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Disc golf in Upper Bidwell Park may be removed: Sign This Petition
Disc golf has been played in Bidwell Park since the late 1980's. In 1994 the city purchased the highway 32 site from the Bureau of Land Management. In 1998 the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission, who governs the use of Bidwell Park, voted to allow disc golf to continue pending environmental studies. The Chico City Council funded the construction of 45 hole disc golf holes with $206,000, and the environmental studies were completed.

In 2003 the "Friends of Bidwell Park", an environmental group, hired the Sacramento law offices of J. William Yeates to stop improvements at the disc golf site. The City Council transferred the money allotted for disc golf to the Bidwell Park Master Management Plan update. This restarted the entire environmental review process. In 2006 as part of the park plan update the Park Commission designated an 18 hole advanced and 18-hole beginner course as the preferred project for the highway 32 site. In 2007 the "Friends of Bidwell Park" hired the same law firm to force the environmental review and park planning process to remove disc golf. The City of Chico has now spent more than $600,000 revising plans and studies. During this time frame they have not allowed disc golf park users to make improvements to the site.

Documents related to the history of disc golf in Upper Bidwell Park can be found on the Resources page (see here).

The options now available for disc golf at this site are a 2 18-hole course, 1 18-hole, and 1-12 hole course, 1 18-hole course, or removal of disc golf. There is no reason to assume that disc golf will be allowed to continue in Bidwell Park. If you would like to continue playing disc golf in Upper Bidwell Park you should take the following steps.

1. Sign the petition below and provide and accurate email address so we can let you know when decisions are being made.
2. Email your Park Commissioners (email here) and City Councilors (email here) and respectfully ask them to keep the site open.
3. Write letters to the editor of our local paper to express your opinion (web page here).
4. Ask your friends and family to do the things above as well.


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1 Sean Kelly
Unbelievable that city council would give in to environmental zealots and take away a great asset to our community
2 Tracy Duffert
This is such a great activity for both kids,adults and family's to participate in. An oppertunity for people to learn a new sport and enjoy nature and an INCREDIBLE view! I want to be able to show the kids I may have some day the same fun!
3 jeremiah warmboe
save disk golf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
4 Andrew Bostrom
This course keeps me out of trouble and i get lots of exercise, This is a sport i've seen many familys come to play together. The funnest thing to happen to me.
5 Nathan Abrams
6 Dave Stephens
I support Disc Golf in Chico at all present locations, and more to come hopefully.
7 Troy Schmidt
I am from Auburn and I and my family were wanting to come up to Chico to play the courses. This is the only reason I would come there. The point is that Chico would lose REVENUE from visitors coming to play.
8 Marissa Montoya
dont take away the few good things that are left in this town for kids to do besides binge drink and party
9 Brad Bodenham
Low environmental impact and great recreation. I support disk golf in Upper Bidwell park.
10 Phil Hansen
It is the people's land. The people have a right to walk through it, potentates should not say we cannot. What is this? 13th century nobleman rule? Disc golf hurts nobody and doesn't hurt the land. Power to the people!
11 Joe Cook
I support disc golf. It is an entirely appropriate use of a small portion of Bidwell Park.
12 Mike Marks
We don't play disc golf...our only sin was to provide the tax dollars for purchase of the land. The City should never have bought it...now the leaders don't want it used. Same as Bidwell Ranch. Need a permit to get in. Sorry, we didn't agree to buy it
13 roger marshall
Bidwell Park is there to be available to everybody. Disc golf is harmless.
14 Jeremiah Moody
The Bidwell disc golf course is one of the major highlites of Upper Bidwell Park. Closing it down would be a huge mistake and end the fun that many people and families enjoy while using the course. Please do not close this disk golf course.
15 Shirley L. Erickson
Why have a park if the people cannot use it? That is what it is for!
16 Michael Gray
There is no reason why the course shouldn't be enjoyed.
17 jirah ramirez
disc golf is fun and deserves to stick around
18 sam hewitt
disc golf is a great family, or friend activity that gives you the chance to have fun, excitement, and exercise. To remove the hwy 32 course would be absurd. it is definetly the best course I've played and could be the best if made official.
19 Craig Clingan
Disc Golf has always been and should continue to be a great and inexpensive way for members of our communities to get out and enjoy nature, friends and exercise. To take this away from a community is clearly not the right decision.
20 Tyler Trumbly
The point of a public park is to provide outdoor enjoyment for everyone. Not turn the outdoors into a museum that you can only see not touch. It is a big park with room for everyone.
21 Jeremy Cashman
1200 lb horses can destroy trails (huge holes in trails) daily, however 170 lb disc golfers are bad for the park?? Wake up Chico!
22 Cory Nall
I just moved to Chico and have not even played the course. I have been playing for 26 years and cannot for the life of me uderstand this mess. Are these "outsiders" educated?
23 Jamie Monroe
It's been there for years...It's a local Icon...SAVE OUR COURSE
24 Ken Anderson
Disc golf is a wonderful way for family to spend time together in upper park. It is a opportunity to instill love and respect for our environment in our children. Our family supports option "A" (long 18 hole and short 18 hole course).
25 Laura Cockrell
Disc golf is just another way to enjoy the great outdoors and the beauty of Bidwell Park. It is accessable to all ages and all skill levels and should remain in the Park for generations to come!
