There aren't many legal places to ride here in VA, and I'm tired of driving 3 hours just to find a trail, so I'm thinking about buying some land of my own for wheeling.
Has anyone done this? Any advice for finding cheap land? I don't plan on building anything there, so I would actually prefer it to be gnarly and unbuildable. How many acres should I get? I'm thinking it should be a minimum of 10. Any advice would be great.
10 acres would get old rather quickly, that's not a very large area. You might also check with your local code enforcement and see what they have to say.
IMO I don't think you'd be happy with less than 50 acres. Get the land away from everything an hour or so and build a small simple cabin. You could use it as a get away and hunt there too. I've thought about it myself. All it takes is a lot of money...which is why I still live in the burbs.
Agreed - But i still dont think 50 would be enough. How much wheelin would you be doing there in say a year? That would be a large investment for something that would get old in even 2 or 3 years, especially if there wasnt a diverse landscape. you know?
Go to a Prothonatory office or court building in your town and ask to see a list of properties where people owe back taxes. Usually they're dirt cheap, then submit an application and "bid" on a property. I paid $500 for an acre in a secure development and it faces state game lands....if I perc-test it, I could easily get $10,000. I live in the Poconos of PA, which is a tourist spot, so land can get pricey. Give it a shot, this small town had pages and pages of properties!
You might be able to look at the tax sales in your area and see about buying that way. It's possible that you could pay some back taxes on a large tract and use it to trade the owner for the right to wheel.
Any one know if it's illegal to go wheeling on the utility company's trails? I live in Ohio and those r the only dirt roads around me. I hope I can find land to buy and maybe make a business out of it since paintball is popular where I live. That's it paint ball while wheeling! A non deadly drive by shooting. XD but yah I was wondering about that before winter is over for me.
Any one know if it's illegal to go wheeling on the utility company's trails? I live in Ohio and those r the only dirt roads around me. I hope I can find land to buy and maybe make a business out of it since paintball is popular where I live. That's it paint ball while wheeling! A non deadly drive by shooting. XD but yah I was wondering about that before winter is over for me.
I'm in central NC and I wheel on some utility trails as long as they don't have no trespassing signs posted. Usually the land is state owned so it's for public use cause there are atv and hiking trail running right next to them.
I have a hair over 10 acres. It feels like a postage stamp.
I guess it would depend on what's ON the property but you'll get bored with something this small in a very short time.
I have a hair over 10 acres. It feels like a postage stamp.
I guess it would depend on what's ON the property but you'll get bored with something this small in a very short time.
Well, how much fun would bare land be to wheel on?
If it's flat, no rocks or anything, I guess you could go do donuts in the dirt but that would get old in ohhhhhh five or ten minutes.
If it's rocky and hilly, it would offer some fun things to play on but again - ten acres isn't squat for a place to wheel.
Evn if my place were covered in rocks and hills (which it isn't) I'd be bored with it after running it a few times.
you have to find someone with a big track that owns it but arent doing anything with. My dad and i and a few buddies lease 850 acres of mountain land in pa and we just pay the owner enough to cover the taxes for the year and we can pretty much do whatever we want. ours was logged at some point to so it has plenty of old washed out logging roads. plus it was a quarry at the one point so plenty of terrain to have fun on
10 acres and a backhoe and bulldozer might be OK. I'd think anything too small would get boring. Half the fun is actually having a destination, you know going from point A to point B. You can only climb the same hill so many times.
Out west most utilities are on public land so the trails are open. Then again, if you lived out west we wouldn't be having this discussion.
you may be able to find something where there is land for sale (10 acres or so) that also backs up to a lot of acreage. My dad bought 6 acres and it backs up to about 100 more..we don't wheel in there but we ride our quads back there..(trails too narrow for my jeep =[ )
I know what you mean about not having any places that are close to wheel in Virginia. When I was in Texas I was 30 min from Barnwell Mountain Offroad park and lived on 100+ acres and it was a blast! Now I'm in Va and there is NO WHERE to go?!?!? There is a dealership that has an offroad course that is maybe 2 acres but they have a bunch of different obsticals to try and get through. I would say that ANYTHING IS MUCH BETTER THAN NOTHING.... Even if you get bored just stop wheeling there for a month and I'm sure you'll be back with a smile. Lol my advice would be to get a piece of land that you can afford to play with and just make a bunch of different obsticals. I'm sure you can get a bunch of jeepers with shovels to help out. Lol I know I'd help when possible going up to my sisters house in annapolis MD. Another suggestion would be to find property that has trees that you can cut down and incorporate into the obsticals and points of elevation where you can easily build walls to climb. Like someone else said if there is ever a meet up to go wheeling I'm sure I can rally together a group to join!
All in all it seems to me that in order to get a big enough property, you would have to pay a FORTUNE. And if its flat land, there is no way i would do it. Rocky or rugged terrain is the only land that keeps its worth to a jeeper!
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