LATEST JAMBOREE NEWS!
THE ARIZONA ATV OUTLAW TRAIL JAMBOREE
THE BEST DARN ATV PARTY IN THE WEST!
January 13, 2010
Arizona's one and only ATV Jamboree - the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree held each year in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona in Eagar & Springerville, will host its 7th annual event on September 7th – 11th, 2010. Registration is now available online at www.azatvoutlawtrail.com. Our jamboree newspaper will also be available by the end of March and will be found at most ATV dealerships in Arizona and throughout the southwest.
Toted as the "Best Darn ATV Party in the West" - the jamboree draws ATV enthusiasts from all over the country as well as several from Europe. Highlights of the jamboree include guided rides through some of the most beautiful, pristine country in the southwest; nightly entertainment including gunfights, cowboy poets, music, karaoke; daily full breakfasts, Friday night pit BBQ, ice cream social; ATV Expo; Outlaw Obstacle Course, Mud Bog, Sled Pull; 2010 ATV Raffle; Nightly Door prizes; Closing Ceremony & Fireworks!
Updates & Announcements for the 2010 Jamboree
Sprucedale Guest Ranch Overnite Ride!!!
This year we are excited to add another overnight ride into beautiful Sprucedale. If you are looking for an escape from all your cares and worries, then this is the perfect place for you! Sprucedale is a remote rustic working cattle ranch located about 10 miles south of Big Lake. To sign up for this ride, sign up for the Oscar Schultz Circle, Ride #17, on either Wednesday or Thursday. You will leave the rodeo grounds on Wednesday or Thursday morning and ride to Sprucedale, have a homestyle dinner, sleep in one of their rustic cabins, have breakfast, pick up your sack lunch, and travel back to the Rodeo Grounds in Eagar. The ride leaving Wednesday morning will return on Thursday afternoon and the ride leaving Thursday morning will return Friday afternoon. Riders will be responsible for their own meals and lodging. Reservations for cabins & meals can be made by calling Sprucedale Ranch at 928-333-4984. Another highlight of this trail experience is the opportunity to take a short ride on the ranch and see the original burial spot of Oscar Schultz. Old Oscar was first buried on the private land at the ranch and then moved to his current resting place along the trail. Ellis Wiltbank with Sprucedale will be your guide at the ranch and is an expert on the local history associated with the ranch. Sprucedale has a large lodge where their meals are served with a big wood-burning stove to cozy around in the evenings. For further info on Sprucedale, visit their website at:
www.sprucedaleranch.com.
Ride #7 – The Jake Flake Memorial Ride
will be closed again this year due to some forest service permitting problems.
UTV (Side-by-sides) only rides
Each day we have chosen one ride that will be for UTVs only. This will allow the ride to go at its own pace. If you have a UTV and want to take advantage of this type of ride,
then choose the following:
Wednesday: Ride #3 - Slaughter Circle
Thursday: Ride #4 - Robber's Roost Trail
Friday: Ride #17 - Oscar Schultz Circle
*Please Note: These are all rides that require trailering your UTV to the trailhead.
Continued support of the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree will help the Apache County ATV Roughriders Club in their efforts to improve the OHV trail opportunities in this area. Thanks to all who have volunteered countless hours and helped in so many ways to make these improvements happen. We hope that these changes each year add to your overall experience!
2010 JAMBOREE - NEWS UPDATE!
January 1, 2010
The website is currently being updated for this year's coming jamboree to be held on September 7-11, 2010. Registration should be available after the 15th of January, so please keep checking back. We are working out some really exciting new changes to a few of our rides. This year we are going to offer 2 (Wednesday & Thursday) over-night rides into beautiful Sprucedale Guest Ranch that is located south of the Big Lake area. They will provide a cabin, dinner, breakfast, and a sack lunch at an additional fee if you choose to select this new ride. We are also going to offer each day a different ride that will be for UTVs only! We have had many requests for UTV-only rides to allow these side-by-sides to travel at their own pace. These changes will greatly enhance your jamboree opportunities and we are very excited about them.
Please keep checking out the updates and we will see you in September!!
2009 JAMBOREE - NEWS UPDATE!
August 23, 2009
Ride #7, the Jake Flake Memorial Ride, has been closed by the forest service due to a permitting problem. All
those participants that had been assigned to that ride have been given another ride. You will be able to make
changes, if needed, at registration on Tuesday night, September 8th!
For all those who have called and are wondering if registration is still available – it is! We still have lots
of room and great trails open. Please pass the word on to your friends that we still have room for more! Please
call if you have any questions or need help with ride selections.
Our sponsors have come through in a big way! CanAm and Polaris will both arrive with semi-trucks full of their
brand new 2009/2010 products! CanAm will offer free demo rides of their newest ATVs! Discount Tire will also
be present with a trailer of merchandise and will be giving away a brand new set of ATV tires for door prizes
each night plus much, much more! Suzuki is sponsoring the Friday Nite Pit BBQ and will be at the jamboree
for the whole week promoting their new product line. RideNow Corporation will also be present as our continuing
sponsor of our ATV Raffle and we truly appreciate all that they do to make this event such a success.
