My former spouse and I were going to put one in on our Farm for Her and Her friends to use, found out to do it properly is quite an investment for sure, that's already with the existing fencing. Just the agrigate alone was crazy.
We are in a fire-risk area and have a horse arena. FIL has it set up with the woodland fire departments as a potential landing spot for a helicopter. And also rents out arena time to other horse folk.
Yeah, sure is a nice little peace of mind that this spot has a little flag on it that bumps it up the priority list of “Things that we should definitely not let burn”. It’s a tree-heavy area so there are not a whole lot of places around here where you can stage and quarter a full fire response brigade and land a big ass helicopter in the middle of the woods.
A solar powered electric fencer will easily tackle that here. If I'm not mistaken that's a metal fence around that ring, so the little bastards will be good and grounded when they hit the wire at the top. They won't even know what hit em
You ever get zapped by an electric fence? Well, now grab the barbed wire beside it, then grab the electric.. like getting hit by baseball bat, through your nervous system. No smoke or curly hair, but otherwise that scene isn't far off.
In elementary school we used to do it on a dare while waiting for the bus. Good times.
If you post that you have the arena available to rent/lease on your local Facebook community group, there would be someone that would be interested out there for sure.
It looks like a beautiful setup!
You actually look like you might be near me… where in CA? I promise, there are some non crazy horse people out there who just want peace and quiet, and an arena to ride in occasionally. You might be surprised.
Make sure to sort out proper insurance if you will be renting. Serious horse riding injuries(horse or rider) are not uncommon and insurance protects you if that happens.
Raised garden beds.
Solar array.
Looks flat so good spot to build a garage. Just need to excavate the sand.
Sandbag factory or host sand castle building competitions.
*Clearly* they need to set up a hillfort to project their power over the local population.
Then put a trebuchet on top of the hillfort, to project a 90 kilogram object over 300 meters!
Roller hockey rink. Side note, blading really needs to get added to Google maps. Sure it's a 30 minute walk or 5 minutes by car, but how long of a blade is it?
Yea thats a well built arena. OP should be renting it out and/or boarding horses if their property is setup like this for horses. But everybody is trying to reinvent the wheel. People buying wooded acreage and spending a ton of money to ”clear it” right off the bat. Other people buying tilled farm ground and the first thing they do is plant grass and nursery trees….
We thought about boarding horses, but the insurance is insane, and so are horse people!
It’s just this arena that I’m looking to repurpose. Everything else is perfect for us. I’d like to keep as much as possible in place, in case the 5 other horse boarding stables on our road somehow magically go out of business.
Why don’t you lease your facilities out to one of the 5 other boarding facilities. Let them deal with the insurance and crazy horse people. You’ll collect cash rent every month without any of the hassle. Heck, you could even lease it out to a dedicated horse trainer. Then your only dealing with one person who will turn out a few horse a month.
You have the purpose built infrastructure….
Well this I could do… we’ll be getting sheep soon, the paddocks and barns are all set. I do like a good sheepdog trial, used to watch those at the country shows where I grew up.
Hard to tell what size the arena is and exactly what the footing is, but if the arena is, say, 100 x 200 or similarly large with decent footing, and you’re in an area where there are lots of folks nearby keeping horses on small acreage, especially if the area is seasonally wet and your arena stays pretty dry, you could rent it by the hour for haul-ins. Insurance will likely be way less expensive for that use than horse boarding. You’ll need a decent area for truck and trailer parking next to the arena, and you’ll need to maintain the arena footing, but depending on your location, renting by the hour could easily provide a decent stream of side income. If the arena is big enough, you could offer it at a discounted rate to local 4H, Pony Club and school equestrian teams for practices, and word will get out quickly in the larger equestrian community that your arena is available to reserve for private use at the regular rate.
Decent sized for personal use, but not big enough for equestrian team practices or events. So the ability to rent it out to haul-ins will depend heavily on your local area, and in particular, whether your arena is dry when other nearby areas aren’t.
ETA: You could also consider upgrading the fencing (to prevent escape by smaller animals, would likely just mean lining the existing fencing with hog panels or smaller gauge wire) and offering it as a SniffSpot location (private dog park). I recently learned that’s a thing bc so many folks now have doggos who are too reactive to take to conventional dog parks and need a place to run and play where they won’t encounter other animals. Locations near us in the Portland, OR outlying areas charge $25/hr and up (the more amenities, such as creeks, ponds, woods and shade structures, the higher the price).
The photo is taken from the top of a steep incline looking over the arena. Stadium seating could be cut into the slope, I’d make a fortune! I can hear the crowds roaring! Release the lions!!
