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Mike Troast and the Stay The Trail Trailer were at Fay Myers Motorcycle World for the 2007 COHVCO ATV Raffle Drawing. Raffle Tickets for the ATV have been on-sale for the past year at different events. There were a few last minute ticket purchasers on this Saturday, the 27th of October. The winning ticket this [...]

This was Sun’s 3rd ATV + Sportsman Skills Competition, which is staged in a large dirt lot just North of the store. Sun is located at 8877 N. Washington in Thornton, Colorado and it’s amazing that they can put this event on at their store. Here’s a picture of one of the contestants, Mike Blair, [...]

This very competitive and extreme event requires some very serious talent and money to be able to play at the top levels of the sport. That’s not just driving talent but ingenuity, fabrication and mechanical skills as well. Most of these vehicles are far from what you can buy on a showroom floor. You may [...]

Each year Buena Vista, Colorado hosts the annual ATV Historical Color Tour. In talking to many participants, the highlight of this years event would have to be the weather. The Stay The Trail trailer was open for visitors each morning at the Buena Vista Community Center and everyday the skies were blue with few, if [...]

The Stay The Trail trailer was at the fall Poker Run again this year. I arrived early on Friday to get a good parking spot. When I got to the Flat Rocks Campground, Jim Peasley was waiting for his wife to come pick him up, so that she could drive him to the hospital. Jim [...]

Dave Vlasicak of Rev-loc stopped to see what the problem was with the Stay the Trail truck and trailer on his way to the Colorado 500...

I arrived at the Creeper Jeepers – End Over Summer Event on the Friday afternoon of Labor Day weekend. Pam and Doug Ramsey greeted me and made me feel right at home. They had sign up sheets for the different routes, that would be used over the weekend, along with maps and descriptions of the [...]

I will have to admit that I have never been to the State Fair before. I’ve read about it and seen it on the news but I have never really understood what draws people to the State Fair. Now that I’ve been to the fair, I totally understand, why people go. Do you know why [...]

Here is a little history from the Colorado 500 website. It started as a day of riding in the Colorado Mountains with a few close friends 30 years ago. Today it is the premier off-road charity ride in the United States. Founder Wally Dallenbach, of the Dallenbach Ranch, Basalt, could not have dreamed his ride [...]

What an adventure I had going to the Colorado 500. It started out well, I left Brighton at 6:00 am. I said good bye to my wife Cindy and my poodle Gaby and was on the road. About 4 hours later I pulled off I-70 in Glenwood Springs to head for Basalt. I pushed on [...]

This is a great event put on each year by Bob Maynard of Parts Unlimited. Bob is a really great guy and gives a tremendous amount back to the sport of off-road motorcycling each year. Bob really seems to like this trick XR400. Later in the day I saw Jeff Engelman and Tom Reed of [...]

The Stay the Trail trailer spent several days in Montrose for the COHVCO OHV Workshop. It was set up at the Hampton Inn parking lot, so that participants of the workshop could come in and take advantage of all the information we have available. Corey Corbett organized the workshop again this year and as always [...]

My first outing with the trailer started with a trip to Grand Junction and the United Four Wheel Drive Associations 2007 Annual Convention. The drive out went fairly well, this rig could run over a Geo Metro and you would not feel a thing. Gene King from UFWDA met me in the parking lot and [...]

The BLM Kremmling Field Office invites Stay The Trail to the North Sand Hills for the Memorial Day Weekend

Jack Placchi, Travel Management and Trails Coordinator for BLM Colorado State Office, extended an invitation for the Stay The Trail Education Trailer at a special BLM event. Following a morning BLM State Office meeting which included a presentation on the Stay The Trail program by Jack Placchi, all State BLM employees were invited to tour [...]