1) This course is set against a beautiful lake area inside a massive park/recreation area. The disc golf course section has it's own section of the recreation area, and other than one access road along the center and a large parking lot near a pavilion overlooking the water, there is little to no pedestrian traffic to concern yourself with. (Pay to enter the Park $7)

2) Mostly open with small batches of trees to contend with. Distances on the long end of Recreational Skill level for quite a few holes (400 is foot par 3's) and manageable 500 ish foot par 4's.

3) Solid use of elevation as there really is only 1 or two flat the entire time holes. For an area with only a small amount of trees, the course designer had to get creative with hole design and for the most part succeeded.

4) Concrete tee pads and Chainstar baskets

5) Fair amount of difficulty provided between the long distances required, especially the Par 3's, and the nice use of few trees it has to work with, and excellent use of the rolling elevation. Several water holes where water only comes into play if you get aggressive.

6) For a rather bland property (minus the lake holes), this course does a wonderful job of providing some signature holes. You have a 280 foot left to right low ceiling shot to a tiny peninsula that juts out into the lake. It is lined with trees on both sides but it's still a wonderfully terrifying hole (Hole #7, at least we think it was hole #7, see below about tee signs). You've got a 350 foot tee shot down several stories over a creek and the edge of the lake to a quickly rising elevated green that shapes like an air bounce required hole between tiny tree gaps (Hole #11, again we think). And you've got a brilliant 2 shot par 4 that forces you to throw blind up and over a hill crest to a small landing zone with OB left and dense woods right. You must land in the exact right spot to line yourself up for downhill left to right turning tunnel into the green. Your approach shot must carry over a small creek and penetrate deep enough to skip you the upsloped green on the other side of the creek. A short but incredibly well done Par 4. If you know the course and can hammer a LHBH or RHFH you can attempt to go for the 2 also as this hole played roughly 480 tee to basket, but there is danger and OB everywhere (Hole #14, again, we think. lol)

7) The course does throw you some curve balls and drops in some short but extremely technical holes, one being a 200 foot gap shot over a steep valley through a tight gap on the top of the valley on the other side. Not visually stunning, but well executed and terrifying for less skilled players. An ace run for better players. Another similar distance hole forces a huge left to right spike hyzer angle to access the wide open side of the green. If you go the right side route which is open from the tee, the green is completely blocked off on the right side and you'll be almost as far away as you started if you push past the obstructions off the tee. I like this type of hole when space is limited, yes it's short, but man is it demanding.

8) Water holes are picturesque and the views from the elevated spots on them is incredible. While not all the holes are awe inspiring or memorable, the ones that get it right, are ones that will stay with you after you leave.

1) Tee pad signs are literally a small metal post drove into the ground with a number on it. I'm guessing it was a hole number, but you are on your own to guess which direction and basket you are throwing at, and how far it is.

2) Tee pads are VERY small (and for me as a lefty) the tee sign posts were often right up against the side of the tee pad making me concerned about hitting my hand on them with every backhand throw. Since it was a casual round, my group let me tee off to the side of the tee pads to prevent injury.

3) Many damaged baskets (which is upsetting because these looked almost brand new) A couple had the bolt removed that holds up the cage, so we temporarily fixed it to make it playable with whatever we could find. (after the round we went back and installed hardware from the toolboxes in our trucks) One basket (all the others were white) had obviously been used as a BBQ grill at some point because it still had small wire mess jammed in it and the chains zip tied off and was a noticeable charred black color. Several others cages were at 45 degree angles, and one basket was laying on the ground.

4) Very little break from the wind coming off this massive lake. We played in Feb and my gosh did it make this course incredibly hard to play, like Kansas at DDO in April. Not a huge knock, but if it's windy that day, save yourself a trip.

5) Definitely not what I expected for a pay to play course. But, the whole recreation area was pay to enter, so I kinda get it. Maybe this course is an experiment to see how much money they are willing to put into disc golf here based on how much funds it generates.

6) You are on your own for navigation. One of our group members mapped the course out for U-Disc as we played so that others may have some type of directional aide. There is no help otherwise anywhere on the course for where the next hole is, or what hole you are even playing. So either we played it as intended, or we created a safari course as we went, who knows.

In the courses defense it was the "off-season" and maintenance was only one guy on a golf cart for the entire massive recreation area. He saw us playing and came over to talk. He told us he constantly has to straighten baskets, tell kids to stop hanging on them, repair baskets when they are hit by people backing their boats up, etc to the point where he just fixes everything in the spring when the park truly opens for everyone, and then monitors it through the summer, and basically leaves it alone during the winter months because it's a constant and expensive job to keep repairing. He seemed overwhelmed and extremely kind. The disc golf course, out of season in Feb with snow and ice on the ground, was the last place he was expecting to run into people.

While this course was fun to play (despite the wind) it was certainly not worthy of a pay to play course. Tee pads and tee signs were subpar, no course map, no next tee indication and course flow was hard to figure out. Maybe as this course ages more effort will be put into furthering this course, but with as much vandalism as it is seeing, I doubt that will be the case. And it's a shame, because this would be an amazing place to camp/RV at and play a round while you are here.

Destination course, no, at least not in it's current form. But we certainly do not regret playing it while in the area, even if it costs us $7 each.