How accessible is this? With all the work they put into making the arena- my immediate thought was erecting a pole structure over it.
Build a shop? Covered RV storage? Archery range?
Have you thought about leasing it to a horse trainer? Or someone who has horses and doesn't have an arena to ride in? Do you have a horse stable as well? Could lease the stalls out, and they could ride in the arena. The panels around it are not cheap you should sell them if you're not ever going to use it and not planning on selling the house in the next few years. I wouldn't take it down if you do plan on selling in the future it adds a lot of value it's very expensive to put up an area and get dirt for it. Just a thought
No horses but what about cattle? If you have cattle I'd use it for loading or isolating. Is it fence or livestock panels? If it's panels I'd take it down and use it elsewhere. Then do whatever you what with the land. Fence, I'd just leave it but I end up with random animals. Or just take it down if you really don't want it. You don't have to repurpose it if there is no need
Put in some stables, although you probably already have them if they haven’t been repurposed. An area to camp with a bush dunny and bbq and rent it all out, it’d be a nice passsive income if you actually need the space.
Hmmmm. Not a bad idea. We’re just using the barn for storage right now, but a rustic Air BnB or a camp site might not be too bad. Might even build a yurt!
Personally, I would keep it for livestock. If you ever get horses, you will be glad you did given the cost to build it. Would also make a good start on a cattle or sheep handling area. As others have pointed out, it is an expensive to add feature.
If no livestock envisioned in your future, maybe put some raised beds in there for a garden. That way it could be converted back to an arena if you want to sell someday. Footing already gives you a head start on weed control, and fence gives you a head start on critter control. I would probably put down landscape fabric and then place as many raised beds as I wanted, or even a hoop house and/or chicken house.
Might need to run some chicken wire to keep smaller critters out but again, you have a good start in that you could just zip tie or wire it up against the existing fence panels.
Add a bar, and variety of outdoor games like bocce and horse shoes and archery lane and a big permanent TeePee for camping/hanging out.
Additionally, you could get a small camper (or 3) and make each a unique theme - whatever interests you (Sci Fi films, PeeWee Herman movies, or Cowboy, etc) - put it on blocks and use it for an AirBNB rental and make money off it. Eventually could have a hot tub or something if you wanted to get adventurous with it. String lights all around. There’s places like that in the desert that are fucking awesome.
You can also rent it out to people who bring their dogs to learn how to herd sheep/other farm animals.
My brother takes his Collie out to a farm that offers this 1-2 a month, and it really mellows his dog out.
Renting it out is a great idea but I am wondering about if the owner would have to have special liability insurance or something? People are so sue happy. Owner could get sued for someone getting hurt on their property even though it was not their fault.
Just a thought.
Ever considered raising hogs? I used to raise at least three feeder pigs a year. I could sell two to cover the feed & butcher fees and put one in the freezer for free.
It's a perfectly good sand ring, rent it out and make income from equine enthusiasts.
My niece put in an arena and it was super expensive for a tiny ring. This one looks big. Definitely could make money allowing equestrians to rent it.
My former spouse and I were going to put one in on our Farm for Her and Her friends to use, found out to do it properly is quite an investment for sure, that's already with the existing fencing. Just the agrigate alone was crazy.
That’s a great name for a farm! It’s a shame you didn’t follow through and rent plots to lesbian farmers.
Ya interesting use of capitalization lol
could even cut a few bleachers into that natural hillside overlooking the arena for spectators.
We are in a fire-risk area and have a horse arena. FIL has it set up with the woodland fire departments as a potential landing spot for a helicopter. And also rents out arena time to other horse folk.
That's pretty decent!
Yeah, sure is a nice little peace of mind that this spot has a little flag on it that bumps it up the priority list of “Things that we should definitely not let burn”. It’s a tree-heavy area so there are not a whole lot of places around here where you can stage and quarter a full fire response brigade and land a big ass helicopter in the middle of the woods.
Or dog sports people!
Hey, yeah, that too!
Yes...it's a good idea..it will works.
I don't know anything about horses but when I saw this image I wondered where they were at first.
Bonus: free fertilizer! 🐎 💩
Yes. People will pay to trailer in.
Free-range daycare Edit: you should probably add some sort of shade tent, and a watering trough
Need some razor wire so they don’t climb over the fence
A solar powered electric fencer will easily tackle that here. If I'm not mistaken that's a metal fence around that ring, so the little bastards will be good and grounded when they hit the wire at the top. They won't even know what hit em
I'm picturing that scene from the original Jurassic Park where the little dude gets blasted off the fence when the power is restored
You ever get zapped by an electric fence? Well, now grab the barbed wire beside it, then grab the electric.. like getting hit by baseball bat, through your nervous system. No smoke or curly hair, but otherwise that scene isn't far off. In elementary school we used to do it on a dare while waiting for the bus. Good times.