26 Wes Roebuck
Don't let the city screw us again!
27 Robert Nance
Disc golf should be encouraged and supported by the City of Chico. Disc golf facilities should be in both upper and lower Bidwell Park.
28 Collin Ford
disc golf is one of my favorite things to do. anybody that would try to take it away from the youth and all ages is a debbie downer just spoilin our fun. Disc For All
29 Eric Greenley
Disc golf isn't hurting anything! How dare they try to take it away!
30 Rachelle Ford
Disc golf at Upper Bidwell should continue! Its one of the only free, fun things to do! For people of all ages
31 Brandon Bowen
This is a awsome course that is on piece of land that is otherwise unused. It is a great asset to our community.
32 Richard Maxwell
The HOGS Disc Golf Club visits Chico many times a year just to play disc golf. If the course in Upper Bidwell is removed we will have no reason to visit Chico. Please know that many people visit your city and spend money there because of the great course
33 Matt Daniels
Please leave disc golf in the park. Frisbees are zero emissions!
34 Justin Smith
if San Francisco goldern gate park can support disc golf i believe chico can support disc golf there are ways of protecting the trees and making the community happy.
35 Thomas N. Hall
Disc golf is a great activity for both kids and adults. Please do not remove the course.
36 Joy Cathers
the idea that they are damaging the trees is crazy. the deer would do more damage to the trees than the disc's do.
37 Craig Dieno
we travelled from canada to play Bidwell Park, it's a beauty, put in concrete tee pads, it's whats needed
38 Jackson Lloyd
Disc golf is a great incentive for many people to get out and enjoy the wonders of the land with little impact to the environmental quality of the park.
39 Chris O'Donnell
Chico needs disc golf.
40 jared
looks like a great course cant wait to try it out just moved from denver moved out here 2 months ago and all my familey plays golf here
41 Amber
Leave it there.
42 Ross Brown
Parks are ment to be enjoyed by people.
43 Derek Kotval
Disc Golf Courses give kids something constructive to do with their time. Don't take away something positive from children.
44 Mike Thiel
I am a registered Civil Engineer. Please put me down for support of the Upper Park DG Courses. These areas are needed for recreational opportunities. Proposed improvements should be allowed to continue..
45 matt white
this is a great course! I moved here from Santa Cruz and I think the upper bidwell course is scenic and challenging
46 Tyler Cole
Don't close a course that's known for it's unique location for hundreds of miles around. You'd be suprised how many different people know of this course.
47 Ron Gless
Keep Disc Golf alive in Chico! These are epic courses that Northern Cali Golfers do not want to see go!
48 Benjamin Wentland
Disc golf is a great way to enjoy the beauty of Bidwell park. Losing the course is a big detrament to the community, and the park.
49 Curtis Paul
Litigation by the 8 (and only 8) members of the FOBP are undermining the decisions of our elected officials. They serve only themselvs, and other environmental consultants. The Chico community is savy, we can make this course sustainable!
50 Sean Pfundstein Riverbend Disc Golf Club
Disc Golf is a great sport. i've been playing it for 16 years now , i can't get enough of the sport and now i have my kids getting into it. it is a great family sport that is enjoyed by everyone, to lose this course would be a shame
51 Greg Carl
I don't need to lose my best excuse to get up from the couch entranced by the TV.
52 chris roehm
No participants of any other sport respect the environment like disc golf players do and to take the course away on those grounds is the ultimate irony.
53 Wyndam Lewis
This course is my life in the spring/summer/fall. I know every tree and every rock and I have had far to many memories there to see it get shut down. Save the course!
54 Robert Lloyd
Let us keep playing
55 Chris Ducale
Save our course!!
56 avery beck
What is so bad about disc golf
57 Luke Smith
I largely object to the removal of this amazing course! Save this course!
58 John Unger
next thing you know, they will be removing basketball coursts and soccer fields from other parks. What a better way to enjoy a wonderful resource by playing disc golf there.
59 nick
save disk golf
60 Oliver Eldredge
That is one of the nicest parts of Bidwell Park? Why remove it?
61 stuart davis
the golf course is one of the only reasons I and many other people even come to chico, its good for the local economy and its a fun, cheap sport to help maintain a healthy lifestyle
62 Matt O'Brien
This is a great and unique characteristic of Chico and life in Northern California.
63 Jim Caldwell
this is a public park. we should be allowed to use it too
64 Bryson Perez
Disc golf is a great healthy outdoor alternative to the indoor non-physical entertainment that is prevalent today
65 Beau Daniel
Please dont let the screams of a few disrupt the harmless pleasure of many.
66 Sam Miller
Don't close the disc golf course. It is a great sport for everyone. Closing the course would be a terrible decision.
67 Ryan O'Sullivan
Disc golf is one of my favorite ways to enjoy the beauty of upper park. It would be horrible if the course no longer existed.
68 Mike Woodman
As a graduate of Chico State and avid disc golfer I urge the Park Commission and City of Chico to write a Statement of Overriding Consideration if necessary and provide this great recreational benefit to the community.
69 Mike Spencer
Don't get rid of disc golf. Its a great sport and a great pasttime.
70 Brandon Quackenbush
Save Disc Golf in Upper Park.
