Well laid out course, user conflict is at a minimum, the main users of this park are disc golfers. This course has a bit of everything, open shots, wooded shots, water holes, elevation change.

Not too many negatives from our time there, restrooms only at the front of the property, no drinking water available.

This was a nice course to hit with some friends who live in the area, while we visited, if I lived in the area this would be a regular stop for me!

Beautiful course in an old growth forest with a flowing creek throughout. A tad overgrown but overall a great mix of long and short holes with lots of elevation change.

Course could be kept up a little better but it's early in the year and it just adds to it's charachter.

* Very good mix of open, partially open, and technical holes. Some elevation, and a river that comes into play on many of the holes.
* Lots of memorable holes, and a few that are unique to this course.
* Osage orange trees on part of the course.
* Practice basket can double as an unofficial hole 19.

* I have some questions about future upkeep (see below).
* Hole 3 runs fairly near to private property.
* Crossing paths; bring a course map if possible.

I was really surprised by this course, in a very pleasant way. I had been hoping for something local to me (inside 15 minutes) for a long time, and would have been happy with a basic city park. What I got far exceeded that.

The park that this course is in a city park that had been neglected for decades. There are hills near the parking lot and around the far edges, with a 10-20' wide river running through the middle of it. The city ripped out a LOT of underbrush and deadwood while creating the course, and the resulting course has a somewhat wild appearance. How much of that will stay as the park starts seeing use is anybody's guess.

As mentioned earlier, there is a good use of vegetation and elevation. About 1/3 of the course also uses the river in some way. They did a real good job with course design, mixing up the distances, trees, and elevation so that you never get "the distance stretch" or "the technical stretch" or anything like that.

They also mixed up how they used the river. A few throws go across it, a few have the basket placed so that an overthrow can hurt (some of these have vegetation behind it; some don't), and one goes along the side of the hole. In most places, the river is relatively shallow and errant discs can be retrieved from it, though that may require wading to do so. A couple spots are deep enough to lose discs, though, especially after heavy rains.

As I mentioned in the con section, I have questions about how much the city will keep this park going. the baskets were paid for back in 2014, but the park only got finished up in 2017, with the opening date getting pushed back again and again. During this time, they had put baskets in, then closed the park. They added paths that got overgrown to the point where you couldn't tell where the paths were, and some of the underbrush got taller than people. Now, to be fair, part of the rescheduling was because the city expanded out the scope of the park, adding in some bridges and a few other things. So they have sort of an excuse. But I have concerns about what will happen a few years down the road when some other project is distracting parks and rec.

the ultimate question of how good a course is, though, is how far is it worth driving to get to it? I fully expect that this course is going to become a prominent part of the rotation for everyone in hte Dayton-Springfield-Urbana-London-Wilmington-Washington Courthouse area. It's probably not quite worth a special trip from Cincinnati or Chillicothe, but is worth swinging out of your way if you're passing nearby. It might be worth coming from Columbus; hit Buck Creek park in Springfield (another good course) on the way in or out.