We know money is tight for everyone, but sometimes we just need to get out of the heat and come enjoy good
friends, awesome food, and great trails in the cool White Mountains! We can promise you that the value you receive
for your registration fee will be much greater than what you pay thanks to our great sponsors!!
Don’t wait any longer! Register today and come join us! Our ATV Expo on Friday and Saturday, the ATV rodeo,
the fireworks show – all on Saturday – are all open FREE to the public. Come out to the Rodeo Grounds in
Eagar and join the fun!!
2009 JAMBOREE NEWS! - The Best Darn ATV Party in the West!
- Blackriver Bart & Pearl have returned!!! Escaping Outer Mongolia, our favorite outlaws will be
back this year telling there stories and raising havoc! They have already teamed up with Max McQueen
and the old gang and are making big plans to torment ATV riders during the 2009 event!
- Ride #7 – The Apache Railway Holdup is finally opened up for the jamboree this year! This was a
favorite ride for the first couple years but had to be closed do to road construction from Crescent
Lake to Sunrise. The road has now been finished and is open allowing us to open up this ride for
participants. Read the ride description under trail information.
- 3rd & Final OHV trail map will be available at this year's jamboree. Each jamboree participant and
volunteer will receive one free map. This final map will be printed on tear-proof, water-proof paper.
- Saffel Canyon OHV trail receives new bridge over wash! Thanks to the cooperative efforts of the Apache
County ATV Roughriders, the Town of Eagar, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest – Springerville District,
and the Arizona State Parks motorized grant program, the Saffel Canyon OHV trail has received a major
improvement. The new 50' bridge installed on November 19, 2008 will help keep OHV riders out of a creek
bottom and insure the protection of the watershed for the Little Colorado River drainage.
- Continued support of the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree will help our club in our efforts to improve
the OHV trail opportunities in this area. Thanks to all who have volunteered countless hours and helped in
so many ways to make these improvements happen.
2008 JAMBOREE HIGHLIGHTS – The Best Darn ATV Party in the West!!
Last year's jamboree was another great success! We had over 312 participants this year, riding over 50,189
total miles with no major accidents! One of the things that the jamboree organizers take a lot of pride
in is our safety record! Over the last 5 years, we have not had one major accident and have rode over
180,000 miles together.
This year we had participants from California (25), Michigan (4), New Mexico (36), Nevada (4), New York (1),
Texas, (6), and Utah (5), as well as our friend Ruud from The Netherlands! Like always, we were excited to
renew old acquaintances, make new friends, and laugh and play together. Several people have said that the
jamboree is like one big happy ATV family reunion! And we agree! We love to see "jamboree" time come around,
are sad to see it end!
Some of the highlights to remember –
- Wednesday's freezing rainstorm! - Don't forget "The Streak"! Sometimes you are just so darn cold that the only thing to do is strip to your skivvies, turn up the heater in your truck, drive from Big Lake back to your hotel in Eagar, and then run like heck to your room before anyone sees ya'!
- Tornado touchdown sighted by Big Lake! No joke, the tornado was spotted by several jamboree participants out on their ride Wednesday afternoon.
- Friday late afternoon ride of over 200 ATVers down to the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Supervisor’s office to deliver a petition of over 400 names demanding that the forest service keep trail access open to OHV enthusiasts. Senator Sylvia Allen, Representative Jerry Weiers, Eagar Town Manager Bill Greenwood, Graham County Supervisor Drew John, Apache County Manager Delwin Wingert all participated in the show of support for OHV opportunities on our national forests. The forest service was having a public openhouse for feedback on their proposed Forest Management Plan. We appreciated them having their meeting when so many of us could attend!
- We finished off our Trading Card set with a 50 card set that every participant received. It was a lot of fun for everyone getting to read up on local history and enjoy the stories. We are dreaming up a new game to play for next year!!
- The 2nd OHV trail map of this area was handed out Friday night at the jamboree. Maps are available free of charge.
- Show Low resident, Roger Held, wins 2008 Polaris 500 X2 Saturday night during the ATV raffle. Roger has been attending the jamboree for all 5 years, first as a participant, and then as a volunteer! We appreciate all that Roger has done to support the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree.
- Friday night, five couples were recognized for attending all 5 previous jamborees and were presented with a certificate for free registrations for the 2009 event. As the jamboree organizers, it makes us feel that we are doing something right when so many people come back year after year for the jamboree!
- The Friday night pit BBQ, sponsored by Suzuki, was another huge success! Just thinking about the meal makes my mouth water! Over 525 people were served quickly with huge helpings of slow-roasted pit BBQ beef and elk, cowboy beans, fresh green salad, grilled onions, ice-cold watermelon, homemade rolls, lemonade, cobblers & ice cream! Can't wait for next year!!
