TRAILBUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB, Inc.

Proudly maintaining snowmobile trails in northern Oneida County, New York, including north Rome, Western, 
Hawkins Corners, Lee Center, Stokes Corners, West Branch, Point Rock, Ava and into West Leyden.

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The Trailbusters Snowmobile Club, Inc. is a non-profit snowmobile club founded in 1966. The club maintains over 41 miles of Class A trails over both public and private lands. The club provides snowmobile safety education classes and encourages preservation, conservation and a healthy respect of nature and the environment. 


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The Lee Center Trailbusters would like to thank all of our landowners for their generous cooperation in allowing us to have trails travel across their property. Without their support, it would not be possible to have these trails. 



ALL TRAILBUSTER SNOWMOBILE TRAILS ARE OFFICIALLY CLOSED FOR THE SEASON.  

The Trailbusters wish to extend a thank you to all of the very gracious landowners who allowed the use of their land during this very successful snowmobiling season.

As we state every year, motorized vehicles of any type, including ATV’s and dirt bikes, are not permitted to use the trail system during the offseason. The only exception will be for club volunteers who will be closing gates and fences and removing signs.

If anyone would like to help take signs, fences and guide stakes down, please give Mark Destito a call at 336-1727. If Mark doesn't answer, please leave your name and when you are available to help on his answering machine and he will get back with you. This task can be a good time as you get to see our trails without snow while riding on our Polaris Ranger.


Trail Fund Theft!

For those of you who haven't heard, the Governor is trying to take 20% from the trail fund or $1 million and transfer it to the general fund. We need to send letters to his office, as well as to all the other legislators that this money is not theirs to waste. For more information on this RAID, please visit the link at the New York State Snowmobile Association shown below. 

http://www.nyssnowassoc.org/


Safety Course Completed:  The club sponsored a snowmobile safety course at our groomer barn on December 4th and 5th.  John Beggs was the course instructor. A terrific group of kids had a great time learning the safe way to operate a snowmobile and how to conduct themselves on the trail.





Its that Time of Year Again!  Please Join or Renew Your Trailbusters Membership!

Please follow the Join the Club link on the left to join or renew your Trailbusters membership. If you enjoy our trails and would like to become a club member, we offer two options to join. You can print out our application form and send it in by mail or you can choose the NYSSA online membership application and printout your membership voucher immediately. Either way, we thank you for supporting the Trailbusters Snowmobile Club! 

FYI, you can no longer join a snowmobile club at the DMV. If you do not join a club, your registration fee will be $100 per sled. If you do join a club, the registration fee is $45 per sled. The Trailbusters Snowmobile Club would be honored to have you join us as a member! 

Thank you to everyone who has already joined!


Here's an Easy Way to Help the Club - Save Those Gas Receipts!

The club is again collecting gas receipts for gas purchased for snowmobile use.  The club can apply for an 8 cent refund from NYS for each gallon used.  If we get enough receipts this could amount to a sizeable refund.  We have a box and signature sheet at Stewart’s in Stokes/State Route 26N (Trail C7) and Nice N Easy (Trail C7) at Hawkins Corners/State Route 26N.  In addition to depositing your receipt, you must sign your name to the sheet for each purchase.  

Better yet, save your snowmobile gas receipts from anywhere you purchase the gasoline.  Attach the receipts to your signature sheet, which can be obtained by clicking on either link below, sign for all your purchases and mail them to the club at the end of the season, no later than 15 April 2010.  Remember, only save receipts for gas purchased for snowmobiles. Hopefully, by keeping track of your own purchases we will have a larger participation rate for this program as many pay at the pump and don’t make the trip into the store.  This can be a great fundraiser for our groomer fund, please help.

Gas Receipt Signature Sheet - Microsoft Word Format        Gas Receipt Signature Sheet - pdf Format 

For example: for every 100 gallons purchased, the club receives $8.00. If a good percentage of the membership (say 300 members) send in their receipts for 100 gallons, than the club will be reimbursed $2,400. That would be a very, very successful fund raiser. Again, please help.


Email Addresses. Emailing the club newsletter makes this task much simpler, faster and more cost effective. If you are not on our email list, please provide your address. We will be e-mailing the newsletter as well as any pertinent snowmobile related information as it happens. Don't be left out.

Use this link to add e-mail address


 
For additional club news, go to the Newsletters link on the left and check out the most recent or historical club newsletters.