Well it's march 5th 2025 the Gandy Dancer is officially closed for ATV UTV usage for this year.
The cattail and saw mill is open for atv utv use there will be No grooming or packing
Warm Temps are coming
Trail Notice: Cattail , Sawmill and Sterling loop are open .
Watch short video of utvs on the Gandy.
We Stopped at the Barrel house for lunch. Highly recommend this stop.
When it comes time to opening the Gandy Dancer trail for Atv/ UTV use . Key date range is dec (15 -18th) then
There are several factors that need to be considered.
(Such as) the gun deer hunting season the extended antlerless hunt muzzleloading which normally is not over untill mid December.
Weather temperature and or the ground is frozen and both Polk County and Burnet County need to meet and agree to open the Gandy Dancer in both countries.
The video below was taken on january 13th 2025 about 1 mile east of amery on the Cattail trail
*The Stower Seven Lakes Trail between Amery And Nye will continue to be closed for ATV/UTV use.
County Trail Uses:
ATV/UTV winter trail usage report:
Gandy Dancer in Polk County is only Open to ATV/UTV winter use only when the frozen ground rule applies when theses conditions are
When the temperatures are below and remains below freezing.
And Polk & Burrnett County agree to open the entire trial for Atv/UTV usage.
All hunting seasons are over.