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Safe ORV and snowmobile riding
Safe ORV and snowmobile riding
Speed is a major contributing factor for snowmobile and ORV accidents, serious injuries and death.
Follow these important safety tips:
All riders:
- Ride at a safe speed.
- Be aware of two-way traffic and "Ride Right" by keeping on the right side of the trail.
- Ride sober.
- Always wear a helmet.
- Operate within the limits of your ORV/snowmobile and yourself.
- When approaching an intersection, come to a complete stop, raise off the seat and look both ways for traffic.
- Stay on the trail and be prepared to adjust for changing environmental conditions.
- Create a ride plan (times, locations you and check-in points) and share it with others.
- If you stop on the trail, use designated stop areas and remove your helmet. Never stop side-by-side, in the middle, at the crest of a hill, on a corner or in the intersection of a trail.
- Always yield to uphill motorized traffic. Uphill traffic may have difficulty starting again if stopped.
- If you see nonmotorized trail users coming from the opposite direction, pull over and yield the right-of-way.
ORV riders
- Keep lights on when riding.
- Only transport a passenger when the ORV has been manufactured to carry a passenger.
- During snowmobile season it is preferred that ORV riders use trails/roads not open to snowmobiles.
Snowmobilers
- Anticipate and yield to groomers.
- Don’t use modified exhausts.
- Share the trail. Some designated snowmobile trails are also open to ORVs and other (nonmotorized) users.