Planning a trip down south to ride, from New York. How much did you guys spend for a week+ down there?

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Planning to go down with a camper; approximately how much did you guys spend down there so I can budget?
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PSA: Don't leave your bikes in an open pickup truck at night or the price of your trip will likely go up by about ten grand
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I’m from NY as well, grew up in Vernon (near you). Went to Tomahawk in WV one year. Including gas and the room, the 4 of us brought $500 each and we were fine. I don’t really know what it would cost if I was going alone. But as the guy above me said, don’t leave a damn thing unsecured, people are assholes.
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holditwideee421 11/28/2020 10:43pm
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user760a wrote:
PSA: Don't leave your bikes in an open pickup truck at night or the price of your trip will likely go up by about ten grand
Nah, we have a toy hauler camper.
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holditwideee421 11/28/2020 10:44pm
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I’m from NY as well, grew up in Vernon (near you). Went to Tomahawk in WV one year. Including gas and the room, the 4 of...
I’m from NY as well, grew up in Vernon (near you). Went to Tomahawk in WV one year. Including gas and the room, the 4 of us brought $500 each and we were fine. I don’t really know what it would cost if I was going alone. But as the guy above me said, don’t leave a damn thing unsecured, people are assholes.
From rome, wanted to go down to Club MX with just me and a friend. Should $500 each be enough to stay for around a week would ya say?
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If you go travel on a tight budget it’s tough. Miscellaneous expenses/repairs could throw a wrench in things. If people are avg $500 I’d be prepared to spend $750 just incase. Hopefully nothing happens but I’ve had friends run out of money on trips and it’s just a facepalm
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Third week of February I am planning on Buds Creek and Tomahawk and will be a first for me as well. We've both budgeted $500 for the eek including rooms and fuel and I think we'll be fine
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Fuel is pretty self explanatory - determine the trip miles, vehicle mpg, and amount of people + your bikes consumption. Riding fees are easy to determine. Lodging - I’d say 75-85/night for a cheap hotel or 100-135 for a nice (recommended) hotel, and then divide by the amount of people. Food and drinks etc are variable.
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Depending the size of the camper there may be $500 in gas right there.

Like above check riding fees. Find somewhere to stay in the rv free.

I’d say $100/day for riding fees food and something to do.
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I was planning on heading to nc with my toy hauler from N.Y. but guessing close to $600 just for gas towing
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Coughlin639 wrote:
Third week of February I am planning on Buds Creek and Tomahawk and will be a first for me as well. We've both budgeted $500 for...
Third week of February I am planning on Buds Creek and Tomahawk and will be a first for me as well. We've both budgeted $500 for the eek including rooms and fuel and I think we'll be fine
Two great tracks!
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Since getting into RVing my wife bought into Thousand Trails for a 1 year membership at $1000 to test it out. There are many different plans going up to a buy in of $8000 One negative is they are mainly in ocean lining states.

We are going to Florida a couple days before Christmas and staying in Thousand Trails RV parks starting in Vero Beach FL and the Mesa track is 2-3 miles from it. We will be staying at 2 other parks and riding at Sand Lot and Croom and staying at Thousand Trails RV parks the whole time for 2-3 weeks.

Thousand trails can be very complicated where you have to move around from park but this 1 trip alone pays for the rest of the year.
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If you can make it out to 3 Palms just North of Houston you won't be disappointed.
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Im from PA and been looking and posting trying to find a nice house where I can rent a room and space for two bikes in the garage all winter. No luck. Been looking in Dallas and Socal. Have a few bucks so thats not the problem just cant find anything thru zillow and Facebook. Not sure what to do.
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Bring lots of singles!

If you make it to FL the tolls roads get pricy fast.
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bigk218 wrote:
Bring lots of singles!

If you make it to FL the tolls roads get pricy fast.
Fl. aint' got nothin' on Jersey when it comes to tolls!
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bigk218 wrote:
Bring lots of singles!

If you make it to FL the tolls roads get pricy fast.
Vet57 wrote:
Fl. aint' got nothin' on Jersey when it comes to tolls!
Really? What exit? Woohoo

In Jersey don’t bother with singles you need $10s $20s and $50s and that’s for a truck now tack on a trailer!
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bigk218 wrote:
Bring lots of singles!