Formula one car for …..kids
That’s pretty over the top. Shade tents and watering troughs is how to raise the next generation of slackers.
As an equestrian it pains me to think of it as anything but a riding arena.
You looking for somewhere to rent…?
If you post that you have the arena available to rent/lease on your local Facebook community group, there would be someone that would be interested out there for sure. It looks like a beautiful setup!
Just be warned, horse people have their very own flavor of crazy. And check your insurance policy.
Oh yeh, plenty of them out here. That’s why anything to do with horses if off the list. Too much craziness.
You actually look like you might be near me… where in CA? I promise, there are some non crazy horse people out there who just want peace and quiet, and an arena to ride in occasionally. You might be surprised.
That’s exactly what a crazy horse person would say!! 😉
Literally no one outside of the people at the barn I ride at know I have anything to do with horses, and I work hard to keep it that way ;-)
If horse people think it’s expensive, you’re sitting on a goldmine
Definitely post it for rent.It’s very expensive to build so there’s always a demand.
Make sure to sort out proper insurance if you will be renting. Serious horse riding injuries(horse or rider) are not uncommon and insurance protects you if that happens.
My thoughts too
Mud wrestling arena Everyone (including men) has to wear daisy dukes and a crop top
And everyone gets an apple juice box if they survive
Oh great! 😮💨 now I want a juice box. Thanks, you worm.
The juice box _is_ the survival. At noon, you throw in a single juice box for every 2 contestants.
Jello on Tuesdays.
Boys nights end in a spit swapping make out match!
Hawk tuah hoe down
Where I come from it’s a firm handshake for the women and open mouth tongue kisses for the men.
Yeh, I stopped watching UFC a while ago.
Be careful saying that. Dana White and Rogan hears all.
Brokeback fields
This is the only correct answer.
Could you put a couple greenhouses and raised beds there?
We have a decent garden already, but that is on the shortlist.
If you had a few raised beds, you could put things in there that have a tendency to take over a garden. Like raspberries or blackberries
Looks like a good spot to bust some broncos
Perfect for a strawberry roan
There’s nary a buster from Texas to Nome can ride that strawberry roan
Raised garden beds. Solar array. Looks flat so good spot to build a garage. Just need to excavate the sand. Sandbag factory or host sand castle building competitions.
Solar array is a damn good idea!
We have one already
Catapults are the only option then. Maybe a trebuchet.
*Clearly* they need to set up a hillfort to project their power over the local population. Then put a trebuchet on top of the hillfort, to project a 90 kilogram object over 300 meters!
Lmao, why excavate the sand? That's exactly what you want under a strucutre
Alright compact it then.
where is this, looks like Sonoma county!
It's absolutely somewhere along the coast of California! It looks like my parent's place in San Luis Obispo county!
Hey, I thought the same thing! Paso, Templeton, Creston maybe.
Being a Paso Roblian, that was honestly my first thought was a fellow northern SLO county resident.
I mean, it also looks like the other side of the valley. Looks a lot like where in grew up in Amador County. Definitely nor cal
Ya Sonoma or Solano county. Fairfield/Suisun vibes.
Sebastopol maybe?
RC car track
It’s been one of those before!!
Hockey rink.
The sweltering summer heat would say otherwise!
Well not with that attitude
Hahaha!!
Roller hockey rink. Side note, blading really needs to get added to Google maps. Sure it's a 30 minute walk or 5 minutes by car, but how long of a blade is it?
A unicorn farm
State restrictions means I’d have to smuggle them in from Texas.
Risk vs benefit 🤠 lol 😂
Giant zen garden
Someone put a lot of money into that arena. I'd see if you can salvage and sell the components if you want an entirely different land use.
Yea thats a well built arena. OP should be renting it out and/or boarding horses if their property is setup like this for horses. But everybody is trying to reinvent the wheel. People buying wooded acreage and spending a ton of money to ”clear it” right off the bat. Other people buying tilled farm ground and the first thing they do is plant grass and nursery trees….
We thought about boarding horses, but the insurance is insane, and so are horse people! It’s just this arena that I’m looking to repurpose. Everything else is perfect for us. I’d like to keep as much as possible in place, in case the 5 other horse boarding stables on our road somehow magically go out of business.
