Map and Directions

The Prairie City OHV Park - our race day venue:

Location: Prairie City Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) Park 18 miles east of Sacramento and 5 miles south of Folsom CA. - It's basically behind Aerojet.

NOTE: The gates open at 4:30 and CLOSES at 6:30 pm sharp - don't be late! There is NO fee to enter the park for our races!

Click HERE for a cool Google map of the area. Go HERE for more information about the Prairie City State Parks facility. go HERE for an aerial view of the area.

Directions: 18 miles east of Sacramento exit HWY 50 on Prairie City Road and go south for approx. 2 miles. Turn right (west) on White Rock Road. Go 1 mile to the main gate entrance (on the south side of the road). Enter the Prairie City OHV Park, stay on the main road and go 1 more mile to the kiosk. Turn left immediately after the kiosk. Continue to the parking area. You do not need to stop and pay at the kiosk, but please observe the SPEED LIMITS and Stop Signs!!!

Note: This park is for Off Highway Vehicles six days a week. They are closed on Wednesdays allowing us to use the facility. It is not open to bicycles on any time other than during our races on Wednesdays.

WARNING: THE RANGERS HAVE BEEN ISSUED TICKETS FOR SPEEDING AND BLOWING THROUGH STOP SIGNS - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Facilities: There are bathrooms available, tap water and plenty of parking. (PLEASE KEEP YOUR SPEED DOWN IN THE DIRT AND GRAVEL PARKING LOT AREA - (The park service will issue SPEEDING TICKETS! - you have been warned).

The gate opens at 4:15 and RE-CLOSES at 6:25 pm - don't be late!

Races are held RAIN or SHINE... (double points for rain or 100 deg+ days!) For local WEATHER FORECAST and current Doppler radar check HERE.

Each lap around the course is between 2.8 and 4 miles long. Beginners do 2 laps, Sport is 3 laps and Expert is 4 laps. The new Juniors race is 1 lap on the adult beginner course.  The course gets a little LONGER and a little HARDER every week as your skill and fitness improve!

Because of the numerous trails and dirt roadways on the property I am able to set up a different course each week. This makes for some exciting racing and keeps this 12-week series exciting and unpredictable!

We set up the course using 12" high plastic cones. If there is a sharp turn I place 2 or 3 cones on their side "pointing" in the direction of the turn. Because there are so many different trails I ALWAYS recommend PRE-RIDING the course, this will help prevent you from making a mistake the first time around at "race speed".

There can be splits off the the main course for part of the lap, especially for the first few races. This will help with heavy traffic, passing of faster racers etc.

We have three main hills on the course and I usually include at least one of these in the course each week. Typically, I leave the real steep ones for a little later in the season. One of these hills has a very steep decent and although it is somewhat short in distance, speeds of 40 mph by the Experts are not uncommon!

There is plenty of single track and I prefer to keep you on it most of the time. I do usually start the first mile or so on a wider dirt road (or do a lap around the parking lot) so that the racers can sort themselves out a bit before hitting the tight single track.

See ya out there!