- The Outlaw Obstacle Course & Muddy Mamas Run was another huge success thanks to Carl Scates & Barbara Bellerose! They head up our Saturday activities and do an awesome job.
2008 Jamboree Review
Hello,
I would like to say that your event this year was my first organized ride. With having belonged to a car club
in the valley and being the chairperson on 2 car shows for the public to be involved in I know what it
takes to put on events like yours. I have to say that I thought your event was very well put together.
From the start times of the rides everyday to the stops during the rides were very well scheduled.
I was impressed that all of the rides I was involved with left the staging areas at the time that was
scheduled, I liked that. I did the Coronado trail ride and I thought Marty, his wife and Bob dig a great
job with it. Marty was a great trail guide and I loved all of the trails that he took us on. They all
were very knowledgeable with the area when the riders would ask questions.
It was my first trip to your jamboree and I had many questions about things when I got there, and your
staff was so helpful to answer any questions we had it made it very easy to have a good time.
I just wanted to say to all of your staff and many volunteers thank you and what an awesome job
everyone did to pull off this event. I cannot wait until next year, I will be there for sure.
Thank you.
Garry Deutsch
7/10/2008: NEWS FLASH - BULL ELK ANTICIPATE THE ARRIVAL OF ARIZONA ATV OUTLAW TRAIL JAMBOREE
Bull elk anticipate the arrival of Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree participants in Alpine!
Sights like these are common on the Outlaw Trail and you don’t want to miss it! Registration for this year’s jamboree is steadily coming in. Trail rides are filling up quickly, so don’t hesitate much longer to register. We still have plenty of spaces for riders and expect a big crowd this year for the 5th Annual Outlaw Trail Jamboree!
Photo courtesy of Dave Brown, Eagar, AZ.
6/8/2008: TRIBUTE - SENATOR JAKE FLAKE
PHOENIX - Arizona State Senator Jake Flake died Sunday, June 8, 2008. It is not known
at this time what caused his death.
Jake's nephew, Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona's Sixth District,
released a statement as the whole family mourns the passing of Arizona State Senator Jake Flake.
"Words cannot express the sadness we all feel at the passing of Jake Flake," said Congressman
Flake. "His family has lost a loving father, his church a devoted servant, his community a
loyal advocate, and Arizona a great statesman. On a personal level, I have lost a caring
uncle and mentor."
Governor Napolitano released this statement, "Jake Flake was a leader of great strength
and wisdom, who worked with passion on behalf of the people of Arizona. Our hearts and
prayers are with his family as they mourn his loss."
Jake Flake represented Arizona's Fifth Legislative District in the Arizona State Senate.
He previously served as Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives. He is survived
by his wife, Mary Louise, 12 of his 13 children, and over 50 grandchildren.
The Apache County ATV Roughriders wish to express our sincerest condolences to the
Flake family. Jake’s family truly was his greatest legacy. We will miss him as a dear
friend. Words could never express how much the State of Arizona will miss this great man.
Senator Flake attended the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree for the past four years.
We not only appreciated his support and promotion of this event, but we truly appreciated
a representative that never forgot his roots and that the fine hard-working people of
rural Arizona have historically been the backbone of this great state. He was a living
example of that fact.
Click Here for a full tribute to Senator Jake Flake.
February 21, 2008 -- WINTER UPDATE
The Coronado Trail covered in snow! Just a view of your ATV playground in February! Pictures of
Hannagan Meadow Lodge and the Blue Vista also show the beauty of the season. Registration is
ongoing and we are working hard to get everyone their first choices of rides at the moment. To
ensure your ability to get the rides of your choice, please register as soon as possible, especially
if you are planning on coming with a big group!
The jamboree newspaper is scheduled to be printed and out to the public by April 1st! Watch for it
at your local ATV dealership! Stay posted for further updates and information!
Sincerely,
Debbie Rogers
9/22/2007: ATV Outlaw Trail Review
I Just got back from the ATV Jamboree in Eager AZ and wanted to share some of the details. It was 215 miles
each way and took about 4 hours to drive.
These are the best High Country ATV trails in the state with out a doubt. The trails wind up and down the area
mountains with most of the trails in the 7500-9500ft range. This altitude along with a high annual rain fall
allows for the growth of some very dense forest with a mix of Pine and Aspen trees. The dense forests are
separated by High Mountain plains that roll of into the far distance. The area was settled in the 1880's for
the ideal summer cattle grazing. The Apaches fought to the death to resist the new comers. Also,John
Wayne had a Cattle Ranch in this area.
There were 330 riders this year ( new record). Most rode 1 or 2 passenger four wheel drive Quads, but there
was a handfull of sport quads ( poor guys got covered in mud). Most stay right at the Fair Grounds, but
some stayed in local hotels. All ATVs could be ridden around town during the event. It felt like I was part
of an outlaw Biker Gang taking over the small town, only on 700cc ATVs instead of Harley's.
