From the backwoods of Hazard Kentucky
The Bell County Hollercrawlers
We are an off-road club open to ATVs, dirt bikes, side x sides, and Jeeps/trucks. As a club our missions are:
- To help jump-start a struggling economy by increasing our county's tourism revenue. We plan on giving free access and free guided tours of our 9,000 acre park at Mountain Drive for people wanting to visit our area as well as giving off-park tours.
- To bring the community together. Bell County has an extremely large number of people who enjoy trail sports of all kinds, and we as a club feel we can improve the dynamic of our community by giving these people something to unite behind.
- To promote safe, responsible ATV riding. Our club is developing multiple ways to educate young riders on the importance of ATV, dirt bike, side x side, and Jeep/Truck safety.
- To help keep our mountains clean and beautiful. We plan on doing multiple trash pick-up rides through the year to help keep our mountains clean and help improve the image of ATVing and other off-road sports.
- To help support other local organizations and local businesses. Our club wants to be involved in postively impacting our community in any way we can. We will choose other local projects that we will are important to improving our county and participate in them in any way we can.
We are located in Bell County KY, which is located on the Kentucky/Tennessee/Virginia state line, in the shadow of the famous Cumberland Gap, where Daniel Boone opened the Gateway to the west via the Wilderness Road. Also home to Middlesboro, KY, the town built inside a meteor crater. Saturday, September 13 - Clean Up Ride on Mountain Drive This Saturday we will be doing some trash pick up, trail maintence, and campsite planning on Mountain Drive. Members will meet at Colmar entrance at 10:00 AM. Everyone welcome. Friday-Sunday September 19-21 - Club Camp/Cook/Ride Event featuring the Holler Crawlers, Southern SXS Riders, and Harlan County Ridge Runners. This will be a fun weekend for sure for club members of these three clubs. We will be camping and eating and riding the entire weekend at BCO's barn. Off park rides will be held Saturday from 10 AM til around 5 PM...then we come back to the barn and grill out...and listen to some great bluegrass music provided by Evart's own Kentucky Rain! Later that night we will be doing a night ride with some spectacular views of Middlesboro, KY at night. Sunday we will do an off park ride from 9AM til 3PM in a different part of Bell County. Will be a great time. Club members for clubs listed above only though, sorry. This is the only event we have had so far where club membership is required to ride with us. For more info check "Upcoming Events" forum. Bring a tent if you plan on camping this weekend. We have an outhouse and a makeshift shower at the location that you can use. Any food that you can bring such as hamburgers/hotdogs/buns/chips/drinks is appreciated. We will 'pass the hat' for the band so please bring a few dollars for them as they will have to travel an hour to get here.
We are deep rooted in Appalachian tradition and southern highland culture. Corn bread and coal mines. Log cabins and over-alls. Front porch conversations and deals sealed with a hand shake. And of course, a down-home, come-on-in-and-grab-a-plate attitude. No matter who you are or where you are from, the people of the mountains of southeast Kentucky will treat you like next of kin.
We in Bell County are blessed with breath-taking mountain views and some of the best trail riding the world has to offer. The coal and lumber industries have left us with trails of all kinds and of all difficulties. From level gravel roads with spectacular views that are great for beginning riders to rutted out, rocky log roads that would make even the most experienced riders get chicken skin (that's goose-bumps in mountain talk)...Bell County has both and everything in between. Mud, dirt, gravel, rocky creek beds...whatever you want in a trail riding experience, we got it.
Great mountain views. Great trail riding. And great people. We invite you to come on down to the mountains and experience it first-hand. We know that once you do, you'll be back for more.
The Harlan County Ridge Runners ATV Club is based in coal fields of Southeastern Kentucky in the town of Evarts, Kentucky named the "BIRTH PLACE OF ADVENTURE TOURISM". Our Club is over 700 members strong, and our creed is to tread lightly, keep the forest free from liter and to preserve the environment.
Recently the Harlan Co. Fiscal Court leased over 8,000 acres of reclaimed coal land to create an Off Road Adventure Park. With another 72,000 acres of off park trails to ride with easy, moderate, and extreme trails, and the HCRR staff to help see that your visit is a memorable one, with a FREE guide service. There is no better place to go to ride your ATV.
These roads at one time made money for our county and now can do the same as a tourism park. The new Off Road Park is open to ATV's, UTV's, Dirt Bikes, Trucks/Jeeps, and future expansion for horseback riding and hiking.
Our biggest asset is our people here in the mountains. They are very friendly and as an ATV Club we welcome our out of town guests to enjoy our part of the ATV World. Our town is ATV friendly, you may ride your toy thru the streets of Evarts only, go slow, obey all laws, wear a helmet and you will have no problem accessing gas, food, supplies, bank ,and lodging.
Some of our visiting riders have ridden all over the Untied States and have posted here that our trails and scenery are second to none. Vist our event link and pick out one or more events or rides to come visit with us. Please Drive safetly.
Aug. 1....FIRST EVER CLUB TO CLUB RIDE, ride from Evarts to Bell Co. as the Ridge Runners hook up with the Bell Co. Holler Crawlers, for a ride, camp and optional fish trip, ATV ride will leave Evarts Community Fire Pit at 9:30am, SHARP, plan for an all day ride, we will hook up and camp at a pond with the Holler Crawlers, where if you have a Ky Fishing license you may CATCH &
Sept. 4-5....LABOR DAY RIDES, both days off park leaves from the Community Fire Pit at 9:30am, on park at 10am, on Sat. stop by the City Hall in Town, as they have lots of craft vendors, food, music, kids corner, and ole fashion block party. www.visitevartsky.com.
