Tell RI DEM: Drop the $70,000 fine and keep Buttonwoods Motocross open


Tell RI DEM: Drop the $70,000 fine and keep Buttonwoods Motocross open
The Issue
(donate to GoFundMe not the change.org) we don’t get that https://www.gofundme.com/f/SaveButtonwoodsMX
Buttonwoods Motocross in Wyoming, Rhode Island is the ONLY fully legal, and town permitted dirt-bike track in the entire states history.
We opened to the public in 2021 after years of work to make this historic riding area safe and official — the same property that generations of Rhode Islanders have ridden on since the 1970s and 1980s (just like the trails at Goddard Park that were eventually protected).
Now DEM has slapped us with $70,000 in wetlands fines and is threatening closure — on land directly next to an old, uncapped landfill that has never been touched.
→ Zero neighbor complaints in four years
→ Richmond and State Police support us —
→ Hundreds of kids and families every weekend
→ We are literally the ONLY legal place to ride
DEM routinely grants “after-the-fact” permits and mitigation agreements to solar farms, housing developments, and golf courses. We’re just asking for the same common-sense treatment they gave the informal trails at Goddard Park decades ago.
Please sign and tell Director Terry Gray and Governor McKee:
Work with us. Drop or drastically reduce the fines. Let Rhode Island keep its one legal track.
2,791
The Issue
(donate to GoFundMe not the change.org) we don’t get that https://www.gofundme.com/f/SaveButtonwoodsMX
Buttonwoods Motocross in Wyoming, Rhode Island is the ONLY fully legal, and town permitted dirt-bike track in the entire states history.
We opened to the public in 2021 after years of work to make this historic riding area safe and official — the same property that generations of Rhode Islanders have ridden on since the 1970s and 1980s (just like the trails at Goddard Park that were eventually protected).
Now DEM has slapped us with $70,000 in wetlands fines and is threatening closure — on land directly next to an old, uncapped landfill that has never been touched.
→ Zero neighbor complaints in four years
→ Richmond and State Police support us —
→ Hundreds of kids and families every weekend
→ We are literally the ONLY legal place to ride
DEM routinely grants “after-the-fact” permits and mitigation agreements to solar farms, housing developments, and golf courses. We’re just asking for the same common-sense treatment they gave the informal trails at Goddard Park decades ago.
Please sign and tell Director Terry Gray and Governor McKee:
Work with us. Drop or drastically reduce the fines. Let Rhode Island keep its one legal track.
2,791
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Petition created on December 10, 2025