WHAT TO EXPECT: Local park 9 hole course built/reimagined by local Boy Scout group. Plays between two earthen dam walls and utilizes a walking trail as the primary fairways. Scenic setting, short in distance, with signs that effort was put into this course early on, but has fallen by the wayside in more recent years.

AMENITIES: There was a bench at every tee. There is a beautiful lake, spillways, and creek on the property. Very pretty community park.

TEES/SIGNAGE/BASKETS: Short and small but ok tee pads made of pea gravel, signage is ok but showing signs of age, baskets are Mach's and showing age but still in decent shape.

DESIGN (PROS): Mainly a pitch and putt, couple holes (#7 for instance) is on top of one of the earthen dams and makes for a pretty unique and fun hole. Varied hole lengths, but overall very short and beginner friendly. Lots of putter ace runs available. Distances range from very short 100 foot ace run Par 3's to the longest hole around 475 feet Par 4. Definitely targeted at the casual player but just enough fun and challenge for the Rec and Intermediate crowd.

UPKEEP: The walking trail and open portions of the course are fine and what you would expect from normal park upkeep. The sides of the fairway, underbrush, and course itself are not up to par with what you would expect. This lack of upkeep forces you to land in narrow, open, perfect landing zones which defeats the purpose of it being a casual/beginner style course. To be fair, this course may not always be like this, and it had rained on and off basically every day for the prior two weeks and probably impossible to mow.

TEES: Pretty bad here as they were probably once very nice, but they are pitted, hold water, slippery, and on the longer holes simply too small for a decent run-up. And most have high grass around them just adding to the abandoned feeling.

LOST DISC POTENTIAL: Even with the two of us spotting for each other, the tall grass and weeds and underbrush on the sides of the fairways tried multiple times to eat our plastic, even well thrown shots that had ground play to one side or the other would sneak into the rough and prove hard to find.

SAFETY: Walkers are spread out pretty consistently. A lot of the holes plays down fairways that are pretty much the walking trails. Some blind shots mean you have to make extra sure the paths are clear before you throw.

BUGS: Due to the swampy wet conditions after several weeks of rain, the mosquitoes were out in full force.

POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO DISCS: Most of the intended landing zones are rock and gravel filled. If you throw base plastic discs, expect some chunks to likely get taken out.

MUD: Course held a lot of water, especially since the course flows around walking trails and it had rained a lot the prior days.

This course was a major disappointment after playing some other solid 9 holers in the area. I can understand courses not being well maintained, as it happens often due to funding, volunteers, and weather related issues. But even if this course was groomed immaculately, it would still have its problems. This was one of those courses while playing I couldn't wait to complete and be finished with. This course is hurt by lack of effort to maintain and or improve it. Unless you live nearby and this is your only option to play, or you are trying to bag them all, I wouldn't waste my time coming here. Maybe once the conditions improve or someone takes an interest in reviving the course (possible redesign) this course could be worth it, as the park is beautiful.

- Located in a very nice local park
- Hole 1 is pretty fun and unique, especially in the Cincinnati area
- Hole 7 is definitely the coolest hole, being on top of an earthen dam
- Baskets are pretty good overall

- Course is difficult, but not for any good reason. The tees, for example, are far too short for some holes. In addition, this course more or less forces you to play perfect on every shot. Even if you are slightly off, you will get punished VERY hard. While some people enjoy this, I feel as though it is too harsh a punishment for such a minor mistake.
- As I said before, the tee pads are honestly terrible. They are far too small to have any sort of run up. That, along with the areas around them being completely unkempt with weeds a few feet high, made me decide to throw from the open pathway next to the tees more times than not.
Speaking of unkempt, there seems to be no care to upkeep this course. Weeds are growing like crazy on both sides of the fairway, which measures only about 10 feet wide at most. In some places the fairway is only about 6 feet wide. This, along with the very tall weeds, seems to add artificial difficulty as I call it: difficulty not because of good, challenging design choices, but from negligence or simply cramming a course in where it probably shouldn't go.
- Beware of walkers. The path the course is on seems to be very heavily walked, and by the way people react to disc golfers, the course seems to be very rarely played. Often you will start to throw and someone will walk around one of the many blind corners and you will have to stop until they pass. This is more of just a frustration, but it happens a lot more than you'd expect.
- Don't be surprised if you lose a disc. There are lots of woods, lots of tall weeds, and lots of blind shots. You definitely need a spotter down the fairway so as to not lose a disc. Even with a spotter, due to the high grass, I almost lost a disc. In addition, there's an elevated drain with opening in the side. A disc could very easily fly in and be gone forever.
- While this is a lesser problem, be prepared for mosquitoes. Even going during the day in fall, I got bit up bad. So bad in fact that by hole 6 I was contemplating skipping the last few holes just so I could get away from the bugs.
- Another minor con, but it is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. It is quite the hike for an incredibly disappointing, subpar course.

