The Most Popular Disc Golf Course In Every U.S. State: 2024

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Alex WilliamsonWriter, Editor
Jan 21 • 6 min read

No nation has more disc golfers or more of the world's 15,000+ disc golf courses than the United States. Here you can learn which disc golf course in each U.S. state was played more than any other in 2024.

A map of the U.S. in gray with blue dots indicating the most popular course in each state's location from 2023
Each dot shows the rough location of every state's most popular disc golf course from 2024. The bigger the dot, the more plays a course had.

In short, "most popular" in this post means simply "most played" based on rounds recorded with the UDisc app, which is the most popular method for keeping score (as well as finding courses, tracking stats, and more) in the sport. Of course, not every round of disc golf is recorded with UDisc, but given how many disc golfers use it, it is highly likely that courses with the highest UDisc play counts are also the courses with the highest play counts in general.

It's typical that states' most popular courses are near large population centers (AKA, big cities) and easily accessible by car or public transport. Since most disc golfers play recreationally, the courses with top play counts usually have layouts that are enjoyable and encouraging for less-skilled players. Both in 2024 and 2023, for example, only two states' most-played courses didn't have an "easy" or "moderate" layout option based on UDisc's disc golf course difficulty rating system. 

It's worth noting, too, that we release annual lists of each U.S. state's best disc golf courses, with rankings based on disc golfers' course ratings. There's some overlap in the courses that reach those ranks and those that are most popular, but it's not huge.

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A lovely fall day at Pier Park in Portland, Oregon, one of the few U.S. courses to be a state's most popular and rated among its five best. Photo uploaded to UDisc Courses by jrocsunnyvale

There are lots of reasons for that. Standout disc golf courses tend to require a lot of land, so they're typically built fairly far from population centers and therefore not as accessible. Extremely busy courses could take a hit in rating simply because players' moods are worse due to wait times. Possibly the players who are most likely to take the time to rate a course tend to be more experienced and so favor harder courses that get fewer plays over easier ones that are more popular. The list goes on.

All of that said, popular courses do tend to be very good courses — otherwise, who'd bother playing them? They're often doing something important for the growth of the sport, too, by providing places where beginners and now-and-again players can have fun rounds and find their perfect balance of challenge and achievability.

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Notable Changes in 2024

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A basket at Utah's Creekside Park not far outside Salt Lake City, a place that saw a surge in plays in 2024. Photo uploaded to UDisc Courses by ajsatkunas

Here are a few things from this year's list that really caught our eye:

  • Nothing to be salty about
    Utah had the same most popular course as last year: Creekside Park in a suburb of its capital and most populous town, Salt Lake City. But the course increased an already impressive round count of 19,334 in 2023 by over 50% to 29,686 in 2024. That big jump made the #1 course in Utah – a state not often thought of as a disc golf powerhouse – a somewhat surprising third place compared to other state's top courses. Remember, though, that rank is not its actual place among all U.S. courses, just among the #1 most popular in each state.
  • Hot potato
    The biggest jump up the list of any state's #1 course was made by Idaho's. Its #1 course ranked 30th among other state's top courses last year and leaped 13 spots to 17th in 2024.
  • The slain beast of Arkansas
    J. Beast has been the most popular course in Arkansas since we started publishing these stats after the 2018 season. But its reign came to an end in 2024. Check out which course took its place in the table at the end of this post.
  • No day at the beach
    Another significant change happened in Virginia, where 2019-2023 champion Bayville Park in Virginia Beach was unseated by a course that's never held Virginia's top spot since we started publishing these rankings.

A Way to Avoid Crowded Disc Golf Courses

If your closest course is a popular one and you'd like a way to avoid the crowds, don't forget that players with UDisc Pro can see real-time disc golf course traffic online and in the app. Just check under the photos of any course listing in the app or on the right of your screen beneath the map location on the web (for web, make sure you're logged in).

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What to Know Before Reading the Stats

Here are important things to know before you dive into the table.

