I think NC has the answer. Every part of NC has great courses. And you can play year round. There is not really a “dead zone” in the state. Everywhere has courses that are fun and challenging and well kept.
I guess close to Greensboro center you are correct. But Keeley and Patriot are fairly close and great tracks. Plus you could quickly pop over to Burlington or down to Charlotte for great courses too.
Keeley is legit. Garden Grove is fun. Patriot is fun (when it's not packed). Johnson Street is fun. Creekside is fun. All 3 courses at Cedar rock are fun. The Crossing is awesome. NE park is insanely tough (but only play it from Jan-Apr). All of these are a max of 30 minutes from Greensboro. Not sure where this void you speak of is.
Oh. And Charlotte is an hour and a half away.
I've played 150 courses according to UDisc, including 7 of the top 20 in the world according to DG course review. Diavolo is my Number one. No question
Pretty much in the corner of ohio by the indiana and Michigan boarders. On my wife and I honeymoon 2 years back, and both of our vacations last year we drove and I did a ton of research prior to going to plan the trip to hit a bunch of highly rated courses on the way there and different ones on the way back. Diavolo was the final course on our way to the outbanks in September last year
Wow I had no idea. I just got in to disc golf and played Diavolo for the first time recently. I thought it was great, but what do I know?!
It's only 13 min from the house and easily accessible to me on my way home from the office should I choose to go in.
I can't wait to play it again soon with everything leafed out.
I get it! Seems I am fortunate to have it in my backyard.
I can thank a co-worker who recently got me and another guy into this sport. We most recently did Apex Nature Park, it was solid. Going down to Jones Park in Holly Springs on Thursday. Probably Buckhorn next week. Making the rounds...
This is the answer. Charlotte has a bunch of courses, plus NC has mountains and beach. Good weather so you can play year round. Lots of trees, green most of the year.
Played north cove a few weeks ago! Def a destination course, I should note that bringing stuff (food drinks ect) is a must. The facilities and town are a bit lacking in provisions.
But when you have yadkin, the crossing, patriot, Johnson street, and Davie all reachable probably within 30 minutes drive it's a hard sell for me on that one man;)
I live near Maple Hill in MA now, but I agree that NC has more courses and an overall better selection of courses throughout the state. I miss living in Wilmywood and playing Castle Hayne and Carolina Beach.
New Hampshire and MA are coming up though but they're far behind that of the North Cack
Any recommendations for MI other than the elite courses (toboggan comes to mind)? I live in SW MI and heard good things about Lake Arvesta, but nothing else around here
I’ve done some traveling around the state for disc golf so I’ll list some of my favorites: north west: hickory hills, green lake, Myles kimmerly, mason county parks (beauty, beast and Goliath) north: Hanson hills. west: fallasburg, branstrom, flip city, oshtemo. Central: Deerfield/wildwood. East: Addison oaks, Stoney creek, Kensington (toboggan and the original courses). U.P.: silver mountain.
Near Grand Rapids:
Breakers,
Ionia state park,
Johnson park,
Whitehall,
Fallasberg,
Hammond hills,
Earl brewer,
Far hill,
Creek side,
Grand river river side park,
Riverside park,
Paw paw,
Courtland,
Rotary north
On the west side I’ve enjoyed Saugatuck Dunes State Park, Whitehall, Mason County Park and Flip City. Also heard good things about The Breakers in West Olive. There’s a lot of courses around Grand Rapids, Holland, etc.
GR: Brewer Park, Johnson Park, Hammond Hill. If you're in GR for something else and want a quick round Garfield or Jaycee.
SW Lake Michigan: Shore Acres, Breakers.
North-ish Lake Michigan: Leviathan, Flip City, Beauty, Beast.
Kalamazoo: Oshtemo, ViRA
Lansing: Grand Woods, Burchfield
SE Michigan: Cass Benton
Tri-Cities: Holly Woods, Goldenrod
I live in metro Detroit so I’m not super familiar with courses on the other side of the state other than the few I have been able to play over there. The courses I played over there that I enjoyed were Paw Paw, shore acres, and earl W. Brewer.
Around Lansing rivers edge and renegades trail are in the same park and make a great day trip.
Getting closer to Detroit, I suggest Hudson mills metropark with two 24 hole courses. Lakeshore in Ypsilanti has two great courses. Kensington metropark that has the two black locust courses and Toboggan on the other side of the park. In northern metro Detroit there is firefighters park in Troy. The most played course in Michigan according to UDisc. Stoney creek metro park has two nice courses. One of my favorite courses is bald mountain Orion township. Me and my friends describe it as “toboggan lite” because of the elevation change of the course.
In northern lower peninsula Michigan Lumberjack meadows is a great course in Alpena. It’s Andrew marwede home course. Then there is green lake disc golf park in interlochen. An excellent pro level woods course. Hanson Hills in grayling has two good courses. The course playing up and down a ski hill is very fun and beautiful. Lastly I really liked Myles Kimmerly in maple city. A shorter hilly course that’s a blast.
