Muskegon Motorcycle Club - Muskegon Motorcycle Club

PROMOTING MOTORCYCLING SINCE 1920

Welcome to our club - we hope to see you at an event...

July 8 - Parties In The Park; Hackley Park Downtown Muskegon; 5PM-9PM. Rev up your engines and join us for the 3rd Parties in the Park of the 2022 season on Friday July 8th. Two great bands, SIRSY & Pop Fiction, will provide the entertainment while there'll be plenty of tasty food, cold beverages and a ton of kids activities. Admission is free and all of the proceeds from this party will benefit the Muskegon Motorcycle Club. More details posted on Facebook.

2022 AMA Hillclimb Grand Championship Aug 12-14, 2022 (located at the historic Mt. Garfield) - Presented by the Muskegon Motorcycle Club. See our Events Page for more information. This is a premier event - a great experience for spectators!!

Our mission is to promote the motorcycle lifestyle and protect the future of motorcycling. We are family oriented and community minded. Safety and respect are our main focus as our members enjoy riding events from street to track and trail.

Come join us in celebrating 102 years as the Muskegon Motorcycle Club!

In 1919 Dan D. Raymond opened the Raymond Motor & Cycle Company on Ottawa Street in Muskegon. Raymond organized the Muskegon Motorcycle Club in 1920 and in 1921 leased a nearby sand dune, Mount Garfield, for a motorcycle Hillclimb.

The Muskegon Motorcycle Club purchased the forty-acre site that included Mount Garfield in 1923, the same year that over 3,000 spectators attended the climb. The club also purchased a farmhouse, which was converted into a clubhouse, and improved the hill with wooden steps, an observation tower, and clay surfacing.

The Muskegon Motorcycle Club received the National Championship Hill Climb award from the American Motorcycle Association (AMA) in 1929. Though the Great Depression curtailed participation in the popular climb, by 1939 the AMA once again decided to hold a National Hillclimb event at Mount Garfield. For the event, a concrete staircase with the name of a sponsor etched in each of the three hundred and thirteen stair slabs was installed. Mount Garfield is the site of the first professional hill climb in America. The climb was suspended during World War II but was resumed in 1946. A stone monument to the members of the Muskegon Motorcycle Club that died in World War II was erected at the entrance of the Mount Garfield grounds in 1949.

The Muskegon Motorcycle Club still hosts the National Hill Climb Competition held at Mt Garfield every other August on even-numbered years. The next National HillClimb is scheduled for August 12-14 2022.

The club purchased nearly 200 acres in Bridgeton Michigan and named the park in honor of the club's founder. Dan Raymond Park is host to many motorcycle events throughout the year and features a Hillclimb so steep it is named "The Wall". The park also features a newly renovated dirt dragstrip complete with lighting in 2013 and updated in 2016. The club hosts several multi-day events and offers rustic camping sites that are quite popular.

The club also organizes many other fun events such as TT scrambles, dirt drags, field events, motocross, trials, ice races, burn-out pits, and more.