Quesnel Council “Disc-cussed” Proposal Of New Golf Course : My Cariboo Now

An area on the Fuel Management Trail property may be getting a different look.

At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting the Quesnel Disc Golf Club requested to be permitted to develop a disc golf course on City property adjacent to the airport that includes the trail network.

Director of Community Services, Jeff Norburn said the intent is to develop the course over the course of months, or possibly years depending on how successful the club is in obtaining funding.

“It’s not anticipated that it would have any detrimental affect on people using the trail network. The club’s intent is to develop the course on the property that is not the trails so the trail may be used a little bit here and there to provide access to the different fairways.”

Norburn noted that there is no plan to remove any trees.

“They would build the course with trees around that are part of the benefit of doing it in a forested area that disc golfers like to have little challenges not unlike golf with sand and water traps. That’s just part of a good course is having obstacles to throw the disc around.”

Norburn added that there are more and more people in Quesnel that are playing disc golf and there are some courses starting to develop in the rural areas of North Cariboo Recreation and Parks at Parkland and in Bouchie Lake.

“Disc golf has really been growing in the last few years and there is a very keen group of volunteers that have since developed in the last little while and they are the one’s that are really excited about developing this course and met with us (Council) to talk about how that might work on the Fuel Management Trail property.”

In the proposal the Quesnel Disc Golf Club, a non-profit organization, stated they are not seeking funding from the City, and if approved, over time they plan to construct a full 18-hole course that is of sufficient calibre to attract players from through the region, the province, and beyond.

The direction from Council was to direct staff to work with the club to prepare a licence of occupation for their use of the property.

“We’ll be working on that over the next month,” Norburn said, “and I think that we would be targeting the next Council meeting to bring an agreement back if it’s ready for Council’s approval, and once approved with the group then they would be able to get started.”