The Rodeo Grounds are the center of the Jamboree. It had a atmosphere that reminded me of Summer Camp as a
kid. Fun games, horse play, and new friends that share your enthusiasm for riding and the out doors.
I rode 100 miles a day on my Honda Rancher 350. If you are thinking of smooth dirt roads, think again. The
trails included: Mud bogs, miles of rocky trail, many stream crossings, hill climbs, and the best panoramic views I have ever seen.
As we would stop to rest out on the trail our guides would tell true accounts of the color full history of the
very valley we were currently over looking. Stories of the old west to include: Apache Indians, Grizzly Bears,
Cattle Rustlers, and brave Lawmen that tried to tame the land.
As I drove out of the Fair Ground I felt my heart sink as I left some new friends and some great riding in my rear view mirror.
I can't wait until next year! Check it out at
www.azoutlawtrail.com .
Bill
9/8/2007 - 2007 Jamboree ATV Raffle Winners!
Congratulations to Dwight Powers (left) of Eagar Arizona, winner of the
Suzuki Kingquad 450 (Volunteer Raffle) and Weston Farnes (right) of Gilbert Arizona,
winner of the Polaris Sportsman 500X2 (General Public Raffle).
9/13/2006 - 2006 Jamboree Participant Letter
Mr. Hank Rogers,
Thank you for a great time at the Jamboree this year 2006. We all had a wonderful time. You have
done a great job with all the trails and functions that are available. I know you have lots of
help and they are also to be commended for their time and hard work. We didn't win the Yamaha
that was given away but the fireworks helped make up for it. You and your staff put on a first
class show from beginning to end. Thank you for your dedication and for all the things you do
to share the beautiful mountains around Springerville/Eager area. We look forward to the years
ahead visiting for great fun. You are a man of honor and compassion that makes us proud to be
a part of any Jamboree you are involved in. We had a wonderful time because people like
yourself and all the volunteers and staff make it great to participate in. Did I say
thank you already?, I can't say it enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Your Outlaw Friends,
From Winslow, AZ
Manuel Villalobos
Michael Jaramillo
Gloria Jaramillo
POLARIS® AWARDS $10,000 TO THE APACHE COUNTY ATV ROUGHRIDERS!
Polaris Grants an Additional $125,000 to ATV Clubs National, State and Local ATV Clubs & Organizations to Benefit
MINNEAPOLIS, August 18, 2006 – Polaris Industries is proud to announce the second round of ‘T.R.A.I.L.S.’
grant recipients, with grants totaling $125,871, for a year-to-date total of $395,138 granted to national, state
and local ATV clubs. In this round, Polaris issued grants to 13 organizations in 12 states.
To date, Polaris has assisted 47 ATV organizations in 27 states across the U.S.
The first of its kind in the ATV industry, the ‘T.R.A.I.L.S.’ grant program was launched in January for
ATV clubs, associations and grassroots groups. ATV riders and the trails they use are the lifeblood
of the sport and Polaris aimed to create a program to help.
The T.R.A.I.L.S. program makes funds available to national, state and local organizations in the United
States to ensure the future of ATV riding.
7/6/2006: THREE MONTHS LEFT!
Only three months until the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree is on its way! Lots of registrations coming in
this year, but still plenty of room for everyone! Those who register soon should all get their first pick
on trail choices. Don’t forget: if you register before July 1st, you get 2 free raffle tickets for the
2006 Yamaha Grizzly ATV to be raffled off on Saturday, September 9th during the closing ceremony at the jamboree.
We are excited to have several large groups attending this year! What a great time to spend with
family and friends! So tell your riding buddies to get busy and register and come with the gang!
We will have some fun competition between the groups!!
For more information, please call Debbie at 866.409.9378! See you soon!!
10-3-05: Highlights of the 2005 Jamboree
We want to say “Thank You” to all of the business owners, towns’ people, and our awesome volunteers for making the 2nd annual Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree such a huge success!
- Over 190 people participated in the jamboree this year coming from Colorado, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Washington, and The Netherlands. That is 2.5 times what we had last year! The oldest rider we had was 84 year old Hugh Renard from Tucson who rode over 240 miles during the jamboree. We also had 2 brothers and 1 sister from Utah all in their late seventies that rode every day and loved it! Estimated average age of the participants is 60 years old. This is our target market – “the Gray Wave” - retired riders! Michelle Devalos, Recreational Director for Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, attended the steak fry and activities Friday Night and came up to us afterwards and thanked us profusely for giving this older crowd – the “gray wave”- a wonderful event to enable them to enjoy the company of their peers and an opportunity to recreate riding ATVs on the National Forest.
- We had over 110 volunteers (from Round Valley, Showlow, Pinetop/Lakeside, and the Phoenix Valley) with over 2300 hours of time donated during the week of the jamboree. Over 60 of these volunteers were from out of town!
