Pearsall Park Disc Golf Course

Pearsall Park is San Antonio's largest park and, for most of the last century, its dump. A 231-acre municipal landfill closed here in 1982; the city later added 268 acres bought from the Cox family and 26 acres of the Leon Creek Greenway to reach 505 acres. A master plan adopted in 2000 and about $8.1 million — most of District 4's 2012 park bond — turned it into a regional destination, with landscape architects Bender Wells Clark Design organizing the site into activity zones. The park had its grand opening on June 11, 2016, disc golf course included.

The capped landfill is what makes the course worth the drive. Its grassed mounds give the 18 holes roughly 110 feet of elevation range between the low and high baskets, which is rare on San Antonio's flat south side, and the open terrain means wind and sun are unshaded on most of the round — the exception being the wooded Leon Creek corridor along the eastern edge. The city does not publish a par or total length for the course, so we've left both blank rather than guess. Play is free, park hours are 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., and there are no lights. Expect construction elsewhere in the park into 2027: Texas Parks and Wildlife awarded Pearsall a $1.5 million grant in February 2026 for a bike track, lighting, shade structures and a perimeter track.