How far do you have to travel to play a disc golf course?

I am doing a survey on how you have to travel to play a disc golf course. I live in CT and I have to go 40 miles. I am wondering how many dedicated disc golfers have to travel over 100 miles to play a course. As more courses go in throughout the country, hopefully you will all have a local course to play.

Bill Mikuliewicz
PDGA #7378

[keithjohnson]

5 feet to tee #1 to play nine holes on my property
27 miles to play 18 holes on dirt
36 miles to play nine holes on grass
112 miles to play 18 holes on grass
since you didn't define holes or quality i added all 4 in

35 miles to temple and waco courses and 100 to San Saba when Mr.Houck let's me start playing out there.

[circlek13783]

I'm w/ Keith:

12 Feet to Tee #3 for 9 holes on my property.

9 Miles for 24 holes on Cement.
50 Miles? over 10 courses w/ Cement.

I'm in the same boat as you Bill, it takes around 1:15 to reach a basket course (18 hole) Fairfield-U is about 45 mins. but there is only 9 or 12 holes and too many moving obstacles (students). That is why a bunch of us meet every Tues. and Thurs. at Bushnell Park(downtown Hartford) for some old fashion object golf. The season will start up again April 8th (begining of Daylight Savings Time), we meet at Vito's by the Park between 5-5:30. Come out and we'll show you the course.

-ditterman (Bushnell Park Archer)

I should mention, I also have only a few feet to travel to play my fun ace run disc golf course on my property. It is nice to see more and more people putting a course on their properties. It is a good idea to benefit both you and the lady of the house. If you are lazy doing yard work, a course in your yard will make you want to keep the place looking in tip top shape. The wife will be so happy to see you out there cutting the grass and raking leaves when you are not playing on a course you have the greatest pride in.

Bill Mikuliewicz
PDGA #7378

[morgan]

160 miles to Warwick, NY
160 miles to Barre Falls, Mass
160 miles to Buffumville Dam, Mass
160 miles to North Calais Vermont
160 miles to Syracuse, NY

It's great to have so many courses within 161 miles.

[jeffash]

18 inches to tee #1 on my six basket, multi-tee private course. No pitch and putt here- length ranges from just over 200 feet to well over 400 feet.
Five minutes from Fayetteville's only course- 18 baskets, dirt tees.
Just under two hours from the closest 18 hole course with concrete tees and PDGA approved baskets- Tulsa'a McClure Park.

[jzumwalt]

9 miles to 9-hole course-Simmons Center
15 miles to 18-hole course-Duncan Lake

[xterramatt]

Miles to Cameron Yards (9 hole): 6.4
Miles to Kilborne: 10.1
Miles to Veterans Park (9 hole): 10.2
Miles to Cordelia Park (9 hole): 10.3
Miles to Lake Park course (9 hole): 11.2
Miles to Mint Hill (9 hole): 12.2
Miles to Sugaw Creek (9 hole): 13.6
Miles to Renaissance: 14.1
Miles to Reedy Creek: 17.2
Miles to Hornet's Nest: 17.4
Miles to Dickerson Park, Monroe: 18.6
Miles to Winthrop Gold: 24.8
Miles to Stumpy Creek (9 hole, dual concrete pads): 40.3
Miles and miles of disc golf holes within an hour of home: <FONT COLOR="green">Priceless.</FONT>

[tdwriter]

About 10 minutes to the local course with mostly natural pads and five concrete. I can also play in the yard, if you count the two baskets I use for putting and approach practice. No room for any real holes.
Another hour to Tishomingo State Park (Miss.); One hour 15 minutes to three courses in Huntsville, AL.; two hours to Tupelo,MS. and there are several about 21/2-3 hours away in Birmingham, AL., Miss. and Tenn. RwC

I live in Tampa-The U.S.F, Clearwater and St. Pete courses are half an hour away. Sarasota, Brooksville and Orlando courses are about an hour away. It was 79 degrees and beautiful for the Clearwater Ice Bowl yesterday.

[jpg420]

i have 5 courses within 30 minutes from my house ,soon to be a six once fly 18 goes in in dunedin,

[circle_2]

~Less than 5 minutes to my local course in Lawrence, Kansas.
~Less than 10 to our new local course due this year.
~Less than 30 minutes to 2 courses in Topeka, and to WyCo (8,300' ) in KCK, and to Olathe.
~Less than 50 minutes to the 4 permanent courses in KC...Rosedale (top) &amp; Down-Under, Swope, and Water Works.

[reddman]

The closest course for me is about 12 minutes away; it is a short 9 hole course with cement pads. I have another six courses within 30 minutes of my house. I have another six that are within an hour's drive. I feel rather lucky!

