Good use of terrain, the hills and valleys keep things very interesting.
Nice variety of hole length and shape, a few down hill holes that make for a fun opportunity to just empty your whole bag, like hole 3 and 14.
Mostly concrete tee pads.
Signs at tee pads to give hole length and rough hole shape.
Navigation arrows on the course and at baskets to help you get to the next tee pad.
Red and Blue tee pads for most if not all holes. Creates nice options.
A few garbage cans throughout the course.

No course map
Some of the tee pads are plastic modular pieces that are slippery when wet, like #2.
Needs better signs for navigation both at the tee pad and on the course. There are some interesting hills that create some false horizons and prevent you from seeing the basket from the tee pad, which wouldnt be a problem if the signs at the tee pad were more detailed and if there were corresponding distance markers on the fairway.
Some confusing backtracking on a few holes, and a hole that has a new long position with minimal signs to help you get to the basket.
Portapotty bathroom.
Strict rules because it's private land.
Some of the tee pads are in a pasture that gets swampy during the rainy season, so be prepared to get wet, muddy feet. I always bring a spare set of socks to wear going home, spare shoes might be a good idea too. Two of the tee pads are un reachable in the rainy season like blue 4 and 18.

Donate to play, the donation box is at 2nd tee pad it's a yellow metal cylinder 3 feet tall. A recommended donation of $1 I'm happy to pay given the quality of the course.
Overall I really like this course, it's creative, challenging, and fun. I will go out of my way to play it. If the swampy pasture was sorted out with some walkways or stepping stones, and if the signage was better this course could easily be a 4.5.

Ross Farm is a lovely piece of private property featuring three commercial business ventures; A great looking little putt-putt golf course, a two tiered golf driving range and a paintball course. The family graciously allows the disc golf course to operate here as free enterprise with all volunteer upkeep. Many thanks to mainly, Paul Wright, but also to Jeff Montgomery for their countless hours of work on the new re-design and the overall maintenance of this lovely course.

Honestly, I played this course years ago on a wet miserable day and don't remember being overly impressed. The grass was knee high in the fields. I got soaking wet. Playing this morning on a glorious August morning, I was blown away by the overall beauty of the course, by the amount of work that has been put into it and generally by the overall design and amenities. Very little has been missed.

At the start, there is ample parking, practice basket, honey bucket, and a kiosk with lots of information. There's also a large "NO SMOKING." Due to fact that about half of the state is on currently burning with wildfires, please be smart and don't be the guy who causes this course to be removed!

The tee pads are mixed between concrete and an interesting new material called Terrewalk. Terrewalk is a concrete looking plastic material that looks concrete pavers. They're expansive, expensive but wonderful to throw off. Time will tell how well they hold up but I think they'll be great. The signs are pretty basic, partially vandal proof. They consist of a large log approx. 1 foot round with the hole # on top and then a simple sign giving the Par and distance.

There are two sets of tees, the much longer Blues which play over 6600' with 7 par 4's and then the shorter Reds playing about 5200'. I played a round from both tees. The Reds are definitely a easy recreational round but they don't have any holes that I would call real easy or wide open. From the Blues, I'm calling it a fun, creative, well designed Intermediate level course.

There a quite a few holes that stick out as creative or challenging or just plain fun. There are also quite a few great basket placements, either in the form of a couple of raised baskets or # 8's basket up in the rocks and trees or # 18 high up on the hill above the stairs. Among the more memorable holes for me were:

# 5. The island hole. It's not overly challenging, especially from the Reds but I liked it anyway.
Same with # 6, the pond hole. It's not more than a 200' throw to clear the water but there are a few overhanging branches to splash down your shot. It might be the easiest hole on the course but it still has the "Pucker" factor going for it and someone recently went diving and pulled 25 discs out of the stagnant looking waters. And for a bonus, a family of otters has been spotted hereabouts, and I spotted a large turtle basking in the sun.
# 9 from the Reds is a short, probably 175', straight throw to an elevated basket but it's a very tight squeeze between two large trees off the tee.
# 14 is a 537' slightly downhill, mostly open throw to a basket hidden in a narrowed out section of fairway. It's a fun hole for players to show them off their arms.
I liked # 17, a 250' thread the needle ACE run through lots of trees.
And you finish with # 18, and it's 533' long hyser hole which finishes with the basket set up on a raised area on a hill probably 50' above the fairway level. A nice little network of stairs has been built to help you up the hill. However, those stairs didn't help me throw up the hill at all. And for good measure, this hole finishes right back at the parking lot!

If I'm being nit-picky, I'd like to see something on the tee sign telling players that # 5 plays as an island. But other than calling it an "island Hole", How much more could you do? I realized it was an island hole but then again, I'm old and have played a lots of courses.

Without my local tour guide, navigation would have been a little tricky in a couple of places. There are a couple of long walkouts which is some cases kind of overlap over other holes.

