All-around ATV's  
  Do it in the dirt on all four tires!  
  A quad (four wheeled all terrain vehicle) combines the fun and excitement of off-road motorcycle riding with the comfort and stability of four wheeling.

ATV Expeditions

  
  Beverly Dunes
  Located along Lower Crab Creek in Eastern Washington, the Beverly Dunes are a unique natural phenomenon. Long rolling sand dunes bordered by mountains on one side and irrigated farms on the other, the dunes provide a great ATV environment that attracts off-road recreational vehicles from miles around.  
 
Beverly Dunes Get to the dunes early, the Eastern Washington sun is hot! Bring your own water and a tarp for cover from the sun. There is a parking lot for campers and trailers. Also, the area can get pretty crowded. Vehicles range from quads to dune buggies to motorcycles.
Riding at the dunes takes a lot of concentration. You're never quite sure of what may be on the other side of a dune. There was a guy jumping a dune on a Banchee and just sailing out into the air. Be sure not to ride into someones landing zone! To get to Beverly Dunes Start on State Route 243 at Beverly. Go East on Crab Creek Road for 2 miles. Beverly Dunes
  Ahtanum
  Ahtanum Multiple Use Area
Ahtanum Meadows and Ahtanum Camp. Start in Yakima, go South on Interstate 82 for 2.0 miles to Union Gap. Go West on Ahtanum Road to Tampico. Go West on A-2000 Road(Middle Fork) for 9.5 miles. Ahtanum Meadows located on left and Ahtanum Camp on right.		  
 
An almost unlimited capacity to get lost in, Ahtanum provides great views of the Cascades on one side and eastern state desert on the other , also access roads into the Wenatchee National Forest Jayson the Quad Warrior
The multiple use area is for snowmobiles in the winter and ORV/ATV in the spring and summer. It's very dry, bring a spare air filter!
Jayson the Quad Warrior
Camps and Trails
Tree Phones A-2000 Road Clover Flats A-2000 Road
Eagle Nest Vista Grey Rock Trailhead
Snow Cabin (A-3000) Green Lake 9-3800 Road
Bird Creek K-4000 Road Buck Creek N-1000 Road
 
 
  Thorson Peak
  The Mt Skokomish Wilderness bordering the Hamma Hamma River provides miles of state forest roads to explore. In the early spring the roads are covered in snow even in the lower elevations, limiting access to hikers or ORVs. The snowy roads are dangerous and exhausting, the quads constantly bogging down in the deep, soft snow.  
 
Thorson Peak When adventuring in hazardous areas, it is advisable to travel with seasoned outdoorsmen. Rac'in Jayson, Big Matt and Maddog Mike
Outlaws
 
  Westport Beach
  Westport lies on the Washington coast on the southern side of Grays Harbor. The town of Westport is a tourist attraction and also host charter fishing trips across the sandbar into the Pacific Ocean. The beach is open to vehicles in the winter and spring months and provides a fun and challenging ATV experience.
Beach at Westport One of the challenges is to keep from running over the beach-walkers! Also, avoiding cars and other recreational vehicles.
I wiped out big-time trying to make a sharp turn while zooming through the surf!
 
 
 
 
  Tahuya State Forest
  Tahuya State Forest is a multiple-use recreation area near Belfair. The trails support horseback-riding, mountain-biking, motorcycles and ATV's. While the terrain is flatter than Green Mountain, the area is much larger and the trails more challenging. The Four-wheel drive trail across from Elfendal Pass was the course used by Road and Track Magazine to rate sport utility vehicles last year. It is a very rough trail for vehicles, as I found out when I rode my quad into a water-filled rut and submerged it completely!  
  My Mule

Getting back from the Four wheel drive trail at the staging area.

The Tahuya River trail is my favorite, with lots of area and plenty of mud, and some great spots to stop and give the back-side a break.

  
  Green Mountain
  Close to home and good trails and roads for riding, Green Mountain rates high on the list of places to go quad riding. Starting at the Wildcat Lake trailhead up to the Vista at the top, the trails are suitable for a casual slow paced hike, or an engine-screaming, hair-raising run up the mountain. In the winter, when we happen to get some snow accumulation, quading in the snow at Green Mountain is a fun and challenging experience. The roads and trails are blanketed with snow, and the views from the look-out points are awesome!  
  Serves as a snowmobile also!

There are places on Green that are not so hospitable to ATV's. Climbing the Buckhorn trail is difficult at best!

  
 
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