The Santiam Four-Wheel Drive Association is planning to hold its annual mud festival at a new location, off Highway 228, on March 6.
The association last held a mud festival in 2007. Formerly called the Mountain Mud Festival and Foster Mud Flats, the Mud Fest will feature most of the same event format as in the past.
It also offers more opportunity for the soupy, gooey mud like the Foster lakebed, said club member and…