Anyone from MA?
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From: Agawam, Ma
Year: 1997
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Hey guys its last minute but im trying to get a trail ride going for Sunday in Western ma figured I'd put it up and depending on how many people get back to me we'll do mabell...if only a few we'll do this smaller trail called top of the world both are a good time
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One of the best wheeling trails out my way was recenetly closed (6 large trees dropped and a steel gate blocking the entrance) due to kids throwing parties up there. Apparently someone was so intoxicated he ran someone over with his truck and almost killed the poor guy. Really sucks.
If you have to find a way around locked gates, chances are its someones private land and they don't want you there! All you are doing is giving the anti-wheeling groups more ammo to fire at us and help their cause to get our trails shut down.
We are working on a "trail map" system so to speak which would become available shortly. It will list legal wheeling places and how to get there. It will likely be a members only privledge as well. If you can't wait. I suggest you join a club, they hold plenty of wheeling runs on public and their privately owned land, and just about all the time the dues (if they even have any) will go towards future land use.
Sorry for being a party pooper, but everything I said is the sad truth.
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From: Springfield, MA
Year: 1993
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
This is what happens when irresposnsible people find out about trail locations. We have lost many good trails in recent years, and the few legal places we have left are under attack. Please keep trail locations off the forums for anyone to see. If you must, take it to private messages. I can't tell you where you can and cannot wheel, but a lot of illegal trails and their locations were names in this thread before I cleaned it all up.
If you have to find a way around locked gates, chances are its someones private land and they don't want you there! All you are doing is giving the anti-wheeling groups more ammo to fire at us and help their cause to get our trails shut down.
We are working on a "trail map" system so to speak which would become available shortly. It will list legal wheeling places and how to get there. It will likely be a members only privledge as well. If you can't wait. I suggest you join a club, they hold plenty of wheeling runs on public and their privately owned land, and just about all the time the dues (if they even have any) will go towards future land use.
Sorry for being a party pooper, but everything I said is the sad truth.
If you have to find a way around locked gates, chances are its someones private land and they don't want you there! All you are doing is giving the anti-wheeling groups more ammo to fire at us and help their cause to get our trails shut down.
We are working on a "trail map" system so to speak which would become available shortly. It will list legal wheeling places and how to get there. It will likely be a members only privledge as well. If you can't wait. I suggest you join a club, they hold plenty of wheeling runs on public and their privately owned land, and just about all the time the dues (if they even have any) will go towards future land use.
Sorry for being a party pooper, but everything I said is the sad truth.
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From: Lynn, MA
Year: 88
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Originally Posted by BODCherokee
To be honest with you, i've lived in western MA my whole life and every trail that was closed down was pretty much due to non wheeling related incidents. Idiots with honda civics walk up there, get a fire going, get drunk and ruin it for everybody. All my old trails anyway, can't speak for others. You're points still very valid, tread lightly, i'm just saying.
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High school kids with jeeps use google and find this thread, high school kids bring friends up a trail. High school kids get a hold of a 30 rack and need a place to have a fire and drink their precious 30 rack. Kids think of that sweet trail their friend brought them to. Kids party on the trail, bad stuff ensues.
May not be an exact scenario, but it is definately a possibility.
May not be an exact scenario, but it is definately a possibility.
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Year: 1998
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Engine: 4.0L
I'm in Brookline/newton but could help out sometime. What year? Honestly it's pretty simple on 97+ how I did it...cut the pins, hammer/punch them out and replace with bolts/pins.
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From: Winchendon
Year: 1997
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L inline 6
Originally Posted by thehuff
I'm in Brookline/newton but could help out sometime. What year? Honestly it's pretty simple on 97+ how I did it...cut the pins, hammer/punch them out and replace with bolts/pins.
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From: 02038 MA
Year: 1998
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 I6
Originally Posted by AllDayJeepin24
Im from mass any good places with mud around here also never have anyone to go with
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From: West of Boston
Year: 2000
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Hey Ryan... just joined.. live in Waltham just off Rt 2. New to the Cherokee not new to Jeeps. I hunt up by you out by Barre Falls Dam..... I'd be up for taking a ride out pretty much any time... Not too much real off road in the forest around the dam where I hunt... lots of closed gates at least until hunting season.