Moccasin Island Conservation Area. To Nowhere and Back Again.

Moccasin Island - Fat, Flat, and Splat 

The tires are fat.  The land is flat.  Cows - no cars - are where it's at!

Six riders.  60 degrees.  Twenty two miles.

 

One stop to gaze at the cows gazing at us.  A good bit of cow splat ends up in the tread.  All in a winter day's ride.

Here on the coast, aside from the currently-closed Malabar Dikes, Moccasin Island Conservation Area is the only off road we can conjure up!  It's dirt and double track, and the cows use it too, but it's close, and it's what we got.  Popeye and I usually drive over to the Little Big Econ State Forest to ride off road, but once a year the old gang can be gotten together for a local ride-between-the-holidays. 

The tract is mostly open, but some old oak hammocks on the water make the south end worth the ride.  The north end?  When you just plain want some miles under your wheels, it goes further than we have ever had time to explore! 

Just be prepared to wash your tires off when you get home.  And your frame, and your water bottle, and the backside of your shorts, and your shirt, and your helmet... 

Then make it all better by going for enchiladas and Dos Equis after!