Here you can learn all about Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course in East Brookfield, Massachusetts. It was designed by professional players Simon Lizotte and Casey White on a defunct traditional golf course that is now part organic farm, part disc golf haven. Discover what made this course so enchanting that it ascended into the ranks of 2025's World's Best Disc Golf Courses top 100 despite just opening in August 2024.
Mile Marker 63 is ranked #44 in the most recent World's Best Disc Golf Courses top 100 released annually by us here at UDisc. The rankings are based on millions of player ratings of over 16,000 disc golf courses worldwide on UDisc Courses, which is the most complete and regularly updated disc golf course directory in existence.
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Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course: Basic Info
- When did Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course open?
2024 - How many times has Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course made the annual World's Best Disc Golf Courses top 100 since the rankings were first released in 2020?
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History of Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course
Go back just six years, and the property where Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course now stands was a very different place. There was no farm stand selling organic fruits, vegetables, and flowers grown on site. Absent, too, were crowds of New England disc golfers excited to play a course designed by one of the most popular disc golf professionals on Earth.
Instead, you would have seen, on a good day, a few people hitting balls down the fairways of a struggling nine-hole traditional golf course.
"The course was built in the 1960s and my grandparents (dad’s parents) bought it in 1964," explained Amanda Arnberg. "They ran the course until 1989 when my parents took it over. In 2019, my dad decided to close the course. We were a small nine-hole course who unfortunately just couldn't compete with the 18-hole courses that have all the amenities. We needed a change. Mile Marker 63 Farm was born in 2020 and this is when I jumped on board as a partner with my parents. I loved the idea of an organic farm and always had this idea in the back of my head to make it a 'destination farm.'"
As you probably guessed, Mile Marker 63 derives from the road mile marker where you'll find the property (it refers to the location's distance from Boston). What you might not know is the – likely fanciful – story that Benjamin Franklin personally laid or ordered the laying of these mile markers, which makes them a local historical curiosity.
As Amanda considered how to firmly set her own Mile Marker in the local consciousness, disc golf was at the forefront of her mind. Her husband, Dan Arnberg, is a longtime disc golfer, and she enjoys walking courses and watching him play. He'd even soft pitched building a disc golf course on her parents' land before it became a farm.
"When we first started dating, [Dan] had mentioned that our property would be a cool spot to add a disc golf course to – of course at the time back in 2011, it just seemed like a distant dream that maybe one day we could make happen," Amanda recalled. "Once we closed the ball golf course and started to let the property grow in, that dream didn’t seem so far away."
It didn't hurt that they were in a top-notch disc golf location. Mile Marker 63 is just 20 minutes from the legendary Maple Hill Disc Golf, a stalwart in the World's Best Disc Golf Courses top 10 and a multi-time #1 course in the world, as well as its popular, well-rated neighbor Pyramids Disc Golf Course. It's also just nine minutes from a top brewery disc golf course – Oakholm Disc Golf at Oakholm Farm Estate and Brewing.
So if Mile Marker 63 opened up a top-notch disc golf course, it was almost a certainty that they'd have plenty of traffic, both from the local scene and disc golf tourists. The only question, then, was how to make sure it was top-notch.
A possible answer came from a place where millions of lost people find their way each day: YouTube. Amanda and Dan are avid fans of pro disc golfer Simon Lizotte's YouTube channel, which, with over 200,000 subscribers, hosts some of the most-watched disc golf content in the world. Just as they were mulling over building a disc golf course, something Lizotte said in a video caught Dan's attention.
"Back in January of 2023, [Simon] had put out a vlog saying he was looking for property in Massachusetts and I believe he specifically said 'an old ball golf course' in his vlog," Amanda said. "When I got home from work that night, my husband had already watched the video and the first words he said to me when I got home were, 'Simon is looking for an old ball golf course – you need to send him an email.'"
They didn't want to ask Lizotte to buy their land but use it as a canvas to design the disc golf course of their – and, ideally, tons of disc golfers' – dreams. Though the couple still thought the idea was a long shot, they didn't think it was out of the realm of possibility. Lizotte is the son of a Canadian and a German and was raised in Germany, but he has lived in Massachusetts not far from Mile Marker 63 for years. The Arnbergs hoped his interest in an old ball golf course and the site's proximity to his home would entice him to at least stop by for a look.
When Amanda sent the email in early 2023, Lizotte responded quickly and with interest, but he said he wouldn't be able to make it out any time soon as it was the start of the professional disc golf season. Amanda understood and sent occasional emails as the months went by so that Lizotte wouldn't forget about Mile Marker 63. They eventually found a time to meet up in November 2023 after the professional season had ended.
When Lizotte arrived, Amanda found herself inwardly buzzing from a cocktail of exhilaration, hope, and trepidation.
"I remember shaking his hand and introducing my parents to him and thinking the whole time, like, 'Act normal; don’t act like a crazy fan,' but I was definitely freaking out on the inside," Amanda recalled. "All good feelings – I was excited, happy, and nervous, too! I wanted this to work out so bad!"
