Brightwell Park is maintained by the City of Desloge Parks Department. The southern half of the park has been heavily used for several decades as a sports complex that features 3 heavily used baseball/softball fields with lights. At the time of this review, I suspect most of the residents of Desloge and Saint Francois County think of Brightell Park as a place to play or watch ball games. Within the last decade, a playground and dog park have been established on the northern side of the park, with an asphalt parking lot with approximately 36 parking spots that is accessed from East Evergreen Street. The 18 hole disc golf course was installed in 2024 and became open for play during the first full week of April 2024. The course was designed by a local player, Ron Roper, and by Dave McCormack, founder of Gateway Discs, to be a course tailor made for both beginner players of all ages to experienced players, and to be a course for experienced players and players with strong and fast arm speed to practice approaching and putting and to enjoy getting occasional ace hole in ones. Several of the holes at Brightwell are wide open holes with no trees or vegetation in play, while several other holes are in areas of the park that are heavily wooded with thick vegetation, while several of the holes feature both parts of the fairway that are heavily wooded and with other parts of the fairway that are wide open. Some of the holes feature teeing off into wide open areas and into thick, heavily wooded and vegetated areas that are technical, and several holes where the player tees off in thick, heavily wooded areas for half of the hole, and then breaking out of the woods and into the second half of the fairway which is wide open.

As of the initial date of this review, the course does not have signs or concrete tee pads. The tee pads are grass or dirt depending on the hole, with a wooden stake and small pink flags that mark the pad. The Desloge Parks Department used chain saws and skid steers to remove numerous trees and heavy, dense brush to create the fairways, but yet there remains many small stumps for players to trip over and to cause injury to the feet and legs. Players should be patient and take their time when navigating the heavily wooded and vegetated portions of the fairways of this course to avoid injury and tripping.

Personally, as of 4-21-2024, I've played this course 8 times so far, and I can say this is my favorite course of the 129 courses I have so far played since being introduced to this great sport in the year 2018. At my current age of 61 1/2, I can physically play this entire course within an hour and 10 minutes and then turn around and play it entirely again without taking a rest. For me, the course already has a strong sentimental feel to it because I witnessed one of my sons to nail the first known ace hole in one of the history of this course on hole one 4-14-2024, using a mid-range disc known as the Buzz.