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California

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California

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The Golden State is famous for its great climate, diverse landscapes, entertainment, innovation as well as being an economic powerhouse. And the Californian dream continues with it being one of the best places in the United States to play disc golf.

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Why Visit?

Cali offers up so much to see and do right across the state. The sprawling Los Angeles is a pop culture parardise with sunshine and beaches while San Francisco offers a cooler vibe with its history, bay and the city centre being easily walkable. The Pacific coastline between them is one of the most legendary drives in the world. 

The Sierra Nevada mountain range is the backbone of the state featuring Yosemite Valley, Mt Whitney and Lake Tahoe. Southern California is also where you'll find one of the biggest music festivals in the world, Coachella and San Diego - gateway to Mexico and the Baja California peninsula. 

Things to Do

Hiking is a huge drawcard of the Californian lifestyle with famous trails up and down the country from scaling the highest mountain in Continental US, Mt Whitney to walking the 2600 mile Pacific Crest Trail or climbing  El Capitan in Yosemite.  Of course there's shorter famous city walks too, like taking in the beach culture of Los Angeles strolling from Santa Monica Pier to Venice Beach. The City of Angels attracts millions of tourists each year with its Hollywood landmarks, theme parks such as Disneyland, Universal Studios and iconic and well photographed places like Rodeo Drive, Griffith Observatory or Beverly Hills

With your own wheels, hitting the 101 Pacific Coast Highway is an adventure that takes you to many great disc golf courses as well as famous sections along the way. There's the rugged portion of the drive Big Sur,  or the charming village of Carmel where famous actor Clint Eastwood was once mayor. Monterey Bay has the popular aquarium and there's so many great towns to visit on the coast on your way to San Francisco including; Santa Cruz, San Simeon, Malibu, Santa Barbara & San Luis Obispo.  California is also known as one of the world's top wine producers and a popular destination to sample its varieties in areas like Nappa Valley and Sonoma County.  In San Francisco, you can book a ferry spot out to the infamous prison on Alcatraz Island.  Grab a bike and cycle your way from the famous Pier 39 to the Golden Gate Bridge, and pedal over this famous landmark to Marin County and Sausalito for a well earned beer before catching a ferry across San Francisco Bay back to the city.  In Southern California, there's desert towns like Palm Springs  and Joshua Tree or find the hidden rock pools off Laguna Beach. Explore San Diego's Bilbao Park with its beautiful botanical gardens, San Diego Zoo, museums and one of the country's oldest and most popular disc golf courses in the world, Morely Field Disc Golf

Where to Play

Disc golf has a long history in California with the first permanent course, Oak Grove Disc Golf Course, opening in 1975 in Pasadena and you can still play this course today.  There are more than 500 courses in California to choose from. There’s disc golf in the middle of world-class wineries, Whale Rock in Templeton on the central coast or play among the giant Redwood trees at Redwood Curtain Disc Golf Course in Arcata, north of San Francisco. Resort style disc golf like Lake Shastina in Weed  where you can hire golf carts, sip beers and enjoy all the trappings of a perfectly manicured course.

If you’re heading up or down highway 101 on the Californian coast then you’ll find some of the state’s top disc golf courses. In San Francisco, Golden Gate Park has a technically challenging course. South of San Francisco in Santa Cruz at the northern edge of Monterey Bay you’ll find the state’s top course and one that has featured for the USA and in the world standings, DeLaVeaga Disc Golf Course. You’ll get stunning views of the Pacific Ocean and play the infamous Top of the World hole 27 where you throw 30m or 100ft down and nearly 600ft away.  Around Lake Tahoe you have some beautiful scenery and great disc golf with Bijou Disc Golf Course in South Lake Tahoe and across the lake in Truckee there's Stampede Disc Golf Park and Donner Ski Ranch.  If you're in San Diego playing Morely Field, you could add on a side trip to Good Vibes Ranch Disc Golf & Camping  - a zen ranch with wellness, music, disc golf and camping. And not far from Wrightwood you'll find one of the top ski area courses in the US, Sky High at Mountain High North

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