Lake Havasu, Arizona - Standard Wash,

           South of Lake Havasu City on Hwy 95 at mile marker 172-175, you will find three major boon docking areas, one with a kiosk and map.  The map shows a large are of numerous washes to ride, all coming out of the mountains, going down to the highway and the river at the bottom

   *Feb 13, we rode 13 miles, getting the lay of the land, and riding towards the mountain, picking any trail we wanted. We rode up a nice wash, great sights, and the rock colors were fantastic, green, purple, black, browns and white. Even thou the staging areas were full of campers , we didn't meet any other OHV out on the trail.

   *Feb 14th 21mi
      We headed NE toward a tower on the Mojave Mountain top. As you leave the boon docking area and rise in elevation, you have a great view of the Colorado river and the town of Lake Havasu City. We went up a nice wash, where the trail left the wash, but it was to steep to get up, so we just choose different trail .  There are numerous trails, some in interesting washes and some on the flats.

We choose the trail at random and ended up at Upper Jupiter Mine.  There we found a horizontal shaft with three vent shafts. Tom walked in 20 ft, where he found a large room and a shaft going down! Most mines you don’t want to venture into because of lethal gasses, snakes, animals or shafts on the floor. There was a 20ft round, and a  8ft high stock tank. In this area they used to mine gold!

We enjoyed riding in this area and we were lucky enough to be here at the Winter festival, where you can partake in a Rodeo, car show, concerts and the spectacular fire works display Thurs.-Sun 7:30-10pm.  We could see the show from our campsite 2 mi out from Sara Park. We also drove to the Desert Bar. It was an old mine and as slowly turned into a bar and entertainment. Beware you have to drive 7 miles on a rocky, bumpy dirt road.

Tates Hell National Forest, Carrabelle, Florida

14 Miles on Jan 5th      27 miles on Jan 6th, 2015
   In 1875 Cebe Tate,  entered the forest to find his cattle. He was lost for seven days,  his dogs took off after a panther, he lost his gun, was attacked by insects, he got sick from drinking murky water and got bitten by a snake. Finally he stumbled out of the woods, living long enough to murmur the words "My name is Cebe Tate, and I just came thru Hell!"

SW of Tallahassee, Fl.	Map of area

We camped at Tetes Hell National Forest, County Line OHV Campground, off of CR- 67 -(blacktop), where there are three large camping sites, no utilities, but there is a outhouse. Cost is $10 per campsite, $10 per ATV for 3 days. The self pay tube is at the Pine Branch Staging Area to the south about 5 miles. The only map we found was one posted at the kiosk, so I took a picture of it and used it as we rode the roads. All the road are marked at the intersections.

   The Area could be described as Fire roads or Logging roads. The roads are all sandy and could be drove on by our pickup.  There are a few puddles, bridges and unbridges (heavily graveled) dips in the road, to let the water flow over. It was quite boring, but we needed to run our machines, so it worked out well.

     The first day we rode 14 miles. We found some men logging the pine trees.  They were running, over sized tires on the skidder, pulling 12 trees.  They loaded the semi-truck with tree length.  We also saw a large pile of bear scat, full of berries. We found several spots of 50 or so bee boxes, with electric fence around the perimeter. There were deer hunters in the area, so we wore our orange hats and vests.

   The second day we followed the Blue Trail, there are large blue arrow signs pointing the way around the boundary. We rode to the Pine Branch Staging area, it is a very large area, with 7 long pull thru, and 7 back in sites for parking, not camping. There is also a nice covered picnic tables and a restroom and kiosk.

   Driving the road, you will see pine trees on each side of the road, with water filled ditches. We crossed several bridges, coming to the East Double Bridge Road.  New River #1 Campsite  is right on the river, but there are only two small sites.  We rode north to Gully Branch Day Use Area,  this is a beautiful spot- restrooms, covered picnic table area, boat ramp and a warm flowing spring right out of a rock pile.  The water was clear and 72*  The large mature pine trees , are right long the river.

  There are 40 acre tracks of land, some logged clear cut, some are logged in strips. There is so much undergrowth you can't see the forest floor. We didn't see any deer, alligators, or bears, but they were in the area.

INFORMATION>
LOCATION>   NEAREST CITY=Carrabelle, Fl   DIRECTIONS=N of Carrabelle on hwy 67
AREA >   TYPE OF LAND=-road riding between forest, OWNER=  Nat Forest
QUALITY >  Pro-one of two in the area / Con-boring, road riding /  Length of stay 1 day / Rating-stars-1 out of 5
TERRAIN>  MILES OF TRAILS,-150 miles
TRAIL MAINTENCE   / SQ. MILE AREA -/  NEAR BY TRAILS-Apalachicola National Forest  
REGULATIONS> Permit required-Yes / Camping-Right at trail / helmets req.
FEE> Camping-$10 / Entry-$10 per machine
KEY SERVICES> Camping-yes / Gasoline / Diesel / First Aid /  Water /  Dump / Food=All in Carrabelle
CONTACTS>Tates Hell State Forest, Carrabelle, Fl