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As you know, next year marks TLCA’s 30th birthday. To that end, I’m trying to develop some celebratory events. These will hopefully be more social and fun based, and perhaps less based on “Big Time Wheeling.” I’d like for our non-wheeling membership to feel welcome and have things to do at these events. One venue that we’re researching for these events is Sayersbrook Bison Ranch (www.sayersbrook.com) in Potosi, Missouri. My backyard!
Sayersbrook is a working bison ranch with about 1,000 bison on site, broken into 10 herds of 100. Sayersbrook has 50 miles of trails on their 3000 acres, and offers off-road driving instruction classes. This provides a great opportunity for those of you who have never used your vehicles to their capability to explore doing so in a controlled and supervised environment-maybe you’ll get hooked! If you’ve ever dreamed of ‘wheeling with the big dawgs or exploring the back country, this would be a great educational opportunity.
Sayersbrook also offers fishing, sporting clays, golf, and lots of other exciting things to do on site. They can also provide lunch and dinner everyday in varying grades, from simple, to really nice-everything from bison burgers and hot dogs to bison steaks and full on gourmet side dishes. All these variants to the event will of course change the event price point, as will lodging choices.
Sayersbrook has a small amount of high end on site lodging, plenty of room to camp with on site restrooms (no showers, yet), and the YMCA of the Ozarks is close by. This is *not* a low end YMCA hostel type deal, but rather a large full service hotel, and many available 8-10 room cabins that could be used by freinds, family, and chapters who want to hang together.
But this is not the big draw for the event in my mind. Sayersbrook is a full service facility offering sporting clays, fly fishing, boating, covered wagon tours of the ranch, and much more. Sayersbrook is also located in an extremely scenic part of the northern Ozarks with much else to see and do. Elephant Rocks, Johnson Shut-Ins, Taum Sauk Mountain, and the National Ozark Scenic Riverways parks offer many hiking, floatin, mountian biking and other recreational opportunities. Some details here:
http://www.mostateparks.com/elephantrock/geninfo.htm
http://www.mostateparks.com/jshutins/geninfo.htm
http://www.mostateparks.com/katytrail/generalinfo.htm
http://www.nps.gov/ozar/index.htm
The two best times of year to have an event like this in Missouri are early June before it gets hot and humid, and early October as the fall colors in the Ozarks are faaabulous. October would be my recommendation
If we can pull this event together, I hope many of you who feel unable to participate at a “normal” wheeling based TLCA event will come and bring your family and Toyota 4x4’s and have a great time. But, we sort of need some help planning for the event in the form of response you, dear reader. So...
Please take some time to look at the list of available activities at Sayersbrook here:
http://www.sayersbrook.com/activitiesandamenities.html
and comment on what you'd like to do. We can put together whatever kind of event you want....but if only two guys want sporting clays, or only 2 people want horseback riding, then those options become much less feasable.
It takes a large fee up front to secure the Sayersbrook facility. Cost will likely be ~$150 per person. Vote in the poll, let us know if you guys want to move this event forward. It would be great fun!
Sayersbrook is a working bison ranch with about 1,000 bison on site, broken into 10 herds of 100. Sayersbrook has 50 miles of trails on their 3000 acres, and offers off-road driving instruction classes. This provides a great opportunity for those of you who have never used your vehicles to their capability to explore doing so in a controlled and supervised environment-maybe you’ll get hooked! If you’ve ever dreamed of ‘wheeling with the big dawgs or exploring the back country, this would be a great educational opportunity.
Sayersbrook also offers fishing, sporting clays, golf, and lots of other exciting things to do on site. They can also provide lunch and dinner everyday in varying grades, from simple, to really nice-everything from bison burgers and hot dogs to bison steaks and full on gourmet side dishes. All these variants to the event will of course change the event price point, as will lodging choices.
Sayersbrook has a small amount of high end on site lodging, plenty of room to camp with on site restrooms (no showers, yet), and the YMCA of the Ozarks is close by. This is *not* a low end YMCA hostel type deal, but rather a large full service hotel, and many available 8-10 room cabins that could be used by freinds, family, and chapters who want to hang together.
But this is not the big draw for the event in my mind. Sayersbrook is a full service facility offering sporting clays, fly fishing, boating, covered wagon tours of the ranch, and much more. Sayersbrook is also located in an extremely scenic part of the northern Ozarks with much else to see and do. Elephant Rocks, Johnson Shut-Ins, Taum Sauk Mountain, and the National Ozark Scenic Riverways parks offer many hiking, floatin, mountian biking and other recreational opportunities. Some details here:
http://www.mostateparks.com/elephantrock/geninfo.htm
http://www.mostateparks.com/jshutins/geninfo.htm
http://www.mostateparks.com/katytrail/generalinfo.htm
http://www.nps.gov/ozar/index.htm
The two best times of year to have an event like this in Missouri are early June before it gets hot and humid, and early October as the fall colors in the Ozarks are faaabulous. October would be my recommendation
If we can pull this event together, I hope many of you who feel unable to participate at a “normal” wheeling based TLCA event will come and bring your family and Toyota 4x4’s and have a great time. But, we sort of need some help planning for the event in the form of response you, dear reader. So...
Please take some time to look at the list of available activities at Sayersbrook here:
http://www.sayersbrook.com/activitiesandamenities.html
and comment on what you'd like to do. We can put together whatever kind of event you want....but if only two guys want sporting clays, or only 2 people want horseback riding, then those options become much less feasable.
It takes a large fee up front to secure the Sayersbrook facility. Cost will likely be ~$150 per person. Vote in the poll, let us know if you guys want to move this event forward. It would be great fun!