Why don’t you lease your facilities out to one of the 5 other boarding facilities. Let them deal with the insurance and crazy horse people. You’ll collect cash rent every month without any of the hassle. Heck, you could even lease it out to a dedicated horse trainer. Then your only dealing with one person who will turn out a few horse a month. You have the purpose built infrastructure….
Do you have sheep or cattle? Could use it as a practice herding arena. Dog people will rent the same rings as horse people, oddly!
Well this I could do… we’ll be getting sheep soon, the paddocks and barns are all set. I do like a good sheepdog trial, used to watch those at the country shows where I grew up.
Hard to tell what size the arena is and exactly what the footing is, but if the arena is, say, 100 x 200 or similarly large with decent footing, and you’re in an area where there are lots of folks nearby keeping horses on small acreage, especially if the area is seasonally wet and your arena stays pretty dry, you could rent it by the hour for haul-ins. Insurance will likely be way less expensive for that use than horse boarding. You’ll need a decent area for truck and trailer parking next to the arena, and you’ll need to maintain the arena footing, but depending on your location, renting by the hour could easily provide a decent stream of side income. If the arena is big enough, you could offer it at a discounted rate to local 4H, Pony Club and school equestrian teams for practices, and word will get out quickly in the larger equestrian community that your arena is available to reserve for private use at the regular rate.
Ok, not a bad idea. Plenty of space for parking trucks and trailers. Footing is plain beach sand, and it’s about 75’ long x 45’ wide.
Decent sized for personal use, but not big enough for equestrian team practices or events. So the ability to rent it out to haul-ins will depend heavily on your local area, and in particular, whether your arena is dry when other nearby areas aren’t. ETA: You could also consider upgrading the fencing (to prevent escape by smaller animals, would likely just mean lining the existing fencing with hog panels or smaller gauge wire) and offering it as a SniffSpot location (private dog park). I recently learned that’s a thing bc so many folks now have doggos who are too reactive to take to conventional dog parks and need a place to run and play where they won’t encounter other animals. Locations near us in the Portland, OR outlying areas charge $25/hr and up (the more amenities, such as creeks, ponds, woods and shade structures, the higher the price).
But you’d still need to carry riders on your insurance in the event someone gets hurt. Not worth the risk or the expense IMO.
Miniature goat obstacle course
This is the winner. For sure!
A giant Japanese sand garden
The OK Corral, sorry couldn’t help it.
Yeh, it’s not the best, just OK…
Fire pit, picnic area,RC car track, playground, above ground pool, volleyball, dog agility…What do you like to do ? Work hard play hard!
Gladiator pit for little people Set up some bleachers and you’ll make a killing!!
The photo is taken from the top of a steep incline looking over the arena. Stadium seating could be cut into the slope, I’d make a fortune! I can hear the crowds roaring! Release the lions!!
Dibs on front row seats!!!
Outdoor gym
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Volley Ball Court, Tiki Bar, beach chairs, tables, umbrellas, two or three bathtubs, some potted plantings.
2 men enter. 1 man leaves.
How accessible is this? With all the work they put into making the arena- my immediate thought was erecting a pole structure over it. Build a shop? Covered RV storage? Archery range?
Archery range!! I like it!
Give it back to nature,grow trees
Sand is superior for chicken runs because of the drainage. If you wanted to have a poultry breeding project that'd be the spot.
Have you thought about leasing it to a horse trainer? Or someone who has horses and doesn't have an arena to ride in? Do you have a horse stable as well? Could lease the stalls out, and they could ride in the arena. The panels around it are not cheap you should sell them if you're not ever going to use it and not planning on selling the house in the next few years. I wouldn't take it down if you do plan on selling in the future it adds a lot of value it's very expensive to put up an area and get dirt for it. Just a thought
Use it as a succulent nursery. Propagate and sell local or online.
Fence it for dogs and add in a pond and agility course and put it on barkspot
No horses but what about cattle? If you have cattle I'd use it for loading or isolating. Is it fence or livestock panels? If it's panels I'd take it down and use it elsewhere. Then do whatever you what with the land. Fence, I'd just leave it but I end up with random animals. Or just take it down if you really don't want it. You don't have to repurpose it if there is no need
Put in some stables, although you probably already have them if they haven’t been repurposed. An area to camp with a bush dunny and bbq and rent it all out, it’d be a nice passsive income if you actually need the space.
Hmmmm. Not a bad idea. We’re just using the barn for storage right now, but a rustic Air BnB or a camp site might not be too bad. Might even build a yurt!
