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mayqlaf
Experience: 2 played 2 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Lots of Geese drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 13, 2023 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Nice tee pads
Nice Baskets
Mowed grass, easy-to-find discs

Cons:

Geese often block baskets and tee pads making some holes unplayable
A few holes have water that is waiting to drown your disk!
Lots of pedestrian traffic

Other Thoughts:

Not a bad course. Wide open. I'd skip hole 1, it's just a tee pad with a basket and nothing in between, but it's not even close to hole 2.
Don't plan on going in after your disc if it goes into the stinky water.
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Flyguy46
Premium Member
Experience: 33.8 years 11 played 9 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Been a long time! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 29, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Nice wide open fairways!
- Friendly Players
- Clean layout
- Gorgeous Concrete Pads

Cons:

- A few very challenging water holes that are known to eat discs! (The water is nasty smelling and taints any disc that touches it!)

- Takes a bit to get the pad layout down.

- Can be very busy during the summer.

Other Thoughts:

This was one of the first courses I played way back in the day. Super fun and super challenging when I was getting used to Denver Disc Golf. I took a long break and after playing this course,. I now know how much I really missed disc golf. Super stoked to get out a play a bunch more rounds in the near future.
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Bartlett603
Experience: 3 played 3 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Okay, but not great. 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 31, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

Tee pads, easy to play, well maintained

Cons:

Water, lots of pedestrians, simple layout, people sitting in fairways.

Other Thoughts:

It\'s a nice course if your close by, don\'t go out of your way to play.
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prospero
Experience: 3.8 years 6 played 5 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Fun, mostly short course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 13, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

+ Well maintained aside from geese
+ Water hazards add to the challenge
+ Concrete tee pads with hole # and distance listed
+ Good basket locations make it interesting
+ Not many obstacles - fairly open fairways
+ Practice basket provided near tee for #3

Cons:

- Heavy geese waste in areas
- Can be a lot of cross-traffic when busy
- First time playing it can be a little difficult to navigate the first few holes and the cross over the creek in the middle.

Other Thoughts:

Water isn't very clean, so don't lose a disc, it could be hard to fetch. (from experience)

Part of a larger greenway & park for other activities (basketball, playground, walkable path, etc.)
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bkern2449
Experience: 11.6 years 12 played 8 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Fun Water Hazard Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 30, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

+ Well maintained grass throughout park
+ Water hazards make for a fun challenge on half the holes
+ Large concrete tee pads
+ After the first three holes the flow was logical and easy to follow
+ Decent variance in distance

Cons:

- Geese, geese, and more geese
- All those geese leave a lot of poo behind... everywhere
- Because of the geese, the water stinks when you get super close to it
- Could use more shots that involve trees as obstacles since its a park
- The distances etched into the concrete tee pads don't seem accurate at all
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Other Thoughts:

Overall I had fun playing the course thank to the threat of throwing into the water on numerous holes. If it wasn't for the water this course wouldn't be fun to play. If the city of Aurora did a better job of keeping geese away or cleaning up after them I would raise my rating.
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Breh
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 13.8 years 191 played 189 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 11, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Tee pads are very nice and roomy, some risk reward shots by the water cool factor. Some ace runs out there and good scores can be shot.

Cons:

Goose poop! Smell is awful, wouldn't go near the water. Could see it getting a little windy. No tee signs but distances engraved in the tee pads seem little suspect

Other Thoughts:

Some lady was yelling at top of her lungs which made round less enjoyable.
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Pierparknut
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 10.8 years 89 played 85 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Honk Honk 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 12, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Exposition Park is a well-maintained park in Aurora, CO. The disc golf course plays on grass around two ponds and a creek. Water comes into play on about half the holes.

-The course makes good use of the land available. Because trees are infrequent, many baskets are placed next to water hazards, making you think about your shots.

-For the most part, the course stayed out of the way of pedestrian paths.

-My favorite hole was #12, a downhill shot over a corner of the pond with a couple trees to navigate. This is a good opportunity for an ace.

-The tee pads are excellent, spacious and textured. They also have the hole number and distance engraved. However, several are not flat and instead follow the contour of the land.

-Baskets were DGA Mach III and in nice condition.

-A starter set of discs may be rented for free from the community center. Scorecards/course maps are also available.

Cons:

-The biggest issue was the geese. Any park like this with grass and a pond is goose heaven. There were at least five hundred roaming the course and dropping turds everywhere, including the tee pads. Teeing off was similar to playing hopscotch.

