ATV Florida Forum

I inherited .31 of 1.25 acres at river ranch about eight years ago and still have not made it out there. Fees and number of guests limited seem to be a bunch of crap. The idea of owning property and having to pay for access is not going over well with me. Can anyone let me know what this place is all about or just buy it from me.

It's terrible...tell you what, I will take the whole mess off your hands for $500.00

$800.00 cash, I want to build a house out there

So stop paying tax on it so I can get it.

someone else already pays the taxes for me. I don't even know how much they are

Hey now, stop horning in on my deal, I am trying to do the man a favor here.  

1,200 dollars cash and thats my final offer......man you drive a hard bargin.

1,299 from me.

Honestly, for a sport bike.. There are times when you can haul, but most of the time when it goes under water....it goes wayy underwater.  Judging by your screename, you have a sport quad. Also, the people dont like sport bikes being out there because we haul ass and make it dusty, "get dust in peoples food and shouldnt be able to go in the mud".

IT SUCKS!!!!   I'll give you 400 and a mud truck for it no questions asked.   

Now is when you find out who your REAL friends are...  :'(

499.00 and a life long relationship with Bounty/AD/and 14 other people all in one...its the gift that keeps on giving...you never know who you will get to talk to ;)

Can they do that for me also?

And now for a serious response...
Yes, it is worth riding despite the fees and guest policy.  Definitely ride it before you decide to sell it.  It can get very wet during the summer, but dry season is great for sport quads.  The trails are two-way, so be very careful and don't haul ass unless you can see what's coming.  Also be aware that some of the more vocal RR members on this site dislike sport riders and want to keep RR a secret (RR posts in open forum are discouraged).  Nevertheless, let me know if you decide to try it...maybe we can meet up and I'll show you around.       

I was serious about my offer.  ???

Oh no !
RR is being discussed in an open forum. :no

I was serious about my offer too...   1,200 cash

As one of the local RR members, let me add a few words. Yes in wet season, the water gets very deep. In dry season the sugar sand gets so soft that you need a Ute to get around. (so sport bike are not the best for RR) Yes the trails are two way and the swamp buggy's have no brakes, so be careful! there a speed limit of 10 per hour in the camping area. (so going fast is not a good idea) Now for that secret part, secret (hahahahhaha) there a section on buying land here! Us members don't want to give the state more ammo by posting picture to use against us. And by the way, aren't you in another private web site just for RR member? Oh did I let out your secret? Sorry  ;)

I personal don't thing the kid as a deed if he doesn't know what his tax are

I'm not a kid first of all. Second, I do have a deed. Third, my sport quads will go anywhere a utility will go except mud. And by the way, no I'm not a member of any kind RR website. :cursing.gif

Easy trigger....

I let me tell you a little thing about florida sugar sand, that stuff can be worst than mud.  During the dry season I see alot stuck trucks, utes and esp sport quads in the sugar sand.  Understand, this is not your average sugar sand, it's more like quick sand.  Easier going through mud that that serious sugar sand.

As for your taxes, when you say someone else is paying your taxes, is this someone that you know.  I am not being a smart a$$, the reason why I tell you this, is that if someone basically pays your taxes (purchase tax deed), for 2 years or more, they have the right to put the land up for auction.  Just be careful.

making assumptions will get me fired up quick. As for the sugar sand, it can't be any worse there than it is in my back yard.

Trust me it is more than likely worse.  I have lived in Florida all my life, and I have seen alot of sugar sand, but this must be the sugar sand from hell.  - lol  When I say it is like quick sand, it really is.  But you get the right amount of rain, and it starts pack back down again.  You know how Florida is, either way too dry, or way too wet, doesn't ever seem like a happy medium....

It's not like it will ruin you day or anything, just watch yourself when going through, and you should be fine.  It's a trip though......  take care

Polk County Public Records under Dale Wright. Look it up smart guy

Lol Sport bikes will make it through sand easier than 4x4s.I GUARANTE THAT

Not to get into a bunch of stuff, but due to the fact you never have been up there, and now your getting into a pissing match with a local RR Member, no too smart.  Make friends, not enemies.  If you do start riding up there, you don't want to start out on a sour note.  Just the word to the wise.... 8)

I dont want to start an argument its just Ive seen plenty of 4x4s that just dig in the sand rather than like paddle through it because they way alot.

I was never trying to get into anything with anyone. I just have a very short fuse. Thank you for the advice.

Can't we all just get along..... ::)

I have to agree here, although it is 90% rider and 10% bike.

If you are not Kid, why dont you respone to PM? and it wasn't you that referring to.

what the hell does that have to do with anything.

Florida sugar sand is like quick sand thats for sure. And the only way a sport bike can make it threw sugar sand is by going fast (remember 10mph speed limit), but when you stop. You are done! Its like Jasper, but worst. Oh there NO motorcycles aloud in RR, because of that reason.

end of story! have fun KID...... :o

 how long are the gates open out there I'm only thirty minutes away

I stopped in some of that famous RR sugar sand on my 4x4  (in 2wd) and nearly got stuck once out there.
Sure glad I had that button to push. :)

24 HRS A DAY

don't forget to pay your dues........ ;) it help support the tennis courts and swimming pool maintenance. 

Damn it, no shuffleboard for the old guys?

