Oscar winter access

[fishadb]

What's up with the sign on the west part of Oscar where we normally drive on in the winter? It states no driving across state r/w. I'm pretty sure our tax dollars pay for the road ditch and don't really understand the point.

[Weathertite]

What kind of a sign is it ?  Metal like a regular road sign or like something somebody made ?  Mike

[fishadb]

It's a regular sign, looks like MNDOT put it there.

[Weathertite]

I guess that your best bet would be to check with the local officials to get the correct clarification.  Hope this Helps.  Mike

It might possibly be a safety issue with the entrance exiting and entering the roadway.

[walleyeman1]

Probably because they did not like people coming out of the ditch onto a state highway. They did the same thing on Maple lake on highway 29. Very dangerous with icy roads and people pop up on the road.

[teamfrustration83]

The sign got put up because it is a very busy highway and there was an accident there last year

[MNGoldenbear]

Yup. Wondered what was up. Friend said something happened last season, after the mid season warmup and the access got rutted up and hard to get through. Sounds like someone goosed it to get up off the lake. Makes it a little more inconvenient. But a couple years ago, when the snow got thicker and packed, I seem to remember getting on 100-200 yards west of there, at a shallower angle to the road. Might work out again.

[fishadb]

I had the house there a couple weeks ago and pulled it on through the access, but still drove through the ditch with the four wheeler to get to it. It's not any safer pulling out of the access in my opinion, just gun it and hope nobody is coming at 80.