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Oct 31, 2024

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Reporter Mark Dahlquist and Ron Frey cut the ribbon at the official grand opening of the new Sacajawea Disc Golf course in downtown Pocatello. POCATELLO — The recent ribbon cutting at the Sacajawea

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Mark Dahlquist and Ron Frey cut the ribbon at the official grand opening of the new Sacajawea Disc Golf course in downtown Pocatello.

POCATELLO — The recent ribbon cutting at the Sacajawea disc golf course signals the creation of new opportunities for patrons of Pocatello’s west side to enjoy the growing sport from the comforts of their own backyards.

Community members, representatives from the Pocatello-Chubbuck Chamber of Commerce, city staff, NeighborWorks leadership and organizational heads of the new disc golf course convened at Sacajawea Park Tuesday to welcome the new addition to the downtown community.

The new course was created, thanks in part, to the fiscal sponsorship of NeighborWorks and through a pair of grants from the IFFT Foundation totaling $20,000, along with the devoted work of brothers Ron and Roger Frey and other dedicated volunteers.

“We finally finished off building the last of our first nine holes for Sacajawea disc golf course,” Roger Frey said. “We finished the last two tee boxes this last weekend, so we decided to have our ribbon cutting.”

Frey continued, “It started off five years ago. My brother and I both had our hips replaced and we needed something to do to rehab and we found disc golf. We started golfing over at Ross Park and we found that the course was so busy that we were slowing people down. We decided that maybe that Pocatello could use another course, mainly designed for younger people and seniors such as ourselves to go a little bit slower, and we picked the west side here, just because there was no other disc golf courses over here, and there are a lot of families, a lot of seniors over here. We figured it’d be a good spot for it.”

Because of the intentional way the local community came together for this project, the course was installed with a very minimal environmental impact and extra care was taken during the cleanup and creation process.

“We’re excited that we were able to install the course and leave a very minimal footprint to keep nature the way it is, the way it was meant to be here,” Frey said. “Last weekend, we were working on a tee box. We had two deer sitting there staring at us. It doesn’t seem to bother anybody down here. We’re trying to work with the people that have been using the park prior to this point to make sure that we weren’t interfering with any other activities. The best thing is to see families jump up on the tee box and (start) teeing off. It’s just awesome to see people use it.”

Portland Valley Disc Golf Club, Infinite Disc and general adherents to the sport were essential in not only growing the disc community within the Gate City area but also through the time they gave to see the project through to completion.

“We just want to thank everybody that volunteered,” Frey said. “It’s been a year long process and it was tough to get volunteers but the ones that did come out really busted it for us, so we sure appreciate them.”

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