Alverno Township Park is located a short drive inland from Cheboygan, MI. The 9-hole disc golf course here is among the northernmost places to play in Michigan's *lower* peninsula.

This is a beautiful little park, featuring a walking loop winding through the woods on a manicured gravel path. According to the kiosk (which also has a rough course map on it), the walk is 0.92 miles. I really enjoyed the aesthetic of the place on a warm October day. The disc golf course plays counterclockwise along the path for holes 1-7, then emerges into the back of the main park for the second half of hole 8 and all of hole 9.

The holes along the path play mostly as a technical challenge. The gravel path is nice and wide, and there are usually small strips of grass on either side. This makes for "fairways" that are still tight, but not unfairly so. However, the walking path also doesn't always curve in ways that disc golf throws generally do - which makes this one a bit more challenging than it may appear on paper. Maybe repeat players here could figure out over-the-top throws to navigate around some of the corners, as the surrounding foliage seemed to offer that possibility in some spots. That foliage is very dense so you definitely will want to try to stay out of it - but it was relatively thin on the ground (at least for my visit) so disc loss felt unlikely.

Larger open spots next to the path come into play on a couple of the holes to balance things out a bit, and as mentioned the last 1-1/2 holes are set back in the main park where there is more space to work with. My favorite hole here was #9, which is a 350' right turning fairway with a nice arrangement of scattered large trees in the way. With five holes in total that exceed 300', there is also a bit of distance in play.

The basket bands were seemingly hand-painted in a high-visibility silver color, but that covered up their identification. I believe they may be MVP Black Hole models. They are definitely nice baskets that I can't complain about.

The tee signs are simple but fine, with the hole number/distance/par and a rough line. There aren't any Next Tee signs, but since you're just following a path for the whole course it's really not necessary. I can't believe I just typed that!

There are trash cans and benches spaced out strategically around the path. The front of the park has a restroom and drinking fountain.

Who is this course for? It is too long and difficult for true beginners. Any other players could be annoyed by the unrealistic lines, and gravel path scuffing up their discs. Anyone with even rec-level throwing power will also be rolling the dice from a safety perspective. There are some blind throws around corners in the path, and it's perfectly reasonable to imagine someone might be walking in the opposite direction around the loop and not making enough noise to be heard from 200'+ away around a corner. I feel like clearing out areas NEXT TO the path for short fairway approaches and greens, with shorter line-of-sight holes overall on about #2-7 would be a big design improvement - even if that meant longer walks between holes.

The terrain is flat.

The tee pads are just natural/the gravel of the walking path.

No practice basket.

This one is not likely to get a lot of play, since it's well off of main roads and a decent drive from any other courses. I imagine it's a pretty quiet park in general - and honestly that is sort of the saving grace from a safety perspective I guess. If you arrive here and there are no other cars in the parking lot, this one feels a little bit better than the 1.0 rating that I am giving it - but between the safety concerns when other people ARE using the park, the chance of scuffed discs, and several fairways that felt unrealistic 1.0 is what felt right in the end. It was honestly a little better than I thought it would be from reading the UDisc reviews before driving out, but not good enough for me to really recommend unfortunately. Definitely potential for improvement though, as alluded to above.

If you want to fit in a round near the top of Michigan's lower peninsula, it's worth the detour over to Blissfest!