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Coordinator / Contact Person Event Questionnaire
If you (as the contact person or coordinator) have been sent a link to this page or asked to go to the Checklist Page, this must mean that your group will be visiting Firey Trails sometime in the next few days. Please review the Reminders Page which reviews last minute details we'd like you and your group to know. In addition to this, please fill in the blanks below and submit at least 2 days prior to your event to give us the information we need. If you have any other questions or comments please call or email us at info@fireytrails.com. In the email we just sent you carrying this link, we listed your day/date and scheduled time frame (please confirm this information below). Since we are now at "Event Time", we also ask you to project a final number of people that will be coming to your event. As stated below, we base the rate and prepare based on this projected number (please review our Rates pages). Once you submit the answers to this checklist, we will either email to you a PDF invoice and statement showing the balance (less the deposit paid) before you come to the event OR if time did not allow this, we will present an invoice and statement during your event*. In either case the full balance of your event (less deposit) must be paid on Event Day before your group leaves our grounds. *An invoice may not be emailed in time depending on how late information was submitted to us - or the busyness at our end with current groups. As the contact person, please request of those from your group that no one come out too much earlier than the scheduled starting time. Because of our otherwise very busy schedule, we are many times prepping right up until the time we are scheduled to receive your group. The exception to this would be for the purpose of someone needing to decorate for a birthday party, etc. Thank you for your cooperation. (This rarely is a problem, but thought we'd mention it.) Please fill out and submit as soon as you have decided on your answers below. In the bottom box, you can also ask any last minute questions not covered in the questionnaire and we will reply promptly. We'd like to receive this form at least a couple of days before your event. For those spaces that do not apply to your group, please skip and leave blank. Thank you.
Event Coordinator - PLEASE READ & ADVISE YOUR GROUP OF THE ROUTE INFORMATION BELOW Since the issue below still comes up on a regular basis (to our continued frustration), we have added extra text for extra emphasis. Please read our "Wordy" but "Worthy" Advice on the Best & Simplest Route
If traveling from the Creek or Turner Turnpikes at Sapulpa, you will be tempted to take the 71st Street short-cut that you will come to first (according to what all the gadgets will say) but it will be worth your while to pass it up and go on north 3 miles to the better 41st route at South Sand Springs instead and then head west toward Firey Trails. We have a lesser "Back Roads" route mapped out just because some computer based mapping sites and GPS navigational programs will compute that this is the best route and tell you to go this way-especially if coming from the Creek/Turner Turnpike in Sapulpa. The back roads route is slightly shorter only by two or three minutes, but this definitely does not make it the best route overall. Time and time again, no matter how much we go overboard in informing on the website, unsuspecting visitors end up going the more difficult way and 10 times out of 10, they tell us they haven't been on our website to be adequately educated and warned about the vast difference in routes. Google Maps, GPS and Mapquest does not take everything into account when computing what they show is the best route to take. Let's just say, all these technological devices are full of high tech information but don't input any common sense into the equation when computing their directions. What the high tech devices will not compute is first of all, 71st Street is absolutely nothing like 41st Street. Of course, the locals know this but to out-of-towners reading a map (or MapQuest for that matter), one street is just like another. Although 71st has a blacktop surface, it is a lesser and narrower unlined "side street type" country road with some potholes and the westward bound street finally turns into an even lesser meandering dirt road at 177th - . (Whereas 41st is a main road in the area and main cross street with traffic signals and is a lined highway going west and east through Sand Springs.) Sometimes MapQuest says to take the 71st route and then other complicated twist and turns (to avoid taking the dirt road up ahead.) But if you do not turn off, 71st Street turns into a 2.3 mile stretch of an late 1800's ancient, narrow and winding dirt and gravel road (177th) that winds along Rock Creek and will make any out-of-towner feel they've started their Firey Trails adventure before they ever arrive (especially after dark). (There is "no charge" for this unintentional part of the FT experience, by the way.) Also if you have a nice car, you probably don't want little bits of road gravel flying up against your nice paint job. Also, the dirt portion of the road is only slightly wider than a bus in places, so we definitely do not encourage any larger vehicle coming this way (plus the turn in cannot be made this way with a larger vehicle.) We have a couple lesser Firey Trails signs on the back roads and the cross streets are marked with small street signs (most of the time-including the small 71st Street sign on Highway 97) but these street signs can be very challenging to see after dark. We cannot stress enough that you'll be much more confident of your route if you choose what we call the "High Road" which is the well marked, fully paved and lined, 41st Street highway route - which include three large metal reflective Firey Trails signs for the final 3.5 miles. These large reflective signs begin at the 41st Street/Coyote Trail fork just slightly west of the large Discoveryland billboard on the north side of 41st a little over 5 miles from the 41st Street/Highway 97 (Quik Trip) Junction in south Sand Springs. They show direction arrows and remaining mileage to Firey Trails. Say - When you get here , ask us what we REALLY think - about the route we think you ought to take - if you can't figure it out by now! (Ha Ha) Hopefully, we've convinced you.
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