Sept. 25-26....FALL CRAWL FOR KIDS, events at the verda field, with all monies going to St. Judes Childrens Hospital, starting on Friday Nite with pole bending at 6:30pm, Sat. starting at 12 noon with obstacle course, kids obstacle course, mud bog, LADIES MUD DASH FOR CASH, and ending with drag race, and kids drag race, a $5.00 charge for each event entered for all. Registration on Friday at 5pm, and Sat at 11am. SPONSOR ATV Direct www.atvdirect.com.
OCTOBER....The whole month is open to Mtn Color rides each weekend, come see our mtn leaves as they start to change, check at the Tee Shirt Shack, Community Fire Pit each nite for a sch of the next days rides.
Nov. 27-28....JIJNGLE BELL RIDE, the only ride we ever charge for, a UNWRAPPED toy for a boy or a girl, so that come Christmas Morning, we can help put a smile on some small child’s face. Both Friday and Saturday off park rides will leave out at 9:30am, on park rides at 10am, from the Community Fire Pit. SPONSOR Kyo Enterprises, Inc. www.kyoent.com
Dec. 5-6....CHRISTMAS PARADES, Sat in Harlan, Sunday in Evarts, dress up your toy, then come and enjoy as the Ridge Runners close out yet another year, spend time with families, and get ready to hit it again in 2010.
With over 360 club members spread all over the United States, from Arizona to Idaho to Michigan to Maryland to Georgia reaching all corners of the US as well as a couple Canadians, the Trailblazers live up to their official motto "IN MUD WE TRUST!!!" by celebrating Southeastern's Beautiful Land by riding the mountains and hills all over Kentucky until the cows come home or the rooster crows, whichever comes first! The Trailblazers ATV Club is in partnership with Daniel Boone National Forest by helping with keeping the Redbird Crest Trails free of litter and debris.
Black Mountain Off-Road Adventure Park is the Moab of the East!
The Kentucky Mountain Crawlers and the Black Mountain Off-Road Adventure Park go hand in hand!!! You'll find trails from moderate
(that a stock 4x4 vehicle can handle) to as extreme as you could ever want.
You'll also see beautiful overlooks, scenic trails, a bounty of wildlife and some of the friendliest folks you'll ever meet in the good ole' USA.
If you're looking for an adventure and memories to last you a lifetime, come on down to Harlan County, Kentucky and ride with the Kentucky Mountain Crawlers!
The NWTF is a grassroots, nonprofit organization with more than 500,000 members in 50 states, Canada, Mexico and 14 other foreign countries. It supports scientific wildlife management on public, private and corporate lands as well as wild turkey hunting as a traditional North American sport.
In 1973, the National Wild Turkey Federation was founded in Fredericksburg, Va. At that time, there were an estimated 1.3 million wild turkeys and 1.5 million turkey hunters. Shortly after its founding, the NWTF moved to Edgefield, S.C., where it is headquartered today.
Thanks to the work of federal, state and provincial wildlife agencies and the NWTF's many volunteers and partners, there are now more than 7 million wild turkeys and nearly 3 million turkey hunters. Turkey hunting has become the fastest growing form of hunting and has the second-highest number of participants of any type of hunting.
Since 1985, more than $279 million NWTF and cooperator dollars have been spent on upholding hunting traditions and conserving more than 13.9 million acres of wildlife habitat. Hunters have also benefited as the NWTF has worked tirelessly to support our hunting heritage and protect and promote laws that increase hunting opportunity and safety.
The Legend Stump Jumpers is an organized non-profit association made up of the good ole boy's and gal's of southeastern Kentucky. We are a ATV club that promotes safe riding,education,and donations to the local charity. We are also involved with the state and government in the promotion of more public riding area's for the the ATV rider and to protect the land,mountains and streams that we live in. We can all work together to make a better and safer future for this sport.
Come Join our club and enjoy the great outdoors with ATV riding and be a part of making this sport fun,safe and educational for everyone.
Dennis Ford
Fleet Sales Manager
Legend Outdoors Adventure
Corbin, KY 40701
W-(606)528-0008
C-(606)224-8500
Website- http://www.legendmotorsportsinc.com/
Legend Stump Jumpers- Ride Schedule:
Stinking Creek Ride Flatlick, KY Jul 18th, 2009
Kayjay Mountain Kayjay, KY Aug 12th, 2009
Black Mountain Evarts, KY Sept 18th, 2009
Bell County Ride Pineville, KY Oct 16th, 2009
Ride Royal Blue Pioneer, TN Nov 22, 2009
Stinking Creek Ride Flatlick, KY Dec 15th, 2009
2009 TRAIL SCHEDULE
OCTOBER 3 GREEN RIVER LAKE Emerald Isle Marina
Emerald Isle Marina Friday meeting Robinson Creek Baptist Ch.
CHAMPIONSHIP INVITATIONAL
October 23-24
CAVE RUN LAKE Alfrey Ramp
meeting sites to be announced
top 10 teams invited