On Where the Stats Came From and Their Meanings

  • $: This symbol means the course may require a fee of some type.
  • Disc Golf Rounds Recorded: The number of rounds recorded in 2024 on a course with the UDisc app, the #1 app for disc golfers. Not every round of disc golf is recorded in UDisc, but it provides the best metrics disc golf has to figure out which courses are played most often.
  • The layout difficulty rating symbols mean the following:
      “easy-circle"  Easy
      moderate square  Moderate
      gray diamond  Challenging
    “double-black-diamond" Very challenging

    Click or tap to learn more about the UDisc course difficulty rating system.

  • New Champ: A "Yes" in this column means a state had a different most popular course in 2023.
  • +/-: How many spots the 2024 top course in a state rose or fell in relation to where the state's top course was on the 2023 list. For example, Utah's top course was #8 in total plays in relation to other states' top courses in 2023; this year it was #3 and has a ▲5 in this category. 
  • World Pop. Grade: The "Pop." stands for "popularity." This is a quick and interesting way to compare every course's play total with 2024's most popular disc golf course in the world (California's Morley Field). If you've ever had a test graded on a curve, it's pretty much the same thing. The course with the most plays in the world set the bar and got a 100. The other courses' "grades" are based on what percentage their play counts are of the highest plays total. For example, if a course has a World Pop. Grade of 23, it means it had 23% of the plays that the world's most popular course did in 2024.

On Organization and Tips for Correct Interpretation

  • The table is organized from the most played to the least played course, but...
  • ... don't forget that the stats include only the top course from each state. Because some states have multiple courses with more plays than the top course in other states, no course's position in the table – other than #1 – reflects its overall popularity as compared to all courses in the United States.

