Plenty of activities to do for the kids and the adults right here at our campground;
Disc Golf, Pedal Go-Karts, Playgrounds, Basketball and Volleyball Courts.
Many new friendships have been made at our centrally located Castle Playground Structures where little ones can be watched right from your campsite!
With holes between 65 ft and 390 ft, we offer a variety of levels that can be played by each age level.
You can either ride alone, have a small passenger or have mom and dad pedaling while the little ones are safely buckled in the front.
$10 for a single or $15 for a four seater.
The North Saskatchewan River runs along our campground and you can access it directly from the park and experience world class water sports including:
• Kayaking.
• Fishing.
• Paddle boarding.
• Jet-boating.
• Rafting.
Walking along the river •
Hiking the endless trails and epic waterfalls •
ATV trails •
Mountain Biking • Cycling • eBiking •
Access to crown land •
Open space • Horseshoes • Bocce ball •
Since late 1999, the campground has had its own Disc Golf Course.
Over the years there was very little interest shown by our guests, but evidence of the course remained as old Tee Sign posts still sit here today.
In the spring of 2016, we reintroduced the game with new Disc Golf Baskets and professional disc’s.
With holes between 65 ft and 390 ft , we offer a variety of levels that can be played by each age level.
A practice basket is placed centrally in the campground for those who would like to practice their throw.
In the spring of 2016, we reintroduced the game with new Disc Golf Baskets and professional disc’s.
Professional discs are for sale in the camp store. We offer:
• putt and approach
• mid range
• distance drivers
• various colors and sets
When purchasing a disc, we include a basic rule and score card.
The history of disc golf is closely tied to the history of the recreational flying disc (especially as popularized by the trademarked Frisbee). The first known instance of anyone playing golf with a flying disc occurred in Bladworth, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1926. Ronald Gibson and a group of his Bladworth Elementary School buddies played a game throwing tin plates at targets such as trees and fence posts. They called the game Tin Lid Golf and played on a fairly regular basis on a disc golf course they laid out on their school grounds. But, after they grew older and went their separate ways, the game came to an end. It wasn’t until the 1970s that disc golf would be reintroduced to Canadians at the Canadian Open Frisbee Championships in Toronto.
Modern disc golf started in the early 1960s, when it seems to have been invented in many places and by many people independently. Students at Rice University in Houston, Texas, for example, held tournaments with trees as targets as early as 1964, and in the early 1960s, players in Pendleton King Park in Augusta, Georgia would toss Frisbees in 50-gallon barrel trash cans designated as targets.
A true pioneer of the sport of Frisbee Golf is Kevin Donnelly, who, until 2011, was unknown for his accomplishment. Kevin began playing a form of Frisbee golf in 1959 called Street Frisbee Golf. In 1961, while a Recreation Leader and then Recreation Supervisor for the City of Newport Beach, California, he formulated and then began organizing Frisbee golf tournaments at nine of the city’s playgrounds he supervised. This culminated in 1965 with a fully documented, Wham-O sponsored, city-wide Frisbee Golf tournament. This highly publicized tournament included hula hoops as holes, with published rules, hole lengths, pars, and penalties, Wham-O prizes and, an event in which Fred Morrison, the Frisbee inventor, was in attendance.In 1967, two years after conducting the first-ever organized Frisbee Golf Tournament, Kevin, then the Coordinator of the Parks and Recreation Section at Fresno State College, California, organized and then taught the first ever college level Frisbee Golf activity course, in which George Sappenfield was registered.
Two of the best-known figures in the sport are “Steady Ed” Headrick, who introduced the first formal disc golf target with chains and a basket, and Dave Dunipace who invented the modern golf disc in 1983, with his revolutionary change to add a beveled edge rim, this gave the disc a greater distance and accuracy. Dave was one of the founders of Innova, a well-known disc manufacturer. In 1976, Headrick formed the DGA, then later the PDGA and the RDGA. Ted Smethers took over the PDGA in 1982 to be run independently and to officiate the standard rules of play for the sport. The sport has grown at a rate of 12-15 percent annually for more than the past decade, with nearly 4000 courses in the US and about 5000 globally.
The game is now played in more than 40 countries worldwide, primarily in the United States, Canada, Central and Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia.
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