Couple Pics From The Mounds

These are some older pics but i thought id throw them up, (sorry theyre kinda crappy it was off my phone)


This hole ate my truck lol thank god some guys were around in a squarebody to pull me out


237/75's suck lol


And these hills were wayyy steeper than they look

your links aren't working..and is this the mounds off road park there in genessee?

looks like some fun :)

yeah the mounds is somewhere around there. when we went there wasnt much mud and as you can see my tires are pathetic. there was either tiny trails we had to squeeze through or huge holes that would eat my truck and id never be seen again lol

I was wondering about going there...but I didn't know anyone who had been there....does it seem pretty stock friendly? or is it big tires?

Looks fun, where abouts is this?

this is up near flint. and my truck was on 235/75s and we had some fun. it woulda been alot better if it was wetter. but some of that stuff was definitely big tire territory lol
as soon as i have some 30s and ill be headin up there again

looks sweet my buddy was just down there in his toyota, havnt been out there yet, even though I live right in the area. I went out to hiawatha national forest to the gravel pit last night up here at college in sault sainte marie.

Yeah I was wondering since I go to school at Michigan Tech which is about 8 hours away so I guess I wont be visiting there. But there are lots of spots around me to go off roading.

yeah it was a little bit of a drive for us (hour and a halfish i dont remember lol)  and to show you how many "spots" we have around here, my buddy said this "oh man this is so much better than having to watch out for the cops the whole time!" hahaha

yeah that's the one of the many great things about the up...ya don't have to watch out for the man...you just gotta watch out for the lunber trucks!!! scarey! yeek! that and as long as ya stay off the snomobile trails..those guys are crazy!!

id rather get hassled by the cops than get macked by a lumber truck lol

Well if you got a CB you can find out where the logging trucks are and then use a GPS/maps to stay away from them. Definately very fun to run around on logging roads and trails.

hmm i have neither but me and my buddy might need to take the trucks up there

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Well if you got a CB you can find out where the logging trucks are and then use a GPS/maps to stay away from them. Definately very fun to run around on logging roads and trails.

nothing like trying to find a whole in the trees when one comes around a corner at about 50 miles an hour...well worth the fun though...I don't know many other places where if you so desire..you never have to touch a speck of pavement and traverse the whole UP

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I was wondering about going there...but I didn't know anyone who had been there....does it seem pretty stock friendly? or is it big tires?

 
Nice pictures, I have been to the mounds once in my jeep. It is stock friendly as long as you stay away from the mud holes, almost all of them are super deep. Plan on a lot of scratches because a lot of the trails are pretty tight. There are some steep hills that are fun but not very challenging. My impression of the terrian was it was either stock 2wd or you better have 50" tractor tires for the holes. I burried my jeep to the front bumper in mud, and the mud is like concrete when it dries. It also stained my paint, I had to polish out the whole jeep after the trip.

thanks jeeperman...there just aren't that many places to play in the lower penninsula...and the mounds looked like an interesting place to play..thanks for the description

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ORIGINAL: Jeeperman

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I was wondering about going there...but I didn't know anyone who had been there....does it seem pretty stock friendly? or is it big tires?

Nice pictures, I have been to the mounds once in my jeep. It is stock friendly as long as you stay away from the mud holes, almost all of them are super deep. Plan on a lot of scratches because a lot of the trails are pretty tight. There are some steep hills that are fun but not very challenging. My impression of the terrian was it was either stock 2wd or you better have 50" tractor tires for the holes. I burried my jeep to the front bumper in mud, and the mud is like concrete when it dries. It also stained my paint, I had to polish out the whole jeep after the trip.

 
i agree i needed 4lo a little bit cuz my tires suck. but ive seen some monster rigs tearing that place up

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ORIGINAL: Paddle_grl

thanks jeeperman...there just aren't that many places to play in the lower penninsula...and the mounds looked like an interesting place to play..thanks for the description

 
IIRC you're from west MI? I'm in GR! Any good places to wheel in West MI?
 
Got 235 BFG ATs now, but when I'm due for tires next year I want to know if it's worth it to get 31's and a body lift. If there's lots of fun to be had locally, I want to go!
 
WARNING LAME STORY....I just bought my blazer a few months ago and used the 4wd for the first time last nite (first time driving using 4wd ever). I wanted to test is before it's winter and I find out it doesn't work and I'm under it in the snow fixing it. Went to a Meijer construction site and found some soft recently graded fill dirt. Stomped it in 2wd and spun and dug. Hit the 4wd, stomped it and the truck spun all four, jumped up and out! MAN THAT WAS FUN!!! Now I see what all the fuss is about!

Cool I'm in GR too...shoot me a pm some time...where are ya in GR?

oh and no...there's no real place to off road in west michigan...it's either North..South ..or East...not much local

silver lake is the biggest place to go, still not local though, and all sand.

drummond island is sick too. but its way out in the UP