Using the help of volunteers and donors, Clark County hopes to build a new, professional-level disc golf course at Frenchman’s Bar Regional Park, and organizers say they want to have the park open by fall.

There are a handful of disc golf courses in the county — at the Washington State University Vancouver campus, Paradise Point State Park, Glenwood Community Church and Leverich Park — but the proposed course at Frenchman’s Bar would be the county’s first 18-hole loop.

Disc golf is similar to traditional golf, except instead of tapping a ball toward a hole, you toss a flying disc toward a metal basket. You’re still trying to get there in the fewest strokes — in this case, throws — possible. (Don’t call these discs Frisbees, because they’re not, and don’t try to catch one. Frisbees are great for playing catch because they’re large and have a rounded edge; disc golf discs are small, sharp and designed to fly fast and far. Catch one, and it’ll hurt.)

The par-66 course would cover about 78 acres, according to information submitted to the city of Vancouver, and would have regulation baskets and poles, concrete tee pads, benches, some course signs and markers, a practice hole and at the first tee, an information kiosk.

“By all imagination, this would be a tournament-grade, professional disc golf course that would bring people from all throughout the Northwest,” said Steve Carson, who is helping design the course.