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OK, is it legal to ride in public areas like the forests by my house?

thnx for help yall  :S

no ones gonna tell ya about their secret riding spot  'cause we all ride at places that aren't legal. Ya gotta hook up with others that will take you riding with them. No one will mention their spots here, afraid of over crowding and being discovered. We all just ride at CROOM!

 :-\im not asking for  your stop im askin if if public emy forest ar legal to ride and ride the post over so that you can understand!!!!!  :-\

if there are trails there that arent marked i dont see the problem, is it the ocala forest

no it just some empty land by my house and you can see that people ride there frm google earth and i wana know if it legal because it is public land

Are there any "No Trespassing" signs??   Even if there aren't doesn't necessarily mean that it's Public land.

Most likely it ISN'T legal, because SOMEONE owns the land.  If it's the government(city, county, or state) they usually designate whether it is legal.  Unfortunately, most times its not.

Try (as previously suggested) to hook up with someone or surf this site & a few others to educate yourself on the legal areas.  Most entail traveling to get to them. ie Croom, Holeyland, etc.

Hope this helps & welcome to the same problem that we all face!!!

Off Rode

  There is a place that we have been riding at for a good long while now.  The property is not posted.  It abuts a neighborhood in Brevard county.  There are other people that ride there as well.  Even though it is not posted we know that more than likely the property is private, but  since there are no posted signs we ride.  Well this past Saturday we took our usual ride there and when we were loaded up and leaving the property a cop was waiting for us.  We all received trespass warnings.  We told the cop that there weren't any posted signs and he said that was why we were only going to get a warning.  He told us that the property was indeed private and in fact the area where we were parked was owned by Florida Power & Light and they could have legally come in and towed our trucks away.  We asked him how he knew we were out there and he said he got a call for shots fired in that same area.  While we were out there that day we saw a swamp buggy carrying dogs, we figured it was probably them.  Needless to say, if you are not sure whether it is private or not then it probably is private.  You would be taking a chance.

OK, thanks a lot it just that on google earth you can its like a couple blocks from my house and its huge and from way up above you can see the trails from people riding

Since you are in Cape Coral I assume you are talking about the Yucapans. I have never been there but my understanding is that sometimes the cops don't mind other times the crack down and issue warnings.

i live in brevard could you pm the name or location of the place your talkin about

its not yucapans i dont go there because a buddy of mine told me that there are cops on polarises and they WILL give you a ticket and backwoods ill pm you in a bit

thanx i used to ride out in the groves every weekend but i had some problems a couple months back so im hesitant to go back

this is the place 26*37'30.24" N 82*02'.06" W the star is the lil circle thing

 here's what it looks like


(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e320/MYPICS411/PLACE.jpg)

i was riding in the south brevard area.( little hollywood)   i dont recommend riding there.