The History of Forked Run State Park DGC

Posted by queen September 10th, 2007. Discuss

Hey people! Look at me… I can blog. =)

Let me tell you a little about the disc golf course at Forked Run. My name’s Marc Queen. I moved to Meigs County in ’95 after graduating from Pharmacy School at Ohio Northern (that’s an idea for another blog). I had started playing disc golf a few years earlier, but I really didn’t get into it until 96-97. My first big tourney was the 97 PFDO, and that gave me the “tourney fever.� That was also the time when an opportunity came along to move to Oregon for work. I jumped at the chance to go West (Hey I was single). That’s when I really REALLY got into this sport. Anyways… fast forward to 1999 when I moved back to the Buckeye State. I was working in Pomeroy/Athens and wanted a disc golf course to call my own. (Hehe, that’s funny… I really do own it. More on that in a bit.) I loved playing Rotary Park (great course in Huntington WV) and Knob Hill (in Pittsburgh, basically) and Hoover and Big Run (in Columbus), but what I really wanted was a spectacular course in southwest Ohio. So, I started looking for places that would be great for discin’. I drove to Forked Run State Park and it was love at first sight. The very first time there I saw a park employee, asked about the manager, was told he just left, but he lived next to the park entrance, drove to the manager’s house (that was Randy Wachter), introduced myself, asked if disc golf had ever been considered, was told that they’d heard about the sport, and that there wasn’t any funding (the state parks were hurting financially, and according to some, would actually get worse in the next few years, but have made a nice recovery, in my opinion), so I thought for a second about my first impression of the park and about how much money I had in the bank, then I asked “Well, what if I took care of the funding?� and so it began. TO BE CONTINUED…

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