HAYDAYS CLOSED!!!!!!!!!

[TurboM700]

FYI THEY CLOSED HAYDAYS FOR THE DAY IT WAS A HUGE CLUSTER TRYING TO GET THERE TOMORROW

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=871426

MIKE

 

[mysledblows]

But the Stacy Bar was doing a pretty good lunch business. And the burgers and fries were actually pretty good.

 

[MD1]

Mess

It was a mess. Was 7.7 miles out at 9 am when we were at a standstill. Sat in that til 6.6 miles then found an alternate route. Got in around 10.

Going tomorrow? Go earlier than early I guess before they close it again.

 

[TurboM700]

It was a mess. Was 7.7 miles out at 9 am when we were at a standstill. Sat in that til 6.6 miles then found an alternate route. Got in around 10.

Going tomorrow? Go earlier than early I guess before they close it again.

Were going to leave here tomorrow at 7am. So hopefully we can get in. What the alternate route?

Thanks
Mike.

 

[fourthmeal]

If you're going up from Minneapolis get off of 35 in Stacy and take the back roads.

 

[Zbroz]

If you make it out tomorrow, stop by and say hi.

 

[sled_guy]

Local Minn news is saying the sheriff is seriously thinking about closing tomorrow completely.

The Snobarons have a cluster f... on their hands. How many people said this would happen when they announced the new location? The question now will be if they can even recover from this... the local officials are going to require 50 times the red tape be cut through next year... maybe so much so that it can't be done.

sled_guy

 

[newmy1]

Go in from the south (6 plus miles south of thevent)and take cty road 70 (gravel) north to hays days.

 

[Headrush]

One of the biggest failures I have seen. We arrived around 6:30 a.m. and still waiting in traffic for an hour.

Way to go Sno Barons, thanks for taking a great event an ruining it.

Idiots.

 

[RIDECATS]

Go in from the south (6 plus miles south of thevent)and take cty road 70 (gravel) north to hays days.

thats the route i took at 6am with NO traffic. leaving i went thru stacy and i was AMAZED that people were parked about 5 miles away - I WOULD HAVE BEEN PI$$ED if I was one of those poor suckers.

 

[diggler]

yep we were about 4 miles away at 6:45 and got in at 10, bs

 

[jr_amsoil]

thats the route i took at 6am with NO traffic. leaving i went thru stacy and i was AMAZED that people were parked about 5 miles away - I WOULD HAVE BEEN PI$$ED if I was one of those poor suckers.

yea this location is a big crock of ****. we waited 3 hours to get in the gate. then all the parking was full. we would have been parked at 7 am but hell no it was 10 am. sorry sno barons but u really ****ed this one up big time. i heard people all day complaining about the parking. but yet they blame the traffic due 2 people getting stuck. well 90% of the people i saw were in a 4x4. not that bad imo. really disappointed. the swap and vendors were great but the rest was very unorganized and pathetic. my friend was parked 4 miles away. u walk that damn far u wont even want to walk for parts. least we gave a ride back for him. i cant wait tlll he posts the pic of all the people walking down the highway. i ever waited to park in the years past. what a crock.

 

[frankensled]

Well we drove 3 hrs and got to north branch. Went the west route wich is 95...Sat in traffic for an hour and got maybe a mile down. We herd people yelling from their cars that "haydays is closed" so we asked a cop that was near by and yep it was! So we screwed around in mpls for 5 hrs then we tryed the southern route and got right in at 3...didn't even have to pay admission they just let ur right in... so we finally got there and its so unorganized its unbeliveable...very dissapointed...might be last haydays???

 

[erocket]

Snooze you lose

For a twist on the event today, buddy and I got up early, arrived at site at 6:00 coming in from the east. Got parked at 7:10, after locking the old school Ford hubs, ya it was muddy but come on!!! No big deal!! Point is, get out of bed sleepy heads, tens of thousands come to this event, it's a new site, we were warned about growing pains. Great site, seemed like more vendors than usual, little wet, muddy, windy but overall great. Left at 2:00 pm, drove right out.

That said, the event does need to be taken to the next level. How about State Fair Park, bands, real beer tents, camping, asphalt drags, movie premiers! Event has outgrown the volunteers, needs a proffesional promoter! As far as the end of Hay Days, get real!!! They are saying 50,000 people showed up today. No $ to be made there!!! Hay Days and Snowmobiling is alive and well, at 20 bucks a head you do the math.

 

[hatchers]

who cares, this is snowest, not snowmidwest...go back to HCS ya flatlanders!!

 

[erocket]

Awful lot of you boys from the west there selling your goodies. Many of us have homes in the Mtns. Kinda short sighted!! Why the attitude??

 

[IDspud]

You aren't really going to take Hatchers seriously after looking at his icon and reading his "Currently" are you?

 

[fourthmeal]

who cares, this is snowest, not snowmidwest...go back to HCS ya flatlanders!!

I haven't been out here in 8 or 9 years. I'm blown away at how mountain-oriented the show now is. All the major companies from the West are here, lots of play on the mtn sleds in the OEM booths... Still a hillbilly swap meet (says the Idaho trailer trash guy...) but very impressed. I'd say it's like the SEMA Show of snowmobiling, but that's a stretch. I'm sure the girls in the tire and wheel booths at SEMA would take offense to being compared to good ol' midwest girls.

 

[ezra]

left the house at 5am got with in 1.9 MI buy 6;15 did not get to park till 10;15 huge cluster **** talked to a guy from WY who pulled a enclosed full of parts had his reserved spot papers and was turned away Fri pm over sold I would go postal over that one.the sno barons ****ed themselves on this one alllllllot of pissed off people bad press in local papers and tv and I am sure the chat rooms will be *****ing about this one for yrs to come

 

[horn813]

Sounds like it was a sht show. What's tomorrow looking like?