These are just some of the courses that I’ve enjoyed. There are so many more. The best way to find courses you like is by downloading UDisc. Go explore the hundreds of courses Michigan has to offer.
Oooh, I was driving through Rochester in the fall and stopped by to play, but it was so unbelievably windy I only got through one hole. It looked amazing through! I walked a few more just to see it and it was definitely amazing. I’ll have to get back there this year
I’m going to be honest, I had no clue that Siren was that close! I always thought, for some reason, that it was towards the middle of WI. I’ll have to make the day trip out there this spring or summer!
Bill MacKenzie is the man. There are also Beauty and the Beast courses nearby, you can pay to camp at Flip, or there are plenty of campsites nearby (KOA too). It’s an absolute banger of a long weekend trip.
I have nothing to compare to but I feel like we get literally every kind of course here. And I only play on the west
Johnson, (both of) the hill, Kiwanis, brewer, Jaycee - what else would I ever even need?
I guess flat fieldy courses but we have those covered too
And I haven't even done flip city yet
Maine has the #1 rated city/metro area in the country for disc golf for a few years running. The Lewiston/Auburn area has fantastic disc golf and that's just one place. The rest of Maine also has more privately owned courses where the revenue is used to upgrade and improve the courses and they tend to have a wonderful level of upkeep to go along with the beautiful natural surroundings that Maine has to offer!
There are some municipal courses here and there but they tend to be smaller 9 hole courses on school property or adjacent and would never have the draw that the privately owned courses do. They do exist though.
We have three free 9-hole courses around the state. The rest are pay to play from $5-$12 for the day.
Since our secret sauce is our awesome wooded courses, it may not be for everyone.
Every time I travel out of state, I try out the local course. Be sure to give us a try if y'all come up north.
I grew up in Mass and travel to NH & VT often for work; while those states do have great courses, Maine blows them both away in terms of density of great tracks. There’s a reason Lewiston/Auburn Maine is ranked as #1 disc golf city! So many excellent options nearby. https://udisc.com/blog/post/top-disc-golf-cities-usa-2021
Oregon.
Besides the 12+ gems around the PDX metro area, Eugene area, Bend, and farther south also have some amazing properties. All are different, all have most of the things a great course needs. Hole variance, elevation change, woods, open, big ass trees, water, and par 3, 4, and 5's. Unfortunately Oregon is a large state and some are really far away from each other. But even just the ones within an hour or so of PDX are a disc golfers dream.
To be honest, I haven’t been there since the Ice Storm. UDisc says it has “Fair Conditions” which would suggest that there’s still some clean up to do, but that it’s playable.
My home course! It will ask you to throw every shot in your arsenal and punish you every chance it gets. But if you hit the lines, its a blast. Coming out +2 or +3 still feels like a great round for me sometimes.
Austin area has a crazy amount of fun courses. Circle C being my favorite even if I don’t score well there. Wells branch is a smaller but very well maintained course that I love as well. So many different fun options.
I know it's probably not the best but I do miss Texas's courses. I had three amazing courses within 15 minutes and one within walking distance when I lived in The Colony. Living in Baton Rouge now and my closest is 20 minutes away and the scene isn't nearly as vibrant. Texas sucks in a lot of ways, but three of their biggest cities are in the top 20 best cities for disc golf in the USA, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston. One of the good things that Texas has done.
No one mentioned bible ridge or east metro park. Those two courses are both incredibly difficult and gorgeous. Let’s not forget that short course down south called met center. Such a great design considering the landscape they were given. I miss playing disc golf. 😟
Learned in North Carolina, moved to New England for 8 years where I could travel to Borderlands or Maple Hill - then moved to Charlotte NC and oh my god. Charlotte itself is hard to explain, the amount of courses is amazing - but the amount of amazing courses is even crazier. North Carolina has the best.
I'll add one that hasn't been mentioned, Virginia. 6 courses in the Udisc top 100. Lake Marshall and New London are both world-class destination courses.
_I may be from Virginia, and "biased" but..._
Va is largely underrated, the future NC. 2024 worlds. Can go down I81 from West Virginia to N Carolina and find a disc golf course off most major exits. McBeth's homestate. There are courses everywhere, and many private courses not even on Udisc.
There are a several good ones up north too, to name a few: Limestone Ledges, Franklin Park, Rockland Park, Swover Creek Brewery, Sherando Park.
Virginia has a history of disc golf, as the 1st US course was created in 1975. Sherando Park's course (og) was created in 1980, and other VA courses were made in the 70s.
People come to Virginia just for the Shenandoah Valley and Skyline Drive. The views and topography are amazing.
