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Mud-A-Palooza 2010

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Friday, November 5th, 2010

Get ready for the biggest Mud and music event in all of Alabama. Bring your Truck, ATV, UTV, or Dirt Bike to MUD-A-PALOOZA. The event will take place at the Mudders Mag Off Road Park in Phenix City, Alabama November 5-7th. The park features over 300 acres of mud and trails to put a smile on any riders face. They offer free showers and free primitive camping. They will even wash your four-wheeler off for you for FREE. Robert Stowell and Down Home Destination will be providing the live music. Don’t forget to stop and get your picture made with the GRITS girls. The Busted Knuckle Films Crew will be there filming for a new DVD. Mudders Mag will be covering the event for the magazine. So come on out and get famous.

Come get Muddy with us.

Got Questions? Give Mudders Mag Off-Road park a call at 770-301-7710 or 706-675-3503. The event costs $30 for all three days, $25 for Sat. & Sunday, and $15 for Sunday only. Here is a link where you can find the Park Rules. Here are the directions to the park.

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Off Road Park Review – Choccolocco ORV

Posted by: Matt | Comments (0)
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Choccolocco Mountain Off Road Vehicle Park is located in Jacksonville, Alabama, just one mile from the town square. We recently had the chance to make it out to this park for the Thrills in the Hills Event. This place is just plain ridiculous. We took the sport quads so we could get around easy and film. After a few hours of riding around we had gotten the park figured out so we could easily drive around and see all of the best obstacles. There was even an f-250 superduty that was basically stock roaming around on the main roads.

There is plenty of room to camp in the large wooded campground. There are many primitive camping spaces with fire rings, a covered pavilion, water access, and portable toilets. If camping isnt your thing there are Restaurants, parts stores, propane, and hotels located within three to five minutes of the park.  Every type of off road vehicle; atv’s, side by sides, dirt bikes, four wheel drives, rail buggies, and rock crawlers are welcome. The park is 450 acres of mountains with over 200 trails and obstacles. The trails are rated 1-5, clearly marked, and wide enough for full size vehicles. The 1 & 2′s are easily accessible for atv’s and stock four wheel drives. The 4 & 5′s are extremely difficult, strictly for built rock crawling vehicles only. Over 100 of the trails are great for easy trail riding. There are also plenty of extreme obstacles to play on. All of the extreme trails are accessible through the easy trails.  The park owners state that Choccolocco Mountain is a place where friends and families can come to relax, have fun and enjoy the mountains, wildlife, and scenery & we could not agree more.

CHOCCOLOCCO ORV IS OPEN EVERY WEEKEND!

Saturday and Sunday
Daily Rate: $20 per driver $5 per passenger
Weekend Pass: $30 per driver $10 per passenger
Weekend Pass includes camping
Camping Only: $5 per person

If you are into the extreme side of things then you will definitely have fun with all of the challenging obstacles available at the park. Boat Ramp, the wall, and Hells Revenge are just a couple of the names of the best trails they have. Boat Ramp is a crowd favorite. The trail is exactly as it sounds; it is a huge rock slab on a hillside that has water running down it year round. This makes it slick as all get out. People crowd around this obstacle to watch everyone hammer down and try to make it to the top. It is one of those obstacles that is a must see. The best part is that even a mildly built Jeep can try it!

If you are in a milder built rig you can still have a great time at Choccolocco. You can drive right up to the hardest obstacles at the park and watch all the wild and crazy rigs try to throttle up. If spectating isn’t your thing there are plenty of milder trails to challenge your daily driver rockcrawler all weekend long. Bring your family and or your local club for the weekend.

We had a blast on our trip and cannot wait to take the Tacoma back there for a beat down. We gave the park 4.5 out of 5 knuckles for the great obstacles and nice camping area. If you are looking for a new place to wheel in Alabama then Choccolocco should definitely be on your list. Check the photos below for a park map. If you want to see some Choccolocco ORV videos, just head on over to our youtube page and watch for our DVD coming out soon entitled “RockRods”.

PARK CONTACT INFO:

Mailing Address
2056 Pelham Rd S
Jacksonville, AL 36265
Tel: 256-365-0297
2-way 154-972-12738
Email: info@choccoloccomountain.com

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ORV REVIEW – Crusher Ridge, AL

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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

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  • Open Every Weekend
  • WEBSITE $15 per person
  • Hours: 7am to 10pm
  • Bounty Trail: Crow Wall
  • Number of Trails: 50
  • Acreage: 150 acres
  • ATVs and Side by Sides ok: YES
  • GPS Address:838 Akins Mountain  Road Hartselle, AL 35640
  • Contact Info: Brad-256-303-6911 nextlevelconstruction07@yahoo.com

I remember when Alabama only had one official offroad park. Nowadays it seems like you can’t throw a dart at the state map without hitting one. Crusher Ridge Rockcrawler Park is one of the newest of these off road parks and it is nestled in the hills of Hartselle, Alabama. The park sits on 150 acres of rock ledges. Don’t Let its small size fool you; You can spend all weekend wheeling the more than 50 trails this park has to offer and they still have room to grow.

cr15The park is easily found if you take the Faulkville/Eva exit on I-65 and head east. Take your first left on Mt Zion Road and then take another left on Akins Mountain Road and it will dead end into the park. There are no RV hookups or Bathhouses at present but plans are in the works to make them available in the near future. If you are more of the hotel type, there are some nice ones just 5 miles down the road from the park.