-The baskets on holes 12 and 13 are placed, in my opinion, too close to the edge of the pond. I'm fine with water hazards coming into play, but it's no fun when baskets are less than 25 feet from the edge.

-A spike hyzer will do on just about every hole. The course does not test technical shots.

Other Thoughts:

-Being without my own discs, I rented a set from the community center. It was a brand new Innova starter pack. My "Starter Pack Challenge" was a lot of fun. The Leopard, as expected was understable. Given a lot of hyzer and 70% power, it flew about 250 on a flex line. Thrown full power with a slight anhyzer, I got it to roll 300 feet. The Shark, however, was very nice and stable. This was my go-to for the day. The Aviar was more or less a frisbee. Miss a putt, and it'll zing right on by.

-The distances printed on the score card and tee pads are certainly not correct. Many are overestimates by 50-100 feet. The numbers on DGCR are not correct either. A redesign must have happened at some point.

-This was an enjoyable round. My only two suggestions for improvement would be to get rid of the geese and move a couple baskets away from the water.
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chainbangerz
Experience: 7.5 years 10 played 6 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Gross pond, Decent course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 2, 2017 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

-Easy to locate

-Grassy area

- Water shots

-Teepads are big and have a big mark on them indicating the hole number.

-good parking

-bathroom

Cons:

-Geese and their poop

-Smelly water

-Flat course

-No tee signs

-No obstructions and all basic straight shots

-Seemed short

Other Thoughts:

-Plenty of discs in the water

-Defiantly a park course where baskets and teepads are close.

-Seems like the course just hugs the ponds the whole time.

-Hole #2 is an over the water shot.
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numbernine
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 14.7 years 103 played 49 reviews
2.50 star(s)

pretty typical "park" gol 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 15, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

First, let me say that I wrote the word "typical" in the description of the review, forgetting that the ratings number had that in the description. So...yes. Typical is good. Some good stuff though, so let's do that first.

Baskets - I always forget if baskets are Mach II's or Mach III's. But either way, they were in great shape and not rusted or bent or otherwise messed up. All of them caught well and I didn't see any damage to them.

Pads - I loved these tee pads. They kind of fanned out towards the end of them, allowing you a wider variety of launch angles. They also were grooved, and it felt like they were level and well made. I might incorporate the "wider" method the next time I have to put new tee pads in. Just crazy about these things.

Location - The park was nice, and it sat kind of in the middle of a housing area. Tons of people at the park enjoying the beautiful weather. There seems to be a couple of schools in and around the area, lending itself to people all over the course.

shots - while there isn't a ton of variety here, there were some neat shots over the water. Just about every shot that used the water was memorable. I really, really liked holes 2, 12 and 13. The "danger" of the water really made me think about my shots.

signs - the pads are marked with hole number and distance.

Cons:

signs - the pads are marked with hole number and distance and that's it. Most of the holes are straight away and don't require a map, so that's ok, but I feel like a proper sign would be good at each hole. also, the distance on some of pads to the tees seems suspect. I'd like to see that remeasured and verified.

shots - as mentioned above, there isn't a lot of variety out there. I'm not sure there is one RHBH anny shot on the entire course.

the location - the pond area smelled really, really bad on the day I played. Like, off puttingly bad to the point where we almost skipped some holes. tons of goose crap too.

other stuff - there were so many kids on this course. I am sure it isn't like this all of the time, but this is a definite "multi use park". Dog walkers, kids, some dude doing pushups on each of the tee pads...you get it.

Other Thoughts:

There is nothing wrong with this course per se. If you want to go play disc golf, and like park golf, this is a fine place to go do some work. I'm about a 930 rated golfer and I shot 10 down out there with a bogey on my card (didn't see the creek on one hole). So it isn't a tough course at all.

They really did do "the best with what they had" on this one, I think. play the walking paths as OB and increase the difficulty a little. But overall, this is just a decent course. Play it if you are nearby, but don't go out of your way or anything,
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denny ritner
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 25.9 years 170 played 113 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Don't go out of your way 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:May 20, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

Great views of the rockies. Good place to practice playing in the wind. A couple picturesque water holes. No chance to lose discs ( other than water)

Cons:

Wide open and mostly boring. No tee signs or "next tee" signs.
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sjroesinger
Experience: 7.8 years 37 played 37 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Good course, water adds challenge 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 15, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

Very accessible
Nice tee boxes and baskets

Cons:

Pretty busy park, caused several delays
Course was fairly busy compared with others I have played

Other Thoughts:

Lost a disc in the water as the wind caught it
Half of the holes don't offer much of a challenge
Very windy made it challenging
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Shaggs
Experience: 25.9 years 87 played 4 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Just your basic city course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 5, 2017 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Nice concrete pads. Some longer semi challenging holes. Water comes into to play on several holes adding extra risk/reward shots.

