Trail Reports

[Meat-Run]

Yup, probably my last ride today as well. Live in Brainerd and went through Crow Wing State park to the Fort then over to St. Mathias and back home. The ditches are ugly but the woods are unbelievably great just some ugly side roads that go through the townships that have extra "stuffy crust" to deal with the I would give the trails a 7 out of 10 for this time of year or a B- for a grade. If I wasn't leaving town tomorrow for a few days I would go one more time...lets hope for a late March or April snow storm!!!!

Meat-Run

[Garrett_Larson]

Completely agree with that last sentence. We definetily need som more snow. Just got the sled back together and I need to ride it before I have to put her away for the summer

[icecold]

Still riding in southern minnesota lots of snow in feilds and ditches, we are still riding the minnesota river from new ulm to the west, but after today is will be over, we are riding tonight for one last blast . I love a late spring

[Garrett_Larson]

Went out last night. Great riding! Snow was soft with the warm temps. Also got to try a little water skipping. Not too bad. Pretty much done for the year unless we are lucky enough to get another snow storm.

[MNexpoler]

This past Saturday I went riding up around Willow River area, trails were pretty good. 2" of fresh snow really helped. Most likely the last weekend for riding in that area.

[Xplorer]

Heading out tomorrow in the Cloquet area for what will probably be the last ride of the year. The trails were groomed as late as last thursday, and at least the one by the house has had maybe 6 sleds on it in the last week. Was a good year, got really lucky and had some great trips with the family and some fun local riding during the week!

[MNexpoler]

Just checked DNRs web site and there still grooming the North Shore Trail. Still lots of snow up there, probably have to get up around Silver Bay to hit the real good stuff.

[knoppers]

the trails closed thursday, but up there its mostly state land, but it doesen't make sense to groom trails this time of year. save the grooming money for next year.

[ccarlson]

I was up on the state trail last weekend and the conditions were still excellent. Not sure why you say it is not worth still grooming. Great snow conditions and snowmobilers still using them. My brother in law and a group are up there snowmobiling right now as a matter of fact. Why not extend the season for those hotels/resorts and restaurants?

Now the gunflint trail system was a different story last weekend. Plenty of snow to groom but it hadn't been groomed in a long time and it was terribly rough. Talked to some local bar/restaurant owners very unhappy with what has been happening with that local club and they reported a shake up happening right now and that they are in the process of getting the groomer out of the control of the old leaderships hands. That won't help till next year though. Too bad these business owner's seasons were cut short by lack of grooming on that trail when like I said, there was still plenty of snow to groom at the end of March. I realize this trail is different than the state trail in terms of funding, dates of use etc. so not looking to compare completely...

ccarlson