My only other comment/con is the fact that the Blues don't play a little more challenging. I think the young guns would like to see a little more challenge here. I liked the course just the way it played but I don't think I'm the target audience (Senior citizen-Recreational player-Course Bagger) that course designers are primarily targeting these days.

Bud Pell was spectacular today. The course was in perfect playing condition with not a piece of litter to be found and it was freshly mowed. This is what courses usually look like just before a big tournament when they've been dolled up to impress. If you haven't played the redesign, come out and try it. If you're senile like me and can't remember the old design, then it's like the playing an awesome course for the first time.

b-mart commented that Kitsap County is the best disc golf county in the state. While I think that Kitsap County has come a very long ways and does boast an impressive string of courses, I'm going to have to go with Spokane as # 1 county in the state with it's even more impressive stable of courses.

And no, I'm not from Spokane. I hail from Pierce County where our chant concerning disc golf courses is, "We're # 3, We're # 3." We do claim the Stilly complex, as well as Riverside and Ambient and a few others.

I have to start by admitting that the original Bud Pell was my favorite course. Period. It wasn't my GOAT. That was Dalaiwood. I'd back over your children with a bus just to play there one more time. Yeah. You. Your children. But I'll do my very best to review this new layout without comparing it too often to the original. It will come up. It happens. But I'll try to be nice.

Equipment: The baskets are still awesome and still have killer number markers on them. No change there. If I could take one of these baskets home and spoon with it you'd probably want to sanitize it after. They're awesome. And the teepads are finally teepads. There are concrete and paver tees for both red and blue now. No more treacherous footing!

Navigation: This is a work in progress. The holes each have a rough map showing the route to take to the pin. All of the baskets are marked with the (what should be) legendary wood numbers, and each has red and blue arrows guiding you to the next tee. It has a natural look, and it's awesome. More courses should take that approach.

Design: The property at Ross Farm is perfect for disc golf. It's also perfect for pelting people with paint, but who cares about that? Disc golf! It offers technical wooded areas with and without underbrush, a rolling meadow, and a long (albeit swampy at times) field. There's even a nice amount of elevation change. The designer took all of that into account. The lay of the land was the main reason for this redesign from what I hear. I never played in the winter, but that swampy area apparently took over a couple of the holes. This design plays around that part, so the only reason you'll go in there is if you're as inaccurate as I am... In which case you deserve to go in there. Buy waders or something. Or practice more. But the designer shaped fairways that avoid that area, and used every bit of the property at their disposal. There are wooded fairways with tight lines, uphill and (slightly) downhill shots, right and left turning, short and long... They even found a way to bring the pond into play and also created an "island" hole. Everything you want to see on a course is here. They really studied the property before putting this one together, and did a good job of using a lot of the existing basket placements without using many of the existing tees. So you really are playing a brand new course. And they did with hole 18 what I always look for in a hole 18. They made it the toughest and most memorable hole on the course.

I also have to applaud them for creating red tees that not only play like their own course, but flow like one too. The old ones were added as an afterthought, so there were times you had to walk 400' past the blue tee and down the fairway to get to the red version. The current layout flows much better.

Equipment: No cons to speak of.

Navigation: The course still needs a quality map. There's a vague one on the site here, but it won't help you if you're standing on the tee and trying to figure out where the basket is. There may be better signs in the works, but a general flight path isn't enough. We need a better idea of where the basket is, and some distances.

Design: I love this property. I love how perfect it is for disc golf. But I do have to complain that they took out some of the more interesting holes. 9 and 15 were certainly memorable. The original 1 was awesome. The original 2 (later 3) was an experience all by itself. Breaking it down into a couple of fairly forgettable holes feels insulting to the original tee that still forlornly stands there. If hole 5 wasn't an island it would be the most boring hole in the county. Making it an island saves it from that distinction, but not by a whole lot.

But if I look at this course design through the eyes of someone who never played the original? Not a lot of cons to speak of.

Somewhere along the line I heard someone say that the redesign was supposed to make this the highest rated course in the state. With Shelton Springs down the road and SeaTac and Stilly along the I-5 corridor that isn't going to happen. Those courses are the bees knees after he gets knee replacement surgery with titanium implants. But I still think it's the best course in the county, and that's really saying something in the best disc golf county in the state.

Redesign took a better approach to the problems of the field/marsh that were in play on holes #2 and #3, now a reversed upshot (#18) and a tee change (#3 is a shorter #4). Much of the other holes have been placed to reduce problems and risks from the paintball area bordering the course. Differences in red and blue tees were good choices too, some being quite different, and makes the course even better if you make an extra loop around the back of the course. Overall, the course seems to be less technical in places and more reliant on disc choices off the tee. I realized real soon that I'm gonna have to put some other discs back in my bag, but that's not a bad thing for me.

Got rid of some interesting short holes (old#9 and old#15) that I thought were stand-outs for being unique enough to remember. Putting water hazards in play on new#5 and new#6 are interesting, but for novice and younger players they might be holes to avoid, especially if it's windy.

Thanks to all that contributed to the changes!