Dixieland Cruisers Group Rides?

[Charles4x4]

Besides the big TLCA events (like Southern Cruiser Crawl in Oct or MardiCrawl a few months ago), do we now have enough member wheelers to go do a few day trip runs on e a month or so?

I've joined some of the Bham-JK runs, but would much rather go with a Cruiser group.

Potential trails:
- Leeds
- Lakeshore
- Grey Rock (still in business?)
- Choccolocco
- Morris Mountain
- Hawk Pride
- Stony Lonesome
- Hale Mountain
- Skykine Motorway 600-1 and 600-2
- Others (Hoover Met, Shoals/Slab, etc)

Do we now have enough interested LC owners?

 

[Charles4x4]

And do we have a FB group so we don't have to check the forum so often (like Bham-JK and Alabama Overland do)? Or should we leverage AO's FB page instead?

 

[justbecause]

I liked the ride across the cahaba we did after cruisers and coffee once upon a time, and we had a camp out years ago, except for no one have each others cell number/trail communication tools and the group getting split up/lost it was a good trip.
There is myself (in an isuzu/nissan) and 2 toyota buddies (fj cruiser and 4th gen 4runner) in Tuscaloosa we would probably be interested in coming up, we are talking about doing a section of trans america trail. there is also a beautiful built blue 100 series down here, and a guy I met at home depot has a cruiser collection, he said he would be interested in getting together.

 

[bhmmapping]

We were hoping to shift focus from the monthly night meeting to a sat. cruisers and coffee with an easy day ride following. last one was to skyway mtwy and it was great.

Stoney/cahaba/skyway are all easy to get people to show up. Anything in a hard core park or local with questionable legality will be harder.

 

[Land Speeder]

I think the last DLC ride was at Stoney. We had a good group and even camped a couple of days. But even that was two yeas ago.
I'm sitting at Choccolocco right now. It will be a mixed group out here today/weekend. I've all but given up on trying to wheel with toyota-only crowd. If I wait on that, then I will wheel once or twice a year IF that. Anyone is welcomed to come any weekend. Chocco is EXCELLENT for rigs even without sliders. a month or so ago a couple cruiser kids came out in their stock rigs and loved the park. I think a toyota truck guy will be here today as well.

Any way, I'm ready for a ride/club meeting/whatever. I'll do easy or hard, but i won't do illegal. Lakeshore and the Met are illegal. Having spent a lot of time out at the Hoover RV park, I KNOW the officers do not like folks out there and they sometimes sit at entrances waiting on folks to pop out. I would suggest never going back in there. Those trails simply are not worth getting a ticket over. Not when we live in a state that has as many private parks as we do.

My soapbox is this and always has been: We live in a state where folks travel from multiple states away to wheel here. I'm literally waiting on folks from South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi to show up today. We are VERY lucky to live in this state. LET'S USE THE DAMN THING.

 

[Land Speeder]

As mentioned above:

Hawk Pride
Hale Mtn
Choccolocco
Morris Mountain
Stoney Lonesome
Grey Rock (August SRRS event only and NOTHING for a regular rig now, but I'll be there spectating)
Adventure Offroad Park

All of those are within 2 hours of bham.

 

[Charles4x4]

As mentioned above:

Hawk Pride
Hale Mtn
Choccolocco
Morris Mountain
Stoney Lonesome
Grey Rock (August SRRS event only and NOTHING for a regular rig now, but I'll be there spectating)
Adventure Offroad Park

All of those are within 2 hours of bham.

Amen! Count me in. Now let's get organized around a upcoming weekend! If necessary, I'll play the organization role.

What's the best all-around park within 1.5hrs for a diverse set of rigs?

And what are the details on the SRRS event in Aug? I'll bring the fam.

 

[Land Speeder]

And what are the details on the SRRS event in Aug? I'll bring the fam.

GR - SRRS Race - August 12-13, 2016

SRRS Southern Points Race #3

This is like watching Top Fuel funny-car type racing up a rock hill.
It will almost certainly be up Cable Hill for the second hill. Not too sure what the first hill will be. Prolly Bents-n-Dents.

Not much left of the park.

 

[Land Speeder]

What's the best all-around park within 1.5hrs for a diverse set of rigs?

Stony and Chocco

 

[girupb]

Are we talking family friendly, or?

Anything fun on the skyway for a stock cruiser with the family?

 

[bhmmapping]

Everything on skyway is fun for a stock cruiser with family.

 

[Land Speeder]

I think the skyway was MADE for a stock Cruiser.
In the 90's I took my 84 Cavalier Station wagon through it during a mountain bike trip to Cheaha from Auburn.

 

[girupb]

I think the skyway was MADE for a stock Cruiser.
In the 90's I took my 84 Cavalier Station wagon through it during a mountain bike trip to Cheaha from Auburn.

I'd like to do this with my girls sometime.