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  State Disc Golf Course City Free or Pay-to-Play? Disc Golf Rounds Recorded Year Est. Layout Difficulties New Champ? +/- World Pop. Grade
1 California Morley Field San Diego $ 44,596 1977 moderate square 100
2 Colorado Johnny Roberts Disc Golf Course Arvada Free 38,911 1978 “easy-circle" 87
3 Utah Creekside Park Millcreek Free 29,686 1982 moderate square ▲5 67
4 Oregon Pier Park Portland Free 26,457 2002 moderate square ▼1 59
5 Texas Alex Clark Memorial Disc Golf Course  McKinney Free 23,624 1992 “easy-circle"  moderate square ▼1 53
6 Illinois The Canyons at Dellwood Park Lockport Free 21,392 2014 moderate square  gray diamond ▲7 48
7 North Carolina Kentwood Raleigh Free 19,652 1983 “easy-circle" ▼1 44
8 Pennsylvania Sedgley Woods Philadelphia Free 19,401 1977 “easy-circle"  moderate square ▼3 44
9 Minnesota Riverfront 13 Disc Golf Course Minneapolis Free 18,654 2019 “easy-circle"  moderate square Yes ▲3 42
10 New Hampshire Muldoon Park Disc Golf Course Pelham Free 18,295 2006 moderate square 41
11 Florida Ed Austin Park [Fore Palms] Jacksonville Free 18,219 1995 “easy-circle"  moderate square 41
12 New Jersey Stafford Woods Voorhees Township Free 18,179 2012 moderate square  gray diamond“double-black-diamond" ▼5 41
13 Massachusetts Maple Hill Leicester $ 17,925 2002 moderate square  gray diamond“double-black-diamond" ▼4 40
14 Georgia Oregon Park Marietta Free 17,779 2011 “easy-circle"  moderate square 40
15 Wisconsin Elver Park Madison $ 17,562 1992 “easy-circle"  moderate square  gray diamond ▲2 39
16 Arizona Shelly Sharpe Memorial Disc Golf Course Scottsdale Free 17,195 1984 moderate square  gray diamond“double-black-diamond" 39
17 Idaho Ann Morrison Park Boise Free 15,562 1996 moderate square ▲13 35
18 South Carolina Splinter City Disc Golf Course Myrtle Beach Free 15,554 2020 moderate square  gray diamond 35
19 Washington Gaffney's Grove Maple Valley Free 15,357 2017 moderate square ▲7 34
20 Kansas Rosedale Park (Up Top) Kansas City Free 15,225 1985 moderate square ▼1 34
21 Ohio Blendon Woods Disc Golf Course Columbus Free 14,966 1985 “easy-circle"  gray diamond Yes ▼1 34
22 Tennessee Seven Oaks Nashville Free 14,960 1988 moderate square ▼7 34
23 Michigan Firefighters Park Troy Free 14,933 1988 moderate square ▼2 34
24 New York Shadow Pines Penfield Free 14,141 2022 moderate square  gray diamond ▲5 32
25 Indiana Fall Creek Disc Golf Course Indianapolis Free 13,854 2013 “easy-circle"  moderate square  gray diamond“double-black-diamond" Yes ▲9 31
26 Nevada Mountain Crest Las Vegas Free 12,682 2001 moderate square ▼3 28
27 Kentucky Shillito Park Lexington Free 12,536 1998 moderate square ▼3 28
28 Virginia Newport News Park Newport News Free 12,329 1997 “easy-circle"  moderate square  gray diamond Yes ▼3 28
29 Maine Sabattus Disc Golf - Hawk Sabattus $ 11,891 2005 moderate square Yes ▲4 27
30 Maryland Rockburn Branch Elkridge Free 11,504 1999 moderate square  gray diamond ▲1 26
31 Iowa Grandview Park Des Moines Free 11,255 1997 moderate square ▼4 25
32 Nebraska Seymour Smith Park La Vista Free 11,059 1994 moderate square ▲7 25
33 Missouri Unger Park Fenton Free 11,033 2017 moderate square ▼11 25
34 Alabama Tom Monroe Disc Golf Course at Brahan Spring Park Huntsville Free 11,029 1976 moderate square ▲1 25
35 Delaware Bellevue State Park Wilmington $ 10,857 1982 “easy-circle"  moderate square ▼7 24
36 South Dakota Jackson Park Rapid City Free 10,770 2001 moderate square ▲2 24
37 Louisiana City Park Disc Golf Course New Orleans Free 10,304 2008 moderate square  gray diamond ▼5 23
38 Connecticut Panthorn Park Southington Free 9,045 2005 gray diamond ▼2 20
39 Oklahoma Griffin Park Norman Free 8,890 2005 gray diamond“double-black-diamond" ▲1 20
40 Arkansas KJ Memorial Park Disc Golf Course Lowell Free 8,481 2018 moderate square Yes ▼3 19
41 Rhode Island Curtis Corner Athletic Field South Kingstown Free 7,144 2013 moderate square ▲1 16
42 Vermont Brewster Ridge Disc Golf Course Cambridge $ 6,542 2012 “easy-circle"  moderate square  gray diamond“double-black-diamond" ▲1 15
43 Montana Blue Mountain Missoula Free 6,468 1992 moderate square ▲3 15
44 West Virginia Valley Park Hurricane Free 6,443 2018 moderate square  gray diamond ▼3 15
45 Mississippi Brickyard Bayou Disc Golf Course Gulfport Free 6,403 2017 moderate square Yes ▼1 14
46 New Mexico Roosevelt Park Albuquerque Free 5,815 1984 moderate square ▼1 13
47 North Dakota Oak Grove Park Fargo Free 4,779 1980 moderate square 11
48 Alaska Kincaid Park Anchorage Free 4,650 2003 moderate square  gray diamond“double-black-diamond" 10
49 Hawaii Kahului Community Park Kahului Free 4,223 2012 moderate square 10
50 Wyoming Scotty's Disc Golf Course Laramie Free 2,342 2017 moderate square 5
51 District of Columbia Gallaudet University DiscGolfPark Washington Free 2,327 2024 “easy-circle" 5

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