The Most Popular Disc Golf Course In Every U.S. State: 2025

With a bit over two-thirds of the world's 16,000+ disc golf courses, the United States is home to more places to play disc golf than anywhere else in the world. Here's where you can find out which disc golf course was played the most in each U.S. state and Washington D.C.

What Does "Most Popular" Mean?
Notable Changes to State's #1s in 2025
Get & Use UDisc Stats to Grow Disc Golf
A Way to Avoid Crowded Disc Golf Courses
What to Know Before Reading the Stats
The Most Popular Disc Golf Course in Every U.S. State: 2025

A map of the U.S. in gray with blue dots indicating the most popular course in each state's location from 2025 — The location of every state's most popular disc golf course from 2025. Larger dots indicate more recorded rounds.

What Does "Most Popular Disc Golf Course" Mean?

"Most popular" is interchangeable with "most played" in this post. The play counts for each course are 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 game. Though far from every round of disc golf is recorded with UDisc, the widespread use of the app among disc golfers makes it highly likely that courses with the most plays on UDisc are also the most played generally.

Here are some things popular disc golf courses tend to have in common:

Being near large population centers
Excluding the most popular course in Washington D.C., 22 states' most popular courses are within the borders of their state's most-populous city or within a 30 minutes' drive of its center. Nine more are within that same range of their states' second-most populous city. New Jersey's top course is about 30 minutes from the center of Philadelphia, neighboring Pennsylvania's most-populous city. Texas' top course is close to the state's third-most populous city, Dallas, which has a population over 1.3 million. For those keeping count, that's 33 of 50 courses in the list that are very close to significant population centers.
Offering layouts that aren't too hard
It seems many disc golfers just wanna have fun. For the last three years, only two states' most-played courses haven't offered an "easy" or "moderate" layout option based on UDisc's disc golf course difficulty rating system. In 30 states as well as D.C., their most popular course in 2025 doesn't offer a layout rated as "challenging" or "very challenging."
Solid ratings and reviews
States' most popular courses are not always what players have rated as their states' best courses (though sometimes they are). But based on the average ratings of states' most-played courses, these popular tracks tend to be well worth a visit. Only one state's most-played track had an average rating below 4.0 out of 5 from disc golfers with UDisc.

A disc golf basket in a very wooded area surrounded by a cleared area of dirt and wood chips — A green at Gaffney's Grove disc golf course, which is a fairly short drive from Washington's first and third-most populous cities, Seattle and Tacoma. Photo uploaded to UDisc Courses by jmannech6

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.

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Notable Changes in 2025

An elevated disc golf basket with a rustic wooden staircase up to it and a misty morning — A basket at New Orlean's City Park Disc Golf Course, the most popular course in Louisiana that had nearly 2,000 more plays recorded there in 2025 than in 2024. Photo uploaded to UDisc Courses by olsonstusmc

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

Colorad-OH SNAP!
Each previous year that we released the most popular disc golf course in every state, California's Morley Field in San Diego came out as the most-played course in the country. This year, Johnny Roberts just outside Denver, Colorado, brought Morley's seven-year streak to an end. Along with a big increase of 6,788 rounds year-over-year, Johnny Roberts may have been helped by the rare opening of a new course in San Diego, Altitude Disc Golf Park, that started showing up in the lists of the world's most played courses we include in our bi-weekly Release Point newsletter and may have siphoned a bit of traffic from Morley near the end of 2025.
Holla, NOLA
Louisiana's #1 most-played course, City Park, made the biggest move of any state's top course this year. It moved up 11 spots (37th to 26th) relative to other state's most-played courses.
Noisy Boise
After jumping 13 states' top-played courses last year, Idaho's Ann Morrison Park in Boise leapfrogged another five spots up the list this year. Though the rankings are only of states' top courses and not every course in the U.S., a jump from 30th to 12th from 2023 to 2025 is still significant.
The devil in the Tar Heel State
There were just nine states that had a different most popular course this year than in 2024. The most surprising change-up came in North Carolina, where its stalwart top dog since 2018, Kentwood in Raleigh, fell to Diavolo. Not too far from Kentwood, Diavolo is in Cary and has been in the World's Best Disc Golf Courses top 100 since 2020, the year it opened. While it's always been rated more highly than Kentwood, Diavolo is surpassing it in plays, now, too.

How to Get & Use UDisc Stats to Grow Disc Golf

The numbers in this post may get you wondering how you can find more UDisc stats from courses near you. The easiest way is to get in touch with your local disc golf organization to learn who the Course Ambassador for the course(s) you're interested in is. Once you find out, ask them to share the stats with you and/or your larger disc golf community.

Along with play counts, Ambassadors can see numbers like overall hours played, steps taken during rounds, how far players travel to play the course, and much more.

Learn more about this topic – and how to use UDisc stats to grow disc golf near you – in our post "Free Disc Golf Stats From UDisc For Your Pitch, Proposal, Or Presentation."

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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

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Disc Golf Rounds Recorded: The number of rounds recorded in 2025 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

Moderate

Challenging

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 2024.
+/-: How many spots the 2025 top course in a state rose or fell in relation to where the state's top course was on the 2024 list. For example, Florida's top course was #11 in total plays in relation to other states' top courses in 2024; this year it was #7 and has a ▲4 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 2025's most popular disc golf course in the world (Colorado's Johnny Roberts). 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 2025.

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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