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Mark Twain once said: “golf is a good walk spoiled.”
Some American communities are realizing that a golf course is a good outdoor space spoiled.

A small number of shuttered #golf #courses around the country have been bought by land trusts, municipalities and nonprofit groups and transformed into #nature preserves, #parks and #wetlands.

Among them are sites in Detroit, Pennsylvania, Colorado, the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, and at least four in California.

“We quickly recognized the high restoration value, the conservation value, and the public access recreational value,” said Guillermo Rodriguez, California state director with the nonprofit 🔹Trust for Public Land, 🔹which bought the San Geronimo course, in Marin County, for $8.9 million in 2018 and renamed it San Geronimo Commons.

https://kottke.org/24/02/the-fledgling-movement-to-rewild-golf-courses