Ryan Ranch Disc Golf Course

05/13/2025

12/01/2020

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Save Ryan Ranch Disc Golf

10/04/2020

Monterey Herald article published October 3 & 4, 2020 copied out the City excuse without analyzing why they delay returning a healthy public use of public open space. No disc golf courses north, south or east of Ryan Ranch are ADA compliant except for the restrooms. Since there is sadly no investigative journalism for our community, let us explain it: the City Manager took it hard when disc golfers successfully defended the public open space from his plans for development which would have caused major reductions in the course. That was running up to and at the August 2018 City Council meeting. Since then, every reviewing committee and the City Council have voted in favor of returning Ryan Ranch Disc Golf course. The only issue is that the City Manager's office holds a grudge. The same guy who pushed for developing the open space also told the Council "they have the Sports Center, they don't need field sports at Ryan Ranch." That's City Manager Hans Uslar. Zumba classes and swimming for the public! Let them eat cake, says Uslar. He doesn't understand why anyone would rather exercise in the open space. He doesn't understand communing with nature. He probably doesn't like nature photography. He just sees the effectiveness that disc golfers had in the civic space -- the space that he means to dominate with money-driven bottom line directives -- as a PROBLEM, as a THREAT to his power. Now the City is dumping sludge in the parking area, although local players know that is nothing new! It used to happen on several holes, as well. But here is the real bottom line, friends: Uslar cannot make us disappear by stealing our disc golf course. We persist, we occupy, and we vote. WRITE TO MONTEREY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS IMMEDIATELY TO SAY YOU SAW THE HERALD ARTICLE and YOU WANT THE COURSE BACK! ADA COMPLIANCE ON PORTABLE RESTROOM AND HOLE 1 IS ALL IT WOULD TAKE. The City can pay for it. PLEASE REACH OUT to the ones running for a seat on the Council to get their promise of action on this for your support. Haffa, Albert, Downey. WE'LL DO IT, WE'LL GET IT BACK. ✊

11/06/2019

Autumn again. Last night (Nov 5th) Monterey City Council voted in favor of disc golf at the Ranch, again. Still no use agreement.

10/16/2019

What is the holdup?, many fans of what used to be the Ryan Ranch experience ask. All the required committees have approved disc golf use, the Initial Study is done, so why isn't the course back in? The City needs to stop the delaying tactics-- made up ADA compliance requirements that are not needed (there are no BARRIERS to access between ther parking lot and hole one, so it is already ADA compliant!
Stalling and looking for another development to fill the space?
Staffers think they are safe from public dissent of their actions and deliberate inaction because they aren't elected. It's time to call the City Council to urge staff to get a Use Agreement signed and stop their unnecessary delay. Ask them and the Mayor to tell Hans CUT THE BULLS #*T!!! BRING BACK THE RANCH!!!

04/25/2019

We photographers, hikers, and dog walkers have witnessed the unfortunate decline of the Ryan Ranch open space since the City of Monterey's Director of Parks and Recreation, Kristi McClure-Huckaby, kicked the disc golf club out. Where native oaks and plants were restored, invasive weeds and grasses mowed, and the park was walkable for people and pets, all thanks to the disc golfers, now the area is overgrown with invasive weeds and grasses, the native oak seedlings crowded out and not getting enough light, and our pets are covered in ticks from the overgrowth.
When will the City stop punishing the disc golf community, and us in turn, for protecting our public parks and open space from their solar farm development? The project that they lazily preferred (grading and fencing off most of Ryan Ranch) to putting solar on the buildings and parking lots of the developed area? The project that they naively believed would pump out $1 Million in profits per year, to pay for their managers' plump Calpers pensions? *several journal articles have shown that solar companies routinely over-promise profits to towns to get solar farms installed on public lands.*
No, the City managers would rather PUNISH the good guys who saved them from an embarrassing, low profit, irreversible destruction of valuable green space by stealing their joy, their method of fundraising for local charities, and their ability to keep the Ryan Ranch open space safe and accessible to all. They even stole the disc golf community's ability to expand, by forcing the removal of the baskets from Don Dahvee Park, where outreach, beginner lessons and practice, and public visibility of the sport were taking place. WE SEE YOU, Kristi McClure-Huckaby, and we do not approve of the delaying tactics done by your office. Let the people return to their parks and open space! Meet the club with a user agreement for both Don Dahvee and Ryan Ranch! These public spaces are declining without the good people of the community in them. If you agree, call City Hall at 646-3799 or email Kristi (be polite, please) [email protected] and the Parks and Recreation Commission: (Chair), Suzanne Menendez-Herbst (Vice Chair), Donna Gibson, Shelby Gorman, Dennis McCarthy, Ellen McEwen, and Lacy Spangler. We do not have their email addresses, but if you do, post them here in comments.