On-line Registration for the Hooch Dual Sport Ride 2025 will officially open April 5, 2025 Once again, the ride will be based at “Two Wheels of Suches” campground, TWoS, located at 1915 Hwy-60 Suches, GA 30572 www.twowheelsofsuches.com, 706-973-1671. Available Accommodations As always, camping is not included in Hooch registration. Please call ahead and make your …
PRESS RELEASE Marietta, GA. — GARTRA is pleased to announce that it has received a grant totaling almost $30,000.00 from Yamaha Motor Corp. USA’s Outdoor Access Initiative https://yamahaoai.com. This grant will be used to fund trail maintenance supplies and equipment for our volunteer workforce and will go directly towards supporting ongoing activities at Davenport Mountain, …
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I left the house at 6:45 am heading for Town Creek to help with the first day of this project. The weather outlook was not promising, and I drove through multiple light rain showers most of the 85 miles to Town Creek. I wasn’t very optimistic about the rain holding off for the workday. I …
GARTRA president Bill Shilling has long been in discussions with the USFS to make the trails at Whissenhunt One-Way where possible to reduce the likelihood of head-on collisions and enhance safety on the trails. Recently the USFS approved the plan and gave us the go-ahead to arrow the trails directional. This past workday, Saturday 1/21/2023, …
To kick off the new year 2023, GARTRA held the first monthly meeting of the year at Wooly’s Cycles of Atlanta, 1581 Cobb Parkway S., Marietta, GA 30060 https://www.woolyscycles.com/ . We had a great turnout of approximately 30 folks, including Wooly’s owners Bobby and Rascal Wooldridge, and Parts Mgr. Mandie Butts. We began gathering at 6 pm for pizza …
This year GARTRA’s Christmas party returned to the Honda Rider Education Center in Alpharetta, GA. The last time we were able to hold this event here was pre-pandemic, Dec 2019. This year the main course was catered by Williamson Brothers BBQ of Marietta. While the BBQ and side dishes were all great (see all the …
The workday at Houston Valley ORV park started out as a mild beautiful day. But before the end of the day it would turn out to be one long, hot, humid, but productive day. I arrived at the park about 8:40 am, found a place to park and began unloading. Shortly after, GARTRA’s Houston Valley …
Oakey Mountain Workday #3, 5-14-2022 (Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative) Great day at Oakey Mountain. Beautiful weather, and a good turnout which included 3 USFS staff and 9 GARTRA volunteers including GARTRA’s Davenport trail captain Bob Connett. This is the 3rd of 6 planned workdays sponsored by Yamaha Outdoors and https://www.facebook.com/TheGreatOutdoorsFund/. We had two tasks to perform which included rebuilding …
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