71 Rick Carhart
Not only should disc golf be allowed in Bidwell Park, the "Friends" and anyone else who cares about this amazing place should embrace it! You won't find a more beautiful piece of nature, and disc golfers understand this better than most.
72 Jake Davis
I first discovered disc golf here in Chico and now it's my favorite hobby bar none. The beauty of the course and the sense of community between golfers is why I can't stay away. And it's FREE and I'm broke!!! But mostly it's the beauty.
73 Clay Miller
Chico deserves a beautiful disc golf course.
74 Zak Driscoll
Look at Oroville's course and Chico is put to shame. I still can't believe that We don't have a nice course indicitve of out beautiful town! It's down right embarrasing.
75 Blake T. Bandy
Disc Golf is one of the few inexpensive recreation opportunities available to the public. It gets people excited about being outside and nature in general. Getting more people to appreciate the outdoors is key to conversation efforts.
76 Cassie Kays
Keep disc golf alive!
77 Brian Barns
This was the first course I played when I moved to Susanville 5 years ago. I have played over 130 courses across the US, and this ranks towards the top. The views are unmatched and the challenge is great!
78 Lance Brogden
We need to keep the course AND allow improvements to help with environment concerns
79 Andrea B. Moriarty
Great, healthy way to have fun outside! Chico needs to keep disc golf alive!
80 Adam Stein
Love Chico, Love Disc Golf. The course is one of the big reasons I have come back to visit Chico over the years after moving out of town. Good clean active fun for all ages.
81 Phil Anderson
Please keep these courses open. There is a constant flow of people everyday that enjoy these courses. They need to be renovated and continue to be avialable for family fun.
82 Brian Smith
The pure beauty and constant challenge of this great course have helped me introduce disc golf to many friends that are now fans for life. Don't take our course away!
83 Jon-Michael Basile
This town needs things for people my age to do besides spend money at the bars. We need disc golf in Chico.
84 Darren Holley
I can't imagine chico without disc golf. Let disk golf in chico remain!!!
85 Ken Frisbee
Chico should support disc golf. It has one of the best courses in the state, do not allow a vocal minority to ruin a growing, vibrant sport for the very supportinve disc golf playing majority in Chico.
86 Darrol Butler
CARD, Thank you for your continued support of an Upper Bidwell Park disc golf course. Please don't let the interests and lawsuits of a few Chico residents ruin a wonderful recreational activity for the rest of us.
87 Mike Whittle
Good wholesome fun, let it flourish!
88 Chad Bales
It would be a shame to lose such a beautiful course
89 chad inman
i had alot of fun at the gathering this weekend and getting over $300 to be donated to charity
90 Marc Elwood
Disc Golf is my life!!!
91 Mark Hoover
Our whole family plays disc golf. We love upper park too. Keep the disc golf course in upper park! It's contained and its harming nobody. It's a park not a preserve!
92 William Aaron Porter
Save the Disc Golf in upper Park. My kids love it!
93 Bryan Howarth
The Bidwell disk golf courses are a great feature in chico and and it would be tragic if they were removed.
94 Brian Solecki
Me like golf frisbee
95 Sean M Baber
We need more opportunities for outdoor recreation like disc golf. We already have too many restrictions on public lands in Chico.
96 Scotty Riemens
It's my way to get in touch with nature while getting the exercise that has kept me healthy in mind, body and soul.
97 Jason Garrett
Chico is my hometown. I was first exposed to disc golf at the upper park courses. Every time I return home a trip to the disc golf course is essential. This course is part of the park and the people of Chico!
98 Zack Galla
Who doesnt like chasing plastic saucers around all day
99 Greg Breazeale
I lived in Chico for 5 years and the disc golf course was one of my favorite places for exercise, recreation, and stress relief. Some of my best memories were created there. It would be a shame to ruin that for the residents and future residents.
100 James Harrison
101 Darren Holley
At the time of this message I have only been playing disc golf for little over a month. All I can do is say that I would be very dissapointed if disc golf was taken away in Chico. Support Disc Golf in Chico!!!
102 Burhan Qazi
Some of my favorite times in Chico were at Bushwacker.
103 Tina Day
I saw my greatest scores when pregnant. I am a College instructor and mother who doesn't want to see it go. SAVE ACTIVITIES THAT PROMOTE OUTDOOR LOW-COST FUN!!!
104 David Crose
As a new student at CSUC, I have yet to play the course here. However, the fact there was a disc golf course nearby was one of the reasons I decided to attend CSUC. PLEASE DON'T REMOVE THE COURSE!
105 Garrison Francis
This park is the best park I have ever been in. This course is a great place to hang and be close to nature. To take out one of the very few course in the world is to take away the entire sport from a community because of its rarity.
106 Rich WAgner
Disk golf should be reckognized by the city of Chico. We provide a one hole practice in the Childrens park but fail to continue the development of a full course. The upkeep is managable and sholuld not be the discouraging factor to create a nice course.
107 Mark Doughman
I enjoy playing disc golf with friends and family. It gets my kids away from the TV and into the outdoors. We have some great conversations as we play and walk the course. We need to develop and maintain the course to minimize impact.
