Talk of a new course at Roy Guerrero Colorado River Park in Southeast Austin has some residents concerned.

Residents in the Montopolis area are afraid tranquility at the park may soon just be a memory.

"There's so many places you can go and still hear the city," resident Pam Thompson said. "As you can tell it's quiet here."

If the Parks and Recreation Department moves forward with plans to build a proposed disc golf course, the tranquility may soon become a distant memory.

"It's an amazing sight. It's just so beautiful," Thompson said. "We just don't understand why they want a disc golf site that could endanger everything here."

Thompson is joined by a group of others in the community who feel building a disc golf course at the park comes at a cost to the landscape and wildlife.

Among her biggest concerns is the protection of trees on the land, some which she said measure about 58 inches in diameter.

We want the trees protected and we don't think it's appropriate to use a sport that could hurt them," she said.

As a member of the Montopolis Neighborhood Plan Contact Team, Thompson and others have expressed their concerns about the plan.

Sunday, they organized a tour of the proposed site in hopes of getting members of the public to see what they believe is at stake if the plan moves forward.

In another part of Austin, Terry and Jerry Gillian enjoyed one of their favorite past times.

The two men are no strangers to the Zilker Park disc golf course.

"It's good exercise and it's free. You don't have to pay hundreds of dollars to play like regular golf," Terry said.

That may explain why he has stuck with the sport for 17 years, playing at courses all over Austin.

It may come as no surprise that they are excited about the possibility of another course opening up in southeast Austin.

And Terry said if a new course were to open up, increased foot traffic in the area will be a given.

"There's a lot of people that play it, but you think about the benefits and about different cultures in there and that's what really counts," he said.

The new course may be even more important for avid disc golfers like the Gillians because of the recent closure of the Pease Park disc golf course.

The city closed the course at the end of 2010, because of the deterioration of soil and trees in the area surrounding the course.