There were some sand pits that were being riden just across the NC/SC line somewhere here recently. A customer at the shop was telling me about it the other day.
They have just been recently closed because an ATV rider was riding down the highway after unloading and hit a car, killing the rider in the process. The guy telling me about it said that he had gone down there just the other week-end and was met by a deputy and a bunch of NO TRESPASSING signs. The deputy was the one explaining what had happened.
It wasn't a 'legal' riding area, just one that the land owners and local law enforcment turned their heads to until the unfortunate accident happened.
I can't verify any of this, as I have never been there and have no first hand knowledge of any of it, all of my information is definately second hand. But I felt worth repeating with this explanation and my knowledge of the guy I heard it from.
FWIW...