10/27/24 - Rocky Mountain Trail Riders is
joining event organizers Carrie and Ryan Madden for a
great cause. They are hosting a JOKER RUN FUNDRAISER
on Sunday, 10/27/24, to benefit local business
owner Randy Eastman who was recently diagnosed with a stage 3 brain tumor.
10/12/24 - We conducted a leaf peeping, foliage ride around Nicatous Lake and stopped for lunch at Swamp Donkey food truck. We ALL totally enjoyed ourselves and the ride. Had 12 machines and 21 people. Awesome time.
09/27-28/24 - We set up an awesome booth at Old Town Riverfest event. Had club information and membership forms, raffles for an ice auger, a chainsaw and a scratch ticket frame.
09/25/24 - We placed an awesome bottle/can return and trash receptacle at County Road Market on County Rd in Milford. Drop off your bottles and can to help with club expenses!
09/16/24 - Weather was great for another FULL MOON RIDE. This was the "Harvest Moon" this month.Ride started right after our September monthly meeting.
08/31/24 - Our 1st annual POKER RUN was conducted. A number of people participated. Yummy lunch of lasagna, garlic bread, chop suey, mac & cheese, slaw, etc was serve dup.
08/17/24 - We held our 2nd annual Scavenger Hunt for Big Foot, postponed from 8/10/24 due to rain. It was another successful and fun event. We were visited by the Machias Ridge RidersTrail Club and the Dennysville Snowmobile & ATV Club. THANK YOU folks for helping make this event. We appreciate you coming all this way..We hosted 25 machines and 50 hunters.
07/27/24 - A wicked good, 100-mile group ride from LaGrange General Store to Dover, via Medford, Lake View, Milo, and Sebec.There were MANY machines out riding that Saturday - a beautiful day for riding the trails.
07/15/24 - We posted three "Adopt-A-Trail" boards for our generous sponsor - Old Town Auto Parts. Call them for your auto needs 207-827-4445. THANK YOU OTAP for being the sponsor of Trail 704.
07/13/24 - We orchestrated a group ride from our clubhouse to Harris' Family Takeout in Lee, Maine via Lincoln wind turbines. The day turned out to be perfect after a couple of showers early AM. The views from the hills were incredible. See our FB page for multiple pics.
07/04/24 - Some of our members participated in the Burlington, Maine July 4th parade. We decorated our machines in patriotic fair. See our Facebook page for multiple pics. A couple of machines won ribbons for Best of Show and more.
06/24/24 - We heard back from MDOT regarding our application to allow Rte 178 to become an Access Route between Milford and Bradley.We were denied for the time being, with statements made that an Access Route should be last resort and perhaps there were some alternative possible connections that we have not fully investigated at that time. We will revisit this in the future.
06/22/24 - Held a very nice club CHARITY RIDE event to benefit THE ANIMAL ORPHANAGE in Old Town. We raised $200 and collected several bags of needed food and blankets.
06/15/24 - Held a work morning at the clubhouse. Numerous trees and brush were cleared from behind the building and the septic field. THANK YOU Darrell Gray, Dustin Kretchman and Dave Soucier for your hard work.
06/14/24 - We held our first ANNUAL GLOW RIDE. The owners of ten machines were decorated with glow lights, Christmas lights, etc. We rode parade-style through the streets of Milford. The 'parade' was well received by the residents of Milford who watched us go by and waved.
06/08/24 - We held our ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE Raffles, door prizes, food and more was enjoyed by all who stopped by. A lightly-used chain saw donated by AVERY'S SAW SHOP was raffled. Door prizes included several gift cards to Dunkin and a $40 card, T-short and hat was donated by PEPPER'S LANDING RESTAURANT in Old Town. Thank you all
05/28/24 - Happy to announce that GREENFIELD ROAD from Crocker Turn Rd at the church, easterly all the way to Cross Road, is now an ACCESS ROUTE. This is a biggie.
05/25/24 - We published our SPONSORSHIP BOARD for 2024 (to date). See it HERE. .
05/21/24 - This year we added another level of club sponsorship - Adopt-A-Trail. That's a $500 sponsorship. We announce and appreciate Old Town Auto Parts as our first sponsor at this level. THANK YOU !! .
05/20/24 - Monthly meeting for members and guests was held at the clubhouse.Click HEREif you wish to read the minutes.
05/18/24 - Our TRAILS ARE OPEN for the season!
05/18/24 - Our first FOOD DRIVE was held this day at the ORONO IGA. Proceeds and food donations went to the Caring Community Cupboard food pantry in Old Town.
05/11/24 - At the clubhouse this day, we hosted a State Certified ATV Training Course. The instructor was Daryl Friedman. Nine youths and an adult passed the exam and got their certificate to ride.
05/06/24 - Our president issued an important letter, explaining why just because the gates are open, the trails are not necessarily open and why we must follow the wishes and directions or our land owners who offer up their land for our benefit. You can read that letter HERE. .
05/05/24 - With the great, early spring weather, we expect trails to be open real soon. Now that the generous land owners have opened their gates, on this day, we conducted our annual pre-season trail inspection and cleanup. Had a small, but great group of volunteers helping clear the trails from winter blow downs.
04/20/24 - We held a successful ROADSIDE CLEANUP morning in Milford. Picked up 55 bags of roadside trash. Our volunteer members were joined by some municipal officials! Volunteers were treated to pizza after their hard work.