[jeffash]

Did somebody say Waterworks (http://kcfdc.org/images/waterworks.jpg )?/clipart/proud.gif

i have five courses with concrete with in ten miles two 30 miles 1 1 mile nine hole pole course 1000 feet and my own bult brand new this week nine hole nineconrete pads within 17.5 miles

Swope ~ 30 min.

Everything else add at least 15 min. Gotta' Get out of the sticks! /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

Ford

[jackinkc]

Lets see.....
Waterworks-6.02 Miles
Rosedale-8.02 Miles
Down Under Rosedale, well about 400 feet further.
Swope-12.54 Miles
WyCo-20.80 Miles
Olather-27.04 Miles
Lawrence-44.08
Topeka=66.94 Miles away
Not included
Cliff Drive Park-Temp working at getting perm-2.2 miles
Blue Valley Park-Temp meeting with Parks on Wednesday-3.9 miles
Teds Dread-About 3 miles closer than WyCo.
Lamoni-Less than 117 miles away for 2 good courses
Columbia-about 120 miles away for 3 courses.
Des Moines-Less than 3 hour drive to hit the courses.

While living in Chicago, I had one course less than 30 miles, Madison Meadows, flat terrain, some long shots, and natural barriers, but otherwise, I planned at least an hour to head to Joliet, or to Hammond IN, or north, until they took Libertyville from 18to9, that was one of the best 18 holes in the Chicago area, too bad they did not feel the same way then.

Bottom line, we will drive to play on good courses. I just chose to live close to all of the great courses here in town!

[jackinkc]

BTW,

Ford you do need to get out of the sticks, anyplace that you need to take a GPS to find your house is just too far away!
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[exczar]

For 2 1/2 yrs, I had to travel 100 miles to play the Burns Park course in North Little Rock, or 150 miles to play the Shelby Forest course in Memphis (Millington?), TN.

Now I have lived in Dallas for the last 11 years, and there are courses within an hour of me that I have never played (ZBoaz, Denton, Grand Prairie, DBU) and ones that I have only played once or twice in the last 10 years (McKinney, The Colony, LL Woods, the non-Fritz Irving park, Cain Park in Athens).

Go figure...

[dannyreeves]

Bill, you should really come over to Ft. Worth and play Z-Boaz. It is amazing.

[dannyreeves]

I travel 4 miles to Veteran's park in Arlington, TX.

Just 3-4 miles to Old Settlers Park, from home

one block away from hole 8 @ Pease park from work.

Free:

La Mirada 100 miles
Other LA courses are about the same, but not worth the drive.

Pay:

$2 Morley 6 miles

$15-$25 Mission Trails: 10 miles

[rhett]

45 miles to Morley.
75 miles to HB.
75 miles to LaMa.

All mileage approximate.

[neonnoodle]

12 miles to Sedgley
15 miles to Bellevue
25 miles to Brandywine
25 miles to Kennet Square
30 miles to White Clay
30 miles to Lums Pond
45 miles to Tyler
45 miles to French Creek
50 miles to Akron
50 miles to Vineland
50 miles to Buchmiller
60 miles to Tinicum
60 miles to South Mountain
60 miles to Jordon Creek
90 miles to Druid Hill
90 miles to Killen's Pond
90 miles to Rutgers
110 miles to Patapsco Creek
A bunch just outside that range including Seneca Creek, Prompton Dam, Woodshed, Warwick, Calvert, and a new one Nockimixon.

Life is good. Thanks, Rich Hughes, Steve Winchester, Richie Ross, Jim Powers, Joe Mela, Jim Myers, Dead Dogs, Rocco, Matt LaCourte, John Harvey, Dan Doyle, Bill Newman, and everyone who had a hand in getting these great courses in the ground.

Hickory Run is closer but I haven't had the pleasure yet

Six blocks to Kaposia Park. One of the most challenging courses you could play. Come to the Minnesota Majestic(National tour stop #10)July 12-13.

71 miles to Roswell, NM(9 holer)
3.5 hours to Lubbock,TX(18 holer)
7 hour plane ride to Seneca and PawPaw(priceless)

[ck34]

But for now, Team4D has to drive all of 7 minutes to the other championship course, North Valley, for the MN Majestic because the baskets are out for the winter at Kaposia. I live between them 5 minutes from each.

Where's the course in Roswell? went to school there...???

[august]

Travel time is about 30 seconds from my door to the first tee of my home course.
"Green Acres is the place to be....."

[p-katt]

Carl, Carl...21 holes in Lubbock (TWO cliff shots!). Salsa, the Roswell course is about two years old located on the west side of town behind the BLM offices in Enchanted Lands Park. It's a nine hole, relatively short, but designed for putting in pro pads as players developed. Call Leo Sanchez 505-623-1779 if you ever go back. For me <10 miles to Mackenzie Park - Lubbock and in the future <2 miles to our second course.

thanks P-Katt, will do. might go thru there on spring break.