108 Jarrod Stein
I love disc golf and I took pictures of the last time I went, I alway take my trash away with me and I hate that some people litter. Don't take away discgolf in chico
109 Bill Brouhard
Outdoor recreation is healthy for the individual and the community, and Chico needs more of it. We're fortunate to have Bidwell Park, and I'd like to think a properly designed and managed disc golf course encourages its respectful enjoyment.
110 Brian Brock
i love the chico disc golf course. id be heartbroken if it got removed.
111 Stephanie Hassur
How can anyone not support an activity that gets families and friends outside to socialize and run around having fun?? Disc golf in Bidwell Park is an asset to Chico and the surrounding communities.
112 Sean Noland
Having been recently introduced to this sport, my family and I are looking forward to visiting your fair city this summer while visiting family. We plan a trip to your course because it's a special way to spend quality time with loved ones - of all ages!
113 Denis Benoit
I come to Chico for the disc golf and stay for the shopping and great food. I would hate to give all that up. Please keep the disc golf courses.
114 Jeff Thompson
save the course
115 Shaun F
please, PLEASE don't shut down our course, it is a great place with an awesome view. You can't just deny access to a public park to its residents. The shutting down of this site would be a tragedy...
116 Joe Kocsis
It's a nice place to go. I would be a big shame if this was taken away from the community.
117 Justin Bergson
Disc golfers take pride in doing everything we can to make sure the environment we play in is treated with respect. This course is one of the reasons why Chico is so special.
118 Chris Brackbill
I just got a hole-in-one on hole 6 (beginner course) a little while ago. The course needs to stay just the way it is so everyone who plays hole 6 and sees my name on the pin will understand just how awesome I am. Seriously though, please keep the course
119 Eric Teddy
If your budget is an issue then there is nothing better for this park than a disc golf course! I think they keep foot traffic in otherwise unused parts of the park and help deter crime. Plus it has already been there for ten years it has worked so far why
120 Kristen B.
I started disc golfing in the bay area. I've since moved to Chico and think it would be a shame to see the only course in the area disappear.
121 Joel C. Howard
On behalf of TEAM SILVERBACK, please let us keep the Chico course. It really means a lot to all of us in the disc golf community and it is a key course for the Shasta Series Tournament. So please keep it going, thank you and God bless.
122 Kassie Carrion
I love disc golf. It is fun. And I cannot live without it.
123 chad inman
DIsc golf helps support local business and brings in out of city visitors for an enjoyable time.
124 Liz
Disc golf should stay in upper park
125 Josh cutler
I was born in Chico and I love to play Disc Golf here. This is one of the few things I do every day. Please help support our course!
126 Don Schmidt
Disc golf needs to stay in Chico
127 Chad Goodwin
Disc golf should be supported as it's a great way to enjoy the outdoors, get valuable exorcise, and it can be enjoyed by people of all ages. There are not enough athetic endeavors nowadays this inexpensive and available to so many different people.
128 Rick Rothstein
Disc golf remains a healthful and inexpensive game that can be played by people of all ages. While the environmental impact of our young sport is just being realized, most usage problems can be ameliorated through careful planning.
129 Michael J Ruzicka
Please consider DiscGolf as an inexpensive AND nondiscriminating sport that can be enjoyed by EVERYONE at a very low cost. Thank You
130 Matt LaCourte Jr
As a former California resident, disc golf is a positive impact for the entire community
131 Stan Pratt
As most cities are finding out, disc golf courses are a great asset to have. If effort is put forward to maintain the area, then the impact is negligible.
132 James Stiling
Keep the course! It is a great activity for college students and others.
133 Russell Wilson
Great exercise, good times, keeps kids out of trouble; Why would you remove it? That makes no sense to me. Save The Bidwell Park DG Course!
134 Adam Grosvenor
Please keep the course, I haven't actually played there. The landscape is awesome, my grandparents owned a 1,200 acre ranch just a few miles up the road, but sold it to CSU for the ecological reserve. I know that there is a place for Bidwell Disc Golf!!!
135 JP
Disc golf SAVES LIVES
136 Steve Narehood
Please keep this course and others in the ground.Thank You
137 Suzette Simons
Disc Golf does not necessarily have a bad impact on trees. Ewing Disc Golf Course in Des Moines Iowa plays through the city's Children's Arboretum. It is a great way to play disc golf and learn about the many variety of trees and shrubs in the park.
138 Chris Wild
Please do not remove the Disc Golf course!!!
139 Justin Barr
A disc golf park with two full courses is rare here in Oklahoma. The city of Chico should do everything it can to protect this resource for the local D.G. community. If it is removed, the future generations of disc golfers will miss out.
140 Joe Padilla
Everyone is a discgolfer, they just don't know it yet! ~don't deny the future great players this experience.
141 Mark Bohn Jr.
My father and me travel all across the state of California and have also gone out of state to play competitive disc golf. Chico needs a tournament class course to host tournament and for practice. The City needs to keep this course and make it official.
142 Kirk Yoo
Please do not remove the Disc Golf course!!!
143 Steve Crandall
Chico needs disc golf, wherever it may be.
144 Suzette Simons
Disc Golf can share the park with many other users. Disc Golf is one way for people to spend time outdoors in a peaceful, beautiful and natural environment. It is less damaging to a park than a paved bike trail or parking lot.
