Play Disc Golf or Ultimate Frisbee at Bluemont Park

Bluemont Park’s 51-acre pastoral landscape offers a remarkable variety of activities , but the disc golf course tucked into its wooded hillside is the hidden gem that keeps players coming back. Established in 1980 and designed by Tim Beron, the nine-hole course is free to play and open to the public year-round. What it lacks in length it more than compensates for in creativity: tight fairways, hills, trees, and a creek all come into play, with three cement tee pads and four pin placements on every hole — a design that yields an astonishing 72 different hole configurations and plays more like 27 holes than nine. Blue baskets are typically set in the most challenging “D” pin placement, while silver baskets rotate through the “A,” “B,” and “C” positions meaning regulars can vary the course almost every visit without it ever feeling stale. A typical round covers about 0.8 miles and takes around an hour — a satisfying, complete outing that fits neatly into a lunch break or a late afternoon. The UDisc app is a handy companion for navigation and scorekeeping; find the course at udisc.com.

Arlington’s relationship with the flying disc goes well beyond casual park throws. The county has a genuinely thriving ultimate frisbee community at every level, anchored by the Youth Ultimate League of Arlington. YULA sponsors and organizes high school ultimate programs in the fall, winter, and spring — separate from the Arlington Public Schools fall ultimate program run within county high schools — with school-based teams from HB Woodlawn, Washington-Liberty, Yorktown, and Wakefield competing across the DMV and traveling to regional tournaments, culminating in the Virginia State Championship each May.