Canada is behind only the United States and Finland in total number of disc golf courses, and that number grows year after year. Here you can find out which of those courses in each of the Great White North's 13 provinces and territories was the most popular in 2024.
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- What Does "Most Popular" Mean?
- Notable Changes to Provinces' and Territories' Most Popular Courses in 2024
- A Way to Avoid Crowded Disc Golf Courses
- What to Know Before Reading the Stats
- The Most Popular Disc Golf Course in Every Canadian Province & Territory: 2024
What Does "Most Popular" Mean?
In short, "most popular" in this post means simply "most played."
Popular courses tend to be
near large population centers and easily accessible by car or public transport. Additionally, since
most disc golfers play recreationally, the courses with top play counts usually have layouts that
are enjoyable and encouraging for less-skilled players. This year, for example, 11 of the 12
provinces'/territories' most popular courses with a layout option that qualified for UDisc's disc golf course difficulty
rating system had an "easy" or "moderate" difficulty layout.
Sometimes very popular courses are among what disc golfers have rated an area's best. A notable example is how British Columbia's most popular disc golf course from 2024 is not just the province's best-rated place to play but one of the 100 best disc golf courses in the world.
More often than not, though, "most popular" and "best-rated" differ, and 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? Of the most popular courses from last year featured in this post, the current average rating at the time of publication was 4.3 out of 5 stars. Only one course had an average rating below 4.0. Along with being enjoyable to play, these courses are 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.
What's Notable from 2024?
These were some of the most interesting developments among Canadian provinces' and territories' most popular disc golf courses last year:
- Très bien
The top course in Québec had the largest increase in plays between 2023 and 2024 of any province or territory. Last year, the French-speaking province's top course, Parcours du Parc des Voltigeurs, had 1,884 more plays than in 2023 (when the same course was also #1 in the province). That growth was more than double the second-highest increase in play counts – 991 from New Brunswick's top track. - New champ in Nova Scotia
Every previous year we've released stats about the most-played courses in Canadian regions, Nova Scotia's #1 has been Hammonds Plains Disc Golf located around 25 minutes outside of the province's largest city, Halifax. It was overtaken this year by a very accessible and beginner-friendly nine-hole course in the province's second-largest city, Dartmouth. The power of pitch-and-putts is real. - Hillcrest crests the hill
After coming in behind Huck-It Disc Golf in play counts for the last couple of years, the much-loved Hillcrest Farm – a mainstay among the world's top 30 best disc golf courses each year – is back on top of Prince Edward Island in 2024.
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).
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 playing the course could 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 identify which courses are played most often.
- The layout difficulty rating symbols mean the following:
Click or tap to learn more about the UDisc course difficulty rating system.
- New Champ: A "Yes" in this column means a province or territory had a different most popular course in 2023.
- +/-: How many spots a country's 2024 top course rose or fell in relation to where the country's top course was on the 2023 list. For example, New Brunwick's top course was #5 in total plays in relation to other province/territories' top courses in 2023; this year it was #4 and has a ▲1 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 (a course in California). 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 24, it means it had 24% 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 province/territory. Because some regions have multiple courses with more plays than the top course in other regions, no course's position in the table – other than #1 – is guaranteed to reflect its overall popularity as compared to all courses in Canada.
The Most Popular Disc Golf Course in Every Canadian Province & Territory: 2024
| Province/Territory | Disc Golf Course | City | Free or Pay-to-Play? | Disc Golf Rounds Recorded | Year Est. | Layout Difficulties | New Champ? | +/- | World Pop. Grade | |
| 1 | Alberta | Baker Park | Calgary | Free | 26,597 | 2011 |   |
60 | ||
| 2 | British Columbia | Raptors Knoll Disc Golf Park | Langley Township | Free | 23,214 | 2019 |   |
52 | ||
| 3 | Ontario | Sandy Hollow Disc Golf Course | Barrie | Free | 14,331 | 2013 | |
32 | ||
| 4 | New Brunswick | CDT Disc Golf Course | Riverview | Free | 10,540 | 2021 | |
▲1 | 24 | |
| 5 | Saskatchewan | Diefenbaker Park | Saskatoon | Free | 9,046 | 2005 | |
▼1 | 20 | |
| 6 | Québec | Parcours du Parc des Voltigeurs | Drummondville | Free | 8,495 | 2014 |
|
19 | ||
| 7 | Nova Scotia | Dartmouth Commons Disc Golf Course | Dartmouth | Free | 7,202 | 2022 | |
Yes | 16 | |
| 8 | Manitoba | Happyland Park | Winnipeg | Free | 5,014 | 2001 | |
▲1 | 11 | |
| 9 | Prince Edward Island | Hillcrest Farm Disc Golf | Bonshaw | $ | 4,235 | 2011 | |
Yes | ▼1 | 10 |
| 10 | Newfoundland and Labrador | Corner Brook Disc Golf Course | Corner Brook | Free | 3,766 | 2022 |
|
Yes | 8 | |
| 11 | Yukon | Mt McIntyre | Whitehorse | Free | 1,700 | 2009 |
|
4 | ||
| 12 | Northwest Territories | Yellowknife | Yellowknife | Free | 209 | 2022 | |
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| 13 | Nunavut | Timmianut Pikiuqarvik | Iqaluit | Free | 12 | 2007 | <1< /td> |