145 Ross Hammond
we struggled with many of the same issues in San Francisco -- dics golf and environmental protection are NOT mutually exclusive as long as there is a willingness to find solutions and not just scream at ecah other.
146 Aaron Swygert
If disc golfing is wrong, then i don't want to be right baby...............
147 Michael Treat
We have courses in Tulsa that are over 30 years old. The tree damage is neglible after 3 decades. Bugs, birds and wind causes much more damage than disc golfers.
148 Thong Le
Please consider keeping your disc golf course. it is a viable community asset that is accessable to all at no charge.
149 David A Wise
Please consider keeping your disc golf course. it is a viable community asset that is accessable to all at no charge.
150 Chris Fosen
Save disc golf!
151 Arron Cox
Please keep the disc golf courses in place. It is my new love, hobby and it gives me excercise!
152 Jonathan Werner
I love Bidwell Park. My friends and I go Disc golfing every week. Great exercise for me and my dog. Please don't take it away. Places like this show "flatlanders" how beautiful the upper park is. Love and respect will lead to greater land conservation.
153 Justin Vorhees
The city should keep the disc golf courses in upper park. I have become a more avid disc golfer over the past few months and every time that I go the parking lot has anywhere from 5-30 cars in it. We should not lose this privelege.
154 David Kinter
To have a course to improve on is huge. There is a legitimate base of players from all area's that will and have support issues such as this. Not supporting Disc Golf would be a great loss to the people of the community.
155 Cody Bryan
Disc golf is a major part of Chico and if they take it out they will be ruining one of the best ways to get outdoors and have a great time
156 Paul Smith
Taking out the disc course would be asinine
157 Trevor M Hastings
This course holds a lot of memories for me. All of them good =) I have been playing this course since 1999. I do not want to see it get closed down! Save this course!!
158 Jake Schildhauer
Chico's Disc Golf Course has one of the greatest views on the planet, and getting rid of that is just rediculous. I'm up for keeping it.
159 Zack Stephens
playing disc golf at the upper park course is a great way to experience our beautiful local enviornment. Why remove it? .
160 Patrick Conroy
I am Chico high student and most of my friends use the course multiple times a week and would be very upset if it was take out.
161 Tom Simenc
The disc golf course is one of few positive and free recreation activities in chico and is an incredible asset to many of our citizens. It is low impact in comparison to many other park activities and should be recognized.
162 Joel Cheney
I firmly support Disc Golf in Bidwell Park, and any attempt to remove it would only harm the quality of recreation spaces in the area.
163 Megan Fischer
I've never personally done it! But I've always wanted to and it should remain.
164 Amber Madsen
There are not enough good disc golf courses around!
165 Melody Proebstel
Disc Golf is enjoyed by many in this area.
166 Laura Bowers
The disc golf course is a positive way for people of all ages to spend their free time. This a great activity. My friends and I love going to play.
167 April Nelson
I have only played there a few times but I loved it. It is a great rec sport. I support keeping it!!
168 Jorge Barrientos
I'm don't live in Chico anymore, but when I return, which I often do, I look forward to playing on the course. Don't take that away.
169 Joe Visitacion
I met the love of my life on that course. I'll never forget her sweet sweet name...Disc Golf. Retro, Tomahawk, whatever the style, she knew how to make me feel loved. One round on her firm yet tender par 3 holes(all 18) made me understand nature.
170 Josh Scotia
Love the sport and want to see it stay around!
171 Jack Milner
I love the disc golf courses. Removing them would be stupid.
172 Jim Mellem
Bidwell Park was created for the enjoyment for the enjoyment of all citizens of Chico. The disc golf course is a small footprint on the 3,600 acre park, and gives players an appreciation of the canyon with its awesome views. Keep the Upper Park course!
173 Skyler Shipley
slothrowers.com... supporting Disc Golf across the state of California.
174 Mike Ristuccia
I have played disc golf on and off for 20 years and have played a variety of courses throughout Northern California. Disc Golf is a clean recreational activity for people of all ages to enjoy.
175 Jeff Kelly
Seems to me the "Friends" have fallen victim to the same thinking that lead to the vietnam war. The slippery slope fallacy. They see disc golf leading to a wasteland of dead trees and billboards. I see it as another great thing to do in Chico.
176 Lindsey Stewart
If you really want to save the trees and their surrounding environment, you should help advocate a permanent course. That way, when the area is parcelled off for track housing, it will be protected from the suburbian hell that Chico is sure to become.
177 Brian Crum
Think of it in terms of communal services. Providing more outlets for our youth can only increase there opportunities for success.
178 Jim Aird
Disc golf at Bidwell Park is my biggest reason to use the park. Why can all parties work together to create solutions to reasonably accomodate preservationists and actual park users?
179 Scott Schumann
The disc golf course in Chico represents a healthy alternative form of recreation which the city needs to support. The city should embrace it, as it adds to the diversity of recreation opportunities the community is known for.
180 Jeff Moss
i belive that the disc golf course should not be rmoved. it is one of the great things to do in chico that is free. The park offers a great time in the outdoors and also offers an alternative to alcohol.Removal of the courese would be a shame and a loss.
181 Anna Barrett
The greatest detriment to Bidwell Park is the arrival of luxury homes on the once-beautiful canyon ridge...disc golf should be the least of the city's concerns!
