Pros:
1) Basic beginner friendly 9-Hole course in a small city park in the city of Benton, with ample parking, modern bathrooms, and everything you would expect from a well maintained city park.
2) Gets all the essentials right as most HB Clark courses do, nice large textured concrete tee pads, aging but still good Discatcher baskets, nice tee pad signs with full color hole map and all relevant information, course map kiosk, and a practice basket.
3) Well designed to illicit the most potential out a relatively small and crammed section of available land. The course is kind of shoe horned between parking lots, access roads, and several sports fields.
4) Very smartly utilizes the land that is otherwise unusable, quick changes in elevation, side slopes, small creek area, etc that parking lots and fields can't realistically be built on. Even though it is shoehorned in there, it takes full advantage of it to give some nice holes.
5) Definitely a targeted design for beginner and family outing style players. This course lacks punishing lines, rough, and hazards, and none of the distances are super long. I think 300 feet is the farthest hole I noticed.
6) Each hole manages to be just enough different that it creates its own unique challenge, whether it be navigating a line through trees, having to control a disc up a steep hill, or having touch throwing downhill. It even forces a variety of, albeit gentle, left to right and right to left shots. A great introduction to learning how your discs fly on an actual course without the possibility of losing them.
7) The solid use of elevation an almost every hole raises this course from passable to reasonable. I normally wouldn't recommend a course like this to seasoned players or anyone outside the local area. However this one has just enough difficulty and fun factor that if I were in the area to play Mike Miller Park, or I had my family with me or a newer player, I'd make time out for this course.
8) For seasoned players this is a great Ace Run course, and just fun in general, especially if you want to introduce someone to disc golf.
Cons:
1) You are crammed into small spaces between sports fields, roads, parking lots and a small playground. On a busy day these could all be potential issues. Both times I have played here we pretty much had the park to ourselves, but I haven't played it during the warmer months.
2) Lack of overall challenge and being a very straightforward design it isn't a course I would frequent, even if I lived nearby. Once your skill progresses beyond what this course is intended to teach, there are just too many other better options in the area to play.
3) The original disc golf "lines" are starting to disappear as the course ages and the park maintenance crew probably has no idea about how to keep that mowed and trimmed correctly. #3 is a good example of the "tight gap" through the trees over the ditch is walled in with vines and overgrowth making the basket impossible to see from the tee and forcing you to throw over the trees from the tee instead of through them as intended.
4) Otherwise no real "cons", the amenities are there, the course is fine for what it is designed for, and it's a nice quick easy play.
Other Thoughts:
Great introduction to disc golf course, or even a stretch your legs and warm up course if you just want to get out of the house and throw some discs.
Not a destination course, and clearly outshined by the multiple other courses in the area (including Mike Miller right down the road), but I don't regret stopping in to play a quick nine. I had fun even if it wasn't the most challenging course ever. The course could definitely use some love from the locals or someone who knows something about disc golf in the area to get back to exactly how it was designed, but the course is wonderful for locals and kids in the area as is.