If you make it to FL the tolls roads get pricy fast.
Vet57 wrote:
Fl. aint' got nothin' on Jersey when it comes to tolls!
lumpy790 wrote:
Really? What exit? Woohoo

In Jersey don’t bother with singles you need $10s $20s and $50s and that’s for a truck now tack on a trailer!
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bigk218 wrote:
Bring lots of singles!

If you make it to FL the tolls roads get pricy fast.
Vet57 wrote:
Fl. aint' got nothin' on Jersey when it comes to tolls!
Haha 80 west is the only road you need in jersey Wink
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is tomahawk and budds creek the closest tracks to get to from NJ that are worth the trip for some late december riding out of state?
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Both good tracks. You can get Hookups at Tomahawk if you call or reach out. They’re usually only open Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday though. Budds is open everyday weather depending. Doubt you’ll have to pay much for camping if you stay at either track. If I were you, I’d keep going south to like JWTF. It’s getting cold around here. Weinerts is like $20 to ride and maybe like $30 a night for water and electric hookup. Dump station on site too. You’re 20min from the Outter Banks so plenty of places to eat and all that. Plus West Craven is 30 minutes away, can rain all night and the track will still be perfect the next day.
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I"m headed to Florida to do some Florida trail riders races this winter and i"m thinking about just staying in a campground. If you have a camper you can find a nice campground and just leave your camper. For the guys from new England that dont want to go all the way to Florida ,Lake Sugartree is a nice place. They have hookups and Ryan takes great care of the track.
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lumpy790 wrote:
Since getting into RVing my wife bought into Thousand Trails for a 1 year membership at $1000 to test it out. There are many different plans...
Since getting into RVing my wife bought into Thousand Trails for a 1 year membership at $1000 to test it out. There are many different plans going up to a buy in of $8000 One negative is they are mainly in ocean lining states.

We are going to Florida a couple days before Christmas and staying in Thousand Trails RV parks starting in Vero Beach FL and the Mesa track is 2-3 miles from it. We will be staying at 2 other parks and riding at Sand Lot and Croom and staying at Thousand Trails RV parks the whole time for 2-3 weeks.

Thousand trails can be very complicated where you have to move around from park but this 1 trip alone pays for the rest of the year.
We have one in our county here in Tennessee. It used to be NACO, but Thousand Trails bought them out.
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holditwideee421 wrote:
Planning to go down with a camper; approximately how much did you guys spend down there so I can budget?
You might check with the track in Waldo Florida. We camped and rode there for a week.
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lumpy790 wrote:
Since getting into RVing my wife bought into Thousand Trails for a 1 year membership at $1000 to test it out. There are many different plans...
Since getting into RVing my wife bought into Thousand Trails for a 1 year membership at $1000 to test it out. There are many different plans going up to a buy in of $8000 One negative is they are mainly in ocean lining states.

We are going to Florida a couple days before Christmas and staying in Thousand Trails RV parks starting in Vero Beach FL and the Mesa track is 2-3 miles from it. We will be staying at 2 other parks and riding at Sand Lot and Croom and staying at Thousand Trails RV parks the whole time for 2-3 weeks.

Thousand trails can be very complicated where you have to move around from park but this 1 trip alone pays for the rest of the year.
mx317 wrote:
We have one in our county here in Tennessee. It used to be NACO, but Thousand Trails bought them out.
Stopped by the Vero beach thousand trails last week and it looks good and even Has a dog part there

This is the track right by it. Can’t wait to ride there!



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Looby321 wrote:
I’m from NY as well, grew up in Vernon (near you). Went to Tomahawk in WV one year. Including gas and the room, the 4 of...
I’m from NY as well, grew up in Vernon (near you). Went to Tomahawk in WV one year. Including gas and the room, the 4 of us brought $500 each and we were fine. I don’t really know what it would cost if I was going alone. But as the guy above me said, don’t leave a damn thing unsecured, people are assholes.
holditwideee421 wrote:
From rome, wanted to go down to Club MX with just me and a friend. Should $500 each be enough to stay for around a week...
From rome, wanted to go down to Club MX with just me and a friend. Should $500 each be enough to stay for around a week would ya say?
Double check, but pretty sure Clubmx practice track is only open on weekends. JWTF and West Craven in North Carolina are both open 7 days a week and are only about 45 minutes apart.

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