Murrysville officials will move ahead with plans to add a disc golf trail at Murrysville Community Park that can also be used as a walking trail.
Council voted unanimously at its Aug. 6 meeting to work with Dan Flanigan, a course designer with the Professional Disc Golf Association, on a course proposed for the hillside behind the Murrysville dog park and wetlands area.
A disc golf course is a series of tees where players toss a disc and try to place it inside a faraway chain-link basket.
Currently, Flanigan said, there are nearby disc golf courses at Oak Hollow Park in Irwin, Monroeville Community Park and Deer Lakes Park in West Deer.
Murrysville Chief Administrator Michael Nestico projected the cost between $50,000 and $70,000.
“We’ll talk with the Murrysville Parks and Recreation Foundation, which may fund part of all of the project,” Nestico said. “If the municipality does have to share in the cost, we’ll come back to council for approval since it was not included in this year’s budget.”
Nestico said some of the donated funding which was originally intended for an amphitheater in the park — a project that was shelved over ballooning costs in 2024 — could potentially be shifted to help fund the disc golf course.
Flanigan told council in a July presentation that maintenance for the course is relatively minimal, with some light trimming in summer and brush clearing work in the spring.
“In addition, the disc golf community that surrounds your course will usually ‘adopt’ it and take very good care of it,” Flanigan said.
And when the course is not in use, both Flanigan and parks director Carly Greene said it doubles as another walking trail through a part of the park that isn’t being utilized.
Nestico did not provide a timeline for when work would start on the course.