But she had no need to worry.
"Once I saw the property, I was instantly sure it was gonna happen," Lizotte said, describing his first impression of Mile Marker 63.
Shortly after Lizotte left, he sent Amanda a text, likely unaware of the reaction it would elicit.
"He sent me a text saying something like, 'This property is amazing, and I think it has a ton of potential – if you tell me to, I’ll start designing,'" Amanda said. "I remember I was driving home and I was just like happy screaming in my car by myself the whole way home. I just couldn’t believe this was going to happen."
After getting the go-ahead from Amanda, it was Lizotte's turn to feel a bit self-conscious.
Though he'd consulted on several designs and worked closely on a few courses with prolific designer and course collector Avery Jenkins (whom Lizotte called an unofficial mentor in the realm of course design), Lizotte said the weight of creating a course on his own felt too heavy. So he contacted fellow touring professional, Massachusetts resident, and friend Casey White to see if he wanted to collaborate. Serendipitously, the two had just attended a conference on course creation led by disc golf course design legend John Houck, who usually has more tracks among the World's Best Disc Golf Courses top 100 each year than any other designer.
At the conference, White had said that lack of time and experience meant his first course design for the public would be at least five years down the road, but when he got Lizotte's offer, he threw that timeline out the window.
"It was literally two days after the conference ended that Simon texted me and said, 'Hey, this old golf course wants a disc golf course, and they want us to design it – what do you think?'," White said. "And it was like, 'Wow, we have everything fresh on the brain from the conference, so what better time than now?'"
The two visited the property together soon after, and it was immediately clear that with its ready-made fairways lined by woods, elevation changes, water features, and general charm, it wouldn't to be hard to build a nice course there. The real issue was figuring out how to go beyond "nice" and get to "great."
"The property is just so good, you couldn't really do anything bad there, " Lizotte explained. "It was challenging because we wanted to find the best of the good."
And for Lizotte and White, "best" meant "most fun" and not, as you might expect from pro disc golfers, "most challenging."
"One thing that is very false is people thinking that because we play on the Pro Tour that we want to play the hardest courses available," White said. "If anything, I want to get recommended the most fun par 54 courses in the area."
Lizotte added to those sentiments.
"Not many locals go play Maple Hill Golds, I can tell you that," said Lizotte, referring to the beloved course's longest, hardest layout that's used for the Open division at its annual professional tournament. "A lot of people who travel to Maple, they want to play Golds because it's what they see on YouTube and stuff, but if you want to create a local hub, making a championship-level course almost makes no sense."
With "fun" – and a goal of hitting a par 63 to match the farm's name – guiding them, the two got to work designing holes. Then they redesigned them. Then they re-redesigned them.
"Casey and I would go there for like four hours and then we'd both go to our houses, and three hours later I'd text Casey, 'Hey, what do you think of this idea?' or I'd send him a photo of the course design I had in mind,'" Lizotte said.
White recalled Lizotte being a bit more direct.
"Or he'd say, 'Hole 14 sucks – we gotta get rid of it; hole 14 is dead,'" White said, laughing.
Here you can see Lizotte and White hashing out design options in a video from White's YouTube channel:
The pair both believe that if they'd taken on the design project alone, the end product would have suffered.
"I would've made a horrible course on that property without Simon," White confessed. "I didn't have the big brain to explore all the way up to the edge of the property line like he did. I spent a lot of time in the open air space looking at the golf fairways trying to intersect those trees that were the obvious lines while Simon was trudging through the woods."
For his part, Lizotte liked having someone around unafraid to question his plans.
"It definitely helps to get more than your own perspective on something," Lizotte said. "Sometimes you need to be called out for a bad idea because it's sometimes hard to realize your own bad idea."
As much as Lizotte appreciated White's input, he was determined to finish the layout without calling in a seasoned designer to chaperone their efforts. White suggested multiple times that they call Dave Jackson, who co-founded Maple Hill and has designed many beloved New England tracks, to consult and give them tips. Lizotte always rejected the idea and said, according to White, that they had " the power to create this course the way it needs to be without anybody having to step in."
Lizotte explained that he saw completing the course plan with another unproven designer as a rite of passage.
"It was a bit of a point of proving to myself that we can do it," Lizotte said. "I knew that the property we had was so close to perfect and ideal – like a dream disc golf property. I felt like, 'If I can't do it here, I can't freaking do it anywhere.'"
In late January 2024, just before the start of the pro season, Lizotte and White sent Amanda the final draft of their course design. As soon as the New England winter loosened its icy grip, the Mile Marker 63 team plus friends and family who came out to help when they could got to work turning the designers' plans into a real course. Amanda estimated that they spent "hundreds of hours" clearing out fairways, making tees, and creating features like the one they've dubbed Pinehenge.