182 Patrick Fowler
Disc golf is fun and an important asset to bidwell Park,
183 Rory Nall
Disc Golf is a great game it allows people to get out and enjoy the beautiful scenery. Please keep the Disc Golf course open for future generations to enjoy!
184 Rex Chan
Discgolf is a great sport for everybody, please let us enjoy discgolf now and also in the future.
185 Robert Matson
For many of us college students who choose not to be a stereotype and try our best not to feed the "party town" attitude of Chico, disc golf is one of the only things left in this town for us to take part in. Please don't take that away from us.
186 Katie Edmunson
Please save the Chico disk golf course, we need more recreational oppertunities in Chico!
187 Matthew Frink
I no longer live in Chico, but when I did, I would frequent the Bidwell Disc Course. I have been to a number of courses and none are like the Chico course. The bluffs and the open area, just gorgeous. Chico needs a disc course.
188 Darcie Ryan
" The community that Disc Golfs together, stays together" I believe that. This sport is unlike any other. Anyone can play. Regardless of age,sex or physical stature. Alone, or in a group, Disc Golf is for everyone. Please dont remove Disc Golf from Chico
189 Nikki Scott
These courses have inspired me to start a disc golf program at the Boys and Girls Club teaching young children the facination of playing this sport. Lets keep passing the torch!
190 Nate Ogden
If the course is shut down people will continue to find places to play. Might as well just keep one designated area instead of having a bunch of unofficial places throughout the park
191 William Aaron Porter
This is a great family activity that should not be destroyed by a few disgrunts!
192 Bryn Lockhart
If frisbee golf in Chico is taken away from me, I will cry.
193 Jonathan
Disc golf is beautiful way to see the dry hills around Chico. The view is fantastic, the people are nice, most keep the area clean, & I can take my family and pets out for a walk. Removal would destroy a greatly appreciated part of Chico's beauty.
194 Niklos Weber, DVM
Disc golf exposes people to nature and the environment who would potentially not otherwise be so exposed.
195 Pete Carr
Disc golf provides wonderfully safe yet challenging outdoor recreation with family and friends. For fitness, for fun, and for appreciating the beauty of Bidwell Park, the City of Chico needs to allow the disc golf courses to be improved and maintained.
196 Dr. Matt Meuter
This course is one of the many things that makes Chico "Chico." Recreation and use of the park is the point of Bidwell Park. This is low impact and great fun for the whole family.
197 Gary McCune
If the disc golf course is removed then you will be taking away a lot of good exercise for a lot of people. I love disc golf and it would be a travesty if the course was removed.
198 Casey Frazer
(edited for content) I don't appreciate my recreational opportunities being attacked by the environmental community!
199 Brady Lockhart
I go to the course 2 to 4 times a week, it's a great way to spend time with friends and family. Don't take it away from us!
200 Tom Shotwell
BEST entertainment value in Chico! WHY remove it? Bidwell Park isn't big enough? Wake up, chico! Time for action!
201 Chris Ocampo
Disk golf provides people with a great activity to enjoy with friends and family, taking the course away would be a tragedy
202 Trevor Bohn
I play disc golf almost everyday and I think it is a great way to enjoy Bidwell. If they close down the course we all would have to drive to oroville and that is just way to much gas. SAVE THE COURSE!!!
203 dennis wolfe
disc golf is a necessity in chico
204 Waylon Henry
Disc golf has been a great way for me to escape for a couple hours and enjoy the outdoors. It is good, clean, innocent fun. My question is: "Why is the course being targeted when there are countless subdivisions being approved for construction?"
205 Jake Johnson
Frolf needs to be save in bidwell park beacuse it is an awesome sport. The trees are not getting hurt.
206 Michael Green
As a former Chico resident, I know Bidwell Park is fully capable of supporting multiple uses including disc golf. Sad to say, I'm not surprised to hear this is going on in Chico, where political correctness often trumps common sense.
207 Joe Harris
Disc Golf is a sport which I believe is naturally played within the environment. If they believe this, they why do they have a problem with us playing at Bidwell. As long as we don't litter, the environment is safe.
208 Nicholas Matthew Tom
DISC GOLF NEEDS TO BE SAVED!! ITS A GREAT OUTDOOR SPORT?ACTIVITY AND BRINGS HELLA FRIENDS AND NEW PEOPLE TOGETHER & IS MOST ENJOYABLE!! PORTECT & SAVE OUR COURSES NOW!!
209 Annie Campbell
Yesterday I played disc golf for the first time and I had a lot of fun. I am very sad to hear that people are trying to close down the disc golf course. Please leave help the disc golf team keep it nice and let people like me learn what the sport is.
210 Daniel Olivas
its not like were out shooting squirrels or poluting the rivers, were just playing frisbee
211 Thomas Baker
This golf course is a fun place and schould not be closed, I toke a field trip to there along time ago and it was so much fun!!!!!!! SO DO NOT CLOSE THIS COOL DISC GOLF COURSE!!!!
212 Leslie Ball
To all you corporate business guys, we're keeping this land for disc golf!
213 Kevin Knoll
Save the course...it rules!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!
214 Jen Stockton
Let the kids play!
