Make sure the M/C and ATV riders have a voice in the Surprise Canyon Road travel classification process! Make comments that you want "open access" to include legal OHV access as an Alternative.

Surprise Canyon...The fight is not over!! (http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72460)

The "open access' alternate is important if you ever want to take an OHV "green sticker" rock buggy, motorcycle, or ATV up Surprise Canyon (a non-street legal vehicle).

The value of allowing a child to drive is also only supported by the "open access" alternative (a "limited" to street legal only classification applies to the vehicle and driver).

I personally would enjoy (and do value) the opportunity to have my children to be able to actively learn responsible wheeling, by driving and winching an ATV up Surprise Canyon Road for a legal Backcountry Recreation experience. An ATV experience will provide both cultural and natural resource education, and self-confidance skills. I believe the resource respect and education learned through participation in backcountry driving is unparalled as a beneficial experience for our youth.

This activity was legal before the temporary closure, and will only be legal with an "open access" travel classification (and we have to tell the BLM to include it as an Alternative in the current scoping phase of the process).

We need your help. Let other ATV and Motorcycle BBS's know we need the help to keep the road legally open to your choice of recreation!

Happy Trails!