I’m trying to put together a trail ride to Hatfield & McCoy and would like to ride the Browning Fork trail sometime between late April and August 2008. Looking to have 4-6 guys, all hunters who own quads, from 1-3 local churches make the trip. Maybe arrive Thursday afternoon, ride Friday and Saturday, stay three nights total and head home on Sunday morning. It will be about a six hour drive for us.

I’m looking for specific info on where to stay, eat, etc. Since it will be all guys we will need 4-6 single beds. I’d like the lodging to be close enough to the trail to be able to ride the quads from the lodge to the rail head. Would like to have a town close enough to the lodge so we don’t have to cook breakfast or dinner. Will want a lodge that has a living room where we can fellowship and discuss our ride each night.

Does anyone have firsthand experience with a place to stay close to the trail we would like to ride? Is there a better trail to ride that would meet our needs with the lodging we would like? I would like the trail to be at least 40% easy to ride. If so please PM me.

While I'm sure MANY accomodations meet your requirements in the area, I've stayed at the DEPOT LODGE; sounds like it has your name on it!

The Rockhouse Lodge, under the same management, will fill the bill also.

Again, lots of places will meet your needs; I've given you only a couple of "sure things."

Have fun; might join you!

Here's a link to The Rockhouse Lodge/Depot Lodge website:

http://www.trailsheaven.com/accommodation/accommodation...-Depot-Lodge,59.aspx

Clean, convenient (pressure-washer on-site!), near lots of good eatin' and the trails, too.

Thanks Tree Farmer. This one looks pretty good. Very reasonable rates and close to everything. I did a mapquest and it will be a 450 mile trip for us, about 7 1/2 hours. I like that fact that there is a place to rent ATV's incase someone wants to go and doesn't own one. I'll pass the info on to the others and see what they think.

http://www.trailsheaven.com/accommodation/accommodation...d-and-Cabins,32.aspx

Check them out if you want away from it all! Safe and secure! Losts of parking for truck/trailer/campers/atvs etc........
The cabins are the only ones right off the trail.
Just ride the atv's to town to eat.

Run the easy trails 1st and then try medium and then hard if you are up to it. None are that hard just long steep climbs! Of coarse I have a Polaris SP500 with EBS/ADC

went to browning fork in november and can't wait to go back. We stayed in Man WV at hillbilly rentals. They are doublewide trailers on foundations, very clean and can ride quad to the trailhead from there(1 mile).He has 3 units and each will sleep six. Nothing fancy but safe and comfortable. Also has a lockable shed that will hold 5 or six quads. Full kitchen living room washer and dryer. We will stay with them again this spring ride browning fork 2 days and dingess rum in Logan for 2 days. Avoid highway 10 as much as possible, very narrow withno shoulder and caol trucks fly on it. It is unavoidable between Logan and Man. Enjoy the trip
www.hillbillyrentals.net

We stayed with Marty and Lisa Buchannan at the Browning Fork Trail House (trail house #1) (see link below) the weekend of December 15th and that is where I will stay every time I go back.

I have been to H/M 4 times; stayed in Logan twice (back in 2001 where that was it), stayed in Man once (the other side of Browning Fork trail system) and at Browning Fork Trail House this last time. The hospitality was great, you could ride to the trail system, take the truck into gilbert for breakfast (about 5 minutes away), ride the quads into either gilbert or man for lunch.

There may be other excellent places to stay, but my first hand experience says to stay in gilbert at the Browning Fork Trail House with Marty and Lisa.

Check out a post I made after the trip.

Browning Fork Trail House

My Post

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have looked at all of them and anyone suggested should meet my needs. It's always better to have first hand info when you plan to travel 450 miles. Now I just need spring time to hurry up.

Good Luck, you will have a blast.

We stay at the Do Drop Inn, Larry runs the place there and is great. The back deck on the trailer sits over the stream and makes for a VERY relaxing evening.