215 Paul Aguirre
My first experience playing disc golf was when I was a freshmman at Chico St., now being a senior I am so glad my old roommate opened up a whole new chapter in my sporting adventures, don't take that opportunity for others in the future to experience
216 Kristopher Hencken
Save the course!!! I graduated from Chico State University back in 2002 and played disc golf alot over my five year stay in Chico. It was a great recreation asset to the students and community as a whole. It would definately be a tragic loss.
217 Vicky
Disc golf is a great opporotunity for all ages to get out and be constructive without being dispruptive or destructive to the community.
218 JoAnna Garner
Save the Course! It's beautiful, and a blast to play.
219 Tim Frietas
As a former resident, the idea that a litter-free course would be removed because of impact on the Upper Park while hundreds of litter- and pollution-heavy cars are allowed to drive right to Bear Hole is just absurd. Disc golf's impact is MINIMAL, D o fP
220 Chris Place
the land used to be grazed by cattle-they were run off. now, its used for a recreational sport (disc golf)- they're trying to run us off. who will they go after next?
221 Adrian Palenchar
What good would the land the course is on be if no one used it? It's there, it's beautiful, so we might as well enjoy it with minimal amounts of damage rather than admire it from afar.
222 Ryan Van Fleet
As a college student, I can barely afford any sort of recreation other than Disc Golf. It provides a fun/exercising use of the beauty that is Upper Bidwell. The positive impact on our community far outweighs the nominal bit of environmental damage caused.
223 Alex "The Battle Axe"
What would we do if the golf course were gone? nothing. We'd probably start up another lame band or spend lots more money on gas going to the course in Oroville. Can't we all just get along?
224 Kevin
PLEASE do not take away the Chico Disc course! Can you not see how much joy it brings to us and how much effort we have been putting into saving it? We care about the environment too! Please dont let the few people ruin it for us. Thank you! Kevin
225 Bill Spencer
The traffic issues are a clear sign that the people of chico have spoken. They WANT to play disc golf. The irony is that, because so many people play, we may loose our course. FIND ANOTHER SOLUTION FOR THE PEOPLE OF CHICO. Outdoor living MUST prevail.
226 Ben Blythe
If Bidwell isn't the right place, lets find a new place and the city should help.
227 Keith Hayden
If disc golfing is wrong, then i don't want to be right baby.
228 William Alvarez
Disc golf is a great addition to the park. It would be huge to loose it. The park is for everyone to use, and everyone to share.
229 Casey Cagle
I have enjoyed Bidwell Park for years and while I do not play disc golf I completely support those who do. It seems that horseback riding (which I also support) causes far more damage. The park is large enough for everyone.
230 Robert Carroll
My 8 year old daughter cherishes the time she can spend with me throwing discs, hiking, appreciating flora and fauna, and just being together on the long course(as do I). Please let us keep our special times together at this beautiful location. Thank you.
231 Shane Hilton
I started playing disc golf summer '04 and it gives me exercise, competition, a beautiful view and so much more.
232 Chris Fosen
I'm saddened that the Friends of Bidwell Park is so opposed to an environmentally harmless sport that brings friends and family together to enjoy the beauty of nature--in a part of the park that is isolated from other, more popular areas.
233 Brian Kreb
I support the disc golf course 100%. I have worked in the environmental field for five years and think that the environmental damage is minimal compared to the benefit of its users.
234 Ron Cremo
I support disc golf in chico and in bidwell park.
235 Shad Butler
Please support disc golf and give current and future generations a place to enjoy a safe and healthy sport.
236 Troy Stansbury
Disc golf is one of the only free events available in Chico and supports students and locals to go outside and enjoy nature. I have never seen a cleaner course around. Country Club golf courses aren't as clean as the Chico disc golf course.
237 Deana Sweeney
Disc golf is a great outdoor activity.
238 Troy Franzen
Environmental impact? If that's the case we need to get rid of all the deer that make tracks up there too. Let's get real.
239 Tom Addison - Registered Voter - City of Chico
Annie Bidwell did not give us the park to lock up and preserve! She gave it to the people of Chico to enjoy......to use....to get outside...........to stay healty!
240 Rick Leis
A small group of enviro-extremists should not be allowed to hold the community of Chico hostage. Their radical ideology must not be the final arbiter over outdoor recreation opportunities in Bidwell Park. It is a park, let the people of Chico use it!!!
241 dave jones
disc golf is a fun, inexpensive, and a great way to get out and walk in the forest, without being an imposition on the surrounding environment.
242 Michael Randazzo
Save Disc Golf!
243 Steve Reiner
I can understand need to reduce the environmental impact humans have in Bidwell Park. But closing the course will not relieve the problem. The city can, and should, accomodate both recreational and envirnmental goals by allowing the course to remain.
244 Jud Sheffield
Don't take our course!
245 Scott Polson
I don't know where I'd be without disc golf...
246 Peter DiFalco
Of any course I've ever played, the Bidwell course remains my favorite for its challenge and beauty. I return to Chico several times a year to play and I believe it should be preserved as a crown jewel of the Bidwell park treasure.
247 Brian Ray
There's enough park in Bidwell Park to accomodate all manner of recreation, disc golf not the least of which. Limiting park activities to those that leave each blade of grass unbent, each clearing quieter than a library, strikes me as extreme.
248 calvin coseo
249 Spencer Combs
FROLF rules!! Please leave the course for the many people that use it!
