It's got a decent location next to Badlands in Federal Heights, making for 36 quality holes of disc golf right next to each other. The first time I played it I was impressed with how much land the city let them use, and they used it well.

Being co-located with Badlands, it enjoys two major advantages that the latter also has over the majority of Denver area courses - namely that it plays over elevation changes, and almost every inch of it is mowed. Those two things alone make it stand out from all of the flat, overgrown fields out there with baskets in them.

The course design is excellent (for the most part).

Holes #1 and #6 play over a large pond that will make you think twice about which disc you are about to throw.

Holes #2-#5 play through a very technical and tightly wooded area which used to house the 9 hole Blair Witch course. Hole #3 plays over a deep ditch, through a narrow window over and between trees, to a basket at a lower elevation. Hole #4 plays through two narrow corridors of trees and finishes in a cool, creepy grove after a sudden elevation drop.

Hole #8 plays up a very steep hill with the basket placed right on the edge of the slope, making even close putt attempts hair-raising.

Holes #7-#12 play over rolling hills toward the east past the baseball diamonds, and they very closely resemble a ball golf course because of their wide, maintained fairways with devious risk/reward obstacles. This is my favorite part of the course because there are a lot of ways to approach each hole but almost none of them are simple. It's the perfect amount of difficulty.

Holes #13-#18 play back west towards the direction of the parking lot over the same stretch of land. Hole #13 is another one of my favorites with a very difficult decision of how to reach the pin down across a small draw and up into a grove of aspens. You could play it safe and shoot to the left of the grove, or you can try to land in a small avenue at the bottom of the hill and shoot straight through. Holes #17 and #18 both use mandos to make things a little more interesting.

This is a moderately long course with a MASSIVE amount of variation for being in the Denver area. It has something to challenge everyone. You could definitely ace about half of the holes but good god would you be impressed with yourself if you did. The best thing about some of the holes is that there isn't just one way to succeed. There are several, but none of them are necessarily easy.

And lastly, this isn't necessarily a tangible benefit to how this place plays, but it's something I really enjoy about this course as it is now: it has kind of an air of discovery about it. It's brand new, and the local disc golf community funded and built it under the direction of a committee and the organization of Phenix Disc Sports. Fundraisers are still underway to finish it off. In the mean time, it is not well known, and there is a ruggedness to it that adds a little edge. You'll find yourself crossing shady-looking drainage ditches on makeshift walkways made of shipping pallets. You'll trek through narrow corridors of gnarly looking trees. I like it.

With great pros, sometimes come great cons.

First, a minor (temporary) one: there is almost zero signage and the tees are dirt for now. I don't mind the tees that much at all, but you WILL get lost and not know where the next hole is the first time you play, unless you have a map. Once you play it and see how it all works it's not bad, and they are supposed to add all of that stuff soon. Hey, the course is brand new, after all.

Second, there are at times some very rough conditions along the course. This course will devour your discs if you are not playing well. There is always going to be somewhere you simply DO NOT want your disc to go. Namely; the pond (obvious, but just wait), the deep ditch along the south side of hole #5, the impenetrable wall of evil-looking vegetation along the north side of holes 9-16, and the god-forsaken mini marsh around the south side of holes 15-17. The fairways are mowed to perfection, but I pity you if your disc goes off the fairway.

On a related note, the design of hole #15 is great in concept, but it has you shooting a long, blind shot around a sharp left-hand corner and DIRECTLY into said marsh thing. Once, when I was playing here alone, I threw one of the best shots of my life that sailed perfectly right through the gap and then cut left around the corner, only to be lost forever. It had to be somewhere in the general area of the basket but I just could not find it. DO NOT play hole #15 without a spotter. Once your disc passes a certain point you have no way to see where it lands.

This is my new home course. I've been trying to play it as much as I can since I found out about it in August, and I pitched in a bit for the fundraiser after I found that I liked it so much. With the continued support of the local community, this course has a HUGE amount of potential. Even as it is now it is one of the best courses in the entire Greater Denver area, period.

Yes, it is almost completely unmarked. Yes, there are unspeakable horrors enveloping every fairway. But those fairways are mowed and the holes that inhabit them are gold. The unmaintained, mostly open and flat courses that are the norm for the Denver area simply do not stand up in comparison.

Add in some tee pads and some good signs, and I will change this rating to 4.5.

If you like disc golf courses that are similar to ball golf courses, look no further. This course has a future as the venue of championships.

This is a new course on the lower part of Camenisch Park which the locals are calling Lower Badlands. This has a great mix of in the woods shots, wide open shots, uphill and downhill and the fairway is very nicely groomed compared to other courses in the area.

No cement tees yet, but they plan on creating some by the end of the summer.

Cant wait until they fully finish the course, this has already become one of my favorites in the denver area and its nice to have two nicely groomed courses back to back.