2025 Fun Ride Weekend

2025 Fun Ride Weekend

Memorial Weekend, May 24-25, 2025

Come join us at the beautiful Dru Barner Equestrian campground just east of Georgetown for an equestrian WEEKEND filled with riding, great food, entertainment, more riding, more food, prizes and fun!!! This event will include our traditional trail rides and BBQ on Saturday. On Sunday, start the day with a scrumptious breakfast, then enjoy a marked trail through the Enchanted Forest and/or, the optional trail obstacle course with a chance to win prizes, followed by an evening Potluck where we supply the main course and entertainment. Sign up for the entire weekend or just one day. Campsites are available for weekend registrations only. Room is limited, so please don’t wait.

Arrive Friday and camp overnight so you’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for Saturday morning’s 5, 12, or 20 mile trail rides. Check-in begins 3 p.m. until dark on Friday, Saturday morning 7-9 a.m. and Sunday morning 7-9 a.m.

Weekend Activities

SATURDAY: TRAIL RIDES – Ride the 5-mile Enchanted Forest, the 12-mile loop, or challenge yourself and your horse on a 20-mile loop on the well-marked Rock Creek Trails. Please plan accordingly to give yourself enough time to check-in, saddle-up, and hit the trail by the appropriate time, especially if you are arriving Saturday morning. If you are late, you might be redirected to a shorter trail so you are not behind the sweep/drag riders 🙂

• The 20-milers need to be on the trail between 8 and 9 a.m.
• 12-milers need to be on the trail between 8 and 10 a.m.
• 5-milers may ride the trail at their convenience any time after 8 a.m. as long as you are back by 4:00 p.m. for the BBQ.

ALL riders need to be back in camp by 4:00 p.m. for the BBQ (meal ticket #1). We’ll enjoy a delicious BBQ dinner, salads and dessert followed by a rockin’ DJ around the campfire!

SUNDAY: ENCHANTED FOREST RIDE and OPTIONAL TRAIL OBSTACLE COURSE – Join us between 8-9 a.m. for coffee, tea, eggs, potatoes, pancakes and sausage breakfast (meal ticket #2). Then, saddle up your horses and head out on the marked, 5-mile Enchanted Forest trail with an option to complete a fun trail obstacle course with prizes! Please plan on packing your own lunch. Join us at 4PM for a GDETF Potluck and we’ll draw winners for the obstacle course while we eat. (GDETF will provide the main course. Meal ticket #3) If your last name begins in A – D, please bring an appetizer, E – J, please bring a salad, K – P, please bring a side dish and Q – Z, please bring a dessert.

Registration

General Information

You can sign up for the entire weekend or just one day.

Riders who are joining us for the day will be parked in designated day-use sites or overflow. Day use forest service fees are $3 per day for those not spending the night.

Folks spending the night MUST reserve a campsite (information below).

All downloadable forms can be found below.

As everything is on a first-come, first-serve basis, we strongly encourage using the “ONLINE” method of signing up, so you don’t have to wait on snail-mail. (See “How to sign up” below.)

We need to receive your entry form and payment via postal mail or online by May 16 so food preparations can begin! Your entry is not secure until payment has been received. There are limited camping sites and day-use trailer parking, so please get your entry form in early before we reach capacity.

This is a popular event, so we recommend using our on-line reservation system versus snail mail. NO refunds after May 16.

Questions?

For Information about ride logistics and volunteer coordination, contact:
Anna Plaxco, Ride Manager
Phone 916-205-5589

For questions about registration and payment, contact:
Laurie Sweeney, Ride Secretary
Phone: 916-955-0184

Email:  GDETF2@gmail.com 

Costs

• Weekend Event Registration – $95 for GDETF members and $115 for non-members for the whole weekend.
• One-Day Event Registration – $50 for GDETF members and $60 for non-members.
  Your event registration fee includes Saturday trail ride, delicious BBQ dinner (meal ticket #1) and/or Sunday morning breakfast (meal ticket #2), Ride and Potluck (meal ticket #3)
• Campsite Reservations – $40 for both Friday & Saturday nights (members receive a $10 discount) / Additional nights for Thursday and Sunday can be reserved for $15 per night.
  If you are a weekend registration, a campsite must be reserved online!
• Extra Meal Tickets – $15
  Please purchase additional meal tickets if you will have guests that wish to eat with you and are not registered for the ride.

Campsite Reservations

If you are spending the night with us, you must reserve a campsite. Campsites are only available to those camping overnight and participating in the entire weekend. All campsite reservations are WEBSITE first-come, first-serve. Please email us at gdetf2@gmail.com if you intend to mail your registration. Campsite reservations include single sites and group/shared sites. Pricing is PER RIG, not per site. See costs above.

You must first complete the entry form process (follow the instructions below) including payment before you reserve a site. After the payment process, you will be redirected to the campsite reservations page. If you have any issues with site reservations, please contact the Ride Secretary. Email: gdetf2@gmail.com Phone: 916-955-0184.

How to Sign Up

Other Items of Interest

• Event Flyer
• Check out the raffle prizes

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If you aren’t riding this year, please consider volunteering. It takes many hands to put on these events. Volunteers receive one free meal ticket for every job they help out with! Send us an e-mail if you’d like to help.

If you are not able to come, but would like to make a contribution to the trails, remember GDETF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation and always welcomes your support.