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Pre-Ride
Reconnaissance |
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TCCRA
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Pre-Race
Recon of Jacksboro, Texas |
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Date: 22 AUG 04 |
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TCCRA
Race Schedule here.
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Click
the map below to be taken to a Mapquest map to the
track. Don't forget that you can zoom in,
print or whatever to get you there. |
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Check
the Long range local Weather from AccuWeather by clicking
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Then Check
Weather.com radar by clicking the radar map below.
Jacksboro is in the center of the county to the left of
Decatur.
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Here is a picture of
the camp area and the MX track |
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And of course a
GPS map of the track area. Download it print it and take it
with you. All markings are approximate.
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Track
length & notes: |
First
off, this is last year's report. My bad. I just didn't
have time to get out there this last weekend...I was
motoring around on the world's biggest dirtbike, the BMW
R1200GS...thanks to a new friend, Joel Watson.
Anyway,
this property is fairly predictable so the report from
last year should be OK for directions and hotels and so
on.
8.59 Miles for the main track,
About 1.7 for the Pee Wee track
Amateurs ride
first,
Great catering by Two Rivers...I think |
| Directions |
Like Jean,
& some of the other tracks, first ya gotta get to
Jacksboro. From The northern parts of the metroplex,
try 35 north to Denton, then 380 west, of course you could
take 114 west to Bridgeport, then 380 west. I
understand that the 287 / 81 north thing works out
well to get up to 380. As does 199 out of Ft Worth.
Once 380 gets close to Jacksboro, ya gotta make a little
right hand jog ( 380 and 281 share the asphalt for a
couple of miles into the town ) then straight on through
town, onto 281 / 114 north / west. After about seven
miles north of town, 114 splits off toward the left, that
is north west, where you'll continue on to AC Lane.
It's on your left just shortly after the 114 split...about
a hundred yards. Then left on AC Lane and the track is
about .75 miles down that road. Caution, the track
crosses this road ( AC Lane ) several times, be careful!!
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| Description |
Flat.
Hard. Fast. Very well marked, with an MX track in it
Marty Cathey the promoter,
has made us a fantastic track this year! No longer do we
go under the bridge, no longer do we have to camp on the
opposite side of the road from the track. What we
have instead is eight and a half miles of high speed woods
riding that you can actually race on. Bring your big gears
and hard terrain tires!! That is to say that there is no
part of this entire venue that isn't wide enough to pass
on!! The start is in the southwest corner of the
camping area, through a gate, then right, off
into the woods. There about twenty yards of sand at one
spot, and there's a rock out there in another spot. But
again it's wide enough to be plenty safe. After 10 minutes of corner to corner drag racing, the track brings
you to a MX track, that once again, looks wide, safe, and
fun. The biggest problem I saw with this place was the
dust, although it's expected to rain so maybe it wont be too bad. Otherwise I
see nothing that would prevent everyone from the minis to
the Pros from having a good time. It's gonna be fun.
The Pee Wee track is the
same as last year for the most part, and looks to be one of the most fun
the little guys will have all year...just like last year. It's up and down a
fairly gentle sloping hill and is also fairly wide without
too much sand or rocks to throw the kids down. It's a
pretty track though, well marked and shaded. Dad will
certainly run outta breath chasing the kids on this one
though.
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| Camping |
The Camp area is nice and grassy but go buy
ant killer now. Bring it with you. Please don't pour
gasoline on the ants, if you do, and I see you, I will
call the EPA myself. But, protect yourselves, there
are lots of ants out here, watch where you step. They will
eat your children. The Camp area is pretty flat and
in a huge wheat field ( that's why you can't pour gas on
the ants ) it's fenced on all sides with the main track
going past on two sides and the Pee Wee track on a third
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| Spectator
Rating |
The
entire property has dirt roads that go here & there so
getting out on the four wheeler, to do some watching or
photography is generally not a problem The track
cuts across the main road several times so please be
careful and please be responsible for the kiddos ! |
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| Hotels |
There
are a couple of small hotels in Jacksboro,
Butterfield
Depot Motel, 544 N Main St, Jacksboro, TX 76458,
(940-567-5567)
Fort Richardson Motel, 624 S Main St, Jacksboro, TX 76458,
(940-567-5507)
Jacksboro Inn, 704 S Main St, Jacksboro, TX 76458,
(940-567-3751)
I've
stayed at the Butterfield and the Jacksboro Inn, both are
OK places.
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| Hours of
Operation |
This
is Marty's private land, so hours are gonna be just the race
weekend. He says he'll be open at five o'clock on Friday
evening. |
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