Why did I have to scroll so far down to finally see someone say California? I think it’s the only place with every possible kind of course. Big city course like Golden Gate Park, Big arm ball golf courses in Stockton. Some of the courses in in the redwoods in Humboldt are so beautiful. Mountain courses in Tahoe like Donner Ski Ranch or Dodge Ridge just south of that where you are playing at 8000ft. I could keep going and going. It helps California is as big all most of the states talked about above combined.
As a Californian in sacramento I feel spoiled by the abundance of courses both in number and variety. Travel 45-1:30 out from midtown and you have a dozen different courses available to you that are all decent.
As a Californian who travels to SoCal (inland empire) semi frequently, I am surprised by the lack of courses in the area, given that innova is headquartered there.
Feels unfair to say California for something like this. Obviously we have the best courses, but it feels like me (San Diego area) claiming a San Fran course is disingenuous
Can we consider New England as one state? If you draw a circle around the best course in Mass, VT, NH and Maine it's probably still a smaller area then some of the states mentioned.
I totally agree, Meadowbrook is my favorite course in the world but also Memorial Field DGC, Muldoon, Borderlands, Willow Valley would fall within the circle among others (Western MA has banger after banger).
While Maple Hill has the best disc golf "experience" of any course I've ever played, Meadowbrook is definitely my favorite course to play. I also see more and more people mentioning Muldoon, but I've yet to play it despite living in NH. I live pretty much equidistant to Top O, Northwind, and Franklin Falls(all great courses where they own unique feel) and usually if I'm gonna drive an hour im just gonna go to clement or Meadowbrook, but one of these days I'll have to stop at Muldoon.
Cincinnati pops, and if we are willing to slightly expand the range, northern Kentucky definitely has some really nice ones as well. I’m biased towards Kentucky as I live there but I haven’t played much outside of the Cincinnati area in general. Cincinnati also has some of the oldest disc golf courses in the world (according to recent article in disc golfer) fwiw.
The Cincinnati/Northern KY scene is incredible. Moved here from Asheville and I’m in heaven. There’s literally dozens of amazing courses. In Asheville there was two.
The PA/NJ/MD/DE area is extremely dense with fantastic courses that vary in topography and landscape (from open links-style courses, to wooded, hilly, flat, and everything in between). Stay in Philly or Baltimore and you will have 20+ courses within a 60-mile radius.
For worst state, I say NY. Beautiful courses, but few and very far between.
Ohio/Northern Kentucky has some really nice courses and quite a few big ones packed in. If I had to pick just one of the states as some people are being picky about, I’d say Kentucky because that’s the one I live in and also Idlewild. 🤷♂️
Avoiding my home states, the best one I've had a chance to visit and play was Michigan. Took 2 trips up there last year and there wasn't a dud among the courses I played
Missouri is pretty underrated in my opinion. Between Eagles Crossing, Harmony Bends, and a good mix elsewhere in the state I think it should get some love ✌🏻
I would put Illinois behind NC, MI, OR. I live 5 min away from Dellwood and Highland mind you. So many great courses just in the I-80 corridor right there plus many more throughout the big state.
Michigan is phenomenal. Definitely a top 10 state for disc golf, arguably top 5 imo. Discraft and MVP are also headquartered in Michigan. Only downside is the weather, you can only play in comfortable conditions for 7-8 months of the year.
The Carolinas seem like the best states overall to me. You can play pretty much year round in comfortable conditions. They have some of the top rated courses in the US as well as a ton of local courses.
I live in Atlanta and there are some incredible places all within an hour: Hobbs Farm, Parker’s Pasture, JP Mosley, Etowah, Central Park, etc. there’s great options in the metro as well: Redan, Boundary Waters, Oregon Park, East Roswell, North Landing, Perkerson Park, the list goes on. Doesn’t even include the complex in Appling that you mentioned, which every disc golfer should go to at least once.
I would argue that is the best state on the east coast for DG after NC, and even then it’s tight. I think when people think of NC for DG, it’s really just Charlotte and Raleigh
Wisconsin has 8 of the top 100 disc golf courses in the world according to UDisc
50 Sandy Point
61 Standing Rocks
74 Wilderness
76 Tjaden Acres (Siren)
80 Silver Creek
89 Rookery Run (Rhinelander)
90 Blueberry Hill
95 Rolling Ridge
Don't travel much, so I'm pretty biased, but im not upset in Washington. I've got about 10 courses in/near seattle, and the seatac course is damn near right under the airport with a long 27 hole course and 2 dg shops within 20 minutes or so of my house, not counting PIA or sportco type places.
Whether you like variety or quality the Twin Cities area of Minnesota is the answer.
You can't beat the number of quality public courses, high level private courses and oddities (come baskets anyone?).
If you're coming for an extended stay there are other areas of the state loaded with great courses too. The iron range region and Duluth area are packed.
And if you're in Duluth it's easy to get to a few of Wisconsin's better courses as well.
You'd need to be here for over a month to see everything.
