Gateway Trinity Disc Golf Course

Gateway Trinity is a disc golf layout inside Gateway Park, Fort Worth's only metropolitan park — 791.5 acres on the city's east side, north of I-30 and east of Beach Street, wrapped around a bend of the Trinity River. The city set the land aside in 1979, much of it a former sewage treatment plant site, and opened the park to the public in May 1986; it has since grown to be larger than more than thirty Texas state parks and takes about 600,000 visits a year. Disc golf here is volunteer work: the city credits a volunteer disc golf group with building and maintaining the course at no cost to taxpayers, the same arrangement that produced the park's mountain bike trails.

The layout plays 18 holes to a par of 57 over roughly 4,770 feet. That is short on paper, but the park is heavily wooded and the course is flat, with only about 15% of it open ground, so the round rewards shot shaping and control over raw power. It is free and public, and the park is open daily from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Two things worth knowing before you go: part of the Trinity Trail system in the park is closed due to flooding and bank erosion, and Gateway Park is midway through a $14.6 million city redevelopment targeted for completion in 2027, with the first phase of construction west of Beach Street.