Dirty Turtle closing 2-23-14

[hardtrailz]

rumor or any actual info on this?

Guy from Indy club said via Facebook he knew the new owner and it was done deal. Keeping an eye for the name but he was not saying yet.

[WrenchMonkey]

That'd be awesome. Let us know!

Thanks!

[hardtrailz]

Will do. Guys in that club cut a bunch of the trails n were rather pissed so I am sure they will talk about developments

[WrenchMonkey]

Guess so! What club?

[hardtrailz]

Dirty inc.

[fmlewis]

It doesn't surprise me that its closing. The locals hated it.

The crazy thing is he didn't own the land he leased it from someone. I agree it is a money maker but people don't realize what it takes to host an offroad event now a days. Man power, insurance, payouts, etc. It all adds up and in the end the insurance man will kill an event in a heart beat once he learns of lack of safety measures. Today it is all about risk mitigation and I would bet that old Joe may not have had an insurance policy, sure you sign a waiver but there is a whole bunch more to it than that.

[hardtrailz]

Been closed for a bit
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[WrenchMonkey]

Read the tread: update is that it may be reopening...

[biggin69]

Read the tread: update is that it may be reopening...

Lol! Read the thread! Hardtrailz is the one that stated this^^^

[93 Krawler]

It doesn't surprise me that its closing. The locals hated it.

The crazy thing is he didn't own the land he leased it from someone. I agree it is a money maker but people don't realize what it takes to host an offroad event now a days. Man power, insurance, payouts, etc. It all adds up and in the end the insurance man will kill an event in a heart beat once he learns of lack of safety measures. Today it is all about risk mitigation and I would bet that old Joe may not have had an insurance policy, sure you sign a waiver but there is a whole bunch more to it than that.

Lol! Read the thread! Hardtrailz is the one that stated this^^^

Pretty sure he was referring to this post....

[blazerbrad]

I hope it does reopen as I would like to check it out.

Regarding the comment about making money off of it I would be interested in seeing the books as I doubt you are going to get rich off of it. If I had to guess you would probably be lucky to just break even. At $750,000 purchase price that would take a lot of $20 day passes to pay off and that's not even including the crazy insurance premiums.

[WrenchMonkey]

There's a post on facebook that they were closing the deal this morning, and hope to reopen as early as next week.

[WrenchMonkey]

Today:

The Turtle will open again this Saturday at 9 am. No admittance after 5 pm. Everyone is to be out of the trails before dark. Outer trails will be smooth but inner trails will still be rough. NO CAMPING next weekend. Looking forward to seeing everyone out on the trails. Here's to a new adventure

[Coppertop]

Good deal.Hope it works out.

Nick