This course was very disappointing. I could forgive quite a few issues if everything was simply up-kept. Even if there was any semblance of effort put into the course, I could forgive it a bit, but unfortunately this seems to be an instance where the course was placed and forgotten. The weeds building up lead to a variety of problems, including a higher potential for losing discs and the loss of the ability to run up to a tee, which is desperately needed due to how short they are. As I mentioned, holes 1 and 7 are pretty neat, but this is not nearly enough to make up for the rest of the issue. This is one of the few courses where I actually had no fun playing disc golf. It honestly felt like more of a hassle than anything else. Unless you live within 10 or 15 minutes, you are in the area, or this is by far the closest disc golf course around you, it's honestly not worth going to. Maybe it's worth a one time visit, but expect to be disappointed. I went in with fairly low expectations and this course did not even live up to those.

Overall, this course is really hurt by the lack of effort put forward to upkeep it. There's no real reason to ever go out of your way to come here as there are much better courses pretty much anywhere else, especially in the Cincinnati area.

+ New teepads
+ Good baskets
+ Varied length holes
+ Bench at every tee
+ Scenic

- An extemely short hole
- Hikers and runners to avoid
- Super thick rough
- Rock and gravel fairways
- Muddy in spots

Was happy to hear this course got a face lift. I never played it previously so I can't speak to how much better it is now, but I had fun here. I would have more fun with a spotter since the woods are really thick and I had to play some of the holes safe. Definitely wear pants unless you have perfect control. Fairways are mowed better than you see in some of the pics on here now. The tee's were just gravel at first, but they have since covered them in black grippy mats. Basket on hole 3 is fun behind the creek with the bridge. Hole 7 is really cool. Don't be fooled by the right side of it looking safe. There is some water down there you can't see from the teepad. There is also a bench in play on the last hole. The lake is very nice and I enjoyed walking the path around it after playing. Very clean and classy park here. Go check it out.

The re-imagining of Alexandria, Kentucky's nine hole course has been long-awaited, and looks like it's worth that wait. The old course was awkward, super short (a putt putt, in fact), and pretty much abandoned for several years. The new course grabbed up the DGA baskets (still in good shape), lofted them to the north side of the lake, in the paths between the two earthen dams, and more than doubled the length, challenge, and fun.

I'm told the Boy Scouts took this project over, and they did an excellent job installing sturdy, timber-boxed, 8'x 5' compacted gravel tee boxes, with a bench and sign post at every tee. There are some fun holes, from the opening, downhill putter anny (rhbh) hole 1, to the blind ace run 3rd, finishing just past the beautiful spillway creek and bridge, to the signature 7th: a mini-bomb across the top edge of the north dam, with rollaways on both sides (do you have the 'D' to carry, or lay up safely on top for a run at your three?). It even finishes with a pretty, little blind ace run 9th hole.

In all, the tees are great, the baskets good, and with distances ranging from 100 to maybe 470 feet, there's a little sampler for everybody here (which the old course just did not have). Scaled up and tempered down for the casual, recreational, and maybe even intermediate level disc golfer, and situated in one of the prettiest little community parks in northern Kentucky, I'd say they did themselves proud.

Since they went with the quick route of running the course counterclockwise around and along the trails running north of the lake, disc golfers will need to use maturity and judgment in looking ahead for hikers and joggers out on the course. There are a couple of places where the best line flies right over a bench or a sign (holes 3 & 9). I'd suggest those be moved for safety.

There is a little repetitiveness in having holes 4, 5, 6 & 8 all play to the uphill (left) side of the path. Kudos for making the hole lengths vary, but the safe shots here tend to run to the heavily weeded uphill side of the path, and may require a spotter (on the northbound three) if the weeds don't get regular trimming (it may be tough getting park equipment there regularly to mow).

It's a slight bit of a shame that they didn't go with the initial notion of contracting with a local disc golf hall of famer for the design. His course would certainly have taken better advantage of the hilly terrain and the woods, and resulted in a lot more variety and challenge. But I understand the course 'as is' was not as difficult to prepare as would be the more competition-level route.

My thanks to Steve G. for letting the club know the new course was ready to go. It's worth a look, and still offers an interesting day of DG, if combined with AJ Jolly.

To find the first tee, walk the path north, on the east side of the lake, past the Forested Wetlands sign. Hole 1 tees off just past the dam, downhill. The course loops around the trails and finishes a third of a mile up the path on the right.