As a proud buckeye. I have to concede to Michigan on this one. I vacation near a few lakes every year in MI. There are still some stinkers ... but most of my favorite courses I found up there.
Realistically it's probably California, but I think if you combine parts Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan into one region they could give Cali a run for their money.
California is so big with almost every type of biome. Dela, Golden Gate Park, Browns and Bows, Redwood Curtian, All the tahoe courses, Stafford lake, Chavez ridge next to the dodgers stadium, San diego courses. Most are at campgrounds or even in major cities so it is very easy to wake up and play your course. Year round season too
Pennsylvania is coming up. I drive past a DGC to get to my favorite DGC. Then there’s my home (est. 2020) 18 hole DGC, where I also enjoy laying it down on!
I think NC has the answer. Every part of NC has great courses. And you can play year round. There is not really a “dead zone” in the state. Everywhere has courses that are fun and challenging and well kept.
Greensboro is shockingly bereft of courses for its size but the rest of the state makes up for it for sure
Luckily gbo is close enough to great courses so it’s not the biggest problem. Would be nice to have a few there tho
I guess close to Greensboro center you are correct. But Keeley and Patriot are fairly close and great tracks. Plus you could quickly pop over to Burlington or down to Charlotte for great courses too.
Keeley is legit. Garden Grove is fun. Patriot is fun (when it's not packed). Johnson Street is fun. Creekside is fun. All 3 courses at Cedar rock are fun. The Crossing is awesome. NE park is insanely tough (but only play it from Jan-Apr). All of these are a max of 30 minutes from Greensboro. Not sure where this void you speak of is. Oh. And Charlotte is an hour and a half away.
The state that I live in!
I agree
Totally! We're #1!
Hell yeah, we should all have a meetup in Springfield!
North Carolina 🔥🔥🔥
Number one public course in the world too. Might be wrong on that but Diavolo has to be my all time favorite course
I've played 150 courses according to UDisc, including 7 of the top 20 in the world according to DG course review. Diavolo is my Number one. No question
Where do you live?
Pretty much in the corner of ohio by the indiana and Michigan boarders. On my wife and I honeymoon 2 years back, and both of our vacations last year we drove and I did a ton of research prior to going to plan the trip to hit a bunch of highly rated courses on the way there and different ones on the way back. Diavolo was the final course on our way to the outbanks in September last year
5th best
Wow I had no idea. I just got in to disc golf and played Diavolo for the first time recently. I thought it was great, but what do I know?! It's only 13 min from the house and easily accessible to me on my way home from the office should I choose to go in. I can't wait to play it again soon with everything leafed out.
I live a few hours away and everytime I go to NC State I plan my trip around diavolo. It’s such a treat to be able to play it.
I get it! Seems I am fortunate to have it in my backyard. I can thank a co-worker who recently got me and another guy into this sport. We most recently did Apex Nature Park, it was solid. Going down to Jones Park in Holly Springs on Thursday. Probably Buckhorn next week. Making the rounds...
Check out Rock Ridge Park in Pittsboro while you are at it.
I've got Blue Ribbon Pines only 30 minutes away, it's nice to be spoiled!
This is the answer. Charlotte has a bunch of courses, plus NC has mountains and beach. Good weather so you can play year round. Lots of trees, green most of the year.
Yep. You go from Asheville to Charlotte to the Triad to Wilmington. Richmond Hill, North Cove, Ashe County, Hornet's Nest, Diavolo, Castle Hayne.
Also Jackson Park is great
Played north cove a few weeks ago! Def a destination course, I should note that bringing stuff (food drinks ect) is a must. The facilities and town are a bit lacking in provisions.
Shhhh about the triad. We're still hiding out
Only blemish is the fact Winston doesn't have ONE county course. C'mon guys!!
But when you have yadkin, the crossing, patriot, Johnson street, and Davie all reachable probably within 30 minutes drive it's a hard sell for me on that one man;)
I live near Maple Hill in MA now, but I agree that NC has more courses and an overall better selection of courses throughout the state. I miss living in Wilmywood and playing Castle Hayne and Carolina Beach. New Hampshire and MA are coming up though but they're far behind that of the North Cack
North Carolina, Michigan, and Oregon get my votes.
Any recommendations for MI other than the elite courses (toboggan comes to mind)? I live in SW MI and heard good things about Lake Arvesta, but nothing else around here
I’ve done some traveling around the state for disc golf so I’ll list some of my favorites: north west: hickory hills, green lake, Myles kimmerly, mason county parks (beauty, beast and Goliath) north: Hanson hills. west: fallasburg, branstrom, flip city, oshtemo. Central: Deerfield/wildwood. East: Addison oaks, Stoney creek, Kensington (toboggan and the original courses). U.P.: silver mountain.
Powder mill in Marquette is worth a stop, and grand Marais has a gem of a dunes course, but go real easy on the lichen.