Cons:

Goose turds everywhere. Water is disgusting, almost don't want your disc back if you go in. Pretty basic layout. For a RH/BH player, every hole can be thrown using a basic hyzer shot. Can get repetitive. Every hole is reachable for a skilled amatuer, offers almost no challenge for a pro.

No tee signs anywhere, and the tee pads have incorrect distances labled.

Lot's of pedestrians and bikers to avoid, can cause delays.

Other Thoughts:

Just your typical city disc golf course. Nothing fancy here. Can go out, throw some discs, and have some fun, just make sure to stay out of the water.
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Zjaypo
Experience: 9 years 10 played 8 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Nice course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 10, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

Nice little course. I was in town visiting friends and I wanted to give a course a shot and this is where I ended up. Some of it is quite picturesque. It's a fairly easy course but there are a few water hazards that can prove to be tricky. I was lucky enough to escape this place with all the discs that came with me! There are some really chill geese walking around: I practically petted a couple of them. All the complaints about bird doo-doo tho.....dude, it's nature...it's not that big of a deal! Haha

Cons:

Potential to get a bit turned around looking for the next tee pad at times if you are new to the place and have no map.

Beware of people walking about and the potential to blast a pedestrian

Other Thoughts:

Mountainous backdrop, bright green grass, birds, ponds, streams, Colorado air....I dig it
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Javy818
Experience: 15.8 years 25 played 11 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Nice park. 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 21, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

Water comes into play.
Not too difficult to navigate if you have the map.
Good course for beginners to work on distance and upshots.

Cons:

Geese. Goose shit EVERYWHERE.
Middle of nowhere next to a Rec center.
Thick vegetation and a stream behind some baskets. Can be extremely difficult to find. I threw a putter that went slight left into the stream. Couldn't find it! I had to ask a dude walking on the other side to help me and he found it.

Other Thoughts:

Random joggers, bikers, motorcycles and kids going around the course.
The park and course are well maintained.
The pond is nasty. Don't go in there.
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bobmcnelly
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 12.9 years 324 played 189 reviews
2.50 star(s)

2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 10, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Large Concrete Tee pads
- Each Teepad has the Distance and hole number written into the concrete
- Good DGA baskets with numbers on each
- Close to half the holes on the course have water that comes into play and forces you to make some technical throws
- Holes vary in length from around 180 to 400 feet

Cons:

- one of the first things you notice when you get to this course is the geese, then the poop.
- Most the the holes feel very similar and the course starts to get repetitive by the end.
- without any signage to mark the tee pads, they can be hard to find and navigate the course. But overall, navigation isn't terribly difficult

Other Thoughts:

This could be a fun little park course, but there is so much goose poop I don't think I would bother coming back. Stuff like that usually doesn't bother me but it is literally everywhere. It loses all the feel of a nice park to practice and instead becomes trying to avoid setting your bag down in fresh turds.
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Bwatkins
Experience: 10.6 years 33 played 8 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Nasty Water Through Flat Land 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 15, 2015 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Flat
Open
Green Grass
Long Tee pads
Risk/Reward over water
Layout doesn't interfere with park pedestrians much
Longer holes allow for driving practice
Decent beginner course on the non-water holes

Cons:

The water
The water
The water
Few trees when looking to the pin from the tee pad
Most holes play very similar. Long & open
Course feels redundant

There is an open sanitary sewer that runs through the park. It leads to a horrible smell and some baskets are near the water so trash, gunk, and overall unpleasantness often wash up one shore during the back 9.

Other Thoughts:

There is nothing at Expo that makes dealing with the unpleasant smell and water hazards worth dealing with.

Any disc in the ponds is instantly trash. Trust me you don't want it back.

It is a good beginner course minus the water due to the flat open fairways. There's just so many other courses in Denver I'd play before venturing out to the wretchedness of Expo.

