A lot of motorized sport fans in the North Country see 4-wheeled ATVs as the next big thing.\u00a0 The machines can be ridden more of the year — snowmobilers spend a lot of each winter looking glumly at slushy trails.<\/p>\n
A lot of people love ATVs.<\/p>\n
Last month, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> reported that Franklin County is considering moving forward with an intergrated system for four wheelers that would link to routes in St. Lawrence and Clinton Counties.<\/p>\n Neil Seymour, Franklin County Tourism director and head of the committee, told the board his committee wrapped up their work by conducting a survey, mostly of ATV users, about a potential trail network to assess interest in it.<\/p>\n Out of 920 responses, 82 percent from ATV owners, 98 percent said they want to see an ATV trail system in Franklin County, which Seymour called “pretty overwhelming.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The SNIRT event this spring in Lewis County and the Tug Hill drew 3,000 riders, according to the Watertown Daily Times.<\/p>\n But the sport also has its critics and its detractors, including environmental groups who say that riders do a lot of damage to forests and wetlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n