QUOTE(mogulmasher @ Jun 10 2008, 02:57 PM)

The power lines by Rochester Motorsports on RT 11 are not legal to ride although many seem to ride there. I'm the president of the Tri-City Trailblazers and we have a few miles open starting at Garrison Hill in Dover over to Rollinsford. We are trying to get up through Somersworth and Rochester to some day hopefully join up with New Durham trails. I have been trying to get interest from folks in Rochester area so we can try and get some more trails up that way open, but nobody has stepped up to the plate....everyone wants to ride not help build trails. I have never ridden those power lines in Rochester with a quad, but seems as though land owners aren't stopping people. If some guys want to help me out we could try and get that area legal.
I used to ride - drive through there 20+ years ago.There used to be a truck eating mudhole on the ten rod road end of the rt 11 section.I think there has always been some kind of landowner hangup on one section or the other through the years.There are a lot of old trails in the area that have been abandoned.We used to come across the powerlines, cross 202a, go out behind the reservor down the pipeline either going up onto dry-hill road,or four corners, or folllowing the pipeline to rochester and dairy queen ,cross the turnpike behind the current home depot,go across the horse trail back to sampson road How about up to Blue Job? Barnstead?Milton? Used to be possible.There were just as many on the east side of rochester also. Sad thing is these and many other unused trails are still there-just grown in,and without landowner permissions in place.There just isnt enough involvement by riders to make it happen.I also know I never had permission back then,if there was a trail there we went,sometimes we went and made our own.Has anyone from the atv club tried to contact any of the landowners on the existing rt 11 snowmobile trails.I know I havent been,and I also remember spending a couple of hours this spring raking in the ruts left in the snowmobile trail by a couple of atvs who rode past all the signs and gates.Powdermills trails are being prepared so we can ride on minimal amounts of snow,4 wheeled usage is counterproductive to that.Unless the state steps in and takes corridor easements from landowners by imminent domain (not going to happen)it will probably never be possible to get an interconnected atv trail system in this state.And as time and development roll on, the snowmobile trails will probably need that kind of protection(also not going to happen).Why havent the local dealers organized some sort of club.How many atvs has been sold locally in the last ten years?Everyone of those sales should represent at least one club member.Where are they?