These destination-grade links offer stunning views and gorgeous mountain scenery near cool towns with great amenities.
Cover Photo: Photo Courtesy of Allegany County Tourism
Disc golf is on the rise. Picturesque settings, relatively cheap equipment and about zero pretentiousness have helped the sport explode in popularity and spread around the world like some kind of amiable pandemic. What started as an inventive game of frisbee for California summer campers in the 1960s has since birthed a high-stakes international pro tour and tens of thousands of courses.
Lucky for us, the Blue Ridge region is home to some of the best and most beautiful. Here, we highlight five, destination-grade links that offer wooded escapes, scenic views, and proximity to cool mountain towns with sweet après-round amenities.
Locust Post brewery, Little Orleans, Maryland
A husband-and-wife artist duo has created a haven for craft-beer-loving disc golfers in the rural mountains of Maryland’s western panhandle. The tasting room for the course’s eponymous brewery sits about 20 miles west of Berkley Springs, W.Va., and centers a large farmstead on the outskirts of 47,500-acre Green Ridge State Forest.
The nine-bucket course winds through pastures with lovely views of protected lands along the Cacapon Mountain range to the east and Town Hill ridgeline to the west. It features frequent forays into forests that feel more natural than manicured. Holes also bring an opportunity to check out artisan barns crafted from lumber harvested onsite.
Stay / Eat
Take your rest in an overhauled turn-of-the-century Victorian home at the Grand Castalian Inn in the historic hot springs town of Berkely Springs. The newly and elegantly restored stay spot offers a mix of modern farmhouse luxury and period nods like tufted camelback sofas and ornately carved mahogany four-post beds. Feast on upscale steakhouse cuisine and sample expertly crafted cocktails just down the street at Proof on Washington.
Greenbrier State Forest, Caldwell, West Virginia
If you’re in the market for Alleghany eye candy, it doesn’t get much better than this. The 24-hole course unfolds across 5,100 acres of protected lands along the undulating, 2,000-plus-foot ridgeline of White Rock Mountain.
Stunning views of surrounding peaks and the bucolic Greenbrier Valley are near omnipresent on the mostly open and meadowy front nine—which makes for a fun fall foliage outing. Back links are almost exclusively forested and offer challenges like hard bootlegs to buckets, steep ascents up wooden stairways, and multiple crossings over large, bouldery creeks.
The rich scenery has won the course a widespread following and attracted annual tournaments sanctioned by the Professional Disc Golf Association.
Stay / Eat
Pitch a tent, grab a rustic log cabin in the state forest, or spring for something more upscale eight miles away in the lowkey, artsy community of Lewisburg. The Thomas Rose Inn dates to 1804 and has thoughtfully equipped suites that pay homage to its age while offering modern amenities. Celebrate the day with regional craft brews, wines, or cocktails paired with delicious handhelds and wood-fired pizza at locally beloved Max on Main.
New London Tech, Forest, Virginia
The nationally acclaimed, 18-hole course was designed (and recently redesigned) by legendary world champion, Paul McBeth, and is playing host to the Professional Disc Golf Association Champions Cup next spring (April 9-12). Leading disc golf app and website, UDisc, ranks it as one of the planet’s top 20 spots to play—and for good reason.
The action begins about 15 miles west of Lynchburg in the forested lands and open green spaces of the New London Business and Technology Center. Links offer a wonderful mix of woodlands, creek-crossings, small ponds, gorgeously manicured fairways, and views of the distant Blue Ridge Mountains. Expect a challenging layout, prograde tee pads, and extremely well-maintained holes.
Diehard players will want to make a weekend of it by following up with a round at the equally formidable course at Ivy Hill Golf Club, which is hosting the DGPT Championship this month (October 15-18).
Stay / Eat
Overnight at the Craddock Terry Hotel in Lynchburg’s Lower Basin Historic District in a former 1890s riverfront shoe factory turned 44-room boutique. Stroll a few blocks up the street for European-inspired seasonal small plates at the hip and intimate Dish Restaurant & Wine Bar. The cocktail and wine menu is exquisite, and if you stick around long enough, you’ll catch some great live music on weekends.
Sugar Hollow Park, Bristol, Virginia
This cherished 400-acre municipal park in southwest Virginia is about five miles from downtown Bristol. While it’s probably best known for 14 miles of purpose-built mountain biking trails, the professionally designed, 18-hole disc golf course is excellent and currently sits at number 67 on UDisc’s global Top 100 list. It meanders through a complex of high, picturesque meadows, mature deciduous forests, and pine groves interspersed with small creeks and a long tract of high-elevation wetlands. discoverbristol.org/attractions/sugar-hollow-park
Stay / Eat
Take your rest in downtown Bristol at the Sessions Hotel. The immaculately renovated boutique holds 70 rooms decorated with touches that tip their hat to the building’s history as a 1920s music studio that helped birth country music. Head to Hickory at Nicewonder Farm & Vineyards for inspired, locally sourced Appalachian-style cuisine courtesy of 2025 James Beard Foundation Best Chef semifinalist, Travis Milton.
North Cove Leisure Club & Disc Golf, Marion, North Carolina
One of the few dedicated disc golf resorts in the U.S., North Cove is surrounded by Pisgah National Forest and is home to three of the most photogenic frisbee links on the planet. The 18-hole flagship, “Boulders,” is ranked 18th in the world by UDisc and hosts annual A-tier professional competitions, including the Blue Ridge Championship.
The course fans out along the base of Honeycutt Mountain and features panoramas of undeveloped, 3,000-plus-foot peaks in the Linville Mountain range. The natural eye candy is complimented by a prograde layout that feels more PGA than local parks & rec. Here you get features like groomed sand traps, golf-style greens, and insanely cool holes along the Catawba River’s North Fork.
Stay / Eat
Indulge an overnight or two at the Switzerland Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The chateau-style lodge sprawls across a 3,500-foot summit with soaring, southeastward views of the Chestnut Ridge and Pisgah National Forest. Of the inn’s four eateries, Chalet Restaurant steals the show with a broad menu of delectable, local-focused New American staples served in an elegant room with wraparound windows and vistas galore.