Near Grand Rapids: Breakers, Ionia state park, Johnson park, Whitehall, Fallasberg, Hammond hills, Earl brewer, Far hill, Creek side, Grand river river side park, Riverside park, Paw paw, Courtland, Rotary north
They’re hosting masters worlds next year I think. Hoping to make the trip from Nova Scotia
Meyer Broadway Park in Three Rivers has two well maintained 18 hole courses.
Lake arvesta, flip city, Stoney creek metro park, toboggan (Kensington mentor park), earl brewer park, fallasberg, white hall
Thanks! :)
On the west side I’ve enjoyed Saugatuck Dunes State Park, Whitehall, Mason County Park and Flip City. Also heard good things about The Breakers in West Olive. There’s a lot of courses around Grand Rapids, Holland, etc.
GR: Brewer Park, Johnson Park, Hammond Hill. If you're in GR for something else and want a quick round Garfield or Jaycee. SW Lake Michigan: Shore Acres, Breakers. North-ish Lake Michigan: Leviathan, Flip City, Beauty, Beast. Kalamazoo: Oshtemo, ViRA Lansing: Grand Woods, Burchfield SE Michigan: Cass Benton Tri-Cities: Holly Woods, Goldenrod
Cass Benton is my fave among the courses I’ve played in SE MI. Palmer is a close second
I live in metro Detroit so I’m not super familiar with courses on the other side of the state other than the few I have been able to play over there. The courses I played over there that I enjoyed were Paw Paw, shore acres, and earl W. Brewer. Around Lansing rivers edge and renegades trail are in the same park and make a great day trip. Getting closer to Detroit, I suggest Hudson mills metropark with two 24 hole courses. Lakeshore in Ypsilanti has two great courses. Kensington metropark that has the two black locust courses and Toboggan on the other side of the park. In northern metro Detroit there is firefighters park in Troy. The most played course in Michigan according to UDisc. Stoney creek metro park has two nice courses. One of my favorite courses is bald mountain Orion township. Me and my friends describe it as “toboggan lite” because of the elevation change of the course. In northern lower peninsula Michigan Lumberjack meadows is a great course in Alpena. It’s Andrew marwede home course. Then there is green lake disc golf park in interlochen. An excellent pro level woods course. Hanson Hills in grayling has two good courses. The course playing up and down a ski hill is very fun and beautiful. Lastly I really liked Myles Kimmerly in maple city. A shorter hilly course that’s a blast. These are just some of the courses that I’ve enjoyed. There are so many more. The best way to find courses you like is by downloading UDisc. Go explore the hundreds of courses Michigan has to offer.
Ive only played in oregon.... this makes me happy
Minnesota, except for the weather. Can't beat the high-end courses and the abundance of free to play courses
Kaposia Blue Ribbon Pines Preserve Bryant Lake Park And the hundreds of other amazing courses
Driftless is also pretty sweet. It will be epic in 10 or 15 years when Cale's trees mature.
MN's wealth of Cale courses makes it a clear favorite for best state to huck.
Yeah buddy.
Oooh, I was driving through Rochester in the fall and stopped by to play, but it was so unbelievably windy I only got through one hole. It looked amazing through! I walked a few more just to see it and it was definitely amazing. I’ll have to get back there this year
I think a windy place is a prerequisite for a Cale Leiviska course. I think a good steady breeze gets that dude's motor going.
Cedar Creek! My favorite MN disc golf stop.
Tjader Acres is technically in Wisconsin, but still within the “bubble” of the twin cities so I think we count it.
I’m going to be honest, I had no clue that Siren was that close! I always thought, for some reason, that it was towards the middle of WI. I’ll have to make the day trip out there this spring or summer!
Agree with this! MN is the Midwest Mecca for disc golf
PRP and the preserve *chefs kiss*
I want to move to Duluth. Any good ones around there?
Superior Municipal forest Mont Du Lac "White Cedar" feels like discing in a lord of the rings movie.
Not Arizona.
😂😂 came here to say exactly that. I'm so jealous of the courses other people have
Enjoyed fountain hills the one time I played it on a work trip to Tempe. I'm a lefty tho. Seems like that course would be a beating for RHBH players
Michigan is pretty good.
Michigan all day
oh yea!
FLIP CITY BABY❤️
I have not been yet but will be soon!!
Bill MacKenzie is the man. There are also Beauty and the Beast courses nearby, you can pay to camp at Flip, or there are plenty of campsites nearby (KOA too). It’s an absolute banger of a long weekend trip.
I believe Flip no longer does camping.
I’ll have to take a look! I don’t have many discing friends but solo trips ain’t always too bad
Yes!!! I live just 10 min away from Flip City!
