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Please remember, I organize these because it’s fun to get dirty! If you’re new and a bit anxious when it comes to more serious off-roading, please get in touch with me and I’m happy to help you through. Trail Drives, Camping, and some great times with Euro offroad friends! Bring your tent, sleeping bag, food, and anything else you might need to make your stay comfortable! You MUST purchase day use permits to use park lands. Permits are per-person.
Trail runs will be split in half through the day: 1st run, lunch, 2nd run, dinner, night run for the most advanced TBD.
CAMPING:
If you're looking to camp, we'll be reserving primitive sites around bathhouse #2 (a picture will be pinned in the posts below). Water pressure is so -so, but the water gets HOT. Facilities are clean! Get your reservations in early as Windrock is a pretty busy OHV park! There are hotels in the area that offer discounts if they know you're planning on running at Windrock. Please see the "How to Windrock" tab on Windrock's website and scroll all the way to the bottom to find the hotels that have partnered with Windrock.
WEATHER:
Weather this time of year in Oliver Springs Averages 62° / 39° (hi/lo). Highs in the 50s and lows in the 40s is common. Bring warm clothes and a warm sleeping bag just in case! This is a rain or shine event, your rig WILL be getting muddy! Hopefully the weather holds out for a us a little more than it did in February! Pressure washers are available at the campground HQ or the General Store for a small fee.
REQUIREMENTS:
Trails run will be a mix of scenic with some moderate trails that have the potential for some mild bumps and bruises. You will not be allowed to follow the group onto moderate trails if you are on standard all season tires (unless you are winch equipped). All-terrain or Mud-Terrain tires are a requirement. 2" lift or greater would be ideal, however stock height G will make it through with mild touchdowns. GMRS radios are REQUIRED, if there are obstacles you are not comfortable with you WILL be spotted onto the best line! Don't be afraid to ask! Winch is NOT necessary. Please have your lockers working if equipped, some spots are slippery enough that they're needed.
More details will be added as they come! RESERVE YOUR SPOTS ASAP!
EVENT SCHEDULE!
FRIDAY
Roll in day, show up whenever (I plan on being around my campsite anywhere from noon-2pm), but you MUST check in with the campground by 6pm in person for your site tag. If you can't make it by that time, please give them a call by 5pm eastern to let them know you'll be coming late. They'll give you the info that you'll need and you'll settle up with them first thing in the morning Saturday before we depart on the "chicken" track to the General Store.
At 3:30 Friday, for whoever manages to show up by then, we'll leave for an hour or two for some rattle check trails. This is your chance to tie down what you need to in your trucks, get your land use permits for the park in order, get your tire pressures in order, check your oil, get radios set up, actuate your lockers, etc.
SATURDAY
9:45 camp departure time, get your breakfasts in and get the trucks ready to go. We'll be taking a chicken track (your last shot at backing out, if you commit past this point, you're committing to the day!) down to the general store from camp and will be by the general store until 10:30. This is your LAST chance at getting your land use permits for Windrock! The ranger at the start of the track will not let you past if you don't have them. They are PER PERSON. You're able to get some last second snacks, souvenirs, etc from the park store. We'll be hitting the tracks at 10:30, first half of the day have some mild technical sections, some have bypasses, I will make a note over the radio at where there are VERY off camber sections, there's no real rollover risk, but if you're scared, we'll guide you through!
We'll be doing the tracks till about noon, where we'll take a winding exit trail to our lunch spot by some abandoned train cars. The cars are available to explore while we're there. If you'd like a side of tetanus with your lunch, hop up in them and check them out. They ARE cool and worth checking out.
With lunch done and dusted, we'll be reentering the park and doing some of the more technical trails for the day (pending weather). The first track on reentry will be another bypass opportunity, it should take about 30-40 minutes so I'll make sure to note where those who bypass need to hang out for the rest of the group to pop out! This small section involves some mild water crossing, steep grades, couple tiny rock gardens, etc. Ample opportunity to get the G's flexed out and some locker action in. It does have some scary feeling downhill clay sections, that might deter someone, but I've been with a Jeep Renegade that managed to do it. With everyone regrouped, we'll make our way back to the General store for a potty break. We'll then be making our way to a Jeep badge of honor trail... if a stock Rubicon Jeep can do it, so can you. Again, you WILL be notified as to what's happening and you'll have an exit opportunity, though this exit would have you looping back to the General store where you'd have to wait for the last regroup of the day where we'll be taking a quick scenic ride up to the top of Windrock. Its the highest point in the park and offers some really cool views of the entire landscape, I'm hoping to see most of sundown here to end the day before shooting back down to the campground for the night. I'd bet on being back at camp by 6-6:30 or so.
SUNDAY
Sunday plan TBD - early morning scenic tour like before.
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Event Venue
Windrock Park, 912 Windrock Rd, Oliver Springs, TN 37840