Pendleton King Park Disc Golf Course

Pendleton King Park is 64 acres in the middle of Augusta, half a mile south of Wrightsboro Road. Henry Barclay King set the land aside as a bird sanctuary after his son Pendleton died in 1919, and the property opened as a public park in May 1966; the city leases it for a dollar a year and the Augusta Richmond County Recreation and Parks Department runs it, with a nonprofit foundation supporting improvements. Volunteers built Augusta's first disc golf course here — the park dates it to 1989 — and in 2009 volunteers restructured the layout, extending it into the wooded sections and naming each hole for a different bird.

The park describes the course as mostly flat and moderately wooded, with concrete tees and Mach3 targets, and publishes two lengths: 5,060 feet for the main layout and 5,950 feet for an alternate. Par isn't published. It's free to play during park hours (8 a.m. to dusk in summer, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in winter), and the surrounding park has restrooms, playgrounds, picnic areas, an off-leash dog park, gardens and an arboretum, plus nature and cross-country trails.