Lack of SXS Trails

There is a lack of places to ride side-by-side vehicles legally in the speaker's area. There are numerous dirt bike and private tracks, as well as snowmobile trails, but laws prohibit the use of ATVs and side-by-sides on these trails. Other states have designated trail systems for these vehicles, which generate income for towns and counties. The speaker suggests that upstate New York should create a similar trail system, which would provide a place to ride and generate income. Currently, side-by-sides cannot be registered in New York, but the speaker believes that if they were, the registration fees could be used to create the trail system. This is a problem that needs to be addressed for the off-road community and potential side-by-side buyers in the area. I'm here to talk about the lack of places to ride side-by-side in my area. There's numerous dirt bike tracks, private tracks around my area and within 30 to 45 minute drive, hundreds and hundreds of miles of snowmobile trails that stretch the whole length of the state and actually connect to other states and parts of Canada. But being, you know, the off-road community and side-by-sides just becoming more and more popular this day and age, there's just no place to ride legally, if you will. There's laws prohibiting the use of ATVs and side-by-sides on snowmobile trails and I really feel like there needs to be more places in this area for these machines to operate in a safe legal manner. I do know there's other states like Maine, Vermont, even West Virginia that have trail systems specifically designated for ATVs and specifically side-by-sides. One of the main well-known from around the whole country is the Hatfield and McCoy Trail System down in West Virginia. That stretches over seven different counties with about five or six different trail systems within the main overall trail system being Hatfield and McCoy. That generates so much income to those towns that fall within those counties that these trail systems reside and it really is a scene for people from all over the country to travel to and take advantage of the area, the surroundings, the beauty and nature. If something like that was generated up here in upstate New York, not only would it give these people, myself being a side-by-side owner, a place to ride these things and actually use them to their full potential, but it would also generate income for these towns and counties that the trail systems are in. There's already trail systems set up for snowmobiles and clubs and everything like that and the money from the registration that snowmobile owners are required to do to their machines each year go back to help groom and take care of the trail system so it's a nice smooth safe ride and then give these snowmobile owners a place to ride. The same should be done for side-by-sides. Like I said, just over the last two, three years, side-by-sides have become really, really popular and have increased, I believe, over 300% in popularity and the purchase of these things. Now in upstate New York, because every side-by-side weighs over a thousand pounds, they can't be registered. However, I feel like if we, you know, set up a law to where side-by-sides can be registered, then the money that goes from the registration can be utilized to create this trail system just as snowmobiles do. It's a problem. The audience I'm trying to reach is obviously the off-road community or people that, you know, are considering buying a side-by-side. This is things they need to know before purchasing such a machine that there really aren't any places around this area unless you want to travel to another state to use them. Mostly, you know, unless you have a few acres of land yourself where you're just plowing your driveway in the winter but this is a problem that needs to be fixed that, you know, it'd be great if we can create, you know, a trail system just like I said, you know, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee. I mean, there's so many states and I think New York needs to adapt this for real.