When Lizotte and White stopped by to check on the course's progress, they were always amazed at the speed and quality of the work. The two pros' input only went as far as tee and basket locations and identifying which trees to remove (which, by the way, they did for free because they saw it as a chance to establish their course-building cred on a stunning property). Everything else – such as tee pad construction, ideas for flourishes like Pinehenge, and plenty more – was planned and executed largely by Amanda and her parents Jeffrey and Justyne Smith.
"Everything they've said they were gonna do, they did – way faster than I ever expected," Lizotte said.
Any new course opening in this disc golf hotbed would have created a buzz, but Lizotte and White's association with the project and their promotion of it on their social media channels had people driving from other states on opening day, August 17, 2024. The fact that Lizotte and White were on site didn't hurt, either.
The pair of fledgling designers were nervous to see their course welcome the hoardes of disc golfers who'd come to test it out, but any worries they had drained away quickly. White said the opening day feedback was glowing, and he and Lizotte started receiving multiple messages a week on Instagram from people telling them the course was their new all-time favorite.
And the love for Mile Marker 63 didn't fade in the months following the opening – not among the players still flocking to play it or one of the people most essential to its creation.
"I was an early childhood educator – a preschool teacher – for 17 years," Amanda said. "I left my job a month before we opened as owning a course is now my full time job. So far, it has been so worth it! Never looking back!"
Lizotte, who admitted to feeling a bit worn down by over a decade of the pro disc golf touring life, is also pondering a change in his career path thanks in part to the success of Mile Marker 63.
"My goal is that I can pay the bills with course design in a couple of years," Lizotte said. "Not that I am gonna need to be doing that but that's something I might want to do. Fun travel, walking around in nature, giving back to the community in the form of fun courses to play? That sounds pretty awesome to me."
How Hard Is Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course?
Mile Marker 63 has two layouts created by its designers Simon Lizotte and Casey White: Short and Long. The shorts are meant for amateur players with a little experience (or ambitious beginners) and the longs are meant for experienced and fairly skilled amateur players.
| Layout Name | Distance |
Technicality | Overall Difficulty | Par Rating* | Scoring Average* |
| Short | Long | Not Technical | Moderate | 173 | E |
| Long | Very Long | Not Technical | Challenging | 196 | +7 |
*Scoring average and par rating constantly adjust as more people score rounds with UDisc. These numbers reflect stats from the time of publication and may have changed slightly since then.
To see hole distances and more for all of this course's layouts, visit Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course's page in the UDisc Courses directory. It's worth mentioning that the two layouts with the addition of "Tall Grass O.B." were not created by Lizotte or White as they wanted people to play free and loose without worrying about out-of-bounds.
To learn more about what the categories for distance, technicality, overall difficulty, and par rating mean, check out these posts:
What's It Like to Play Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course?
Though Mile Marker 63's two layouts were developed by pros Simon Lizotte and Casey White, it's a course designed expressly for everyday disc golfers. The long tees give players with a max distance of around 350 feet/107 meters good odds of finding plenty of birdies and shooting low scores, and the short tees are aimed at people who throw around 225 feet/69 meters (or love ace runs).
"We wanted it to be fun for the most disc golfers possible," Lizotte said.
Along with amateur-friendly distances, another feature you'll notice about Mile Marker 63 is a lack of out-of-bounds areas. Water and the fence around the property line are the only OB zones in Lizotte and White's design. This very intentional choice is meant to give players the freedom to be creative or daring with their throws without having to stress about penalty strokes.
"We don't want people having to worry about keeping it in the ropes," White said. "Simon and I are all about having fun, airing it out, throwing silly fun shots, and we want to encourage that for other players as well."
But if you're thinking that no OB on a former golf course means an endless series of wide-open shots, you'd be very wrong. Yes, there are some fairways that are mostly open with a few scattered trees you don't want to get behind (remember, they want to give you the chance to air it out now and again), but there are also some true woods holes. For an example of the latter, check out this flyover of hole 5 from Aerial Disc Golf:
There are even more that shift between wooded and open areas, asking players to hit fairly specific lines to reach the basket or an ideal landing zone in a more open area. In a couple of places, there's a flavor of the beloved temporary Czech course, Franz Ferdinand at Konopiště – clear, wide fairways on gentle slopes generously peppered with large, mature trees and a wilder, thicker rough on the edges ready to punish particularly errant throws.
Two highlights are holes 8 and 18, which Lizotte and White said were the first two holes they knew would make the final cut when they initially toured the property together.
Hole 8 is a par 4 that has players throw from an elevated tee perched on a platform to a fairly wide but tree-lined fairway that has a pond most experienced players will want to clear on their drives. The basket is perched on a hill near the tree line.
Hole 18 is a par 5 that starts out with a tight tree tunnel you'll need to make it through to reach the open fairway. If you manage that, you'll want to blast a second shot to a spot that will give you a good look at a basket hidden behind a charming, small hill with exposed rock and a copse of trees.
Three Real Five Star Reviews of Mile Marker 63 Disc Golf Course
Three real reviews of Mile Marker 63 from disc golfers on UDisc:
