1. Always seek landowner's permission before operating your ATV.
2. Respect private property you have permission to
operate on and operate your ATV so as not to
cause damage to the property.
3. Become a member of a local ATV club. If
there
is not a club in your area, help in the forming of
one.
4. Take an ATV education course and then become
a certified instructor so that you can help pass the
education along to others. For a listing near you
click here.
5. Become involved and help in the creation of trails.
Seeking and receiving landowner permission
before a trail is developed is a must
6. Stay on designated trails at all times. Straying
from the trail can jeopardize landowner
permission for the trail in the future.
7. Avoid operating an ATV when conditions
are such that excessive damage will be done which in
turn may lead to erosion problems (Example: mud
season Spring and Fall).
Don'ts:
1. Do not
operate an ATV on a maintained snowmobile trail any time of the year
except when landowner permission has been given or it is a
designated ATV trail.
2. Do not operate an ATV on a private road without landowner permission.
3. Do not
operate an ATV along, or adjacent to, a railroad track or within the
right of way of a railroad. Abandoned railroad right of ways that
have had the tracks removed may be used if the use has been approved
by the landowner.
4. Do not
operate an ATV within 200 feet of any dwelling, hospital, nursing
home, convalescent home or church.
5. Do not
operate an ATV on any salt marsh, inter-tidal zone, marine sand
beach, sand dunes, cemetery or burial place, alpine tundra or
unfrozen freshwater bog or marsh.
6. Do not operate an ATV on any crop land or pasture land or tree plantations.
