The Great Pumpkin Thanksgiving GTA Tour: A Road Rally from the River to the Lodge

Saturday, Nov. 23.

Description: A late-fall sign-hunt excursion from the National Great Rivers Museum at the Melvin Price Locks & Dam 26 in Alton, Ill., to the lodge at Pere Marquette State Park in Grafton, Ill. Expect a rally of about 50 miles and two hours duration, one that takes you from Alton up the Great River Road to Elsah, Ill., and then to fun Jersey County, Illinois, country roads before arriving at Pere Marquette park. Also, with the help of the National Great Rivers Museum and Alton's Great Rivers and Routes Tourism Bureau, we have arranged for a group tour of the museum and the Melvin Price locks and dam before the start of the rally.

We last offered our Great Pumpkin Thanksgiving Tour in 2015, when its destination was Hermann, Mo. Please join us Nov. 23 for another edition of this well-received event, our last road rally of the year.

Details:

Date: Saturday, Nov. 23.
Start: National Great Rivers Museum, Melvin Price Locks & Dam 26, Alton, Ill.
Finish: the lodge at Pere Marquette State Park, Grafton, Ill.
Registration: Pre-event registration only here at MotorsportReg.com. Entries on a first-come basis. Registration closes Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 11:59 p.m.
Check-in: Saturday, Nov. 23, beginning at 11 a.m. (The check-in includes time for the tour of the museum and of Locks & Dam 26.)
First car departs the start: 12:31 p.m.
What you need: A car, a driver and a navigator, a clipboard, pencils and paper, and an inclination to take a Saturday-afternoon drive.
Entry fee: $20.00 per team for SCCA teams, $40.00 per team for non-member teams. An SCCA team is defined as a team in which at least one participant is an SCCA member. The $40.00 entry fee for a nonmember team includes a $20.00 SCCA Weekend Membership for the team’s “primary entrant,” i.e., the member who pays the entry fee. The other member of a non-SCCA team will receive a free SCCA Trial Membership (as will any non-SCCA member of an SCCA team).
Size of the field: We are limiting the field to 25 teams.
Information: James H. Heine, rallymaster, 314-922-6120, roadrallychair@stlscca.org.

About the St. Louis Region, SCCA: The SCCA’s St. Louis Region, with some 600 members, offers Road Racing, Performance Driving Experience (PDE), RallyCross, RoadRally, Solo (autocross), and Street Survival School programs to educate and provide safe environments for individuals to enjoy their street-legal (daily driver) cars and purpose-built racecars. The region is home to more than 80 national champions and has been recognized four times by the Sports Car Club of America as the Region of the Year in its member category. To learn more about the St. Louis Region, visit www.stlscca.org.