We're Looking for Members - Come and Join our club and help us have fun !!
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COME JOIN THE FUN, HELP US PROMOTE ATVING AND OUR COMMUNITY
Welcome To Our Site!
RIDING FOR THE FUN
MEMBERSHIP
"DONATIONS"
Single: $15.00
Family: $25.00
Businesses: $40.00
Area Points of Interest:
Happi-Days Campground & Dinner
Our lovely campground is located on 26 wooded acres. Shady and sunny sites are available. We have a total of 40 sites, most of which are pull-through and can accommodate 5th wheels and motor homes with water and electric.
Our bathhouse is clean and has separate accommodations for men and women. All sites have fire pits and picnic tables. Pets are welcome but must be kept on a leash and you must clean up after them (keep your pooper scooper handy).
We also have 2 rustic cabins for sleeping only. They accommodate up to 4 people and also have fire pits and picnic tables. Bring your own sleeping bags or bedding.
Quiet time is from 11:00 pm to 8:00 am, music turned down, children on their own sites and no loud outbursts.Also take advantage of our Propane station and dumping station. We also accommodate Horses and ORV's !!!
Our campground also boasts a 1950's style diner
We accept Visa, Mastercard and Discover.
Reservations call 1-989-390-2155 or email happidays77@aol.com
RESTAURANTS:
Happi-Days 1950's Style Dinner
7486 W. Batterson Rd. Frederic, MI 49733
989-390-2155
Westside Diner
6301 W M 72 Highway
Grayling, MI 49738
989-344-0710
Fays Motel and Cottages 989-348-7031
Ramada Inn: 989-348-7611
Days Inn: 989-344-0204
Woodland Motor Lodge
Your hosts, Rob and Diane, welcome you to Grayling and Northern Michigan. We are sure you will enjoy the variety of activities and pursuits that the area offers. We continue to operate the Woodland Motor Lodge as a clean, quiet family motel that has served its customers well for over fifty years. We have many repeat customers, and many who have been coming to this motel for longer than we have owned it.
Enjoy privacy in wooded, scenic surroundings. Our large lot places our cabins and most motel rooms off the road, facing a wooded central courtyard. Here you’ll find an outdoor cooking area, with picnic tables and a barbeque pit. Please look through the descriptions and photos of our motel rooms, cabins, and setting with the links on the left.
Starting in 2009, we’re offering ATV rentals in addition to our snowmobile rentals. Details can be found at
( Click on picture to enlarge )
THE HAPPI DAYS DINER WILL BE OPEN THROUGH THE WINTER MONTHS FOR BUSSINESS AS USUAL.
THE HOURS ARE :
MONDAY 7am TILL 2pm
CLOSED ON TUESDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS AFTER JAN. 4th
THURSDAYS THROUGH SUNDAY 7am to 2pm
"Happi-Trails ATV Club"
NEWS UPDATE:
We do have two more places to get gas & one place to get food and spirits.
1. RiverTown Party store, Chase Bridge Rd. & M-72
2. Kellogg's Bridge One Stop Shop Party Store 9439 North Down River Rd. Lovell's
3. The Two Track Inn, 3997 East M-72
- Where Good Food and Good Friends Become Reality!
- Full Menu and Cocktails (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
- Hamburgers, Sandwiches, Salads, Steaks, Prime Rib, Seafood
- Onsite Catering and Banquet Accommodations for Private Parties, from 10 to 150 people; up to 1000 off-premises!
- In-House or Offsite Weddings, Graduations, Golf Outings, Wakes
- Showers, Business Meetings, Anniversaries, Birthdays
- Daily Restaurant Specials
- Fully Remodeled
- New Owners
- Outstanding Old-Fashioned Quality Pizza -- Dough Made Fresh Daily!
- Buses, Snowmobiles, RVs and ATVs Welcome!
- Pool Table
- Video Games
- Keno and a wide assortment of Scratch & Win lotto tickets available
- Easy Access from I-75 (Enlarge map at left for location & driving directions )
- Quality, Affordable Food
- 'Up-North' Feel
- Comfortable, Relaxed Atmosphere
- Close to the Au Sable River, with several nearby canoe liveries
422/430 N. Fifth St.
Roscommon, MI 48653
(989)275-6565
COME RIDE WITH US AND ENJOY OUR RESOURCES
Grayling Visitors Bureau
Shel-Haven Canoe and Kayak Rental
Shel-Haven Canoe Rental is located on the beautiful Manistee River, just 8 miles west of Grayling on M-72. We are open daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day and on the weekends in spring and fall. Any other time by appointment.
St. Helen POWER SPORTS
St. Helen Power Sports is your year-round, full-service provider of power recreation products. We are conveniently located in St. Helen, Michigan (Roscommon County) just 3 miles off I-75 Exit 222. Our staff has been serving our customers for over 34 years with personalized and concerned sales, service, and storage. St. Helen Power Sports carries a wide range of Arctic Cat products including ATVs, snowmobiles, parts and accessories, and gifts for the power sports enthusiast.
