ATV Florida Forum

Is the Big Scrub area in ONF part of the temporary Linadale Closure that the Forestry Service is talking about on their web site? Was planning on taking the family there in a couple of weeks.

No, it's part. Big Scrub is on the southEAST side, the temporary closure is on the southwest side of the forest. Old news.

they  are trying to close big scrub though. the lady in the green truck says the biologist say it should have been already shut down. also i hear that there will be other closures. i ride in the church lake prairie area and from what i been told it will be closed this summer. we'll see! (what there trying to do is move us all to a particular area near lake delancey)

I was just at scrub, if they're shutting it down than why are thay putting in electric and two new bathrooms with showers? Also , they cut all the trees down behind the campground, if  you thought the camp was exposed before try going there now.

Thanks for all the replies.

i know there installing showers on the west side of campground. the "campground" will prob. never be closed. but when  they close the riding areas around it. then it will probably just be a "campground" for snowbirds like it use to be. before we started going there. just do some research on ocala national forest atv designated riding access. they came up w/ a few trail systems already. there just trying to work it out. with government it takes awhile. its near delancey where there wanting us to be.

I was there a week ago and they are putting in showers and new bathrooms.  The park ranger told me that they are planning on closing the whole park down for about a year and they will be completely "redoing" the trails to make the park better.  I dont know when, or if they even will, close down the park, but that is what the ranger said.

What we all need to think about is how to make a way for the federal govt to make money on ATV use in ONF. Seems to have worked for the timber industry???  Christ an idiot can see that "clear cutting" forests down seriously affects the ecology of our environment, God forbid we have a few dirt trails through a man made forest. We also need to recognize that the main problem in finding riding places is "Urban Sprawl" (not same as growth). We are eventually going to be forced to  exclusively ride on "public lands" for that will be all that's left before long! We're all guilty, including myself, of just sitting back and bitching about ATV issues. We need to do more about working with the govt. to find good places to ride, participate in the rule making of these places and most importantly obide by these rules so some stuffy politician doesn't ban ATV's across the board like 3 wheelers.