Avoid Silverton Colorado
If you RV and own or rent an OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) you can take Silverton Colo. off your list to visit as the town council voted yesterday to BAN ALL OHV traffic inside the city limits. I'm just t...
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azdryheat wrote:
I started this thread a dozen pages ago. Here is an update:
I wrote the following to the Silverton Mayor:
I just learned of the city council vote to ban OHV vehicles in town. This news is sad to hear. I guess the townspeople want quiet streets and quiet cash registers.
We were in Silverton last September for a week of OHV riding and spending money in the local economy. It seemed to us that most all the people staying in town at RV parks were also driving OHV vehicles.
We thought we were helping the local economy by eating our meals in local restaurants and shopping in local stores.
It's sad to learn that the people of Silverton no longer want the business of OHV vehicle owners and renters.
My friends and I will no longer be spending our money in Silverton and hope the town can do without us. We will be looking at other towns that want our business.
You had better avoid just about every town in Colorado as well. You can't ride an OHV in Durango, Telluride, Ouray, Ridgeway, Denver, Aspen or 95% of other towns. I am not sure why you are so upset with Silverton. They tried allowing OHVs in town and decided through experience that it wasn't a good idea. With the current boom in visitation to Colorado, they won't notice any loss in revenue and can choose to support forms of recreation that have lower impact on the residents of Silverton.
