ATV Florida Forum

Hello everyone,
I have been looking for a site such as this and was happy to come upon it. I have been reading some of the post and found out a lot of info already. My husband and I have been OHV riders since we were kids, growing up on 3 wheeler. We are now in our late 40's and are looking for others that have our same love for the outdoors and RIDING. Our machines are ATV 4x4 sport utilities. We live in central Florida and have done most of the areas around here. We don't care for the small adventure parks more of the long trail types. We travel quite a bit with our custom home made toy hauler. Have done Hayfield and McCoy's ( the best), Brimstone and Carolina Adventure World. We put about 50 - 60 miles on in a day. We still like to ride hard and fast. So by keeping in touch on this forum we hope to meet other couples and find new places to travel to. Would love to have some group ride dates.

Welcome to the forum!!!! 

Welcome!  Florida's not the most friendly state for OHV but there are still quite a few places to go.  The first thing I would suggest is buying access to Suburban Estates or River Ranch, since you're in Central Florida.  You can easily do those kind of miles in a day, particularly at RR.  I would also suggest you look into Tate's Hell up near Tallahassee.  It's mostly forest service roads and high speeds are frowned upon but you can put in lots of riding in a day.  If you like to travel, I would highly suggest Taylor Lake in Colorado.  I went out there a few years ago and we put in as much as 100 miles a day.  Some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen.  It lies between Gunnison and Aspen (in fact, you can ride your ATV to Aspen and walk around town).  There are a few ghost towns to visit (Tincup, Pitkin and St Elmo) as well as riding ranging from 7,500 ft to 14,000 ft.  Enjoy! 

Have you tried Ocala National Forest??  Sounds like your kind of ridin.  My wife and I made that our first trip when We got our RZR.  Nice campground on the north end at Lake Oklawaha.  My only complaint is the trails are not one way and you might meet up with someone by accident.  Our bucket list for this year is Hatfield and McCoys.  I was hoping to meet someone on here who would be up for a group trip.  We have never been but it looks like a blast.  We have done Mudd Muckers a few times, which is fun, but its not called Mudd Muckers for nothing.... that stuff is like cement if you don't wash it off right away.  Anyway welcome to the ATV forum.

Welcome, Croom is a great place to ride with camping available.  Ever try Durhamtown lots of trails and different terrain.  Another great place in in Oliver Springs TN, Windrock or also called Coal creek.  Hope to see you out thee, I ride both utilities and sport quads.

Sorry Diggin but I hated Tates Hell. I wouldn't recomend it to anybody. Its the only place I been so far that I was glad to get back to the truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Whats up TJ!!!!! Sorry to hear about the wheeler acting up.

Whats up Steve, long time since I have heard from you.  We need to do a trail ride!

Thanks for all the welcomes and replies.
We do own land in RR and enjoy it because it's close but it can get boring. I have to agree Tate's Hell was not for us. I don't enjoy just riding up and down dirt roads. Colorado is defiantly on our list I have already looked that one up.
Ocala is one of our regular rides. We have camped at Lake Delancy but not the Lake Oklawaha. I just learned that one has direct access to the trail too. I highly recommend Hatfield and McCoys. Best trip we have done. We stayed at the Ashland Resort in a cabin for 8 days. They also have a campground. The trails are the best marked and maintained I have been on. All degree's from green to double black diamond. From Ashland you can access 4 trailheads. We started at 8-9 am and returned at dark, never crossing the same trails unless you were just getting to another. You cross the mountains from one town to the next. All the towns are ATV friendly on the roads so food and gas was never a problem. We plan on going back every couple years.
We have been to Brimstone which is the other TN trail system and you can ride 24/7. On our way out of town we checked out Royal Blue which I believe shares trails with Windrock all part of the TN WMA. We pretty much live at the Croom only because it is the closest to our house and we like to camp, actually headed out there Saturday.
So keep the info coming I'm keeping notes. Looking for some riding buddies :) 
 

What type of machines you ride.  I meet up with a few that ride utilities at croom or sometimes sports.

His Artic Cat Camo 650 4x4
Mine Artic Cat Neon Green Mean Machine 450 4x4

We will be camping at Croom this weekend.

RR can get boring if you just keep using the same trails.  Lately what I've been doing is trying to see if I can get myself lost then find my way back.  Just keep making random turns at every intersection.  You never know where you might end up and sometimes find areas you've never been to before.  Can get pretty challenging down in the southeast section.  The western areas are not challenging at all, although there are some old trails that are fun to ride.  

If you are serious about Taylor Lake, here are a couple pics from our trip.  I've posted these up before but never tire of looking at them.

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Great Pictures of Taylor Lake looks like our kind of place.  I guess what I meant by boring at RR was the terrain and scenery. We are pretty new to RR and don't know anyone personally who rides out there. We should meet up sometime and you could be our tour guide. Not sure when we will be going out.
Thanks