Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation area is a freeride paradise of more the 85,000 acres in the rugged southern California desert. Although there are a handful of marked access roads, most of the area is open land filled with trails, washes, large mud hills and sand dunes. Holiday weekends can get very busy and the area is a favorite among many top freestyle motocross riders. It’s not at all uncommon to see these riders out busting backflips and other tricks off the many natural jumps in the area. Unfortunately this amazing off-road paradise is under attack by anti-access organizations. You can learn more and even join the fight to save Ocotillo Wells by visiting http://www.saveocotillowells.com.
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I live in Yuma, Az and cannot find any jamborees here within two hundred miles.
You really Should have called this article "Top 10 TRAIL" riding areas. I say this as you left out some great areas of Sand like Glamis, Pismo, Little Sahara OK, and of Course The Oregon Coast. Seems like this was a little DIRT sided.
With that said I do agree with a couple of your picks for riding.......
Thanks for all you do.
Chris
You would be correct with that assumption Chris :) By "Offroad" we were gearing it more towards off road/trails. We did a top ten Dune riding locations story as well where we featured dune only riding areas.
Believe me I'm not a hater of the Dunes. I grew up riding all over the Oregon coast.
How Chadwick MO never made it onto the list, I don't know. I'm curious as to whether you ever even considered it as being in the running for the top 10. Even people from the Midwest that have traveled to some of the places listed, still consider Chadwick one of the "Top 10" best off-road places in the US to ride. Check it out for your next review. I think that you'll be quite impressed... :-)
Zero trails in the northern part of the Midwest? DO you folks even come up to Northern Wisconsin, Minnesota?
I've not spent too much time in Minnesota or Wisconsin. Hoping to change that this year, though.