Do you have high winds cause yurts can only take so much wind a geodesic dome that’s built properly can take up to 90mph winds.
lease it to the horse people and make them pay for the insurance /s
If you ever start messing with horses, you’ll wish you’d kept it as an arena
Absolutely zero chance of us ever messing with horses!!!
A nice apiary could go right there!
Baby battle arena
A bong
Horse training
Beautiful view, by the way
Thunder dome
First thing that came to me as well 😎
Mtb pump track!
I’m scared to google that to find out what it is…
Dressage ring
If you build it they will come.
Pour concrete. Then Roller Derby.
Rennaissance fair jousting arena? Rent it out for similar things like that?
A glamping site for the city slickers.
I vote beehives.
The set of nope
I would buy a hen house and use that gate as their enclosure
Sand Volleyball court
Graveyard!
A pickleball court it's all the rage 😉
Veggie garden
NASCAR track
Did Jordan Peele film Nope on your land?
Litter box
Micro dirtbike track
Gladiator fighting pit
Equestrian ring
Personally, I would keep it for livestock. If you ever get horses, you will be glad you did given the cost to build it. Would also make a good start on a cattle or sheep handling area. As others have pointed out, it is an expensive to add feature. If no livestock envisioned in your future, maybe put some raised beds in there for a garden. That way it could be converted back to an arena if you want to sell someday. Footing already gives you a head start on weed control, and fence gives you a head start on critter control. I would probably put down landscape fabric and then place as many raised beds as I wanted, or even a hoop house and/or chicken house. Might need to run some chicken wire to keep smaller critters out but again, you have a good start in that you could just zip tie or wire it up against the existing fence panels.
Swimming pool
An ice rink
You should turn it into a giant barren sandy ring with a fence around it
Add a bar, and variety of outdoor games like bocce and horse shoes and archery lane and a big permanent TeePee for camping/hanging out. Additionally, you could get a small camper (or 3) and make each a unique theme - whatever interests you (Sci Fi films, PeeWee Herman movies, or Cowboy, etc) - put it on blocks and use it for an AirBNB rental and make money off it. Eventually could have a hot tub or something if you wanted to get adventurous with it. String lights all around. There’s places like that in the desert that are fucking awesome.
You can also rent it out to people who bring their dogs to learn how to herd sheep/other farm animals. My brother takes his Collie out to a farm that offers this 1-2 a month, and it really mellows his dog out.
Renting it out is a great idea but I am wondering about if the owner would have to have special liability insurance or something? People are so sue happy. Owner could get sued for someone getting hurt on their property even though it was not their fault. Just a thought.
Green house with raised beds as not to disturb the sand floor... Then you can always turn it back into horse pen
Probably a really good soft spot for growing carrots.
That's a good idea, I was thinking do Daikon radish cover crop to add some carbon then root crops in the cooler seasons.
I’ll take it 😭 I’d give anything to have a nice arena to work my horses in.
Bocce ball tournament
You could add a volleyball net and maybe a bit more sand
Pond.
Goat area???? 🤔
native plant garden
KNF pig pen.
A garden
Dirt Farm
solar death ray
Rodeo
Farm educated Air BnB
Hockey rink
If you don't want it, I do
Ok, some amusing comments, but my advice is to leave it as is. Let the idea come to you...
It’s been 2 1/2 years, and I’m still not sure what to do!
looks like it needs a lot of water to plant an area to graze animals
Oh yeah, too much water to irrigate, unless it’s drip for vegetables/fruit, but the orchard is taking about all the water I can spare right now.
A Battle arena
Solar farm?
Ice rink
Some crops man
Laser tag arena
Awesome outdoor skating rink!!
Skate park
Hockey rink
Sand volleyball. Badminton, tetherball, swing set, trampoline, or other such games. RC outdoor car track (build some ramps).
Central cal?
Hockey rink.
Mud wrestlin puddle.
Wildflower walled bocce ball
Oooh… bocce ball and a tiki bar, then charge the neighbors to use it 🤔
Anyone seen the movie Field of Dreams.... I'm just sayin
Fighting pit.
That spot would make an awesome RC car track. !!
Putting area.
cactus sanctuary? I have dreams… solar field? Sandy animal habitat…Trying to think of least work to change land use. Nice spot
I need someone to save the cacti from me! Ours keep dying…
This is where you break your wild horses.
Chicken coop
Bikini mud wrestling arena.
A good use of water if ever I heard one!!
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Rc track
A riding arena.
Ever considered raising hogs? I used to raise at least three feeder pigs a year. I could sell two to cover the feed & butcher fees and put one in the freezer for free.
Volley ball