Snowmobilers Gearing Up For New Hampshire’s SnoDeo March 6-7
It’s a festival of fun for snowmobile enthusiasts.
The countdown is on.
The 23rd Annual SnoDeo snowmobile festival is taking over Coleman State Park in Stewartstown, New Hampshire March 6 and 7.
The event, billed as a “top 10 must experience snowmobile events’’ by SnowGoer Magazine, is expected to draw 6,000 snowmobile enthusiasts from the US and Canada. And you can feel the giddiness of the planners, who have been literally counting down the weeks until the big day on social media.
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The festival showcases the 2016 machines from Arctic Cat, Polaris, Ski-Doo and Yamaha, and offers demo rides. Vendors sell everything from clothing and accessories to sleds and trailers. This year, an Antique Tent will serve up snowmobile history lessons as well as restored vintage sleds. State officials will answer questions about the state’s trails and how they are managed and the New Hampshire National Guard will be on hand with military equipment. Folks can sign up for the popular Radar Run, a race on Little Diamond Pond. And a group of extreme snowmobilers will dazzle festival-goers with tricks.
[fragment number=1]New Hampshire offers some of the best snowmobiling in New England, with 7,000 miles of snowmobile trails, according to nhstateparks.org. This festival began in 1993 as a fundraiser for the Swift Diamond Riders Snowmobile Club, one of 25 snowmobile clubs in New Hampshire, and as a way to bring snowmobilers together. The money raised helps maintain about 120 miles of snowmobile trails, reports wcax.com.
Snowmobilers are encouraged to ride to the event on their sleds, but there will be car parking at the state park (and a free shuttle bus to the event). The event is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The cost is $5 per person and kids under age 10 are free.
Check out these pics from previous SnoDeos:
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