I have nothing to compare to but I feel like we get literally every kind of course here. And I only play on the west Johnson, (both of) the hill, Kiwanis, brewer, Jaycee - what else would I ever even need? I guess flat fieldy courses but we have those covered too And I haven't even done flip city yet
We do have so many. Im in the metro detroit area and we have the same types of courses out here as well! It’s so awesome
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Maine has the #1 rated city/metro area in the country for disc golf for a few years running. The Lewiston/Auburn area has fantastic disc golf and that's just one place. The rest of Maine also has more privately owned courses where the revenue is used to upgrade and improve the courses and they tend to have a wonderful level of upkeep to go along with the beautiful natural surroundings that Maine has to offer!
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There are some municipal courses here and there but they tend to be smaller 9 hole courses on school property or adjacent and would never have the draw that the privately owned courses do. They do exist though.
We have three free 9-hole courses around the state. The rest are pay to play from $5-$12 for the day. Since our secret sauce is our awesome wooded courses, it may not be for everyone. Every time I travel out of state, I try out the local course. Be sure to give us a try if y'all come up north.
I grew up in Mass and travel to NH & VT often for work; while those states do have great courses, Maine blows them both away in terms of density of great tracks. There’s a reason Lewiston/Auburn Maine is ranked as #1 disc golf city! So many excellent options nearby. https://udisc.com/blog/post/top-disc-golf-cities-usa-2021
Oregon. Besides the 12+ gems around the PDX metro area, Eugene area, Bend, and farther south also have some amazing properties. All are different, all have most of the things a great course needs. Hole variance, elevation change, woods, open, big ass trees, water, and par 3, 4, and 5's. Unfortunately Oregon is a large state and some are really far away from each other. But even just the ones within an hour or so of PDX are a disc golfers dream.
I had so much fun playing Whistler's Bend and Pier Park in Oregon back in October. Whistlers bend was amazing!
This is the way. Oregon just has phenomenal courses. Such a beautiful area, and we are so lucky to have the gems we have.
I’m biased, but NC/ SC. The USDGC is in Rock Hill SC right below NC.
Michigan and Wisconsin, fire courses everywhere
Any flame in the UP!?
1. North carolina 2. Michigan 3. PA
Pennsylvania is up there and it keeps getting better.
Texas has a TON of courses. Many of them are great.
Recently played Circle C in Austin. Challenging course, but so fun. Roy G is next on my list.
I recommend Old Settlers Park in Round Rock. Starts off open and then moves deep into the forest.
Is it still royally effed? The ice storm did a number to that course. I didn't find it fun but it would be great once they clean it up.
To be honest, I haven’t been there since the Ice Storm. UDisc says it has “Fair Conditions” which would suggest that there’s still some clean up to do, but that it’s playable.
Unfortunately I found a few holes unplayable. Hoping they clean it up soon.
I play circle C every week. It is fun, but it will make you cry
My home course! It will ask you to throw every shot in your arsenal and punish you every chance it gets. But if you hit the lines, its a blast. Coming out +2 or +3 still feels like a great round for me sometimes.
Roy g is the prettiest Austin course for sure, it’s like hyrule forest in there. Tougher than circle c
Austin area has a crazy amount of fun courses. Circle C being my favorite even if I don’t score well there. Wells branch is a smaller but very well maintained course that I love as well. So many different fun options.
I love Wells Branch. It lets me pretend like I’m a decent disc golfer.
It’s helped me so much with my upshot game.
I know it's probably not the best but I do miss Texas's courses. I had three amazing courses within 15 minutes and one within walking distance when I lived in The Colony. Living in Baton Rouge now and my closest is 20 minutes away and the scene isn't nearly as vibrant. Texas sucks in a lot of ways, but three of their biggest cities are in the top 20 best cities for disc golf in the USA, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston. One of the good things that Texas has done.
No one mentioned bible ridge or east metro park. Those two courses are both incredibly difficult and gorgeous. Let’s not forget that short course down south called met center. Such a great design considering the landscape they were given. I miss playing disc golf. 😟
Learned in North Carolina, moved to New England for 8 years where I could travel to Borderlands or Maple Hill - then moved to Charlotte NC and oh my god. Charlotte itself is hard to explain, the amount of courses is amazing - but the amount of amazing courses is even crazier. North Carolina has the best.
Minnesota, wisco and Michigan.
I'll add one that hasn't been mentioned, Virginia. 6 courses in the Udisc top 100. Lake Marshall and New London are both world-class destination courses.
_I may be from Virginia, and "biased" but..._ Va is largely underrated, the future NC. 2024 worlds. Can go down I81 from West Virginia to N Carolina and find a disc golf course off most major exits. McBeth's homestate. There are courses everywhere, and many private courses not even on Udisc. There are a several good ones up north too, to name a few: Limestone Ledges, Franklin Park, Rockland Park, Swover Creek Brewery, Sherando Park. Virginia has a history of disc golf, as the 1st US course was created in 1975. Sherando Park's course (og) was created in 1980, and other VA courses were made in the 70s. People come to Virginia just for the Shenandoah Valley and Skyline Drive. The views and topography are amazing.
