The sound of clanging chains echoes through Johnny Roberts Disc Golf Course at Memorial Park as small orange discs crash into metal baskets. This course — the busiest in the nation — is in constant motion. The disc-hurling duffers log tens of thousands of rounds in the wooded links on the banks of Ralston Creek every year, sending their plastic soaring.
“People build communities just because they see other people out on the course regularly,” says Monica Thomas, the chief operating officer at UDisc, an app created in 2017 that helps users find nearby courses.
Disc golf is growing in popularity nationally, with more than 17,000 courses worldwide, and Colorado ranks first in the nation for disc golf availability, according to the UDisc 2026 Disc Golf Growth Report…