- Based on Sevier County, Utah’s stats of people coming into their towns to ride ATVs, spending an average of $110 (a 2 year old estimated amount!) per day during their stay, we have estimated that 250 people spending an average of $110 per day for a 6 days stay = $165,000 – a very conservative amount because most people arrived in the area during Labor Day weekend! 8% sales tax revenue would be estimated at $13,200 over the 6 days brought into the towns.
- People attending the jamboree this year fell in love with the beauty of the area, the friendliness of the towns’ people, and the great places to ride. Here are a couple of these comments:
WOW! What a fantastic time we had! Great activities, fantastic organization, exceptional people, great food.
I can’t thank you enough for all of the combined efforts that go into making this happen. The faces that we saw were always happy and eager to help. What a great name for a town! All the people we met in town from the mayor to the person who asked “what are all you guys doing here?” I told her, then she said “this is a great town and it sure is a fantastic place to ride those things”.
We are looking forward to next year and a friend of mine Larry (his wife Sally is the one with the oxygen while riding the back of a Bombardier) said Sally asked if he had made reservations. He asked “what for?”, she said “for the motel for next years Jamboree!” That is how we all felt! Thanks also to all of those we didn’t get to see who made it happen.
All the best,
Paul Boston
Scottsdale, Arizona
"Thank You".... just doesn't say how much we appreciate your efforts. You gave us the most fun we have ever packed into 5 days and the best vacation we have ever had, and that includes the 13 days we spent in Hawaii. We are already planning our rides for next year.
And Hank, I like the words of Maya Angelou
"People will forget what you did...People will forget what you say... But people will never forget how you made them feel"
You folks gave people memories that will make them feel really wonderful for a long, long time. "Thank You" to all of your staff that made this happen.
Gary & Carolyn Wells,
Phoenix, Arizona
- We were able to raise over $2400 for the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund and had a lot of fun doing it. $1400 was sent to the Navopache Regional Medical Center team that recently went over there to help and another $1000 was sent to the Salvation Army.
- Luke Dawson, Southwest Region District Manager for Yamaha, came and rode on Thursday with Hank and the politicians, and has committed Yamaha in coming in as a major sponsor of the jamboree next year.
- Jake Flake, State Senator; Jack Brown, State Representative; Judy Cooley, from Rick Renzi’s office all came to the jamboree this year and spoke in support of the jamboree and our efforts of getting permanent OHV trails in the White Mountains. Jake Flake even joined our club and has promised to come for 3 entire days next year, he had so much fun!
- FOX News Sports Network came and spent 2 days in the area interviewing key politicians, local leaders, forest service personnel, and other state agencies and aired a half hour show on “Motorsports Mania” that highlighted the Jamboree and our local effort in obtaining permanent OHV trails in the area. The showed has aired 4 times already with an estimated audience of over 1.8 million in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Southern California! These people usually charge over $5,000 to do a film spot, but they thought so much of our organization and efforts, they did it for free! Great exposure for the towns of Eagar & Springerville!
- We have great cooperation and support from 2 other large ATV Clubs in the state – Showlow and Phoenix in helping with this effort. We now have clubs from Oracle, Kingman, and Prescott that want to join with our club in support of the jamboree and obtaining permanent OHV trails in the area.
- In the June 2005 issue of Dirt Wheels, the Arizona Outlaw Trail Jamboree was listed as one of the “15 Best Places To Ride” in the US and Canada. We had a nice write up about the jamboree along with pictures.
- An article in Honda Red Rider came out in May about the Jamboree.
- An article in the Richfield, Utah paper was written about the jamboree and the area.
- An article in the AZ Tourist News came out in July, August, and September.
- We received a call from a new ATV magazine called Quad Off-Road, based out of California, which found our website searching the net and called us wanting information on the jamboree. Their first issue featured an article about the jamboree in it.
- Our website is turning out to be a great advertising tool for the communities. Since last June, we have had over 1,709,939 hits on our website (azatvoutlawtrail.com) and over 260,000 hits in August of this year! This is almost 12,000 unique visitors that have found our website! We are getting several calls each week from people all around the state that have gotten on the internet looking for places to ride in the state and have come across our website. They have called the toll-free number and asked about trails, hotels, restaurants, etc. and have changed vacation plans to come to our area.
- Dave Ferris out of Tacoma, Washington attended the jamboree to ride here, interview ATV riders, film the area, and interview business owners. He has spent a total of 13 days in the area since the middle of July! He has a company called “Ranger Dave’s Where To Ride Guide” where he produces DVDs of OHV trails all over the country. He has done videos of several states and is now getting ready to do one on Arizona OHV trails. He has even interviewed Marshall Trimble, renowned Arizona author and historian, about this area and will feature him on the Arizona DVD as well.
- Our club has submitted a proposal to the Alpine Ranger District to extend the Saffel Canyon OHV Trail from Pat Knoll to Alpine. They will start working on this soon and possibly have this completed within the next year or so.
- The Alpine Ranger District has proposed to make a map of “Suggested Places to Ride OHVs” in the area and having it ready for next year. This would be a great help in giving visitors good places to ride using our proposed trails from the jamboree and help minimize maverick riding on the mountain. This year’s jamboree had over 1200 miles of trails approved by the forest service and these trails could be included on this map and made available through our website, the forest service, and the Chamber of Commerce. Our club is now working on getting approval on several hundred more miles of trails for next year’s jamboree that will be included on this map of the area.
- At the last Game & Fish Commission meeting held in Payson on June 24th, it was brought to our attention that 1 out of every 3 people in Arizona owns an ATV. All the more reason to get permanent trails established in the area soon.
9/15/2005: Another great year on the Outlaw Trail has come to an end!
What an incredible time! Let us give you a few highlights:
- Jamboree participants rode over 36,564 miles in 3 full days without a major accident!
- We were able to raise over $2,400 for the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund by generous jamboree participants. A check for $1,395 was presented Saturday night to Navapache Regional Hospital in Showlow who has sent a medical staff to Mississippi to help out with hurricane victims. We were excited to help support a local organization running to the rescue!
- We had over 350 people who attended the jamboree this year as participants and volunteers. One man was 84 years old and rode over 240 miles in three days! What a stud! We had two brothers and their sister – the Dansies from Riverton, Utah, all in their 70s that attended this year.
- We had over 110 volunteers who donated over 2300 hours of service during the week of the jamboree.
- Our participants represented a great cross-section of people from places like California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Iowa, Washington, The Netherlands, Utah, and Oklahoma.
- Fox News Sports Network spent 2 days with us at the jamboree and will be producing a half-hour program on their “Motorsports Mania” show that will air Saturday morning sometime in October. This show has an audience of over 1,800,000 viewers in Arizona, New Mexico, parts of Colorado, and Southern California! We will keep you posted when this show will air. You can go to Motorsports Mania’s website and order a DVD of the program for $25.
- We are busy updating the website and getting ready for next year. Registration for next year will be available starting January 1st, 2006. Some of the changes we will be making for next year include:
1. We will offer 3 slower paced, photographic scenic rides for those riders who want a slower, more leisurely pace to enable them to stop more often and take pictures.
2. On Friday night, we will have a Pit BBQ dinner with all of the trimmings that will be included in your registration fee.
3. We are working hard to give you more specific details of each ride on the website so you can better judge which rides would be best for you.
4. We will be adding some more challenging, faster paced rides for the more experienced riders.
We want to thank the general public, the Towns of Eagar & Springerville, all of our wonderful volunteers, the Apache County ATV Roughriders, the Arizona ATV Riders, and WMOTA club members for all of your dedicated support and help. We are looking forward to an even better jamboree next year thanks to you!!!
8/172005 : GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS!
We have good news & we have bad news!! The bad news first : due to restrictions in our special use permit with the forest service, we will not have a Poker Run on Saturday morning. The good news! - we will have 2 Poker Runs on Wednesday & Thursday nights!! We have decided to turn our night rides into Poker Runs. It will be a truly western experience on the trail with our famous outlaws on the trails with lanterns that you will draw your cards from! Sign ups for these night rides will be at registration on Tuesday night for all interested! Another great first for the Outlaw Trail Jamboree!! We will see you soon!
Thanks,
Debbie
8-1-05 : ONLY 37 DAYS LEFT!
Only 37 days and counting till the kick-off for the 2 nd annual Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree! We can’t wait. We are having a tremendous show of interest for this year’s jamboree. We still have plenty of openings on rides, but they are filling up. Please do not delay any longer on signing up for the jamboree! If you haven’t registered, do it today. You will not want to miss out. Several rides are full on specific days and these have been posted on the ride information page. Be sure and check this out before registering. We are trying to keep a strict limit of 22 riders per ride to make sure that everyone has an enjoyable experience.
We are excited about our many new sponsors that have gotten on board with us in our efforts. Please take time to visit our sponsor page and support these awesome businesses! Rocky Mt. ATV is sending 400 gift certificates that will be given out in each jamboree participant’s Welcome Packet. Many incredible door prizes have been donated by Rocky Mt. ATV, Lead Dog Helmet Lights, Grab-Rite ATV Locks, TPX Performance, etc.
At the rodeo on Saturday, we will also be offering a Radar Run race. Trophies will be given out for this event for the winners in each category.
Sign-ups for the rodeo events, Poker Run, Mud Bog, etc. will take place at the Big Blue Building on Friday, September 9 th starting at 5 pm. Sign-ups will also be taken on Saturday morning from 8-9 am for the rodeo events. Price for these rodeo events is $5 per event or 3 events for $10. Great prizes will be given out after each event’s completion.