I'm:
5 seconds from my polehole in the backyard.

5 min from Oakwood park,10 min from c.p.adams, 12 min from North Valley , 14 min from Kaposia. all excellent courses!!

not very far..... in tulsa....... it is disc golf mecca out here....... about 11 courses in the area...... :D

20 or so mins to the closest course, but over 60 withn 2.5 hours at most!

wagner-18 w cement
starr-9 mats
raintree-9 cement
firefighters-18 cement
all within a 5 minute drive, but they are free city courses and i would only play them as a last resort, or if i didn't have

riverbends-24 cement
stony creek-24 cement
kensington-24 cement
cass benton-18 cement
seymour lake-18 cement
all worlds worthy and within a 30 minute drive, or

hudson mills at 45 minutes.

several other free city courses available from the 5-20 minute drive category are available, but i never play them due to being either pitch and putt or constantly submerged.

lola park at 5 mile and telegraph is a gem of a 9 hole golf course (20 min drive) but always soaked somewhere

bay court in waterford (20-30 min drive) is another 9 hole gem
that i don't play enough but only because the same drive time gets me 24 holes at any of those listed above

10 km (about 6 miles I guess) to my home course

Everything else is a least three times as far.

[Jake L]

I have to go about 1.5 miles to our local course Johnson Street Park, 18 mach 3's, 45 cement pads, and 9 more cement to come.

[cbdiscpimp]

Id have to say the Detroit area is the best place to live for disc golf. I live 5 minutes from Cass Benton and there are like westa said about 60 Courses within 2.5 or 3 hours from my house. Among them are Flip City, Kensington, Cass Benton, Hudson Mills, Grand Woods, Stoney Creek, Riverbends, The Tobbagan (when its in), Willow Metro Park, Oshtemo, Robert Morris, Coldbrook, Kimble Pines, Fitzgerald the list goes on and on. Michigan is by far the best place to live in the Summer for Disc Golf :D

its just too bad our summers last a month and a half

200' to my object course (winter only :()
5 minutes to Seneca :)

14 seconds to my home object/1 basket course longest hole 200'.
89 miles to Barre Falls
150 miles to Borderland (my fiance's parents live about 20 minutes from Borderland, so I play there the most.)
135 miles to Buffumville
120 miles to pyramids/maple hills (haven't played there yet, but can't wait.)
100 miles from the new Hyzer Creek in NY (haven't played that one, but I have directions.)
10 minutes from the site of the future Greylock view course(I am starting a club in the Berkshires. If there is anyone interested in installing a course in some of the prettiest country in New England please contact me.)
Five days and three thousand miles from the Bend OR course I'm gonna play next week. Yahoo! Ain't no party like a west coast party!

[wheresdave]

3 blocks to Universal City Park Course and 3.5 miles to Live Oak City Park :Dall in the Great state of Texas :D

[space76]

20 courses within an hour drive.

From the shop, 5 miles to two different 9-hole courses;
10 miles to the first 18-hole.

Within a 1/2 hour I have 22 courses. The real problem I have is choosing which one to visit!

Brooklyn New York is Ultimate Central. To play disc golf I have to travel to Rutgers in NJ [$13 on the train] or in upper Westchester [one hour away.] Fortunately, we have devised an object course in Prospect Park.

Chicago is a real golfer's haven. Too bad it's the wrong kind of golf! I travel 36 miles north to Round Lake for a good quality 18 hole course. Joliet is 60 miles away, but getting around in the Chicago area is a frustrating experience.

I wish I lived in Madison...

[reddman]

20 courses within an hour drive.



What he said. :cool:

Moffitt is like 10 miles or so from me, the Discgolf Social Center of Houston.

TC like 15 maybe....

[bcoxxx]

0.9 miles to northlake (denton, tx...18 holes)
14 miles to lake park (lewisville, tx...18 holes)

i'm lucky to live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area...easily 20 or so
courses within a 50mile radius or so...

Im a bout 45 min to a hour away from these cources in Oregon. Rockwood Central Park, Portland Adventist School, Estacada Timber Park, Milo McIver State Park, Champoeg State Park, Herbert Hoover Park, Wortman Park, Dabney State Park, Lunchtime Disc Golf Course, Greinfield Park Disc Golf Course, Henry Hagg Lake, Pier Park, McMenamins Grand Lodge. I hear word there is supposed to be one going up within 5 min from me in Lake Oswego, OR I hope it happens sooner rather than later.

there is 8 within a 20 minute drive, 3 are within a bike ride of my home, 1 i can walk to.

Now right now only 1 course is playable, but thats a different story

less than a mile to the nearest, 6 to the next, then 15&20 or so for the next 2.