Some gang members hanging out at our camp site
Boyz gotta eat!
Brown Mtn is a USFS OHV area and Brushy is a Private area. Brown cost 5 bucks a day to ride and Brushy is 25 bucks. Both places have camping, Brown is free and brushy is 5 bucks a head to camp. Brown has restrooms, but that's it. You need to bring everything else with you. Brushy has restrooms and a shower, yes A single shower. Lastly, Brown IS NO ALCOHOL ON PREMISES. The Rangers will come and check your camp site and they write tickets, so you have been warned! They actually will look in coolers, so be careful if you camp there. We heard about a guy who was there Friday and Ranger made him pour out all of his beer and the quart of shine he had and wrote him a warning ticket. They don't play at Brown! Brushy is no worries, drink and party post ride!
We camped at Brown Thursday night and rode Friday. We moved into a hotel for Friday night after Brown Mtn and then camped at Brushy Sat night after we rode all day then drove home Sunday.
Okay, the riding at these 2 locations IS NOTHING LIKE EACH OTHER, other than both are in NC. Brown is a more sandy, limestone rock kinda place whereas Brushy is more like North Georgia, Clay and some loamy black stuff on the western half of the property. Brown was wet but traction was superb. You had bite anywhere regardless of tire choice. Brushy was wet and muddy and slick, but we had no problems (mostly) riding everything except for the one big hill climb going out towards the "Enduro" trail. Although one of our crew did change his tire to a knob from a gay tire, I mean trials tire at the lunch break---
Brushy has more trail and is easier to do loops and come back to camp for lunch or bike fix etc. whereas Brown is you go out and come back, no easy way to cut across once you get out to the north end of the trail system.
Both have 1 way Single track, so it is nice to be able to rail around and not have to worry. Brushy has ATV loops in the middle of the property and all of the single track is out on the perimeter of the property, so it is nice to drop down and ride the ATV to cut back to camp. It is NICE ATV TRAIL! Really like a ribbon with big banked turns you can rail around. It is not all clapped out like you would think, it was actually alot of fun to rip the ATV trail. We saw quite a few ATV's there in the parking lot, but never ran into one at all. In fact, we only ran into other dirt bikers once, Brushy is big and has alot to ride. You could easily ride 2 full days to ride all of it. Brown is about 34 miles of single track.
I shot some video of Brown trails so you can get a idea of what it is like. Lots of rock, but not real sharp edges:
http://vid1112.photobucket.com/albums/k ... cmqt9d.mp4
I will definitely go back. Considering it is only 6-7 hours away and you have ~100 miles (between both places) of real single track with nice elevation changes, cool hill climbs, nice roots and rocks to challenge you every now and then, it is pretty sweet. Brushy is adding a bunch of new trail, we rode some of it. Brushy is putting on a 100 mile (5 loops of 20 miles each) Extreme Enduro next October, so if you want a challenge, go ride that, cause 100 miles of Brushy would be a serious workout. 200 miles of Colorado riding would be easier than 100 miles of Brushy!
Brushy's website http://bmmspark.com/
Brown website http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/nfsnc/re ... 4&actid=93
Brown brochure and map http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOC ... 844926.pdf
So if you want to go ride something new (assuming you have never been there) and ride really good single track, these 2 areas are just 6 hours away!
