The folks at DSMRA had a few thoughts about Alex Kelly’s Locked Gates article in issue #29.
Alex Kelly’s article in issue #29 of Adventure Rider Magazine raised a hot topic we’re sure we can all relate to: locked gates.As our sports’ adopted title suggests, our interests extend beyond just riding for the pure enjoyment of it. We want to ‘go some-where’, which is what being adventurous is all about, and ideally join up a few ‘somewheres’ into a larger loop.Dead ends and retracing our steps don’t fit that bill.
This National Parks gate in central Queensland is generally left unlocked. It’s probably there to allow traffic control during hazard reduction.
Who’s locking the gates and why?
There are only two basic land tenures, ‘public’ and ‘private’. Public land includes National Parks, State forests, crown land and myriad other names for land controlled by the government. Private land is owned by individuals, companies or other non-government organisations. It gets a bit foggier when government land is leased by a private entity like a railway, and almost pea-soupish when a private-land owner leases a road easement. Each State also has its own differences in legislation.