Local Wheeling

hmmm Interesting this was brought up, I was wondering has our club ever considered doing something like this or leasing some land up or down state delaware? Im sure It would be quite expensive and Im not even sure we have the kind of budget or man/woman power to manage a DEJA mud park....but has anyone ever checked out any locations Just for fun and get an Idea of what It would be to lease a property for a year? I never contacted the actual owner because Its not really my place and I certainly do not have the budget to manage a property on my own but I did check out a place behind Delaware Industrial Park on Rt. 72 that runs between I-95 and the neighborhood Scottsfield. I work for the land use sections at the new castle county government center so I was able to get some Info about the property....Its broken up Into 2 parcels and is a total of 95 acres! There are tons of trails and swampy areas back there...so If we ever have though about leasing some property this might be a good spot to check out.....Its not being used for anything at this time...I have the contact Info so If someone higher in ranks would like me to pass It on and maybe contact the owner...let me know....
Josh

Interesting. How much would a lease on the land cost? More importantly since the land would not be fenced off, how would the club be liable if someone not associated with the club went onto the land and got hurt or did some environmental damage?

It does sound like a cool idea. I always thought the land behind the Burger King at Hares Corner in New Castle had potential.

I know exactly where your talking about. I've been back there years ago when I had my old truck. I was told you'll never get bothered back there and I've been considering taking my Jeep back there. The only thing stopping me is that I'm not for sure I can't get in trouble and now that I have the DEJA sticker on the windshield I don't want to get into any trouble and give the club a bad name. I know that several people still use that for 4 wheeling because I saw some back there about a week ago while I was on 95.
Might be worth a call. The biggest catch would be trying to keep others off of it if we did rent it.

As far as the liability part goes, I believe the way Greggo & Ferrara handled that with 4 wheelers using their property was to post "no trespassing signs". If they are illegally on your property they would not have much of a case. Several people were hurt and a think one or two quad runners were even killed on their property. I dont remember hearing any suits against them.

yea the man that owns It owns several propertys around new castle county and other states, I dont want to disclose his name but I will say that he owns the concord mall and is very wealthy so he will either lease It for alot, or he may do It very cheap as a sponsoring type thing for our club and turn It Into a legal off-roading park. We could get It fenced off, gated and we could modify the trails slightlt to turn It in to a nice place for legal wheeling, I have not been back there in a very long time as well, I can say I was back there a couple times when I first got my XJ and I was never bothered by anyone but Im sure It is Illegal since It is someone elses private property....I will also say that for those with highly modified Jeeps I definatley think there are trails for you as well....when I went about a year ago there was a trail that had a swamp in the center and I was not nearly daring enough to cross It in a stock Jeep so If I remember correctly there are some challenging obsticles out there...again maybe we can discuss this at a upcoming meeting? Joe, Paul?

I just can't see paying $100.00 a year to get my jeep muddy, Sorry the days of tromping it through a mud puddle are over for me. But to each his own I guess.

I agree the muds not always the best for the Jeep in keepin It in good condition but Its def apart of wheeling, but Its not like we couldnt bring some boulders in there and create a rockcrawling course of all levels?

Im Interested in checkin It out and wheeling sometime or coming to your Jeep show....please pm me or email me with details, JDEL616@aol.com, where is delmar? around dover? Im in newark, never heard of delmar! lol

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where is delmar? around dover? Im in newark, never heard of delmar! lol

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Oh brother.

Delmar(the town too big for one state) is the little red star at the bottom of the state.

well you learn something new everyday.... I see well maybe I'll check It out sometime this summer cause I will be at the delaware/maryland beachs and Asitique Island most of the summer....

but yea from up here in newark thats about a 2 hr+ drive to go wheeling and with PAP in that time distance I can Just got north, but It would always be cool to check out some new legal wheeling spots....

yea BBD I understand all the Insurance Issues and Just the cost of land alone and how It could affect member ship price but thats why I never really brought the topic up before, so I agree

Not to be confused with Marydel, which I believe is on the western edge of Delaware. They couldn't come up with a more original name?

Other issues we may be forced to face with the property in mention is that I believe it is surrounded by residential properties. This may create an issue with the surrounding community. But if we could get the property, or a property we would probably have to put some work into to make some challenging obstacles.

Anyone own a back hoe or dozer?