100% village park setting, with well mowed lawns, tall old elms and ashes, pavilions, etc. There is zero elevation and zero water in play or even in sight. I made the mistake of visiting on Memorial Day, and this particular park is very well attended by picnickers and their toddling short humans. My general rating here is that the course knows what it wants to be, i.e. balanced between recreation and challenge, and it executes it with some success.
The course is hemmed into two sections of the park. There is a sign at the start which is helpful. Take a picture or two with your phone and you have a map. The tees are concrete and well-marked. Each hole has a line or two or three that are clear and intentional, but by no means straight gimmes. You can tell thought was put into each hole, and because of this, each drive was a good exercise in hitting my lines. The baskets are nice 28-chain Innovas. I was neither bored nor delighted by any holes.
Now, problems: Right from the first tee, you can see that the holes are tightly sewn together. This creates many overlapping fairways. In combination with a low-disc-golf-IQ course goer, this causes friction. I couldn't throw from Tee #1 (250' hole, approx.) until the group ahead of me played back to the basket for #2 just off to my left. The tee pad for #2 is about 40' to the left of hole #1. I could have easily crushed one into their kid. This continues quite a lot for all 12 holes. And, though it was Memorial Day, the two or three holes near pavilions were either totally unplayable because of large get-togethers or nearly unplayable. The people at the park were in no hurry to clear off fairways, etc. It's a park first, disc golf course second. If you can be careful and play in a family setting, you can enjoy this course as a recreational round. If you demand challenges and disc-golf-first mentality, this is not the place for you, most likely.
It's clear that the intended player for this course is low intensity as indicated by a hole marked Par 5 (#4?) which is about 350' on a basically clean long slow hyzer line.
p.s. If you throw rollers, stand it up a little more; cut rollers will slide out because of dry loamy top soil.
LD
100% village park setting, with well mowed lawns, tall old elms and ashes, pavilions, etc. There is zero elevation and zero water in play or even in sight. I made the mistake of visiting on Memorial Day, and this particular park is very well attended by picnickers and their toddling short humans. My general rating here is that the course knows what it wants to be, i.e. balanced between recreation and challenge, and it executes it with some success.
The course is hemmed into two sections of the park. There is a sign at the start which is helpful. Take a picture or two with your phone and you have a map. The tees are concrete and well-marked. Each hole has a line or two or three that are clear and intentional, but by no means straight gimmes. You can tell thought was put into each hole, and because of this, each drive was a good exercise in hitting my lines. The baskets are nice 28-chain Innovas. I was neither bored nor delighted by any holes.
Now, problems: Right from the first tee, you can see that the holes are tightly sewn together. This creates many overlapping fairways. In combination with a low-disc-golf-IQ course goer, this causes friction. I couldn't throw from Tee #1 (250' hole, approx.) until the group ahead of me played back to the basket for #2 just off to my left. The tee pad for #2 is about 40' to the left of hole #1. I could have easily crushed one into their kid. This continues quite a lot for all 12 holes. And, though it was Memorial Day, the two or three holes near pavilions were either totally unplayable because of large get-togethers or nearly unplayable. The people at the park were in no hurry to clear off fairways, etc. It's a park first, disc golf course second. If you can be careful and play in a family setting, you can enjoy this course as a recreational round. If you demand challenges and disc-golf-first mentality, this is not the place for you, most likely.
It's clear that the intended player for this course is low intensity as indicated by a hole marked Par 5 (#4?) which is about 350' on a basically clean long slow hyzer line.
p.s. If you throw rollers, stand it up a little more; cut rollers will slide out because of dry loamy top soil.
LD