250 Lance Brogden
I/We have worked over five years to make this happen. Do not take away opportunity for kids!
251 Shane Bracken
Please don't destroy one of the few things left to do in Chico that doesn't involve alcohol.
252 JON HILL
The city should keep the disc golf course for many reasons. It is and always has been kept clean, it gives citizens an outdoors sport activities and promotes a healthy life style. The sport has also become a national sport played all around the country.
253 David Wendland
the course is great for all ages. Students and families. Its easy to maintain and outdoor activities are important to chico
254 Aaron Ball
Keep the Disc Golf Course!!! What a wonderful way for the people of Chico to get out and enjoy the out-of-doors while making little impact on the land. It supports the greater good of Chico!!
255 Rob Croy
Disc golf was the best outlet for me while I was going to school there at Chico State. Made many friends and felt the thrill of competion. A wonderful 'free' activity that all can enjoy. What a beautiful place.
256 geoff smith
I have had many rewarding and relaxing times on that course and I would hate for others not to have the opportunity to experience the same. Save "OUR" course.
257 Tim Taylor
I was introduced to this sport in Chico and it's tough to find a course, even in bigger cities. It's a well known fact that Bidwell Park is a National treasure with everything it offers, don't screw it up!
258 Sara
The chico disc golf course is my favorite one! And I'm a wilderness preservationist and environmentalist! Save it!
259 Glory Ohlott
Hi Chico Friends! I miss that course! They are hard to find, so hold onto this one!
260 Autumn McIntosh
Keep the course
261 Brad Lund
Keep the disc golf course incurrent location and look for ways to better manage trash and debries left behind by golfers. Trash cans at the sight would be appropriate for the park to provide. In addtion plans to keep the hwy 32 course and create a new
262 Tyler "T" Wilson
We must support healthy and enjoyable recreation in Chico! Save the ol' disc golf course!
263 Julie Baldwin
As a parent of two Chico State students I would hate to think of the demise of disc golf. My sons have had many pleasurable hours playing the sport.It's a wonderful outlet for a nominal cost for the discs. I support the sport in Chico
264 Paul Silveira
I have been one of many loyal and conscientous users of the Chico Disc Golf Course for many years now. This is a valuable asset to the Chico Community and needs more funding and support.
265 Allison Leevers
Save the disc golfing course, it provides so much fun in a place that is naturally beautiful and awsome to visit.
266 Jason Larrabee
Environmental zealots will stop at nothing from imposing their will upon others. Public lands should be shared by all!
267 Marc Zollinger
I love that course. I hope we can keep it up.
268 Jeff DeFranco
Disc Golf is as much a part of Chico as is Upper Bidwell & Sierra Nevada - Save it for future generations - GLAD TO SEE ALL MY GOOD FRIENDS SIGNING THE PETITION!!! GO CHICO
269 Tim"Timber" Auth
It is a safe, responsilble, low matinence way to support healthy choices for the Chico Community! Disc courses and Skate Parks protect our youth. Healthy youth=healthy community!
270 Adam Campbell
Disc golf is one of the best activities Chico has to offer. LEAVE IT ALONE!
271 Michael Jones
Obesity and lack of exercise is the leading cause of preventable death. Overcoming the misguided opposition to outdoor recreation, such as disc golf, is as significant as fighting tobacco companies to promoting public health objectives.
272 Mandy Lewis
SAVE Disc Golf!!
273 jess perez
Disc Golf in Chico is keeps me sane and out of trouble with the law. It also provides my boys with a healthy alternative to the plethora of drugs that's availability has proliferated in butte county.
274 Mark Reiner
Disc Golf is a fantastic healthy way to recreate that is respected and needed by hundreds of people living in and visiting Chico.
275 Alison Hansen
Save frisbee golf!
276 Kerrie DeMartini
I would hate to see what Martin's 3 kids would do with their time if they didn't have the disc golf course. Keep the course, for the kids.
277 Heather Kohler
Disc golf course is a fun activity that anyone can participate in. It brings a smile to my face when I think of the fun times I had with friends during school. This course brings people together. We need to keep this course.
278 Ian McGuire
I have used the disc gol course for so many years. My wife and I almost got married there. SAVE THE CLIFFS!!!
279 Rob Glatthaar
Could we get some carts up there?
280 Martin Roland
It's a perfect, inexpensive form of recreation for whole family to enjoy. My 3 kids love to play on a sunny Sunday
281 Jen Ammenti
So many people enjoy the disc golf course... don't take away a positive alternative for the college students as well as highschool students and community members!
282 Molly Turley
Please keep Joe trim!!!
283 joe reynolds
disc golf is the only exersize i get! keep me trim!
284 Nick Bearden
Save the you fools! Why would you want to get rid of it? Don't be rediculous.
285 Jillian Buckholz
Disc or Die!
286 April Carmo
Disc golf provides hours of inexpensive fun, exercise, and social enjoyment for Chico residents. Save it!
287 kasie vinson
288 Mike Chappell
Save this course for the public use and enjoyment. I know many people that play this course and frankly it may be the only thing they do all day, but we sure do enjoy it!!!
289 Cara Zimin
Save Chico disc golf!
290 Moose
The only time my master takes me for a walk is when he goes disc golfing. Without this exercise, my life would be meaningless. Ruff!
291 Mark Go