ATV Trails at Brushy Mountain Motor Sports Park

The Brushy Mountain Motor Sports Park can bewere still peppered with large mud holes from the
found in Alexander County, North Carolina. This parkearly spring rain and my riding partners behind me will
is friendly to ATV riders, Motorcycle riders, and UTVagree that I made sure they wore as much of it as I
riders and has been in business for several years.could spray on them if they got too close to my
Most of the trails are marked one way which keepsATV.
riders from playing chicken head-on which is veryFurther up the trails, the conditions quickly changed
nice. Motorcycle riders who are looking for tight trailsfrom Beginner level to white and orange DANGER
are sure to feel at home here because they havesigns around every turn. Steep hill climbs combined
many trails designated just for them.with very rocky terrain put my new ride to the test
This park was chosen for it rave reviews online, andand I quickly engaged the four wheel drive. It
because we needed an honest to goodness provingseemed to be powering along pretty well right up
ground for the new Linhai-Yamaha 400 4x4 ATV.until I came around a blind uphill turn where another
We quickly unloaded and went over to the sign inrider was stuck right in the middle of the trail.
station to pay the fee and sign the liability waiversYou must understand that this section of the trail
that I like to call the "Not our fault if you get hurt orwas not a place to stop because of the degree of
die" papers. The attendants quickly came over toincline, and my Linhai ATV once stopped on the
check out our brand new Linhai Big Horn ATV, and tomountainside, stalled, then started rolling rapidly down
make sure we had all the proper safety equipmentthe hill despite the brakes being fully applied. I jumped
like helmets, riding boots, and gloves.off just in time before is rolled right off the side and
Now that the formalities were out of the way, acontinued until a tree stopped it 20 feet off the trail.
push of a button later the engine started with aAfter several hours we got it back on the trail and I
throaty growl and I pointed the brand new ATV thatcursed myself for being too cheap to add on the
had never seen mud before up the mountain trail.winch option. I was really excited when it cranked
The trail started off with a couple jumps and quickback up with one push of the button, and the only
turns up a moderate incline, but it was plenty widedamage was the left rear plastic fender was broken
enough not to feel threatened very much. The trailsand the rear metal rack was bent pretty bad.