yeah been at work here since 530 this morning...it is freaken damn cold!!!

 

actually the iron (heard from duluthjk) range is opening a new park..what he was saying was that it was a bit harder then iron range..unspoil soil..natural...but yeah lets see if he comes on and put some insight in this.
also i think your right next to appleton (mn) offroad park too. might be about 30 or 40 mins away...other then that welcome to the minnesota page and yes of course we will have a meet and greet this summer for sure...infact we have one coming up on the 28th..
your more then welcome to come join..

 

not yet...i guess i'm not quite old and creaky enough to warrant that purchase we're all used to it, but we've been pretty spoiled so far this winter weather-wise. about a week and a half ago it was 50 degrees! usually we have feet of snow on the ground by now and presently we've only had inches. quite the swing from the last couple of winters in the snow dept.

 

The only crappy part of the iron range is the ore that stains everything. I did a lot of trail riding up there when I lived in Northern Minn in the Late 90's before there was a park. What I experienced the engine got permentenly stained from the combo of wet iron ore and hot motor baking it on.
Other than that it's fun and lots of options to do.
Compared to AZ nah you won't be impressed. I lived in Mesa for awhile and once a person gets spoiled I rather travel a distance to have what you got in AZ.

 

So I got a little crazy with the sawzall this AM




Minus one rear cross member

 

Are you insane? lol


I lived in Phoenix for 3 years back in the late '80's. The winter's here are damn cold, but the summers are awesome (no 110+ heat).

We have nowhere near as many places to wheel as the southwest, but the terrain isn't 100% brown sand either heh.

 

Mined said 40 when I got in it this morning...then I backed out of the garage...

 

Any of our MN folks going to the easter Jeep Safari in Moab this year?

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...2-Moab-EJS-run.

I guess there's some great lakes folks going. Anybody here been there? I'm thinking of going.

 

I'd like to go, my friend who lives in Colorado was just asking me if I was coming out!!

 

Welcome to my world. Nice to know I am not the only one.

I was born and raised in Southern Mass, then moved to Tempe to attend Arizona State. Go Sundevils
Then I moved to North Scottsdale and worked for Discount Tire Corporate for a few years. That is where I my jeep obsession began.

The trails out here are nothing like AZ but its always fun to see what your jeep can do in different types of terrain.
There definitely aren't as many trailer queens out here either. The salt sure does a number on them.

One benefit about MN is that Burnsville Offroad is only minutes away from Shakopee if you want to do a hemi swap.