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Fort Ridgely State Park Golf Course

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Lori Black
10 years ago

Please keep this beautiful course open!

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Christopher Rose
10 years ago

It would be a shame to let something that was renovated left to deteriorate again!

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Anonymous
10 years ago

This is a beautiful course and funds have been made to improve the surrounding park. Keep those investments alive!

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Bruce Kyllonen
10 years ago

Keep the Ft Ridgely park amenities open!

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Karen Lyons
10 years ago

One of the first courses I learned on. Gotta love they had sand greens in the day!

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Naomi Evenson
10 years ago

Few are the places in our rural area where young people can afford to have fun and stay out of trouble - the golf course at Fort Ridgely is important!!! PLEASE help us keep it open!! Our 4 kids and many of their friends have played on this course for years - they do NOT want to see it close, and neither do other adults living in the area or regular visitors to our state park. Each year more visitors discover this unique golf course too. We do not understand why a few people want to reduce this and other recreational aspects of the park and only promote its historical aspect. This park is special because of the variety it offers. Also the golfing and other activities at the Fort that promote a healthy lifestyle are the kind that Americans are looking for and need. PLEASE support maintaining the golf course and all other features of Fort Ridgely State Park. Thank you, Jim & Naomi Evenson

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Julie Huiras Mascitti
10 years ago

This park is a treasure.

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Chris Mangen
10 years ago

It is a great spot for golf! It would be a terrible waste to close it now!

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Nancy J Beltz
10 years ago

The oldest and most beautiful course at a state park!!! STAY OPEN!!!

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Terry Logan
10 years ago

Please keep this park open!

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Denise m Horner
10 years ago

Need to keep the golf course

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Rita Goblirsch
10 years ago

Total enjoyment here

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Larissa DeRousse
10 years ago

I love how gorgeous this golf course is!!

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Mark Juelfs
10 years ago Featured

Camped at Fort Ridgely for the first time last year. Really enjoyed the golf course, one of the best maintained I have played. Made reservations for July anticipating another great weekend of hiking and playing golf. Save the golf course.

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Mary Kay Kerkhoff
10 years ago

Our family has so many great memories with Fort Ridgely Golf Course. It would be a shame to lose that.

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steve rose
10 years ago

save the course !

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Brandon Albrecht
10 years ago

To the Friends of Fort Ridgely: Please mention these points when arguing your case with the DNR. The mission statement of the DNR reads: "Our mission is to work with citizens to conserve and manage the state's natural resources, to provide outdoor recreation opportunities, and to provide for commercial uses of natural resources in a way that creates a sustainable quality of life." It seems to me like that mission statement practically describes the very purpose of a golf course, commercially using natural resources to provide outdoor recreation. Also, if they try to bring up their "it's not natural" argument, just mention the man-made, chlorinated swimming pools at Flandrau or Buffalo River. Or their decision to spend a ton of money paving the Fort's campground with asphalt. The abounding hypocrisy is staggering.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

I golfed this course as an 80 yr old with my grandson. Save the course

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Aggie Mattes
10 years ago

This is a wonderful golf course that needs to remain open! Please save the park!

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Bonnie
10 years ago

Let's keep the golf course.