OHV Grant Application Underway!

After months of planning, meetings, tedious work and some emotional highs and lows, it came down to the wire waiting on one final essential application element to come through for Reno Area Dirtriders to submit its very first grant application to the Nevada OHV Commission before the November 12th 4:00pm deadline. As we all breathe a sigh of relief and accomplishment, us RADmins are excited to report this pivotal milestone to our members. 

Our project proposes to contract with Sierra Trail Works to improve several problem areas of the singletrack in the Peavine Maze including removal of whoops, removing downed trees, repairing some major washouts and trail erosion, and installation of more signage. In addition, we are planning to add some cool trail features such as berms, jumps and other things to up the fun factor! Lastly, we have requested grant funding for some clean up days in areas to be determined.  If approved, RAD will need the help of several volunteers to help with trail work in order meet volunteer hours quota, which is a condition grant approval.

The grant funds being awarded by the OHV Commission is 100% your registration sticker money going to work for you in your own back yard if Reno Area Dirtrider’s application is successful. Grants will be voted on by the Commission on December 10th, and we will not know until some time after that whether our application was approved, and if so, exactly how much funding we will receive for the project. However, we feel very optimistic for a positive outcome and are looking forward to taking the first big step towards what we hope to be the start of a movement to benefit our dirtbike community. 

Creating this grant application, and building relationships with the Forest Service and the Nevada OHV Commission along the way, has been a valuable learning experience for us RADmins. We’d like to thank our local business supporters, Reno Motor Sports, Reno KTM and Big Valley Honda for providing us with letters of support to supplement our application. We hope that, after cutting our teeth and successfully completing this small project, we can turn our sights to bigger goals like the creation of new trails and connectors, or maybe even a track – we have lots of ideas!

We encourage you to get involved with us. There are so many ways you can help and be an ambassador of our sport. Please spread the word and help us bring the community’s awareness to this local project.

Stay tuned and braaap on!

 -Your RADmins