Clayton and surrounding areas

[GONOVRIT]

How much wheeling is there and what else is there to do in the area? My wife and I are taking 2wks off this fall and are having a hard time deciding where to go. I've seen alot of pics from Clayton and I almost drool over them. Thanks.

 

[Travis]

Work out the details, I'm game.

 

[wngrog]

Clayton in the fall is increadible.

Clayton Lake State Park has new cabins. They are very nice and they are 5 miles south of town. You could spend a week in Clayton.

Green Acres 2-3 days.

South Trails (by the State Park) 1-2 days

Freillings Place (8 miles East) 1-2 days

YOu can hit Hot Springs on the way over

Poteau is between HS and Clayton.

Disney is about 4 hours north of Clayton. A day there at best.

Well worth the trip over. Lots of great fishing and hiking as well. Not much else to do there, but if you like the outdorrs, Clayton is the place.

 

[BamaTJ]

Clayton Rocks, we are going back this year to plan to wheel 3-4 days this go around. I have only wheeled Green Acres but I hope to see the other nearby places this trip. Definately kill a week there, with the other areas close by two weeks is no problem

 

[GONOVRIT]

Work out the details, I'm game.

Fo' sho

Any place in Texas worh working into a trip from OK that isn't another 600miles away?

 

[bentandtwisted]

Stay home you wont like it there It is a great place to play for a few days.

 

[wngrog]

Fo' sho

Any place in Texas worh working into a trip from OK that isn't another 600miles away?

Not really. Only Gilmer and it would be very anti-climatic after OK and AR.

 

[muchado]

Clayton is a must! It's awesome but make sure you're not in a big group... 3-5 rigs MAX or the day will take forevver.

 

[Bones]

Ben hated it, said he'd never go back

 

[InDaShop]

Ben hated it, said he'd never go back

No surprise there, No gearing. Heath hated it, no gearing. No finess driving skills. They are point and shoot drivers. Ask Paul how the 'turd like the technical climbing?

**** I prolly dont have enough gearing Altas 3.8 and 4.88s is kinda high for crawling.

I literally have dreams about Clayton, its a dream for technical wheeling. Add some water on Green Mamba and it gets even more interesting.
I really really want to go back, just dont see it until after the race season.

 

[muchado]

My yoter will be purrrfect for clayton 2.28+4.7 doubler more like 4.7 and 2nd gear all day though I'd imagine

When I was in clayton I was riding with Joe Androsik in his CJ7 on 60/14b, 42IROks and a healthy lt1 w/medium gearing(stak 3 speed not sure of ratios) and he did great. After Clayon tho he moved up to 44"TSL's... and an LS6?? somethin like that. I forget but he's got some mega $$ turnkey motor in his shop.

 

[BamaTJ]

Clayton requires a good gear ratio for sure and an auto helps also. I love the place, wish I could live there and wheel all the time.

 

[blacksheep10]

ben and heath and I hated it because of the group we were behind. the tgtw guys (no offense to them) like to put it in 100:1 and let it look for traction. like let each lug on the tire plop plop on the ledge for hours. 1 trail took all day. no thanks. We like running trails, but we like to RUN them, no see who can go the slowest. I have no problem with spotting somone up some slow stuff, its fun to run rocks. every now and then, lose traction, light them up, get up it and go back to being careful. I will go back, but it will be with a group of 3 or so like minded wheelers.

 

[DavidsCJ7]

Clayton requires a good gear ratio for sure and an auto helps also. I love the place, wish I could live there and wheel all the time.

Just pack up and move Matt. I'm sure Jennifer would be up for it. You could rent a room from these folks....

 

[muchado]

ben and heath and I hated it because of the group we were behind. the tgtw guys (no offense to them) like to put it in 100:1 and let it look for traction. like let each lug on the tire plop plop on the ledge for hours. 1 trail took all day. no thanks. We like running trails, but we like to RUN them, no see who can go the slowest. I have no problem with spotting somone up some slow stuff, its fun to run rocks. every now and then, lose traction, light them up, get up it and go back to being careful. I will go back, but it will be with a group of 3 or so like minded wheelers.

I was in a good group.. 42" + V8 buggy or almost buggy jeeps... moved thru a ton of ground at green acres in 1 day. Had our group been any bigger I woulda been feelin the pain but it was 5 which I'd say is MAX for a clayton ride.

 

[InDaShop]

The Clayton trip WE all made was stupid. We should have split groups right out the gate. Sent 5 rigs every direction and met at lunch on top.
We wheeled the next day and covered so much damn ground it was insane. I love Clayton, and the TGTW guys rehooked me on wheeling. I'll always be more throttle than their style but they get through it and spend time drinking not wrenching or fixing ripped tires. What fun is that

 

[bigsilly]

With our group of 5 we rode every trail at Green Acres in 2 days. If we had really wanted to I think we could have possibly pulled it off in one day. But we took our time, took some breaks to shoot the ****, and did not get in a real big hurry.

 

[Travis]

When Josh and I come out there, we will definitely be accepting of a volunteer to show us around. Beer is on one of us.

 

[muchado]

First trail we ran was 3 stage, in the rain... I was a passenger and it was beer 30... That was an awesome night and great way to kickoff our weekend

 

[GONOVRIT]

We like running trails, but we like to RUN them, not see who can go the slowest. I have no problem with spotting somone up some slow stuff, its fun to run rocks. every now and then, lose traction, light them up, get up it and go back to being careful.

Thats us man, crawl it, flog it, keep on rollin. And like Travis said a guide will be most welcome, I keep a 150qt cooler respectively named Big Whitey on my truck to help relax after a long day on the trail I hope I'll be alright with 42's,5.44@ the stack,5.38s in the axles, w/an auto behind a healty LT1? As of now I'm looking at heading down Sept. 26th. I assume these places are wheelable during the wk as well?
Have diesel(and spare parts) Will travel.