Golden mountain park- trip pics and review

[Mattnatti]

I arrived home a few hours ago after wheeling at GMP in Tennessee with Atlanta custom creations and Lowe Toyota and wanted to share my trip and review the park as requested by Hodgie.
I have only been to 3 offroad parks ( haspin, Big rock and Dirty turtle ) before and I must say that I am very impressed with GMP. Very welcoming staff, many pavillions for rent and also plenty of areas for just camping. The pavilion ( #3 next to a very large pond ) that was rented by ACC and Lowe Toyota was very spacious with water, electric, a big webber grill along with a regular outdoor park type of grill, trash cans and very clean and stocked men's and womens bathrooms and showers just about 100' away. I think they paid around $900 for this and that included up to 20 trucks. More info can be found at their website.
The trails were marked very well and ranged from moderate, difficult and extreme along with a rock garden that they hold rock races on. The park is very well layed out and easy to navigate.

This is a park that could easily handle the CORE group and has trails for everyone with any type of truck.

I had a fantastic time with great people and was able to see and wheel with many classic Toyota Land Cruisers.
I hope that CORE can visit this park in the future as it would be enjoyed by all.

Onto the pics..........

Pavilion #3...



You can see the bath house in the upper right of pics.



This is what I woke up to every morning when I opened the hatch of my 80 and you can see a couple of the other smaller pavilions across the pond.




Some trail shots.....sorry there aren't more but...uh...hum...I was busy at the wheel on the most difficult trails my 80 and I have ever been on.









Hellivator....the giant slab on the left and the skinny, jeep axel ripping bypass on the left between the trees and overhanging rock.



Some shots from atop hellivator....





The jeep that suffered catastrophic damage. If you look closely you can see the front ps wheel still attached to the tie rod wedged tightly into the grill/ bumper ( ouch )







The rock garden. Very long way up the hill with many many different lines that all looked very difficult.










And some Toyota eye candy for those who like the good stuff. ;)

A 55 land cruiser restored by ACC. This guy travels North America in this set up year round.





A 40 built by ACC.....



And many more......





















And last but not least. A big shout out to Chris for building my sliders for me and working while under the weather to get them on before my trip. After a few attempts to get some things fabbed up Chris came through in a big way.

The sliders held up fantastic and I leaned on the pretty hard a couple of times and everyone liked them very much. A little bit of cosmetic damage to the 80 but Meh it could have been worse. They don't call Land Cruisers the worlds toughest all purpose 4 wheel drive vehicle for nothing.