-Nice for beginners
-Easy to navigate
-Custom red baskets with numbers on top
-Nice concrete tee pads
-Maps honoring Ray with distances at the pads
-Good mix of shots required
-Can be tied in easily with the NW or SE course
-Practice baskets near the parking lot

-Hole 9 is uphill and blind (I suppose some people might actually like this)

Excellent 9-holer and tribute to Ray Seick! This is what a solid beginner/intermediate level disc golf course should look like.
Enough trees in the way to make it a challenge, but yet it's open enough to air some shots out.
Nothing too fancy and no 'signature hole', but that was ok. The calm, relaxing round of 9 was quite enjoyable and a great way to cool down after playing the other two courses. Looking forward to playing again.

-Excellent amenities, great tee pads, easy to see the basket from tee, great commemorative tee signs, decent catching baskets.
-Baskets are bright red Mach III, meh, not good not bad, they are really visible though.
-Fairways are great, mowed grass is easily walkable, and drivable.
-Rough is in good shape, it is punishing, but you can easily walk into it.
-Elevation is a good factor here, there are small rolling hills throught the area of the course, and it makes it a fun play.
-Trees define this course, there are some rather open holes but they all shape around a tree or two.
-This course is a great way to commemorate Ray Seick, it is a short, entry level course that provides a great warm up/down from the two 18 hole courses out here.
-Short distances are forgiving, allow for practicing a variety of shots, and getting creative.

-Navigation is a little tough, the layout isn't exactly intuitive, it can be tough to navigate without a map/udisc.
-Course dips around near a kinda nasty fence and a gravel parking lot. This seems unfortunate because it detracts from an otherwise great little area.
-This course doesn't really have a wow factor. It is 9 pretty good holes, no great holes, just ok. Which make this a good warm up p/down course, but a meh stand alone course.

Great little course, come for the whole Steilacoom package, this is a great place to start or finish.

Great warm up 9 or great course for someone learning the sport.
Flows really well from the big gravel parking lot.
Great visable red baskets!

Short holes.

Named after the notorious Raymond Seick - aka the Godfather of Steily.

Nice baskets, tee pads and layout was easy. Not a technical course. Lines are easy to read. All you really need is a driving putter and a good hyzer disc to play. No rough to ruin your day. Some Oregon grape to poke you but no fear of losing a disc. Arrows on each basket pointing to next tee pad is always a great touch.

Dirty. Every hole, I mean every single one had an old e or steel reserve can in the bushes. Tons of feces, mostly dog, either in the open or in a bag but bag left on course. Nothing in the walkway but to the side. You won't step on it but still unsightly. One hole there appears to be used toilet paper on the side of the tee box. In the ditch of hole two we had a bad shot. Went to get the disc and the area smelled like a latrine. Really wanted to disinfect the disc.

We played this course because we wanted a quick round as we passed thru town based on the great reviews from last year. The course itself was a 3 but I can't recommend it because of how dirty it was. This was by far the grossest course I've ever played on. All it needs is a cleaning and peer pressure from the locals to tell the poo droppers to pack it out.

Rays is a sweet little 9 holer that is a tremendous amount of fun! All the holes seem to be 300' or less and have a variety challenging shots. This course is in the same area as the SE course, so it has a similar feel with numerous oak trees on moderate rolling terrain.

Some of the tee pads from the old course remain, so it's possible to shoot from these to add some variety. The best example is Hole #1. It has two alternate tee pads - one is about 20' behind the first one, and makes the hole much more challenging. The 2nd alternate tee is about 30' right of the first two tees, and is another fairway entirely - a nasty little tunnel - and one of my favorite shots on the course!

It can be difficult at times to tell what basket you may be shooting at (there is no map), but they all have numbers on them, and are bright red.

A bit LHBH or forehand biased (3 of the holes anyway)

We played this one three times the day we visited, it was that enjoyable. It won't knock your socks off (concerning the creativity or challenge of most holes), but if you're in the mood for something light and fun - this should fit the bill.

I rate this course (Rays 9) a 3.0
I rate this (NW) course a 4
I rate the (SW) course a 3.5

The Ray's Nine course starts right where the original 18 started but at the amateur tee. The baskets are painted red and feature a picture of Ray. They're in sight from every concrete tee pad except # 8. This is just a straight forward amateur course. Most of the holes are on the shorter side, playing around 200 feet making it a great warm up course for the two other more challenging courses on site here.

The course utilizes some of the pads from the other course so don't be alarmed when players will veer off from this course and head off in other directions.

There aren't any signs up yet. Hopefully, they will be forthcoming. The course is fairly intuitive to follow but I did help a couple of newbies navigate it. Once you've played it, navigation is simple the second time around.

I've seen a few holes, benches and baskets honoring players at various courses around the country but I must say, the folks here at Ft. Steilacoom have really done an outstanding job of paying tribute to Raymond Seick. Ray has volunteered almost 30 years of his life to this disc golf complex including personally mowing the entire acreage with a push mower in his younger years. Entire generations of disc golfers have benefitted from Ray's tireless work and dedication. He is truly deserving of this honor.