Work Days

GARTRA regularly organizes workdays (weather permitting) at four of the USFS ORV parks in Georgia. These include Whissenhunt (Dahlonega, GA), Locust Stake (near Toccoa, GA), Oakey Mountain (near Lake Burton), and Town Creek (Greensboro, GA). Typical workdays begin at 09:00 am with an organizational/safety meeting presented by the trail captain. Some days there may be specific projects planned like building baracades, bridges or putting up silt fencing, and other days may be just general maintenance including clearing fallen trees, cutting back brush, and repairing ruts and mud holes. For more information about each area, select the links to the left.

Repairing trails at Locust Stake

Clearing fallen trees at Whissenhunt

When the work is done, we break for lunch

2011 Workday Hours Report

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Category: Work Days
Published on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:38
Written by Bruce Dreher
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The following listing includes the names of volunteers and the hours that they worked in 2011 to help make these public ORV riding areas great places to visit.

Read more: 2011 Workday Hours Report

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  • Whissenhunt Work Days

    Workdays at the Whissenhunt ORV Park , Dahlonega, GA, are tenatively scheduled for the 3rd Sunday of each month. For more information about GARTRA workdays at Whissenhunt, contact James Wascher at 770-479-6993. For the latest information about the park itself, click Whssenhunt ORV Trails

    Directions

    From downtown Dahlonega, GA, take US-19/60 north 2.2 miles. Turn left onto paved countty road (Wahsega Road) toward Camp Frank D. Merrill. Go 3.9 miles and turn left into Whissenhunt ORV Area (dirt Forest Service Road #662) and go 100 yards to parking area.

     

    Scenes from Whissenhunt

  • Town Creek Work Days

    Workdays at the Town Creek ORV Park, Greensboro, GA, are tentatively scheduled for the 1st Saturday of each month. For more information about GARTRA workdays at Town Creek, contact Jeremy Ramsey at 423-653-2256, or JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING . For the latest information about the park itself, click Chattahoochee - Town Creek OHV Trails

    Directions

    From Atlanta, go East on I-20 to Greensboro/Eatonton exit. Turn left on GA-44 towards Greensboro. Go 2.7 miles to downtown Greensboro and turn right on US-278. Go one block and turn left onto N. East Street. Go 4.6 miles and turn right onto Hensley Rd. (across from Shilo Baptist Church) Go 1 mile and turn left at T intersection, also Hensley Rd. Go 0.8 miles and turn left into Town Creek ORV Park.