The public is invited to come and join us for the following activities: Saturday, 9:30 am – come and ride your ATV with us in the Outlaw Trail ATV Parade through the streets of Eagar and Springerville. Meet at the rodeo grounds to line up no later than 9:30 a.m. We have been told that the Guinness record for ATVs riding in a parade is 276! We want to beat that record!! At 12 noon, the Outlaw Trail Rodeo begins. Don’t miss this fun time. Spectators are free. Then at 6 pm in the grandstands at the rodeo grounds, come join us for a spectacular closing ceremony and fireworks show – free of charge! Lots of fun for the whole family! Concessions available all day Saturday.
6/6/2005 : RIDE YOUR ATV THROUGH TOWN!
"Jamboree participants! Please be aware that once you park your vehicle at your hotel or RV space,
you will be able to ride your ATV to patronize local businesses as needed during the Jamboree. That
means you can do your grocery shopping on your quad, you can drive to the restaurants on your quad,
fill up your ATV at the gas stations, and just explore the towns on your ATV!!! So Out-of Staters
and non-licensed Arizona ATVs have the ability to ride around town as needed during the Jamboree!
Our way of saying: "Welcome to Round Valley -- a real ATV-friendly community!"
5/6/2005 : 2004 JAMBOREE MEMORY DVD
Still thinking about registering for the 2nd Annual Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree?
If you really want to get the look and feel of the jamboree,
order the 2004 Jamboree Memory DVD today by calling toll-free: 866.409.9378. Or you can click here to order the DVD online. The cost of the DVD is $20 & $1.75 shipping and handling. Most major
credit cards are accepted. We are proud of the quality and uniqueness of our jamboree with our wild
west theme, beautiful trails, and friendly volunteers and entertainers. Registrations are
steadily coming in and we want to accomodate everyone we possibly can this year. Please register as early as possible to help us
plan ahead. Don't miss out on this awesome experience! Register today!!"
Thanks,
Debbi
9/12/2004 : WE'RE GEARING UP FOR THE 2005 JAMBOREE!
Hello ATV riders everywhere!!
We are gearing up and planning for the 2005 jamboree. Plan now to attend - September 6-10, 2005 - same place - same great crowd - same beautiful trails - same awesome food, plus much, much more!! We are trying our best to have registration available online by January 20, 2005. Because we are expecting a big crowd this year, we have been working hard on five new trails to offer everyone (and also improving the existing ones offered this year). The 2005 Jamboree agenda and website will be continually updated in the next several months, so keep checking it out for new information. Also, please check out the jamboree photo gallery. As pictures are coming in from many of you, we are trying to get them on the website as quickly as possible. For those of you that were not able to join us this year, you can see the fun you missed and hope you can join us this year. From all the feedback we have received, everyone attending this year is coming back with a truck load of their friends and family!!
I want to thank EVERYONE for all you did to make the first annual Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree the huge success that is was. A special thanks goes out to all of our sponsors, the Towns of Eagar & Springerville, Apache County, all of the volunteers from the Apache County ATV Roughriders and the Arizona ATV Riders, George Dansie with Marketing By Design, Mike Anable, Jim Norton, the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Service, the Arizona Game & Fish, ADOT, Chris Isaacs, and too many others to mention here. We all had so much fun that we literally had "withdrawals" after the jamboree was over! We miss all of our new friends and can't wait to see ya next September!!
Some highlights of the 2004 Jamboree:
1. We had over 180 people that participated at the jamboree in some way.
2. We did not have 1 major accident.
3.We rode all together over 20,000 miles of trails!!
4.We ate over 250 hamburgers, 200 steaks & chicken, and 8 gallons of sausage gravy over 20 dz. hot biscuits!
5.We had important supporters that came and spoke to us Friday night like Jake Flake, Arizona Speaker of the House; Jack Brown, Senate Minority Leader; Chris Udall representing Rick Renzi, US representative; Delwin Wingert, Apache County Manager; Bill Greenwood, Eagar Town Manager; Sandra Burk, Mayor of Eagar; Marnie Uhl, Springerville-Eagar Chamber of Commerce Director; Phil Settles, representing Elaine Zieroth – Apache-Sitreaves National Forest Supervisor.
6. A Polaris won the Mud Bog over Hank's Honda!!!
A note of interest is that Hank has been asked to sit on the Arizona Off-Highway Vehicle Workgroup with the Arizona Game & Fish, headed by Ed Jahrke – Watercraft/OHV Law Enforcement Program Manager. This committee will be working on OHV laws in terms of operation, equipment, definition and registration for the state of Arizona. We are excited that Hank will be able to represent all of us in these critical OHV decisions for the state of Arizona. Hank will keep us updated on the website as progress is made in this work group. Feel free to e-mail Hank with suggestions you might have at: hrogers54@frontiernet.net. Hank will consider all suggestions and pass them on to the committee, but don’t be offended if every e-mail is not answered personally!!
We will keep in touch and keep you updated!
