Oconto County applies to be ‘snowmobile friendly’

By: 
Warren Bluhm
Editor-in-chief

The Oconto County Board has endorsed an application to designate the county as a 2023 Snowmobile Friendly Community.

The Association of Wisconsin Snowmobile Clubs designation is designed to celebrate the volunteers who maintain snowmobile trails across the state and promote safe and responsible snowmobiling.

The resolution was presented to the county Land and Water Resources Committee by Debra Uhlenbrauck, president of the Chute Pond Snowmobile Club, secretary/treasurer of the Oconto County Snowmobile Alliance and an AWSC director for Oconto County. The committee and then the full county board endorsed the measure.

“It’s a good way to help us promote the entire county,” said Jayme Sellen, executive director of the Oconto County Economic Development Corp., who praised the coalitions’s collaborative efforts in preparing the application. “There’s no guarantee that we’ll get it but hopefully, with your support, they’ll be able to move it forward.”

“I think it’s a good program,” County Board Chairman Alan Sleeter said. “The key ingredient is snow, of course; we gotta have that.”

The AWSC website said the Snowmobile Friendly Communities designation “is to promote working together as a community for the betterment of snowmobiling. Both the community partners as well as the snowmobile clubs gain marketing abilities to promote tourism and trails in their specific community.”