About Pye Brook Park Disc Golf Course

We are located in Topsfield, Massachusetts, about 21 miles north of Boston. Pye Brook Park is on the site of an old quarry and later, Topsfield’s town landfill. Half of the park is surrounded by Pye Brook, a stream/swamp/wetlands area that eventually feeds into the Ipswich River. (I bet the decision to locate a dump in wetlands was determined before the term ‘wetlands’ was invented). The landfill was capped in 2002, and the park opened in 2003.

The course winds around the periphery of the park, making use of the elevation changes, water hazards, and what little woods were available. Since the primary function of the park is the athletic fields for town sports teams, and the wetlands placed so many restrictions on where we could locate holes, there weren’t many options on how to design the holes. The result is that the direction of the 18 holes point away from the other park users and their parking areas, and tries to incorporate as many of the hazards as available.