Kids Outdoor Sports Camp offers youth ages nine and up hands-on experience and education in hunting, angling, and shooting sports.
A year after San Francisco Giants’ legend Buster Posey purchased a famed hunting ranch straddling the border of Mendocino and Lake counties, an outdoor hunting camp for kids that operated there has been forced to exit the property and is making its new home in Sonoma.
Founded in 1998, Kids Outdoor Sports Camp had spent the past five summers offering youth ages nine and up hands-on experience and education in hunting, angling, and shooting sports at the 4,129-acre Six Points Ranch in Potter Valley.
Now, the camp is moving to Wing & Barrel Ranch in Sonoma following Posey’s purchase of the Six Points Ranch last July for $10.4 million, SFGate reported.
“The property where we previously held our camps (Six Point Ranch) was sold and we moved,” camp director Glennon Gingo told The Press Democrat in an email this week.
Gingo declined to elaborate, saying he had “a busy Summer ahead with camp preparations,” though camp founder and Executive Director Judy Oswald told SFGate that the camp’s move was due to Posey’s disinterest in having camps on his property.
Since returning to the Bay Area in 2023 with his wife, Kristen, and their four children following a brief post-retirement stint in his native Georgia, Posey has loomed large in the Bay Area sports world, becoming the San Francisco Giants’ president of baseball operations in September in addition to his role as a minority owner with the team.
Posey, an outdoor enthusiast who previously owned the 106-acre Springer Lodge in Butte County, also owns a $8.3 million six-bedroom home in the East Bay city of Lafayette.
An email to the Giants requesting a comment from Posey did not get a response.
A previous real estate listing for Six Point Ranch highlighted the property’s thousands of acres of scenic wilderness including four lakes and numerous natural springs. The property’s abundance of wildlife — including tule elk, blacktail deer, wild boar, and turkey — had previously made it a destination for world-class hunting, according to property development and management firm Black Mountain Properties LLC, which lists the ranch among its portfolio of properties.
On its website and in a Wednesday Instagram post, Wing & Barrel Ranch said it was excited to welcome Kids Outdoor Sports Camp, which kicks off its weeklong overnight camps on June 15. The private hunting club added that campers would be staying on-site in new camp cabins on the property.
The ranch did not reply to an email request for comment.