Until next September - keep on riding those trails!
Debbie Rogers
11/18/2004 : THE 2004 ARIZONA ATV OUTLAW TRAIL JAMBOREE PHOTO GALLERY IS NOW ONLINE
Please take a moment to see what the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail is all about. See some of the images of our Jamboree and featured events. Or, take a moment to see some of this years participants ride through the beautiful trails of the white mountains. We'll be back this coming year to start off the 2005 Jamboree so make sure to register early.
9/11/2004 : THE 2004 JAMBOREE HAS COME TO AN END!
We would like to thank all of our sponsors who helped make the first annual Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree a success! 2004 Jamboree sponsored in part by: Salt River Project—Coronado Generating Station, Town of Eagar, Apache County, Outdoors Now, Tucson Electric Power, Hatch Motors, Majia Motors, Navapache Regional Medical Center, Magic Mist Car Wash, White Mountain Performance, Navopache Electric Co-op, Inc., Blue Hills Environmental, Tawa Homes, Jones Outdoors Advertising, Jim W. Crosby DDS, Round Valley Vision Center, Bear Wallow Cafe, Kachina Realty, Subway®, Chiricahua Plaza, Rode Inn, ElJo Motels, Bashas®, R&R Pizza, White Mountain Regional Medical Center, Doyle's Auto Body, Arby's®, Sweat Shop, Pioneer Plaza, Java Blues, Woodland Building Materials, Booga Red's Restaurant, Allred's Western Wear, Coyote Creek Steakhouse, Best Western Sunrise Inn, Reed's Motor Lodge, Session's Real Estate, Western Drug, TPX Performance, TARPEEZ™, Big Lake Tackle & Supply, Easy Does It RV Park, Safire Restaurant, Buzz' Diner, Coldwell Banker, Springerville Automotive Service, Century 21 Realty, and Larry Rogers.
8/30/2004 : PLAN TO REV-UP NORTHERN ARIZONA's TROUBLED ECONOMY PUTS ATV RIDERS ON THE OUTLAW TRAIL
"It's a clean type of economic booster and that's what we are looking for."
Contact: Debbie Rogers/event coordinator, 1-866 409-9378 (Toll free), 1-928 386-1874 (Cell phone)
EAGAR, AZ - Hundreds of ATV riders will roll into the towns of Springerville and Eagar next week for a family friendly ATV Jamboree designed to kick-off a regional effort in obtaining permanent OHV trails on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, boost the economy in Apache county, and share some of the local outlaw history of the area.
"A lot of people here lost their jobs when the lumber industry shut down and the ranchers got cut back on their livestock usage permits. We need an environmentally friendly way to bring in money and new jobs," said Debbie Rogers, coordinator of the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree.
This event is being modeled after the Rocky Mt. Jamboree held each year in Utah. Estimates from Max C. Reid, and the Public Service Office of the Fishlake National Forest, indicate that approximately 60,000 people per year currently visit the Paiute and Great Western Trail Systems in Richfield, Utah and spend around $100 dollars per person per day during their stay. Organizers of the Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree are hoping this annual event as well as a regional effort in establishing permanent OHV trails will not only pour in millions of dollars a year in tourism into the area, but also establish a much needed opportunity to protect the mountain from inappropriate riding.
"The best thing we have going right now is tourism. It's a clean type of economic booster, and that's what we are looking for," Rogers said. Jamboree organizers believe an expanded and permanent ATV Outlaw Trail would bring year round visitors to their area and potentially millions of dollars a year into Northern Arizona.
The cool pine, spruce, and aspen covered slopes of the White Mountains will welcome visitors as they ride trails in the Round Valley area. The place where Coronado searched for the "Seven Cities of Gold," where the Clanton brothers hid out, and where John Wayne owned the 26 Bar Hereford Ranch.
"We have some of the most pristine mountain country in the west that a lot of people never have a chance to see," Rogers said.
The Arizona ATV Outlaw Trail Jamboree is the first of its kind in Arizona. The Jamboree will kick off September 8th with an ATV parade and wild-west shootout. Entertainment will include cowboy poets, a western dance with live band - Debbie & The Double Eagle Country Band, fireworks and guided ATV rides each day through the beautiful White Mountains with an occasional holdup or two on the trail!
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8/21/2004 : A SPECIAL THANKS TO BILL STINSON & ARIZONA ATV RIDERS
We wish to extend a huge THANKS to Bill Stinson and the club members of the Arizona ATV Riders for all of their time and energy and support they have given us this last year in helping make this jamboree possible. Bill has worked side by side with us for over a year in making this dream come true for Arizona. There is not a person in the whole state that has done more for OHV enthusiasts than Bill Stinson. He is one of those rare people that sees a need, evaluates the possibilities, determines what needs to be done, and then sees it through. He was a great friend to us as well as all ATV riders everywhere.
Hank & Debbie Rogers & The Apache County ATV Roughriders
