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OHV Park ownership: Viable business or hobby?
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<blockquote data-quote="Scarecrow" data-source="post: 487275" data-attributes="member: 325"><p>Lease it Eric and give it a go. I don't know what the price of the lease is but if it could be done I'd almost do it myself. I remember talking to John when he started bringing in all the rocks and he told me how much he had spent on rocks so far and I thought, man you aint never gone make it spending 10K on rocks, but when I saw the numbers from the Rockfest events I thought different. I think the last rockfest brought in around 1600 people over the weekend and that's at a minimum of $30 a head. 1600 x $30 = $48000 plus concessions. I don't know what his insurance cost were or his staff which was large for a park. I think if you did 4 big events a year you could do well, maintenance may be an issue since John had all his own equipment and the new leaser may not. The only down side at the GAP in my opinion was the 4wheeler/mud crowd but they were also the ones bringing in a good bit of the money, for every rock crawler there there was 20 4wheelers. The 4wheeler crowd thinned out after John started enforcing some new behavior rules, but I was there the weekend before when things got out of control.</p><p></p><p>Long story short I sure do miss the GAP and if anyone is looking at reopening I'll help out any way I can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scarecrow, post: 487275, member: 325"] Lease it Eric and give it a go. I don't know what the price of the lease is but if it could be done I'd almost do it myself. I remember talking to John when he started bringing in all the rocks and he told me how much he had spent on rocks so far and I thought, man you aint never gone make it spending 10K on rocks, but when I saw the numbers from the Rockfest events I thought different. I think the last rockfest brought in around 1600 people over the weekend and that's at a minimum of $30 a head. 1600 x $30 = $48000 plus concessions. I don't know what his insurance cost were or his staff which was large for a park. I think if you did 4 big events a year you could do well, maintenance may be an issue since John had all his own equipment and the new leaser may not. The only down side at the GAP in my opinion was the 4wheeler/mud crowd but they were also the ones bringing in a good bit of the money, for every rock crawler there there was 20 4wheelers. The 4wheeler crowd thinned out after John started enforcing some new behavior rules, but I was there the weekend before when things got out of control. Long story short I sure do miss the GAP and if anyone is looking at reopening I'll help out any way I can. [/QUOTE]
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