to make sure it is right.
Let us k is when you head up. We could meet you at Gulches and Dickey Bell for sure. I’d like to do Beasley Knob again at some point too.
Trails in the south tend to close in the winter due to the amount of precipitation we get. The trails need a “break” especially during our wet months in order to “heal.” Closing them for 4 months out of the year allow them to stay open when they might otherwise be shut down due to damage caused by wheeling 365. I don’t like that they shut down but I believe it’s a necessary evil to keep them open the other 8 months. The last thing I want is to see the few trails we have left go the way of the Dodo bird. It sucks that they close but it seems to be for the better good.
I understand why they close, but man I hate driving within 4 miles of a trail, that will be about 1000 miles to come back to.
Gulches was my first time ever off road in a brand new jeep with a friend that was clueless. thankfully we didnt die. but now that its a badge park ill have to go back and spend some more time. hopefully they have better maps to give out then the one they gave me last time. ugh.
It’s not a good beginners park. But there are bypasses on every trail.
Not a good beginners park based on the trail markings or trail difficulties? Stock JLUR can have some fun there or will it be a pain to attempt it sans a lift?
A stock Rubicon can do plenty there. That's more capable than the Jeep I have wheeled there.
It is the re-driving all over the country to do them. I just got back from wheeling in Alabama and Florida. Home for a week or two and then they add trails that I literally just drove by. So now, back to South Carolina and Kentucky. Everything seams to be a big drive from Michigan. Then Georgia trails were closed until wellnnobody is sure when it will open. The Georgia trail was 4 miles out of my way to pick it up on the way back from Florida. Well It was not open in Mid March like the web site said. So that will be over 20 hours of driving to go back to that trail. Fuuuuuuuuck. I wanted to get all the badges, but if they just keep adding them, it will be a goal that is not obtainable.
Do you still have to run up the creek bed past the mining operation?
I plan on doing that one soon.