Our facilities are near Lake St. Helen, the St. Helen motorsport area, and over 200 miles of snowmobile trails.
We are open on Saturday and Sunday to keep you on the trails!
St. Helen Power Sports
1901 N. Saint Helen Rd.
Saint Helen, MI 48656
Phone: (989) 389-4961
Fax: (989) 389-4941
*NEWS BREAK *
Everybody needs to check out the New online newspaper, Jerry and Scott Nunn are reporting on the NorthEast part of the State, I think it's pretty cool, if you have something to say or news let them know.
THE NEW LAWS FOR ATV'S
The Crawford County Board has approved the ORV Ordinance and made it OFFICIAL. Most Roads are OPEN to ACCOMMODATE ATV/ORV !!!
This new law OPENS most of the roads in Crawford Co.You can ride ATV's directly to the TRAILS and to downtown Frederic !! Check out the Trail System in the Frederic area. All the Roads in Green are open to get around the Township.
This link shows the actual trail system.
Pleas Note:( The town of Grayling is closed to all ATV"S, also Maple Forrest twp. )
This link is the Crawford Co. ORV Map 09
With this current Map it shows Frederic Township is OPEN to accommodate ORV's to ride straight to the main Blue Bear trail loops in the Frederic area, and ride into the town of Frederic for gas and other needs.
Please feel free to contact us at (989) 390-2155 /Todd or John @ (989}-390-4751 with all the details on this Great issue.
Otsego County:
ON THE WEB:
(Rich's Cycle Service*)
15927 W M 72 Hwy
Grayling, MI 49738-8809
Phone: (989) 348-9276
GPS Software for ORV Trails
VVMapping.com - providing high quality mapping products for outdoor recreation.
GPS, Printed and PDF Recreational Trail Maps
Snowmobile, ORV & Non-Motorized Maps for GPS & More.
Our maps have the trails shown where they actually are based on GPS recordings. Most other available maps that cover ORV trails or snowmobile trails are artist renditions of what the trail might look like in the general area it might be.
Michigan alone has over 9000 miles of public Snowmobile and ORV trails and our products cover them all.
Maps available now for Michigan, Ohio & West Virginia. Wisconsin is almost completed!
MICHIGAN ATV CLUBS @ atv-411.com
ATV SOURCE . COM
Grayling Visitors Bureau
When in Frederic please visit the :
North End Grocery
6974 Ausable Street (N. Old 27)
1 Block North of the B&B Gas Station
Frederic, MI 49733
989-348-2662
They have Pop and Beer, Homemade Pizza and all the goodies, I even noticed some flat washers on a shelf while stopping in to get a pop, so stop in and say Hi to Amy and tell her you saw it on the Happi-Trails ATV Club web site.
All Forest Rds. Are CLOSED unless POSTED OPEN
CRAWFORD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:
District # 1 Commissioner Kathy Rogers
Grayling, MI 49738 (989) 348-3162
E Mail - krogers@crawfordco.org
District # 2 Commissioner Scott Hanson
Grayling, MI 49738 (989) 348-5913
E Mail - shanson@crawfordco.org
District # 3 Commissioner Shelley Pinkelman
Frederic, MI 49733 (989) 344-4146
E Mail - spinkelman@crawfordco.org
District # 5 Commissioner David J. Stephenson
(Chairman)
Grayling, MI 49738 (989) 348-9678
E Mail - dstephenson@crawfordco.org
District # 6 Commissioner Rick Anderson
Grayling, MI 49738 (989) 348-4809
E Mail - randerson@crawfordco.org
District # 7 Commissioner Terry Beardslee
Roscommon, MI 48653 (989) 275-5110
E Mail - tbeardslee@crawfordco.org
PLEASE SIGN OUR GUESS BOOK SO WE CAN KEEP IN TOUCH
Fabcraft!
Fabcraft is a leading manufacturer of cutting edge snowmobile aftermarket products for mountain performance !
We also manufacture other custom products, including ATV.
If you can't find it, we'll make it!
Home of the
Nemesis Stage Snowmobile Chassis
COME RIDE WITH US AND ENJOY OUR RESOURCES
Jan, 23 , 2010
Up coming events will include a April 24th or 25th rally to start the season off, (AuSable Recreation Expo Weekend ) we will be having a hot dog and marshmallow roast during the ride, we will rally at the trail head on M-72 just West of town
(same as the snowmobile parking )( subject to change ) for anyone who wants to go for a get together ride .
On the 4th of July we will ride to see fireworks on our ATV's. If we like that ride we can do it again later in the summer when Waters has there festival.
There's going to be a ATV ROAD RALLY treasure hunt , possibley a poker run , a geo caching run. We are working on having an over night at some destination with camping or motels for our nights stay. We are also going for a lunch ride to a hidden destination ?
I sure do miss riding, the only riding I due now is snow plowing with my 4 wheeler, better then nothing I guess, so come on spring.
