Littleton, CO

Dakota Ridge High School

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wolfhaley
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Experience: 19.9 years 970 played 542 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 24, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

Dakota Ridge High School is home to a pretty well done 9 hole course that wraps around the school. The course starts on the north end of the SW parking lot and plays clockwise around the school, finishing on the SE side near the parking lot. Very easy to follow for the most part.

The baskets here are all in good shape and caught nicely. It says DGA's on the info page but I'm almost certain they're Chainstars. Either way, all are present and get the job done just fine. One basket and pin position per hole.

They managed to find a section of concrete for all nine tees. This was another pleasant surprise. They have a red spraypainted rectangle with a DR and the hole number in blue on every one of these which made finding the actual location pretty simple. There were a few metal tee signs too, though only on about half the holes or so. These had the hole # and distance.

The course is pretty much completely flat with zero natural obstacles. They did use some small hillsides and the tennis court fence to add a bit of challenge at least.

Cons:

The tee signs that were still present must've been from some previous iteration of the course. The distances on these were nowhere close to the actual distance. Not a huge deal since you can see almost every basket, but not all of them.

Not playable during school hours obviously, so that limits it's availability.

Pretty repetitive. Not much replay value unless you live nearby, even then there's probably much better options.

Hole 9's tee pad is on an angle. It's not a super severe angle, but it's annoying enough. This would've been one to just have on the grass.

Other Thoughts:

This was a pretty well done school course. I've played much, much worse than this. It's good for what it is and would actually be nice for the students attending school here with it's simple layout.

That said, play it if you must. Not worth taking any extra time out of your day to play here though.
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sjroesinger
Experience: 7.8 years 37 played 37 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Tight course around high school 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 23, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

A few fun holes
Good baskets
Not crowded at all

Cons:

Too tight to the school
Layout wasn't very intuitive (had to check map repeatedly)
Tee boxes poorly marked

Other Thoughts:

I probably wouldn't play this course again
Just another school course
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bobmcnelly
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Experience: 12.9 years 324 played 189 reviews
1.50 star(s)

2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Dec 4, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

- decent tee signs
- concrete tees/ sidewalks
- good baskets
- good variety of distances ranging from 200 to 500 feet
- nice maintained high school campus, mowed grass
- Parking right next to hole 1 and 9
- decent place to practice rollers

Cons:

- mostly wide open boring shots, hardly any obstacles
- navigation is a little difficult on a couple holes
- pretty much all flat
- not very challenging or exciting
- considering this course is geared to towards beginners some of the holes seem a little dangerously close to the school

Other Thoughts:

Quick and easy course to play if you are in the area, but it's not going to challenge you much at all.
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be_trickshots
Experience: 23 played 5 reviews
2.00 star(s)

not the best 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 23, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

-beautiful view of the MTNS
-about half of the holes were shorter, and half longer, good variety
-not crowed; not well known
-signs with hole map, distances, and par

Cons:

-no apparent tees; just signs
-not payable during school hours
- not a lot of trees to spice it up; no reason to shape a throw
-no indication where the tees are; they seem to be placed at random, and there is often a large walk from hole to tee

Other Thoughts:

this nice short course, although it is dull. Good to play solo, not with friends/family. Be sure to bring a driver!
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MIkeyMikeCO
Experience: 9.9 years 14 played 3 reviews
3.50 star(s)

What a differnce a redesign makes! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 29, 2015 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

This course has a great combination of short and long holes. I believe there are two 400+ holes on the course. You can get the full 9 in if your playing by yourself in about 30 minutes. The tee signs do a great job of letting you know where the O.B. is as well as how to get to the next tee pad. This a great course to get a good practice round in or take someone that is learning.

Cons:

It is only playable when there is no school in progress. I would like to see multiple tee pads in the future so if you want to play 18 you can play the holes differently.