 ;)

yfz122...I suspect that they are trying to scare you away from RR.  The sugar sand is deep in places, but I make it just fine on my yfz.  My son does fine on his blaster and even my daughter gets through on her kfx80.  If you go, you will need to get a membership at the front gate.  Bring your deed, a tax receipt and an a$$ pocket full of money.  Be respectful when you ride.  Keep it slow on the main grade (no donuts...please) and in the camping area.  Oh, and watch out for drunken idiots coming the other way.

 

No one is trying to scare him away here. It all sounds like the truth to me, although no one ever gave me my pool pass so I just swim in the canals.

Thank you Otto. I almost let them get to me. As for your previous offer, I would really like to take a look around the place.

man, this posts makes me want to buy some land at RR!!!  ::)  you HAVE to buy land, but have to pay to get to it. Drunk's on swamp buggies with no brakes ready to run me over. Sugar sand that if i try and make it threw quickly i'll get kicked off of my property for going too fast. And from what i've read is floods like no other! Sounds like OHV heaven IMO.

Different strokes for different folks.

I would much rather wear my helmet and do 80mph over dusty whoops all day myself, but some people actually like mudding.

lol

i like the laid back ridding sometimes, but it doesnt seem like the mudder crew is the most fun to be around. Sounds like its pretty easy to get shot or run over by a drunk. No offense to anyone here of course. I know nobody from ATVFL would do anything like that. Especially break the law by drinking and operating a motor vehicle.  ;) Only the bad seeds of the sport do that.

dont forget to take your stuff out poeple tend to steal your tires right off your buggie!! bunch of thieves out younder!please bring back your tires!!

I have hade no problem with anything missing.

well are buggie is still sitting on the blocks they put it on!   

Houkeded on foniks wercs fer me.   ???

Are you sure you just didn't forgot you took em off? Go look in the garage.

You just jinxed your self. Trust me it will happen out there if you are there long enough.

As for the original question, the sugar sand is bad, but nothing a sport quad cant handle. I have been going out there since the 80's & it hasnt changed. You almost dont need a 4x4 truck if you know the right trails to go on. I pulled my 16' trailer loaded with 4 quads all the way to our camp on northside in 2WD last time out a month 1/2 ago.
As for speed limit, I have been there & had people in beater trucks pass me going 20-30 & large groups of ute riders going faster than me coming the other way with vampire tires kicking up more dust than my shredders will ever make.
RR is a cool place, but all the fees, rules & unanswered questions turn off a lot of people.
Also, adults on sport quads are given some really bad vibes while riding out there. IMHO

 Thank you OTTO... all very true...but I dont think they are trying to scare anyone only having fun.

I have ridden my yfz there for three years now and no one has given me a bad time.  Some of the country folk look at me as if I'm from the moon...but I think that's because I wear a helmet.  Nevertheless, the posts I read where people joke about shooting sport riders, running them over with trucks, etc. are unnerving. 

Regarding the sugar sand...I haven't been out since the fire, but the main grade had gotten very soft south of mud dobber.  Not quicksand, but I saw two trucks stuck in it.   

LOL you people are amazing.... ::)

Bunch of knappy headed hoes.... :o

Well sombeechs yanked my cabin off the foundation last weekend with them 4 weel dryv truks

Is this true?

Yeah, I can't ride out there cause of my enlarged prostate makes me pee a lot and they don't have enough facilities along the trails.

yeah I seen a Video of some Hooligans pulling it down....

 Those bast@rds!!!! I bet it was AD!!!

its a one of the last place to ride

Yea look what these Foookers did


http://img531.imageshack.us/my.php?image=campbowack407032bj8.flv

I saw those hillbillies at the dump.......... strange people!  ;)

Yea after they trashed my cabin they stole my 18 pack of Budweiser that Ive been saving since 05, Hope however stole it appreciates the fine taste of aged BEER

Dang, that isnt right!  Ok they trashed your cabin, but also stole your beer.......wait went budman find out, someone going to die!

Doggonit, I told them country bumpkins to move THE CAMPER, not the cabin, over to my camp. No wonder it took em two 4x4 dualies to haul it back there through the sugar sand! And, I asked them to leave me Bud Lite!

You wanted the camper????  :oOOOOOOPS We used that to dam the canal to make a swimming hole :-X

River Ranch is the most beautiful place in the world. Sometimes I like to go out there with my boyfriend...ERRRRRRR XXXXX EX boyfriend and dance naked in the rain.

Those rotten bastids!! Beer thieves deserve to DIE!!!!   But how could you manage to keep a case for that long? I have to carry a 12 pack extra just to make it home...

It was lost in the clutter... LOL


Dance Naked in the rain? Hell Ill get you some rain of we all could watch ;)

is there any kind of firearms laws out there? If its not hunting season..can you still be armed?

 ;) Never leave home without it 8)

ahahahahahahahhaa. thats pretty funny

my friend rides at river ranch ive always wondered how it actually is out there. is the crazy sugar sandonly in soe places or is it everywhere?

all right yall i gotta a go cart that sucks in sand and it does fine out there youll be fine ive gotta ute n my buddy had a sport n his did better in sand than mine so thats not an issue go check it out i drive two trucks there 2x a month gitten 15-20mpg to ride there i love it try it fore you sell it :ThumbsUp.gif

 >: you dont need to worry about the sugar sand i drove my 2 wheel drive truck and atv any where i wanted to go!

are you the guy that tore up the road/sugar sand out to my camp?  or do you live on hard pack the whole way out there?