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Planning a trip on March 16-18, we are staying at the RNR Cabin, the Gillintown trail head is near the cabin which I see it in the center of the trials. My questions are is it better to ride east or west from there, east will take me to bloody Skillet, that leads me to my second question, is there a place to get gas while on the trail? If anyone is riding that weekend let me know, would be nice to have a group ride, food I guess we will just bring our own. Also any other tips would be appreciated.

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I wish it could make it down there that weekend. If you stick specifically to the rail bed/trail you can ride West to Black Bear and Back in about a half day taking your time and hitting the two side roads. There are some off rail bed trails that are not official to ride but OK during certain parts of the season. Going East there is a climb on the connector that is a little tricky for the younger riders or if it is iced over. Bloody skillet almost takes a day to ride in itself so make sure you haul on the roads to allow time to check the place out. Maybe you can split the skillet in half between the 2 days. Because the SSRT portion is so open we average about 80-120 miles a day and the skillet side sees about 40 -60 miles a day at most including the connector but excluding the SSRT road portion. There is no legal places to grab gas, the best is to just have a fuel pack with you just in case. I would do a quick calc using that mileage and see how much gas your ATV would burn I usually fill up when we come back for lunch. Ludwigs has lunch and dinner right off the trail and is a neat place to stop.

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