A Trip to the Track

On the weekend of May 14, 2010 I went for my first motocross experience at Ogemaw Sport and Trail center in Mid-Michigan. I went to check the track and trails out with my friend Chad and several of his friends. Our weekend revolved around this trip. Ogemaw Sport and Trail center consists of a main track, intermediate track, kids track, and 120 acres of private land filled with trails and hill climbs. On top of that OSTC has easy access to hundreds of miles of state trails. In order to ride here you must have a waiver filled out, parent signature if necessary, and seal. Along with that it is twenty dollars for your first time, anytime after that for the year is fifteen dollars. OSTC also has camping reservations if you would like to stay there. My experience consisted mainly of riding the motocross track. I have always enjoyed riding tracks and in fact have had my own full track at my house for most my life. So for me, I guess I found that the main motocross track was rather easy for someone with my experience. However the terrain was sandy and some jumps required giving the bike all it had. Even though I found the track to be easy, it was fun and well worth the money. The track contained a variety of jumps whether they were step ups, doubles, triples, ski jumps, etc., meaning there was enough there to wear a person out. It probably only took me five laps before I got arm pump to the point of having to stop. But once I was worn out on the track it was time to cool down on the trails. So we would take off a begin a journey around the trails among OSTC which seemingly were narrow and required speed and agility. We did find several nice hill climbs while explain the land. One in which Chad tried climbing was beyond 90 degrees upward, he didn’t quite make it. After that hill climb stop were proceeded around the winding trails all the way back to the intermediate track. This track consists of a combination of small table top jumps, tight sandy corners, trees, and whoops. After ripping around the trails and intermediate track we once again headed back to the main track. We probably road on and off the track for another 4 hours or so before we thought about leaving. When we finally stopped for a break, Chad decided he was going to check out the freestyle section they had set up with two metal jumps. This was quite entertaining to watch considering only Chad and one of the owners were the only ones to ride this section. Chad launched off these seventy foot doubles approximately 35 foot in the air from ground level which wore me out watching as I was already tired. One thing that was nice about the whole experience was that there wasn’t a whole lot of traffic at the track or in the trails. However, this place can get packed! One weekend included a visit from professional dirt bike rider Travis Pastrana. I would definitely recommend this power sport center to anybody that has a passion for riding.