Schenley Park Disc Golf Course

Schenley Park's 18-hole course, built by the Pittsburgh Flying Disc Society in 1988, is the club's original permanent layout and — per PFDS's own history — the first permanent disc golf course in Pittsburgh. Steve Kohman designed it with help from fellow club members Keith Clark, Red Whittington and John David, using a $9,300 grant from the Hunt Foundation; Citiparks staff and PFDS volunteers installed the baskets and tee signs in April 1988, and the course opened that July. A 2008 renovation swapped in new Mach III baskets, 36 tee signs, and a third set of pin positions, giving today's round three different looks per hole. Par runs to 54 across the 18 holes.

The layout starts at the top of the hill near the Schenley Park skating rink and works down through the park — about a third of the holes cross an open grassy hillside, and the rest thread through heavy hardwood forest toward the Vietnam Veterans Pavilion. It's free to play with no permit required. Schenley Park itself is Pittsburgh's second-largest park at 456 acres, dating to an 1889 land donation from Mary Schenley, and the disc golf course shares the grounds with the park's ice skating rink, hiking trails, and Bob O'Connor golf course.