Brimstone Recreation, Huntsville

The riding here was decent, but they have a lot that could be improved on. The app isn't great, and if you're going to put the effort into an app, why wouldn't you have closed trails marked on the app? Oh, and if you want a paper map, they charge you for it! Lots of garbage all over the trails and it didn't appear that the trails were maintained at all. They really should have someone riding them every week and cleaning up the trash and downed trees. We'd come back to ride, though. We wouldn't ever stay in any of bunkhouses ever again. GROSS! Everything was so dirty when we checked in, we felt like we needed to scrub it before we could use it. There were cockroaches in the living space, bugs all over the bathroom, the shower curtain was covered in mold, the sheets were stained with holes in them like mice had been chewing on them. Just really nasty. Probably ok for a group of guys who want to get drunk and pass out, but not for a family. When I told the staff, they sent the owner out with a can of raid. I told them again upon checkout and their answer was, we'll let the cleaning lady know. So... maybe the next person will have less grossness. They ask you to put everything in garbage bags in the covered trash can outside, but don't provide any trash bags. The outside gathering area is decent... but you get to sit and listen to air conditioners running constantly so loudly that you can barely hear each other talk. Our window looked out into the neighbors gathering area... weird. Good concept, just really poor execution/maintenance on these bunkhouses.

Several of the moderate routes were almost impassable due to deep ruts. Even friends with Arctic Cat got stuck in a couple of places. I don't think I've ever gone anywhere this rutted out. It made some of the paths more dangerous than necessary for those on a single rider ATV.