• Yes! Tidewater Dirt Riders is currently accepting new members.
• Membership is open and applications are processed all year round.

• You can start your New-Member application online here on this website right now by following the "Signup" link in the top menu. If you have direct family members (spouse & children) that ride, please select the family membership as those riding family members need to be entered in your membership application. Prices for single or family memberships are currently the same.
• In order to get approved you will need to attend an in-person or a virtual club meeting. Check the Events Calendar for dates and locations. Usually the in-person meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month (various locations), virtual will be the 3rd Thursday of the month (please confirm in the calendar dates and locations).
• Once your application gets approved by our club officers you will receive an email with payment information.
• After TDR received your payment, you will get access to the member web page and a welcome package which contains all member information, locations of our riding properties, and further instructions.

Looking forward to having you in our club!

Currently TDR offers two types of membership on an annual basis:

1. Family Membership $300 / annual (use this option if you have riding spouse or children)
2. Single Membership $300 / annual (use this option if it's just you)

Note: Since we try to keep membership dues as low as possible, we have to charge an additional $10.00 for credit card processing fees which are not incorporated in the total membership price. This is the amount that credit card companies and our CC processing provider charges us for collecting the $300 membership dues. If you want to avoid it, you will have to pay with cash or check at a club meeting or mail a check.

Riding family members must be registered under your user profile with a "Family Membership" in order to be allowed to ride our properties!



• Sorry, at this time TDR does not offer any guest or trial membership options. Only option to have a real look at our riding properties is to become a full member.
• If you want to find out more about what TDR trails and properties look like before joining, you can have to look at our Media Page with a few YouTube videos that have been recorded over the years by our members.

• Your membership year will start at the date you sign-up to become a new member and from that date on renew every 12 months

• Absolutely NOT! TDR is a motorcycle only club. ATV, 4-wheelers, SxS, or anything else but a 2-wheeled dirt-bike are prohibited from entering our trails.

• Yes, helmets are required for anyone riding! NO Exceptions!
• Helmets MUST be DOT approved.
• Use common sense, you are riding offroad in the woods: googles, full dirt-bike riding boots, knee protection, and body armor should be part of your gear.

• Children of Members under the age of 18 are allowed to ride TDR trails at the discretion of the parent or guardian.
• ALL family members must be wearing a properly fitted DOT approved helmet at any time while riding/operating an off-road vehicle. Including in parking areas and while loading/unloading machines.
• Children of Members under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a Parent/Guardian at all times on any TDR operated properties.

• Simple answer: NO

• Any bike larger than 650cc is not supported by our trails. If you ride a BMW GS1200, Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 and the like you will not enjoy our trails on these bikes.
• Because of the weight and power of those bikes and the resulting damage to our trails we would NOT allow those on our trails.

• Currently TDR has not implemented a work party requirement for our members, though it is highly recommended that you participate in the club and also join randomly announced work parties at club lands or race venues. Remember you are joining a "Club" and not a pay-to-ride business. Everything we offer is created with volunteer hours!
• Be aware that mandatory work parties could be implemented at any time if participation rate drops below manageable levels to maintain the club.

• TDR operates two properties in the Tidewater area.

1. TDR1: expired
2. TDR2: expired
3. TDR3: is our smaller property with 50 acre and aprx 3 miles of tight harescrable woods trails.
4. TDR4: is our larger property with 250 acre and aprx 18 miles of tight harescramble woods trails.

• Yes, the easy trails work fine with the smaller children’s machines.
• Both of our current properties have a short kids friendly trail section (at TDR4 it's shared with adult riders)
• None of our properties have wide open areas! Service road riding is not permitted.

• Yes, signing in and out is mandatory. It’s also quick and easy – members sign in at the property gate mailbox.

• TDR trails for experienced riders are no challenge.
• We do try to keep it interesting with different features on the tails as little hills, log crossings, creek jumps and so on. Each of those technical sections has a bypass available for the not so experienced rider.
• Some harder trail sections are clearly marked as "Expert" or "Hard Trail"

• NO - you would need to join a hunt club and not a dirt bike club 😀