Four Corners Rally in the Rockies Changes Location
For additional information, Contact Dan Bradshaw:
888-901-7701, or info@rallyrockies.com
The Four Corners Rally in the Rockies Motorcycle Rally, the annual
Labor Day Weekend event drawing hundreds of thousands of bikers
to the Four
Corners Region the past thirteen years, has announced the 2006 event
will be held at
Echo Basin Ranch - West of Durango, Colorado. Each year the Rally
has grown in
size and the facility in Ignacio will no longer hold the record
crowds that attend
and the campers that want to stay on the grounds where the events
are held.
Echo Basin Ranch is the same distance from Durango as Ignacio,
but in
the opposite direction. Echo Basin boasts better facilities, and
more room
with shaded camping on privately owned land, which will make for
a better
rally. Echo Basin sits to the North of Highway 160 between Durango
and Cortez.
"I think its going to be awesome," said Echo Basin
owner Dan Bjorkman.
"We have the perfect venue for this. We have a huge amphitheater
that
accommodates over 10,000 people on pastured ground, so even when
theres bad weather everyones not stomping around in
the mud. We also have a lot of excellent
camping. People can camp in the trees at the base of 13,000-foot
peaks, over looking
Mesa Verde National Park. We think its a great location, and
were welcoming
everybody who comes here for the rally."
"Echo Basin is a fantastic venue," Bradshaw said. "It
will provide us
with a far superior location and facilities, and allow us to continue
all the
activities that are a part of our rally. It is the same distance
from Durango as
Ignacio, so I dont expect Durango to be affected by the move.
Plus there is
almost five times more dry camping area for RVs and for motorcycle
tent campers."
"This will still be a region wide event; itll just be
based out of a better
facility with more cooperative management. These people want the
rally,
and Im excited about making the move."
Echo Basin may be considered more central to the region, allowing
riders to experience all the variety the Four Corners Region has
to offer a
little more easily. Especially important is that Echo Basin is right
on the world
famous Loop, the 220 mile loop that goes from Durango to Telluride,
then to
Ouray, Silverton and back to Durango, going over numerous mountain
passes.
This Loop is considered by thousands of bikers as one of the best
rides in the US.
"Well be right in the middle of everything," Bradshaw
said. "Its
going to be a great rally." For more information and pictures
of Echo Basin go to
www.rallyintherockies.com.
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