04/15/24 - The first club meeting of each year is our Annual Meeting. It was held this day. If you wish to read the meeting minutes, you can click HERE. .
03/22/24 - The club By-Laws were significantly rewritten, voted on and approved. You can view the current By-Laws HERE.
03/08/24 - We had another RMTR swag and clothing store open for two weeks.
03/01/24 - Our 2024 membership application is out. Get it HERE. .
02/26/24 - We published a GREAT document titled "I Know What You Did Last Summer". A summary of our 2023 riding year in review. You can read it HERE. .
01/21/24 - We applied to the State of Maine for ACCESS ROAD approval on State Route 178 between Milford and Bradley. If granted, our riders in Bradley can get 'direct' to our trails without having to trailer their machines.
In the fall of 2023 we opened an online apparel store through Wight's Sporting Goods. Selling various swag and clothing, the 2-week event was a success and we raised a few hundred dollars.
10/23 and 10/24/23 - We will be appearing before the Select Boards of Milford and Bradley to request authorization to make Route 178 a legal Access Road, thus we will connect those two towns with a long sought after connector link. Final approval is still required from MDOT.
10/21/23 - A big gala event, our Annual Appreciation Dinner to thank our landowners, sponsors and members was cancelled due to a number of reasons. Next year we will plan further in advance and request RSVP.
10/07/23 - Our planned Poker Run was cancelled as it takes 30 days to receive state approval and we did not allot enough time to make this happen. Next year, however, we may have two of them!
09/30/23 - We had our second Full Moon night ride September 30. The ride started at 7:00pm. We rode for 90+ minutes. The moon was hiding behind fire haze and low clouds until near the end of the ride, but we saw it plenty then. Nice ride.
09/30/23 - The gun raffle drawing was held at the raffle creator and sponsor Maine Military Supply in Holden on Saturday September 30. Congratulations to the winner Kyle Smart of Old Town. All profits went to our club!
09/22 and 09/23/23 - We had a booth at this year's Riverfest Old Town! This was an informational booth to gain exposure in the community, promote our club and our activities, and to answer questions from the public. Also had two successful raffles going on. Met new friends and gained a couple of members!
09/19/23 - We requested and received a nice financial contribution from the Town of Milford. Their donations to local civic organizations help greatly to pay operational expenses. THANK YOU MILFORD SELECT BOARD !! Greatly appreciated.
09/09 & 09/10/23 - On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, we held our BIGFOOT SCAVENGER HUNT for Bigfoot event. We had hot food served up for our Bigfoot Hunter teams. See our FB page for pics and listing of our winners.
08/31/23 - A BLUE MOON night ride was held. Not only a Blue Moon, but a super moon. Ride was run and moon was awesome.
08/26/23 - A new Park & Ride location officially announced at our local business partner the County Road Market and Deli in Milford.
08/20/23 - We have a bridge in Grand Falls that sustained some damage. It is now closed and we have a bypass trail in place so you can continue to destinations north.
08/05/23 - We have numbered all our trails! A new map is available for downloading. See that section on this webpage or on Facebook.
08/04/23 - An ATV Training Course for young riders was scheduled to be held this date at the Libby School in Milford. Unfortunately, like many events this summer, it was cancelled due to bad weather.
07/17/23 - We had a successful BBQ before our July monthly meeting. Hamburgers, hot dogs, soda, chips and member Joe Larson made and served up his special Cowboy Beans!
07/10/23 - Unseasonably rainy weather has
delayed many of our events. Keep watch of this webpage or our Facebook
page for updated information as it happens.
06/10/23 - We received word from the State of Maine on June 10 that our request for a Municipal Grant was
approved for much of the funding amount we requested. This is a reimbursement type of funding for
monies we spend on trail maintenance. We are grateful to the Penobscot County Commissioners -
our Municipal partner/sponsor - for working with us on this venture.
06/07/23 - Our new website was launched. Enjoy! We'll try our best to keep it up to date.
06/09/23 - We are thankful for our local business partner Alexander’s Mechanical Solutions who have agreed to
let us use their gravel parking lot as a Park & Ride location, on the weekends. With the number of
employees they have and with trucks coming and going during the weekday hours, we decided that
park & ride on weekends only was best for both of us.
06/06/23 - We requested and received approval from the Milford Select Board authorization to raise the Access Road Speed Limit from 15mph to 25mph on County and Call Roads where there are no sidewalks. Similarly, roads maintained by Penobscot County have now been approved for an increase to 25mph
as well. However, roads in Hancock County (Myra Road for last 1.5miles+ and the gravel road into
Nicatous) remain at 15mph per our permission agreement with Hancock County.
06/03/23 -- Our first annual Open House was held at the clubhouse. We had seven door prizes we gave away on the hour. Also we had two raffles for donated items that included a lightly-used chainsaw, value $150, donated by Avery Saw Shop, and a cornhole like bean bag toss and beverage tub combo, donated by Mike and Jen Cribbin. We also served up PLENTY of food and drinks. Fun time by all.
04/25/23 - Our first club meeting under the direction of new officers was held at the clubhouse. It was encouragingly attended by 50+ members and guests. See minutes of meetings on our website for detailed information about this important first meeting.
04/08/23 - After 18-years of service, current RMTR officers tended their resignations. An emergency public meeting was held at the clubhouse to discuss total club dissolve and possible all trail closures or revitalize with new Officer volunteers. We had SIX volunteers step up to fill the positions of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Trail Master and assistant Trail Master. THANK YOU ALL for keeping RMTR alive!
