Peddle power is cheaper than GAS!! Let’s go on an adventure in Blue Ridge GA!

Ride the rails in Blue Ridge with Freedom Rails at the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway! It’s a great way to adventure!!! Peddle, explore, and have some fun !!! #railbikes #Blueridge #freedomrailbike #sparkadventure

[@Lucyparsons24]

What a terrible experience! We were there for the ribbon cutting and were treated like garbage! They called less than 3hrs before our ride time & said we needed to be 40 minutes early. I explained that we were 2hrs away and had planned to be there 15min early, as the website indicated when we booked several days ago. She took note of my name & said that would be fine. We got there at the time we said we would & were told we wouldn’t be able to to ride a rail bike because we were the last ones to sign in & one was broken. She said to fill out the waiver anyway & we could ride if someone didn’t show. As we were filling out our waiver, another group showed up that hadn’t signed in yet. Yay! I thought we would for sure be able to ride. Instead, she let them on the rail bikes ahead of us & told us we could ride on the speeder, a motorized cart that pulls the bikes for half of a refund. We had driven 2hrs just for the rail bikes. I asked if they had a 4pm slot we could do instead. She said no, that they had cancelled that one due to the owners being in town. I let her know I wasn’t happy with it & we reluctantly got in the speeder. Once we were on, we were then told I’d be going backwards the whole trip. What was suppose to be a peaceful ride through nature and the highlight of my daughter’s spring break, turned into a noisy exhaust filled ride pulling the other bikers. She should’ve given us a FULL refund and offered a free ride another time to make up for the experience. She knew I was driving two hours and didn’t bother to even call. She didn’t ask if there were any locals that might be willing to come back the next day. It was ride the loud stinky speeder, which broke down halfway through requiring us to wait for someone to repair it, or nothing. I suggest anyone that isn’t local not to travel there for the experience. We were informed that their carts jump track often, which is what broke the one that was down that day. The owner was there and didn’t offer to make it right either. Shameful way to do business!

[@sparkadventure]

I am so sorry your experience. Maybe send them an email and explain your situation and see if a resolution could be made. I know they worked really hard on our snow day issue and was quick to accommodate our groups needs.

[@misterjones30044]

I hope you left this review on Google. I'm so sorry for your experience 🏳️‍🌈

[@thatbobguy898]

It was their ribbon cutting day. Give em a break. I'm sure everything does not work out as planned on day 1.

[@gailmrutland6508]

*DIT!*

[@user-uw8kk4rc3n]

Seriously doubt anyone would consider doing this twice ?

[@SimplyKens]

They have that

[@johncase2974]

It’s most commonly referred to as a “Speeder” and they use to be used by the track maintenance crews/supervisor to check the rails for issues and or transport maintenance workers before they came up with the “high rail” concept of adding the railroad wheels on pickups.

[@thomasgoad3695]

That's called a spedder

[@raderanthony]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 its Free to ride correct?

[@STho205]

Curious...when you rode did the cars stop at the grade crossing for the bikes, since they have no horns? I live in Cherry Log (where the rails go) and wondered if we'd start seeing "incidents" when the signs went up at the old crossings. Most people haven't seen traffic on the rails from BR through the Ellijay block in years except the very slow Maint of Way train twice a year. Looks like fun. $50 a person or $200 for your family us a lot of gasoline, but new things cost money to get going. I always wished the BRRR would run speeders or old restored doodlebugs to Ellijay. I don't think those tracks can take a heavy train like the Mccayesville excursion, since they worked so hard improving and maintaining that section. Nice video.

[@sparkadventure]

So close to town someone stopped the cars and let us continue without stopping. But as we got further out in the country side the leader would slow down and make sure we were clear to continue.

[@STho205]

@@sparkadventure great. People don't fly though these grade crossings, but a first rail buggy can sneak up on a driver. We all have hard stop signs at every crossing...but few do.

[@maryannsharp8574]

Out of business

[@sparkadventure]

Oh NO! This would be the best season to see the leaves change.

[@ricksmith5820]

No, they are still open