The park allows Rockcrawlers, Atvs, and Side by Sides to come out and enjoy the fun. As far as wheeling goes, this park has something for everyone. It has plenty of nice rock ledges with multiple lines for even the most hardcore of vehicles. The majority of the trails are rated 4 or 5 on a 5 point scale. We found that most of the obstacles were easily accessed by roads that stock jeeps could make it down. Most of the trails are in the shade which makes wheeling during the hottest summer months alot less grueling.

Some of the craziest trails are Cro Wall and Stairway. Crowall is a “bounty hill” which means the first person up it wins some cash and a years free pass to the park. A few people have tried this nasty vertical climb but none have made it. Check below for a video of an orange buggy flipping down crowall.

Another great obstacle at the park is Stairway which is a series of 4 to 5 foot ledges going up the side of a hill. We witnessed quite a few rigs getting denied by this trail while filming the Crusher Ridge Mad Dash for Cash Race.

For all the latest offroad park and event information, check out the “Off Road Park” Section of our Forum. For now check out the videos and pictures below to get a better idea of what this great park has to offer. Plan a trip to Crusher Ridge Rockcrawler Park; You won’t regret it. We gave it a rating of 4 out of 5 because it is a smaller park that has plenty of room to grow. We can’t wait to see what trails Brad and the guys will dream up next.



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The Great American Off Road Park – Auburn, AL

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Monday, April 12th, 2010

Here in Auburn, AL we have been waiting a long time to have somewhere to wheel close to home. Are you tired of driving 2-4 hours to get to an offroad park? Well wait no longer because The Great American Park is here. The Park offers something for everyone. Bring your rockcrawler and come hit all the man made obstacles or bring your mud truck and let the mud fly in the mud riding area. They even allow side by sides and ATVs.

The Park is set on over 160 acres of rolling Auburn Hills. The owner has been working closely with our local off Road club AU Crawlers and has built some amazing obstacles. He calls his creation the “PowerCrawl 2010″. This area includes the Mariana Trench, the Balrog, and the Achilles Hill. He is working hard to give us rockcrawlers everything we are looking for in a totally man made off road park.

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The Great American Park has just the thing for all of you mud slingers out there too. The “Field of Dreams” Mud Riding area includes the Hogwallow, the Boomerang, the Big Amazon, and the Montezuma. A mud riding area specifically created for stock trucks with tire size 35″ and under has  recently been added also. So whether you are romping through the mud in your stock Z71 or letting it eat in a fully built truck on 44s you will find an obstacle for you in this mud riding haven. The best part is if you get stuck someone is on hand to come pull you out at no extra charge.

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Got a Dirt bike, ATV, or Side by Side? No problem, there are over 25 different ATV trails strewn across the park. You can splash through the mud and the muck on a 4×4 quad or rip up and down the trails on your dirt bike or sport quad. When you need a break you can kick back and watch all the action going on in the mud and rockcrawling areas.

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The location of the park is perfect. It is only 5 minutes away from I-85 and 6 minutes away from the closest part store. At only 10-15 bucks for the day. I know where my next wheeling trip will be. The Great American Offroad Park. The park is open one Saturday a month right now, but plans have been made to make a camping area and soon they will be open for full weekends twice a month. For more information check out the Great American Park’s website or follow them on Facebook.

Check back for more pictures and video featuring this new and amazing park in Auburn, AL the home of Busted Knuckle Films. The park will also be featured in our next film as part of the Southern Shenanigans Series of off road dvds.


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The Busted Knuckle Crew hits Ridgeway park for some Freeriding.

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

The Busted Knuckle Films Crew headed to North Georgia last weekend for some freeride downhill mountain biking. It was a cold morning at Ridgeway Park but by the time we hiked up and bombed down the course a few times we were shedding layers. Thank goodness our shuttle driver and trailer showed up after only a few hours or we would have been gassed. This riding spot nestled in the mountains of North Georgia has some great obstacles. It is made up of three trails that range from beginner to expert. These trails feature some nice senders, a few doubles, and an assortment of rock gardens. I myself went over the handlebars quite a few times. This place definitely warrants a full face helmet and I was glad I had mine on everytime I ate it off of a jump. The park also has some cross country trails if gravity riding isnt your thing and Carters Lake is right there if you need to cool off after a hard day of riding. Click the map below for directions, Check out the video, and let us know what you think.

Matt

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