Other Thoughts:

This is a great replacement for Schaffer. Longer holes that can be played just as fast.
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Bwatkins
Experience: 10.6 years 33 played 8 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Better Than Average School Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 26, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

Tee signs every hole
Well layed out, uses existing terrain well
Great beginner course
Alternate tees for holes that play across athletic fields

Cons:

A little too open
Nothing super challenging

Other Thoughts:

There really is nothing bad about this course, just nothing spectacular either. It plays very flat and In the open. The last few holes play across natural grass that isn't mowed so those are a bit trickier to find discs but still not a problem.

In terms of school courses this is very well done. The holes are long enough (250ish) that you can put a little power behind your tee shot and there is some variety on left/right finishing holes. The course serves great as an introduction to the game without it becoming too stressful.

It's longer but much less technical than the nearby Ken Caryl DGC. I really liked the simplicity of the course the day I played, I wanted a quick, easy, relaxed round and I'll go back just for that reason.

I would much rather play at this school than ACC. Ken Caryl still has to be the best 9 in the area however.

Review is for the updated layout of 04/2015.
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AdamBarnard
Experience: 18.8 years 12 played 7 reviews
1.00 star(s)

a course...around a school building 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Apr 27, 2015 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

- Good way to introduce people into the game
- Few play this course
- Concrete tees (sidewalk)

Cons:

- Can be very windy here.
- Not much in terms of technical shots

Other Thoughts:

There are 9 targets set up around a high school building and parking lot, that pretty much sums it up. Most holes are wide open shots across the sidewalks, fields, and parking lots of the campus. They have modified the course recently (hole 7 is now hole 6) to include less impervious surface, but it's generally the same course. Be sure to download the course map before playing.
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mndiscg
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Experience: 15.8 years 480 played 478 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Another one... 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 8, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

+Ace opportunities
+May help get more young people into the game of disc golf. Also might provide something fun to do during gym class.
+Decent length and length variation. None are super short or super long. Probably a good length for learning the game. Would also be good for practicing mid and putter drives.
+Baskets are numbered so you can check to see if you made it to the right one when you get there. You can't see it from very farm away though. The baskets are also pretty nice.

Cons:

-Like most schools, especially in Colorado, there is very limited terrain to work with. It is generally open and flat.
-I only saw a few of the 'tee markers'. I didn't want to waste a lot of time on this course so I didn't try too hard and just picked a decent spot close to the previous basket.
-Many holes are pretty crammed in there and you could easily throw onto parking lots, athletic fields, sidewalks, roads, etc. I would really recommend playing this course in the summer or at least on a weekend if you must.

Other Thoughts:

-This course is like so many school courses in this state. It has lengths that are designed for students to learn the game. It was probably underfunded so there are no real tees. It is crammed onto land with all the other things that you find at schools and it was set on the open, flat outskirts of a suburb- hardly optimal disc golfing.
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ccurtiswriting
Experience: 11.8 years 5 played 1 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Bring Your Map 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 15, 2013 Played the course:once

Pros:

A few fun obstacles like a tennis court.
An appropriate tee on the third hole: you start from the discus throwing circle.

Cons:

A few fun obstacles like a Lexus and about fifty other cars that could easily get dinged up by all but the softest of putters.
Good luck finding the tees. If you don't have a course map and aren't going with someone who knows the course, you may as well just be throwing discs in any schoolyard.

Other Thoughts:

This whole course feels like an afterthought: "Hey, we should add disc golf to the school!"
"Yeah, where?"
"I don't know. How about one there? And maybe we can have one over there too."
At least the thing makes a full lap around the school.
Start in the WEST parking lot (the one with the one-way entrance).
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Wise Fool
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 15.1 years 125 played 116 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Not Worth the Hassle 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 25, 2012 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

-Nice brand new DGA baskets
-On a well-taken care of school campus, with nice grass and very little opportunity to lose a disc
-Introduces students to the game
-Some wide open holes that give you a chance to test out new shots or new discs.
-Hole 4 throwing over the tennis courts is unique

Cons:

