RCP UPDATE:
Passaic County is expecting to hear back soon from NJDEP Green Acres about the grant application they submitted for the RCP Phase 1 Improvement Project. This plan may change depending upon the amount of grant money awarded as affordable contractor bids. You can see it here:
CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE THE CURRENT
RIFLE CAMP PARK PHASE 1 PLANS:
2019_02_13 Rifle Camp Park Improvements – Exhibit for Website.pdf
SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS on Rifle Camp Park Phase 1 Improvements
Send your Phase 1 comments to Passaic County Parks:
riflecamppark@passaiccountynj.org
See our Phase 1 Page for the history of this project.
RCP Page on the Passaic County Parks website: passaiccountynj.org/RifleCampPark
Thank You!
To the Passaic County Freeholders
for announcing on December 12th 2017 that the Disc Golf project at Rifle Camp Park will NOT move forward!
A special Thank You! from all of us to our friends and supporters, who saw this campaign to a successful conclusion!
Editorial: Disc golf course didn’t fly on Garret Mountain
http://www.northjersey.com/story/opinion/editorials/2017/12/14/disc-golf-course-didnt-fly-garret-mountain/952735001/
Rifle Camp Park disc course is ‘a dead issue,’ Passaic County says
http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/passaic/woodland-park/2017/12/12/rifle-camp-park-disc-course-dead-issue-passaic-county-says/944489001/
Statement by Ann Schnakenberg,
Executive Director of the Save Rifle Camp Park Coalition
“The events unfolding in connection to Rifle Camp Park, our local Passaic County Park here in New Jersey, are indicative of a state and national dilemma. Our story brings the current assault by government upon our state and national parks such as New Jersey’s Liberty State Park and Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument home to an even more local county level. Public access to and protection of natural open space is currently under siege across all fronts. Steps need to be taken by elected officials to address these situations before it’s too late.”
Passaic County backs away from disc golf course at Rifle Camp Park
NorthJersey.com, by Richard Cowen, Oct. 11, 2017
http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2017/10/11/passaic-county-backs-away-disc-golf-course-rifle-camp-park/754616001/
*** NEW LOCATION FOUND for Disc Golf Course! ***
Preakness Valley Golf Course, owned by Passaic County-
377 acres dedicated to Sports!
We are pleased to announce that we have found a new location for the proposed Disc Golf Course for Passaic County! Preakness Valley Golf Course, 209 Totowa Rd, Wayne, NJ, is the largest park in Passaic County’s park system in lower Passaic County. A recommendation by the disc golf community is that border areas of operating golf courses could be used for new disc golf installations- And Passaic County has TWO golf courses on this property!
Installation of the new disc golf course could be immediate, and would have real benefits for disc golfers-
See our reasons why this is the right location!
See “Theodore Wirth Disc Golf Course” video,
showing disc golf played on a traditional golf course in perfect harmony.
See a video of the new Preakness Valley Golf Course upgrades,
ready to receive disc golfers:
http://www.northjersey.com/videos/news/passaic/wayne/2017/07/24/video-public-golf-course-gets-upgrade/103956000/
See news coverage of our press conference
northjersey.com: Disc golf opponents want course moved to Wayne.
http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/passaic/woodland-park/2017/09/21/disc-golf-opponents-want-course-moved-wayne/689587001/