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Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:02 pm

Moving to Nashville, TN this January and am bring the "SoCal" Baja with me. Does anyone know of cool places to play in the Tennessee/Kentucky area? Any good VW Clubs in the Nashville area?

Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:10 am

I live in Cincinnati Area and Kentucky is our best option for mountain trail riding.

Black Mountain Off-Road Park:
http://www.harlancountytrails.com/

The closest dunes are Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan:

http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/michigan/silver-lake-sand-dunes

In eastern Tenn there is Coal Creek. I have not been there but it looks pretty good!

http://www.coalcreekohv.com/

Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:11 pm

Yea, you'll be able to find places to ride. I live about 200 miles south of nashville in alabama, but i have friends of mine that go to windrock off-road park that see alot of buggy's up there ( I dont know about baja's but yours looks really capable). :D

Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:47 pm

windrock is a good place to ride. Have had my rail up there a few times, you can ride all day and not cover the place. More trails for atv's.
Tony

Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:06 pm

X3 for Windrock. You will also find a ton of locals that will be able to point you in the right direction. Just go to any auto parts store and wait a few minutes. If you wait... they will come :lol:

Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:39 am

Windrock looks like it is only 200 acres or am I reading this wrong. My heavens that is a pit area out in the Desert. Will also look at the National and State forests for trails. Don't need a hard core OHV area just cool places to trail ride.

Thanks.

Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:26 pm

Coal Creek is 72,000 acres. Guys from work went out there a few weeks ago, from what they said; some of the terrain is really hardcore (ie, nasty rocky sections wanting to break your stuff) but the trail system was really well marked

"Land Between the Lakes" (aka LBL) is a national state park up by Kentucky and has "Turkey Bay, OHV Park" within it. Not as large as Coal Creak but a great place to play with "easy" to "extreme" trails. Not as well marked as Coal Creek.

Both those places are 2-3 hours from Nashville.

I work near downtown Nashville... 3 of my co-workers have rail buggies & atvs and several others have ATVs and usually they get together and go out riding on the big holiday weekends. I've been out twice to ride other people's stuff and I'm currently working on a buggy of my own - should be done within the next few months.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:13 pm

vw_nick wrote: Coal Creek is 72,000 acres. Guys from work went out there a few weeks ago, from what they said; some of the terrain is really hardcore (ie, nasty rocky sections wanting to break your stuff) but the trail system was really well marked

"Land Between the Lakes" (aka LBL) is a national state park up by Kentucky and has "Turkey Bay, OHV Park" within it. Not as large as Coal Creak but a great place to play with "easy" to "extreme" trails. Not as well marked as Coal Creek.

Both those places are 2-3 hours from Nashville.

I work near downtown Nashville... 3 of my co-workers have rail buggies & atvs and several others have ATVs and usually they get together and go out riding on the big holiday weekends. I've been out twice to ride other people's stuff and I'm currently working on a buggy of my own - should be done within the next few months.

Nick - Thanks for this great information. Would love to hook up with you and your buddies sometime. We have bought a house north of Nashville and should be moving in at the first of the year.