-No tee-signs and the course is terribly marked
-Some of the tee-pads are on the sidewalk, while others are on the grass, but they are all very hard to find and not marked well at all, the spray paint on the sidewalk is really easy to miss. Without the pictures on this site, I would have never found some of the tee-pads.
-Due to badly marked tee-signs and hard to find tee-pads this course is almost impossible to navigate.
-The number of each basket is scratched into the center pole of the basket and very hard to see, so its hard to know if you are throwing to the right basket.
-Lots of safety issues. Holes throw over sidewalks, over and near parking lots, over tennis courts, near sporting fields, near buildings, and near a busy road.
-Due to these issues this course is all but unplayable during school hours or special events.
-None of the holes are overly long
-Other than hole 4 none of the other holes are that interesting, most of them are just wide open shots.

Other Thoughts:

This course is not well thought and needs a redesign and better tee-pad markings. It has potential if it is redesigned to avoid some of the safety issues but as of now, it is not worth the hassle of playing or trying to navigate it.
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DRod
Experience: 12.7 years 96 played 4 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Deserves a second review 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 30, 2015 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Mountain Views, good practice for short/mid game and beginners, good baskets, quick to play, a few longer holes have been added.

Cons:

Wide open, doesn't require any shot shaping, Walk from 5 to 6 is long and easy to lose your way.

Other Thoughts:

The course deserves a second look if you played it before the redesign. Baskets are in placements that are generally further away from the building and sports fields making it more playable when after or summer school sports activities are going on. All the tee boxes have signs are well done and marked. 3 has an alternative tee when the soccer field is in use.

I like coming here with sports fields near by for field work and nice baskets for putting. A quick round can be done in 30 min or less and is really great for putting drives and upshots. I used do putter rounds only here but I had to play a second round because I had to grab a driver for a couple holes on the next round. The use of trees is great for what they have on the property but really don't make you have to account for them and shape lines. Way better than it use to be!

I'd really like to see a set of long tees like ACC so that you can play a full 18.

Overall the best school course in the area I've played to date.

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cridenou
Experience: 25.8 years 9 played 8 reviews
0.50 star(s)

never play here 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 10, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

cant really think of any

Cons:

poorly marked, there is never a good time to play it because of all the students, short, flat, student tried to toss my disc on the roof one time.

Other Thoughts:

the baskets from this course and Schaefer should be pulled and used for a real disc golf course in Bear Creek Park.
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The Valkyrie Kid
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 45.8 years 1563 played 1507 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Typical High School Course! 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 24, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

If I would have been smart enough to find the south entrance to the school, I would have managed this course much better. Once I found the # 1 tee painted, in tiny little red letters, on the sidewalk, I was able to figure out the course going around the school. The course features double chain baskets and is of decent recreational length holes. Most of them of pretty straight forward throws except # 4 which is a anhyser throw over the tennis court.
Very pretty view of the surrounding mountains.

Cons:

The on-line map I had printed out was useless. # 6, which plays down next to the girl's fastpitch field, is not an ideal set up. The designers didn't have much in the way of great terrain to work with here.
Off limits during the school day and probably limited use during some evening athletic events.

Other Thoughts:

This is no destination course. It's probably good as a quick little warm-up round or maybe for the HS kids to get introduced to disc golf. I don't see any serious players spending a great deal of time here.
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atlskw
Experience: 13.8 years 21 played 3 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Not so fun 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 9, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

Beautiful scenery of the mountains in the background. Its close to residences so you can use the baskets for practice.

Cons:

Hard to find tee boxes. Some are painted on a rock. have to throw next to a street and you might hit a car. Kids walking around near school hours.
Was a bit boring.
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AndrewFine34
Experience: 13.8 years 133 played 3 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Quick Easy 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 24, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Hole in one opportunities. Well manicured fields. Mountain/City views. Fun shot over tennis courts.

Cons:

Almost zero obstacles. Hard to find tee boxes (5th does not exist). Pedestians during school hours.
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