As I drove up to the white wall, I had this uneasy feeling of leaving my car unattended. There was not another car in sight. Why, for a course with such lofty ratings, was no-one playing it at 5 pm on a beautiful October evening? Everything about the park and the course screams "Night of the Living Dead." The hand scrawled sign for # 1 was written in blood, I think. The crumbling foundations of buildings from a past civilization. A number of sketchy looking people lying on the ground, milling about, giving you the stink eye, drinking out of brown paper bags. Then what really caught my attention, as I was wondering around trying to find the 2nd or 3rd basket, I crossed paths with this scary ass tweaker lady. I was afraid that she was just going to drop trousers and do her business right in front of me. Fortunately, she was just shuffling over to her nest. She was the closet thing to a real life zombie I have ever encountered.

The highlight of the course for me was hole 1. It's 520' to a basket way down towards the river. You tee off from atop one of the old concrete structures. It's a fun throw. And that's the last positive thing I have to say about Edgewater DGC.

From there I had to hunt around to locate every tee pad and every basket. Many of the pads are wooden. Some of the wooden pads had a number on them but most didn't. The baskets were always difficult to spot far off in the deep woods. They don't stand out and the holes are so long, I kept having to walk out quite a ways to spot them.

There were some attempts here and there at marking a course but they looked as though no-one had put forth any effort on this course for years. Like on # 5, there was a very old illegible sign on a tree. But the basket is like 600' up and away through the woods.

Some of the over the water throws are just ugly, eat your discs, like # 10. It's just a short carry old some nasty green soup but if you happen to hit a branch, like I did, goodbye to one of your favorite discs.

#'s 16 & 17 are both killer holes. The 16 basket placement, on this peninsula between two nasty bodies of water can't wait to swallow your disc. And # 17 is also going to get your discs. There are lots of ways to lose your disc on this hole. I elected to skip it and scamper back to my car.

And about # 18? I have no idea. It was getting dark and I thought I heard the zombies coming to eat me so I got the hell outta Dodge as fast as I could.

The entire park is dirty, grubby, run down with piles of garbage here and there. And then what did I stumble onto by the 13th tee pad? A beautiful bench for viewing the river. Amazing that no-one has carved on it or painted on it. It's lovely!

Cons: To me the course is a con.

With so many other viable playing options in the Redding area, I can't imagine anyone choosing to play here. This course has seen it's better days and probably should be put out to pasture. It would take a complete overhaul/restoration to bring Edgewater up to playing standards. And even then I'm not sure if I'd want to come down here. I'd never park a decent vehicle down here. I wouldn't think about bringing my wife or girlfriend down here. I see no reason to set foot in this park except maybe if you wanted to score some meth.