Reasons to join a club

1. Belonging to a snowmobile club gives you a social outlet for your favorite hobby. You can attend club rides, go to club meetings, take part in club fund-raisers or take trips to far away places. Belonging to a club gives you a good opportunity to ride with different people, experience different areas and hang out with people who have similar interest. 

    

2. Snowmobile clubs gain land access to create snowmobile trails.  Without the landowners permission no trails would cross private property and that means the sport as we know it would not exist. All this takes time, effort and money.

    

3. Snowmobile clubs clear and create trails. After the land access is received, somebody has to go out and clear away the brush, cut down limbs, haul out the trash, and smooth out the base of the trail. They also must build bridges over creeks, rivers and low spots, and that takes a lot of work and money. This is all done by volunteers who truly love the sport. Without these hidden heroes, either the trails would not get cleared, bridges would not get built, and most trails would close.

    

4. In most areas, members of the snowmobile clubs groom trails. These are more of the hidden heroes who spend their time in a slow moving groomer, tending to the trails and making them as smooth as they are.

    

5. While we’re on the subject of trails, who do you think puts up all the signs on the trails? If you said "snowmobile clubs" your right!

    

6. Belonging to a club makes for better, safer snowmobiling. Surveys and accident statistics have shown that snowmobile club members have a much lower accident rate than non-club members. Why? Because club members tend to stress safety and they are aware of safe riding.

    

7. When funding is needed to pay for groomers or trail development, do you know where that money comes from? Even though people spend $25 or $35 to join a club, in most states the money comes from snomobile registrations and gas tax rebates. Our sport gets this money as it is an organized sport. If the state snowmobiling association can talk about it’s 1,000’s of members for example, and then those members call their local lawmakers and ask for support, the bill has a much better chance of getting funded. It’s also the snowmobile clubs and state associations that fight the battles to open public lands to snowmobilers and there is a strength in numbers. Become one of those numbers.

    

8. Belonging to a snowmobile club makes you part of the solution instead of a part of the problem. If you think the snowmobile trails should be groomed more often, or a trail is poorly marked or a place is dangerous, get involved. Most snowmobile clubs seek fresh opinions and want more feedback from users.

    

9. The #1 reason to join a snowmobile club is because it’s the right thing to do! The costs are minimal, the benefits are nice and it’s your responsibility to support the sport.