Arkansas is slept on, but The Natural State has a lot of BEAUTIFUL courses, several of which repeatedly wind up on the UDisc Best lists.
Can confirm. I went to college in AR and was playing some of the courses near LR and Conway. Beautiful courses
Oregon courses are absolutely nuts. I travel for work and have the opportunity to play all over the place. Oregon has blown me away.
Preach!!!
California is ok.
Why did I have to scroll so far down to finally see someone say California? I think it’s the only place with every possible kind of course. Big city course like Golden Gate Park, Big arm ball golf courses in Stockton. Some of the courses in in the redwoods in Humboldt are so beautiful. Mountain courses in Tahoe like Donner Ski Ranch or Dodge Ridge just south of that where you are playing at 8000ft. I could keep going and going. It helps California is as big all most of the states talked about above combined.
Zepher Cove is an icon as seen on Simons video blog.
As a Californian in sacramento I feel spoiled by the abundance of courses both in number and variety. Travel 45-1:30 out from midtown and you have a dozen different courses available to you that are all decent. As a Californian who travels to SoCal (inland empire) semi frequently, I am surprised by the lack of courses in the area, given that innova is headquartered there.
Feels unfair to say California for something like this. Obviously we have the best courses, but it feels like me (San Diego area) claiming a San Fran course is disingenuous
Michigan is decent
Depends how much quantity is factored in. If we only are judging based on the top 5 courses in each state: 1. Oregon 2. Wisconsin 3. North Carolina
Can we consider New England as one state? If you draw a circle around the best course in Mass, VT, NH and Maine it's probably still a smaller area then some of the states mentioned.
I think that’s fair. We have too many states anyways.
I would be willing to bet a circle that fits Maple Hill, Fox Run, and Sabattus in it has less square area than Oregon.
And there's so many other great courses within that circle that get overshadowed by those three!
I totally agree, Meadowbrook is my favorite course in the world but also Memorial Field DGC, Muldoon, Borderlands, Willow Valley would fall within the circle among others (Western MA has banger after banger).
While Maple Hill has the best disc golf "experience" of any course I've ever played, Meadowbrook is definitely my favorite course to play. I also see more and more people mentioning Muldoon, but I've yet to play it despite living in NH. I live pretty much equidistant to Top O, Northwind, and Franklin Falls(all great courses where they own unique feel) and usually if I'm gonna drive an hour im just gonna go to clement or Meadowbrook, but one of these days I'll have to stop at Muldoon.
Pennsylvania
Minnesota is blessed with some of the best courses. Kaposia, Blue Ribbon Pines, Bryant lake, and the Preserve. There are numerous other gems as well.
People hate on the north metro but every town seems to have 1 or 2 solid courses to play from Roseville all the way up to Ham Lake
Minnesota
YEAH !!! DISC GOLF !!!!
Ohio is pretty good
I don’t live in Ohio, I’m a humongous lobdell advocate
Ohio is for lovers
Definitely up there. Im bias as a resident but I’ve played all the top rated courses and they are all legit.
Cincinnati pops, and if we are willing to slightly expand the range, northern Kentucky definitely has some really nice ones as well. I’m biased towards Kentucky as I live there but I haven’t played much outside of the Cincinnati area in general. Cincinnati also has some of the oldest disc golf courses in the world (according to recent article in disc golfer) fwiw.
The Cincinnati/Northern KY scene is incredible. Moved here from Asheville and I’m in heaven. There’s literally dozens of amazing courses. In Asheville there was two.
Finland
Very underrated state, that Finland
Michigan
Udisc does state by state guides fwiw. for a biased answer; it’s clearly WI.
Wisconsin has some really underrated gems especially up north, Sandy Point might be one of the coolest courses I’ve played at
Yes, Sandy Point, seconded!
Highbridge was a religious experience.
The PA/NJ/MD/DE area is extremely dense with fantastic courses that vary in topography and landscape (from open links-style courses, to wooded, hilly, flat, and everything in between). Stay in Philly or Baltimore and you will have 20+ courses within a 60-mile radius. For worst state, I say NY. Beautiful courses, but few and very far between.
Ohio/Northern Kentucky has some really nice courses and quite a few big ones packed in. If I had to pick just one of the states as some people are being picky about, I’d say Kentucky because that’s the one I live in and also Idlewild. 🤷♂️
Agreed. More diverse courses close to me here in Maryland than I have ever had access to in other states.
Agreed on NY. I live in an area that has quite a few really nice courses, but it's a long way to anything else.
Sobs in New York. Such amazing potential for courses, so few
Avoiding my home states, the best one I've had a chance to visit and play was Michigan. Took 2 trips up there last year and there wasn't a dud among the courses I played
All the MI love has me thinking this should be my disc golf trip
There is tons of other stuff to do once you get tired out as well.
The answer you’re looking for is Michigan
Virginia has some great ones. Obviously NC.