Overall a decent course just not worth the risk of losing disks and smell.
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nygfaninva
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 16.1 years 38 played 36 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Mile High City Park 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 21, 2015 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

-18 full holes in the middle of the city
-True water hazards
-Fantastic tee boxes
-Easy to follow set up
-Great park with water and bathroom availability

Cons:

-Not very long
-Not a lot of obstacles between tee and baskets
-A bit repetitive

Other Thoughts:

OK, I did not have much time in Denver area this time and could only play this course. Despite the listings above, it turned out to be a fun couple of rounds. For an 18 hole course in the middle of a major city this turned out to be a blast. As I stated, it's not a "challenging" course but neither is it a push over. The water hazards are just close enough to ensure you stay precise and makes up for the lack of tree or hill obstacles. On a windy day the water could be calling your name, LOL. I am not a rated/tourney player, but I am not a novice/beginner either so keep that in mind. The distance is indeed on the lower end, but for a city park still enables you to throw far and encourages you to throw straight. Not very tricky, as I mentioned, you won't need all your throws, but it is a fun, full 18 in a city. That alone is something to brag about! I hope to hit some of the true mountain parks on my next visit, but for a quick stop in the Mile High City this was a pleasant surprise.

Fav Holes: 2, 14 and 16 due to throwing over or on the edge of the water made for some fun and tactical throws that were memorable!
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little oz
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 12.7 years 102 played 31 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Effluential Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 29, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

Excellent tee pads
Well spaced holes, no perceivable overlap
Grass and park is well maintained; no chance of losing a disc, save the obvious water hazards
A lot of ace runs
You get a certain thrill (similar to that moment before you check Lotto numbers) wondering if your disc didn't land on a goose turd.

Cons:

-Goose crap everywhere
-Course lacks challenge-if you can throw a controlled hyzer 330 feet, then you have this course covered. Even my scientifically proven body of diminishing bone and muscle density could reach all but 3 or 4 holes
- I had no idea that open sewer systems were still around. I thought those went away after The Big Stink in Victorian London (1858) forced the authorities to finally take the sewer system underground. No doubt that a US cholera epidemic would incubate here

Other Thoughts:

Having just dropped my heir off at DIA and with my faithful companion (Rocky, an 18 month old Doberman) at my side, what's a chappie to do at dawn but to find an unplayed course on the way home? I thought it would be a lark to bounce a mile off the 225 to play this course.
After an ineffectual moment of limbering up my grandmaster limbs, I peered nervously at Rocky at the first tee. While his loyalty is unrivaled, he is yet to be able to discern a play disc from a golf disc. Choosing a much-hated stalker as a decoy disc,I threw it a bit off line and off he went. Staring him down like the referee stares down the Hanson brothers in Slap Shot, I then threw my tee bird. Showing great talent for pissing me off, he then took off for that disc as well, collecting both at once.

We reconciled at the 2nd tee and banded together to confront the evil horde of geese that barred our path to the pin. We muscled through that hole, but our unity fractured at the 3rd hole, as he cleverly elicited false hope in me by not chasing the drive, but elected to confiscate my beloved soft wizard on the approach shot. 7am on a Saturday morning is not a rum time for shouting while innocent citizens sleep, so I pantomimed a tantrum while he gleefully chomped dozens of punctures and indentations that resembled a novel in Braille upon its innocent surface.

After returning from intensive couples therapy, Rocky and I returned to finish the round under a sort of truce, as we were much kinder to each other, and I have already usurped too much of your time to continue.

Perhaps the most poetic moment came at the end of the round while I sat in the driver seat of my car with the door open. A goose perfectly emitted a butt shuttle that hit me on the shoulder and in the crotch, as if to say "don't ever come back!". Message received loud and clear. Thanks Expoo-sition Park!
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chips n salsa
Experience: 13 played 7 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Close to Metro Denver 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 9, 2014 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Closest 18 hole course to downtown Denver area there is (though is still 20+ minute drive from there).
Lots of chance for birdies and aces.
Well marked and easy to find tees (except far a couple of holes you have to cross the bridge to find).

Cons:

Always accumulated water and some mosquitos
Always seems to be a family or two with many kids on the course which can hold you up sometimes.
Easy to lose discs on the drink on some holes.

Other Thoughts:

Great course and always fun.
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troberts
Experience: 13.1 years 13 played 10 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Gets a bad rap, but a fun course! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 25, 2014 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Good city course that is easily traversable if its dry. Water adds great challenge, has decent length and makes the most of the elevation in the park. Fairly well maintained.

Cons:

Wet and muddy, most of the time. Water holes are fun, but if your plastic gets wet, its gone! DO NOT go into the water, there is a good chance it will make you sick! Locals dive for discs every so often, but they WILL NOT call if your number is on it. Twice, I've had someone try to sell me my own disc. Otherwise, the plastic will end up at play-it-again sports, off of Hampden and Tower.

Other Thoughts:

Good play, fun for families and pets.
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