If you already haven't read the reports on what's going on you definitely should read the MSA'S
(Michigan Snowmobile Association) web site- http://www.msasnow.org/ . There are some hard facts that need to be looked at and it effects us all. So please read the web site it explains a lot of things.
We seem to have had a good response to our club. We would like to make the membership dues due at the 1st of AUGUST every year, we need to do this so we can budget for the coming year. We are going non-profit with a LLC . This will benefit us greatly in order to apply for grant monies if needed .
There's a lot of work that needs to be done even before the season starts, I have already signed up to help at the Saint Helen Jamboree for 2010, so if you would like to be part of this please contact me .
We are working on having three instructors for ORV safety classes available during the summer, it's going to a be a hands on course. We have a lot of things in the works and we are going to need help with, if everybody just gave a couple of hours a week that would great.
I found out more about the connector between Lewiston Grade road and M-93 and US-27 intersection. That's imperative to have, so traffic can get through to downtown Grayling from the North end of the county.
I received an email from Susan Thiel (DNRE):
John:
I need to get the Cameron bridge connector GPSed and then will be submitting it as an official piece of trail. I anticipate that being available come spring once the trails are open.
I remember discussion of potentially using the snowmobile trail between Lewiston Grade and M-93 but have not done anything in terms of considering that as "designated trail" If that is to be shifted over as designated trail, that requires a trail proposal and I need to get input from snowmobile interests and military permission as part of that trail is on state land under military lease. I would need a formal request from the county or your group to start looking into the possibility of making that designated trail. Note, that would not preclude use of that section of trail for a specific event - but it would still have to get approvals via the event permit process.
If you are planning trail runs that use designated ORV trail or any state trail roads, you will need to apply for event permits- which requires a fee and liability insurance. We need at least 60 days to process the permit- so I would recommend you submit applications soon. If the rides are entirely on county roads open to ORVs and do not cross any state land, then an event permit is not needed. Attached is an event permit application for your reference.
A return request will be sent for a formal request within the week.
Dues for memberships for the 2010 season is as follows:
Businesses - $40.00
Family- $25.00
Single - $15.00
Dues are due 1st of February (yearly)
Next meeting sometime in Early Feb.
Happi-Trails for now.
John
Happi-Trails ATV Club
ATTENTION GREAT NEWS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DISABLED
Our club welcomes people who have disabilites and want to ride with a buddy or group, if you have an ATV and would like to ride with someone give us a call !
Any day of the week, any time of the day.
This group is a ORV 4x4 Club who loves the outdoors as much as we do
they have a great forum to disscuss anything about everything, check it out
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Au Sable Valley Recreation Expo
The 2nd Annual Au Sable Valley Recreation Expo, sponsored by the Grayling
Promotional Association/Au Sable Valley Recreation Expo committee (AVRE) will be held on April 24 & 25, 2010 at the Ramada Inn Conference Center, Grayling, Michigan. AVRE would like to extend an invitation to attend the 2010 Expo as an exhibitor and also as a sponsor.
Presentation Schedule for the AuSable Valley Recreation Expo 2010
This will be available when the presentations are determined .
We look forward to this second event, especially after having a very successful first event at the 2009 Expo.
Exhibitors are encouraged to sign up as early as possible because there are a limited number of spaces available.
Please contact:
Dan Bonamie
P.O. Box 144
Grayling, MI 49738
989-710-1194
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AuSable Valley Recreation Expo
ORV Certification for Persons with a Disability
Persons that meet the following criteria are permitted to operate licensed ATVs/ORVs less than 50" wide on forest roads that are open to public vehicular travel on state lands (including those not posted open to ORVs).
- Those persons issued a valid temporary or permanent handicapper parking permit issued by the Secretary of State Office.
- Those persons holding Permits to Hunt from a Standing Vehicle.
- Those persons with a physicians certification for the following disabilities:
- Loss of 1 or both legs or feet;
- Inability to walk more than 200 feet without having to stop and rest;
- Inability to walk without prolonged use of wheelchair, walker, crutches, braces or other devices to aide in mobility;
- Lung disease from which the person's expiratory volume for 1 second is less than 1 liter when measured by spirometry;
- Lung disease from which the person's arterial oxygen is less than 60 mm/hg of room air at rest;
- Cardiovascular disease from which the person measures between 3 and 4 on the New York heart classification scale/
- Cardiovascular disease from which a marked limitation of physical activity causes fatigue, palpitation, dyspnea or anginal pain;
- Other disease or disorder including but not limited to severe arthritis or neurological-orthopedic impairment that creates a severe mobility limitation.
Persons with obvious severe disabilities (i.e., paraplegics, quadriplegic).
Operation of the ORV is subject to licensing and all other requirements and restrictions, and shall only be at a speed and in a manner which does not degrade the environment. These privileges may extend to one companion of the disabled person serving as operator or passenger of the disabled person's ORV, if the ORV is designed for passenger use.
( COPIED FROM THE HANDBOOK ORV LAWS , ON LINE )