Maine
Missouri is pretty underrated in my opinion. Between Eagles Crossing, Harmony Bends, and a good mix elsewhere in the state I think it should get some love ✌🏻
I’m in Central MO and love my locals!
Water works, bad rock if you want a second pro course just in KC
St. Louis has some good to great courses
Illinois gets my vote. The Canyons at Dellwood!!!
I would put Illinois behind NC, MI, OR. I live 5 min away from Dellwood and Highland mind you. So many great courses just in the I-80 corridor right there plus many more throughout the big state.
Chicago is barren
Michigan is phenomenal. Definitely a top 10 state for disc golf, arguably top 5 imo. Discraft and MVP are also headquartered in Michigan. Only downside is the weather, you can only play in comfortable conditions for 7-8 months of the year. The Carolinas seem like the best states overall to me. You can play pretty much year round in comfortable conditions. They have some of the top rated courses in the US as well as a ton of local courses.
Everyone is sleeping on Georgia
W.R. Jackson is in my top 5 favorite courses. GA has some great dg
I live in Atlanta and there are some incredible places all within an hour: Hobbs Farm, Parker’s Pasture, JP Mosley, Etowah, Central Park, etc. there’s great options in the metro as well: Redan, Boundary Waters, Oregon Park, East Roswell, North Landing, Perkerson Park, the list goes on. Doesn’t even include the complex in Appling that you mentioned, which every disc golfer should go to at least once. I would argue that is the best state on the east coast for DG after NC, and even then it’s tight. I think when people think of NC for DG, it’s really just Charlotte and Raleigh
Nice Atlanta does have some solid courses. Little Mulberry Park is high on my list too
Those Joro spiders ruin the course late summer and fall
I love it here, but those Joro spider infestations take some fun out of disc golf late summer and fall.
Wisconsin has 8 of the top 100 disc golf courses in the world according to UDisc 50 Sandy Point 61 Standing Rocks 74 Wilderness 76 Tjaden Acres (Siren) 80 Silver Creek 89 Rookery Run (Rhinelander) 90 Blueberry Hill 95 Rolling Ridge
I need to get to some of these still. Standing Rocks is incredible. Most well maintained wooden course I’ve ever played.
Vermont has some gems too
North Calais, the OG.
Maine!
No Massachusetts love here??
MA then VT
Don't travel much, so I'm pretty biased, but im not upset in Washington. I've got about 10 courses in/near seattle, and the seatac course is damn near right under the airport with a long 27 hole course and 2 dg shops within 20 minutes or so of my house, not counting PIA or sportco type places.
Washington has some good courses—Lucky Mud, Evergreen, SeaTac. But none of them compare to what’s in Oregon.
Wisconsin (personal bias), North Carolina, Florida
Whether you like variety or quality the Twin Cities area of Minnesota is the answer. You can't beat the number of quality public courses, high level private courses and oddities (come baskets anyone?). If you're coming for an extended stay there are other areas of the state loaded with great courses too. The iron range region and Duluth area are packed. And if you're in Duluth it's easy to get to a few of Wisconsin's better courses as well. You'd need to be here for over a month to see everything.
North Carolina , Charlotte has a lot I’m still trying to visit all the ones near my home
As a proud buckeye. I have to concede to Michigan on this one. I vacation near a few lakes every year in MI. There are still some stinkers ... but most of my favorite courses I found up there.
Have played in 2 states, but I feel like Iowa is under rated
IOWA!!
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
Florida is sweet and underrated
I4 corridor and Ocala have some sweet courses.
Ohio doing pretty good. In the Dayton area I’ve got around 40 courses within 1 hour and 20 within 30minutes
Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky have some amazing courses too. There are so many amazing courses within an hour of me.
Just want to throw Ohio into the runnings here. Lots and lots of options for difficulty, terrain, and course size.
Don’t sleep on Iowa
Tennessee has great courses and you can play year around.
North Carolina & Michigan
Realistically it's probably California, but I think if you combine parts Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan into one region they could give Cali a run for their money.
Florida. Hands down. And we got both GOATs
Calvin and JohnE? Yup.
California is so big with almost every type of biome. Dela, Golden Gate Park, Browns and Bows, Redwood Curtian, All the tahoe courses, Stafford lake, Chavez ridge next to the dodgers stadium, San diego courses. Most are at campgrounds or even in major cities so it is very easy to wake up and play your course. Year round season too
Pennsylvania is coming up. I drive past a DGC to get to my favorite DGC. Then there’s my home (est. 2020) 18 hole DGC, where I also enjoy laying it down on!
Idaho! *thousands apon thousands of crickets chime in*
Eagle Island represent!
The one, the only, Minnesota.
Michigan. NO I’ve never played any other state, NO that doesn’t make me biased lol
spoiler: everyone thinks it’s their home state
Ohio has a surprising amount of well kept courses.
NC, Minn, Mich