Black Mountain Off-Road Adventure Area (Harlan, Ky) Fee Syst

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:08 pm

Harlan County Outdoor Recreation Board Authority, Inc.

P.O. Box 489

Harlan, KY 40831

Phone: 606-573-4495

Fax: 606-573-9485

January 16, 2009

To All Visitors:

It is the goal of the Harlan County Outdoor Recreation Board Authority to provide our visitors with the best possible off-road destination in Eastern Kentucky. While the Black Mountain Off-Road Adventure Area has many local supporters who help make it what it is, necessary funds are vital for its growth and development.

A permit fee system has been enacted to ride on Black Mountain Off-Road Adventure Area. This permit system will grant the funds necessary for maintenance of the park, security, enhancement of existing trails, fund new trails and necessary projects for the improvement of the park.

Permits can be purchased yearly or monthly and are sold per vehicle. A yearly pass can be purchased at $35.00 or a 31 day pass can be purchased for $20.00 per vehicle.

Owners of multiple vehicles can purchase one pass for up to three vehicles. All the vehicles will be listed in our database. However, the purchaser will only be allowed one vehicle on the park at a time. The permit will be changed to the vehicle in use for that day. The yearly permit will be at cost of $40.00 or the 31 day permit can be purchased at a cost of $25.00. The permit could not be permanently fixed to any vehicle since only one permit would be given.

Family permits will also be available for purchase. These permits are for owners of several vehicles that would use more than one vehicle on the park at a time. This would be considered a family situation. Each vehicle would receive a sticker and I.D. The cost of the first vehicle would be $35.00, the second would be $30.00, the third and all others would be $20.00. There will be no family permits for 31 days.

For more information on any of the permits listed above or to inquire when and where they will be available for purchase please contact the board secretary, Susan Haught at 606-573-4495 or you can email her at shaught@harlanonline.net.

Thank you for your support and for making Black Mountain Off-road Adventure Area among the top 10 off-road destinations in the U.S.

Sincerely,

Michael King

President

Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 348 Location: East TN

Can I buy the $40 permit and only put one vehicle on there now? I will probably buy something different in the next few months and would like to be able to add it then.

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:03 pm

I would say yes to that.

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:21 pm

Good post George

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:23 am

The board will also have small plastic placards for sale for $2.00. The permit sticker can be put on these and then attach the placard to your vehicle. The multi vehicle permits will have to have something like this to move the sticker from vehicle to vehicle.
A data base will be kept so if you loose or destroy a sticker it will be replaced with a new I.D. card issued and the old one voided out of the system. Likewise if you trade your vehicle, take off the sticker and change vehicles in the data base and keep wheeling. I would recommend everyone to buy the placard or make one of you own to ovoid messing up paint jobs, take it off if your wheeling somewhere else or just take it off and keep it in the dry when your not wheeling. If you buy it from the board we make a small profit from it and every cent helps.

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:14 pm

Do we have a process in place for obtaining these permits yet?

We're gonna have a lot of activities starting up with warmer weather right before us.

I'd like to go ahead and purchase mine and be ready. Folks over on Grace have been asking, too.

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:11 pm

The yearly permits are in and were still waiting on the 31 day permits. I.D. cards will be ready tommorow. We should be able to start selling by the middle of next week.

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:15 pm

cool

so who will sell first ken.

Joined: 13 Apr 2008 Posts: 192 Location: Gordon,Ky

where do we buy these?

Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 348 Location: East TN

How can we buy them without waiting until we get there?

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:14 am

We are trying to set up so you can buy them over the internet. There is an application that has to be filled out and signed. We are hoping to get it set up so that you can download the application, fill it out and send check with the application and the permit will be sent to you. Or call and ask for the application and it will be sent to you. We will also try to setup for events, or if you have several coming in the next few weeks we may be able to have someone meet you when you get here.

Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 1

so would i have to get the multi vehicle/family deal to be abletopark my tow rig at my campsite inside the park?

Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 348 Location: East TN

Any news on buying online before the big event next weekend?

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 4:00 pm

To answer the last two questions. We have been letting tow vehicles go to the campgrounds without buying a permit for them, if you only use it to tow to the campground. If you are wanting to go anywhere else in the park the multi-vehicle permit would be best to get.
We have not starting selling on line yet. They can be had at Buddies Chevron, the Harlan center, or on Friday and Sat. at the trailhead.