For the last 2 years we have held out Buggy Bash at Paddy's Bluff. Good times were had by all. I think that most of us would like to be able to ride longer than just Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Actually, a lot of us didn't even ride on Sunday because we had a long drive ahead of us.

St. Joes is always open, you could get there anytime you want and they have real camp sites.

So here is the big question. Do we want the Buggy Bash at Paddy's Bluff or St. Joes.

It looks like the dates will be June 27th, 28th, and the 29th.

By the way, I vote St. Joes.

Paddy's is nice and very close for me, but I think it hurts our attendance to only be open Friday - Sunday.

I voted St. Joes.

Keith

Can somebody please post some more info or a link to St. Joes? We of course will come to either place, but I sure would love to know more about St. Joes. I have had such a good time at Paddy's, I am sorta hooked..

Stu

wow... lookin good for st. joes!!! lol


I cant wait for either!!!

John

Here ya go, I found these in one of the other threads...

http://www.stjoepark.com/

a video of st. joes a while back....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3pgR1p- ... re=related

Keith

I have been to both, and I can say there is truley no comparison. St. Joe is 2000 acres, half sand flats and half in the st. francis mountain range. Sand has berms, banked circles, and turns, mountains have mud, rocks, hills and more hills

Three sand beach lakes to fish and swim in

concrete loading ramps, changing rooms, rest rooms, clean off area.

$3.oo a day, 4 miles to town...atv dealerships, hotels, restraunts, shopping etc.

The only thing I liked better about Paddy's was the ability to ride at night.

I think we should do it somewhere different every year, give us the chance to try other trails. I still want to go to Turkey creek, hatfield and mccoy, glamis, moab etc.
Chris

here is an old post with some pictures of St. Joe. I have posted others, will try to find and post if I can.

https://www.buggynews.com/topic7533.html ... 20pictures

Here is some video of the sand area at St. Joe. I do not have too many pics of the woods and hills, to busy riding to stop.

https://www.buggynews.com/topic7537.html ... joe%20vids

here are a couple of Vids from St. Joe in the woods and hills.

https://www.buggynews.com/topic4174.html

Here is the original buggy bash 2008 thread. We discussed this in great depth, there is some additional pictures and LOTS of info on St. Joe.

Someone even contacted St. Joe about hosting a Rally in this thread, and they seemed to be willing to work with us...contact info is in the thread below as well.

Hope this helps all that are interested.

Chris

https://www.buggynews.com/topic10088.html

St. Joe's is looking pretty good so far. I had a blast at paddy's and never rode at night anyway so that isn't a factor for me.

-Jamie

well it looks like st. joe is getting the majority of votes i dont think anyone who has never been there will not be dissapointed and as far as night time i think it will give all of us a chance to get to know each other

that sounds good to me also, night ride will be fun.
book it dano

No night rides are aloud. No big deal though.

-Jamie

FYI, you don't want to night ride there....I was there in Sept.,and the last weekend before they change the stop riding time from 8p.m. to 5p.m.....At 7, it would start getting dark, and by 7:30, it was totally dark.....I got the bright idea of taking a night ride, and almost cost me dearly....
The temptation of going fast there is too much to say no too, and there are ALOT of bowls , probably 4 ft. deep that have been made by quads and bikes, and you can't seem them at night until you are right up on them.....
After almost diving off in one, and then running up on a set of woops at 50mph, I decided night riding wasn't such a good idea.....Believe me when I say that by 8p.m.,my group has had enough for 1 day......
Hoodlum

I will see if Mike at DP will have a guided night ride for the meet in feb. you should come on down.

My son and I love night runs. Goggles are a must since the bugs will kill you around here at night. The difference I guess, is we know the area we ride around the house so we know where we can run flat out and where we need to take it easy.
The only thing better than a night ride is a night ride in the snow. Was great when I lived in Maryland but we don't get snow in southeast NC so I have not done that in yearssssss.

RH

I hit a set of whoops like that out there as well...but it was broad daylight. I just wasn't paying attention untill I started bouncing It made for quite a ride

CHris