First draft of the 2018 ORV / IRV2 Cook Forest State park Rally Schedule
~ Thursday 7:00pm ~ How about a fireside meet and greet. I'll volunteer to have it at my site (Site #129). Very informal chance to place names or should I say (tag names) to people & faces. How about 7:00. I'll have a nice fire going and we can relax to the backdrop of the big trees. And I'll tell ya a few "bear stories". Bring a chair, bring a beverage and a snack....
~ Friday 8:00-10am ~ Coffee & muffins (I would like to see if there is someone to host this event) We can bring a pot of coffee over. Might be a good time to ask your Wagon Master about things to see in the area such as: The Forest Cathedral, hiking options, Seneca Point Lookout / Fire tower, MacBeth's General Store, Blackbird Distillery, Kinzua Bridge Sky Walk, Clarion River tubing, kayaking and swimming options, Farmers Inn (mini golf, driving range, gift store, bulk store and petting zoo).
~ Friday 5:00 ~ Dinner meet up at
The Farmers Inn (Sigel PA.) 9.2 miles away. **( allow at least 15 minutes drive time ) ** Since they don't take reservations, we will meet at the Farmer's Inn at 5:00. As soon as we get an official head count I'll tell the hostess we are ready. I have communicated with the owner and will call Friday to give them a heads up on our party size, so they have a heads up on our approximate size. (25-30?)
~ Saturday ~ Pot-luck Time ? Need a host campsite for our pot-luck. Any Takers??? As with our past IRV2 mini rally's, our pot-lucks were well attended. Always a good variety of eats. Usually we would have a campfire going for anyone needing to grill something.
Below are some random thoughts:
~ I do have some ORV provided "Door Prizes" I guess I'll call them that. I do have enough for each family to have at least one. Not going to say what it is yet...When do you think we should hand them out?
~ With the scheduled campsite gatherings, does it put a inconvenience on anyone who has a pet. We have to remember as with my Thursday evening Meet & Greet" it will be in the
non-pet section.
~ Just a reminder. It has been 3 years since we were at Cook Forest State Park. Never had seen any issues in my 25+ years going here or any PA. state park with regards to alcohol as long at you didn't get stupid, except last time (2015). Must have been a new policy for this park or a new head ranger. He was very diligent in looking for people openly consuming beer or wine. Fact the family across from us was asked to leave...The lady & man next to us were asked to put their dinner wine away.
~ For anyone who is not a ORV owner, I will have a supply of the latest ORV brochures: Black Rock, Creekside, Timber Ridge, Blackstone and Glacier Peak.
~ Someone a few months back asked if we would like to post a few banners for the rally. They were volenteering to make up a few banners to place one at the beginning of our loop / loops. Maybe something on route 36 just before the entrance of the state park. Who was that?
~ just as a reminder. The "sign" for the campground entrance is rather small. I believe it reads "Ridge Campground". The campground is referred to as the ridge campground. If your coming in from the west on Route 36 and happen to "miss" the entrance, continue to the bottom of the hill and turn around at the MacBeth's general store. Route 36 is a nice secondary road, good width and re-payed about 4-5 years ago.
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