New Disc Golf Course Opens in Steamboat: Rita Valentine Park

ALERT: since this blog was posted the city council put a halt to use of the Rita Valentine disc golf course...get full details and see article in Steamboat Pilot.

Steamboat’s local Disc Golf League is promoting a new disc golf or "Frisbee golf" course called Fox Creek that opened at the Rita Valentine Park.

See the map course!

The Steamboat Springs Parks and Recreation Commission gave initial approval to a disc golf course at the 35-acre park between Anglers Drive and Hill¬top Parkway in July 2009 as part of conceptual designs for the park’s long-term use. Chris Wilson, director of the city’s Parks, Open Space and Recreational Services Department, said plans for the course solidified during two public meetings of the commission and a hole-by-hole walk-through of the 18-hole course.

This is a fun new course and the Steamboat Disc Golf League is in charge of fundraising and getting the initial course set up. Right now there are just bamboo markers and tree markers where official baskets will soon be!

Other courses around Steamboat:

• Thunderhead Disc Golf Course:
  Thunderhead, located on the Steamboat Ski Resort, will not be set up this year due to tree removal from the Bark Beetle infestation. The Thunderhead course will move to the base area for this summer. Design is not complete as of yet, but it will not be the course that existed 4 years ago. This fall will mark the end of all tree removal on the Thunderhead DGC so it may return for the 2011 season.
  

• CMC Disc Golf Course:
  CMC is still in full effect. Located behind the dorms at the CMC campus on the west side of town, the CMC course is better than ever. Please be aware that people playing the “Back 9” or the “3rd 9” should always yield to people playing the normal 9 hole layout.

See more information about Steamboat's Disc Golf League and know that when you stay in Steamboat there are so many summer activities that it will be hard to choose! See other activities around Steamboat! Summer doesn't get any better than this... see ResortQuest's lodging deals and get to play for as long as you want!