Summer MUDFEST 2007 in Jacksonville Texas
Organizers of this weekend’s Summer Mudfest 2007 claim their event will have all the fun and excitement of the Redneck Games but with none of the drunken nudity.
Robert Eitel and Michael Adkins are avid four-wheeler riders who were forced to create their own family-friendly mud festival because they didn’t feel comfortable taking their wives and children along with them to any of the area’s existing rides.
“The kind of events that happened at the Redneck Games a few weeks ago give both mudding and East Texas a bad name. A lot of the rides are like that now, so we decided, as both riders and family men, to start Mudfest,” Eitel said. “We just thought that there needed to be a different type of ride out there for people to go to. We want the public to know that most people who ride ATVs (All-Terrian Vehicles) don’t do it naked.”
The festivities started Thursday at noon at Mudcreek Off-road Park, although most of the events and races kicked off this morning. The weekend’s complete schedule of events is adjacent to this story.
“This year’s theme is Splash Fest. We made a waterfall on the powerline in Mudcreek. You can go down the powerline now and just get drenched. We’ve got mud truck racing, competition rides, mud bogs and a lot more,” Eitel said. Continue reading
Texas Hogwallow Mud Racing
If you like being ear-deep in mud, atop a beerstocked ATV (all-terrain vehicle), along side a monster truck, then the Labor Day Bogging Bash at Texas Hogwallow family amusement park in Deweyville is where you want to be Aug. Martinez was one of those embracing a mud-as-sun block concept.
And a place where it seems necessary to post rules like “no nudity.” Its seven square miles offer lakes, ditches, a drag strip and miles and miles of trails that promise tons of fun for the redneck in everyone.
Hogwallow plans to add lawnmower racing and will have representatives from the Lonestar and Cajun Louisiana Lawn Mower Racing Associations there.
Carl Gantt, a 43-year-old Deweyville resident and selfdescribed redneck, said there was no where he’d rather be on a hot Southeast Texas summer day than out at Hogwallow.
An army of four-wheelers cruised Hogwallow on Saturday, in and out of shallow ditches and ponds and across fields. Zebras, buffalo, elk, Watusi cows, peacocks, and snakes roam the park, which late owner Frenchie Longron visualized as an exotic game preserve. “It’s Deweyville style sun block,” the 27-year-old plant maintenance worker said.
Longron’s son, Artie Longron, kept the animals and added mud.
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