Local clubs can help achieve things most individuals cannot. Ie, cleanups, alerts to land use issues, share trail info, ect. I am a proponent of being a member of a local club and a state association with affiliation to a good national organization. It gives you a bigger voice. I have had great results in Snake River Offroaders in Idaho, and I have the opportunity to know many members of most Idaho clubs. I could enjoy being members in any of them, almost without exception. There are great, similarly minded-people in most clubs around here.