Farmers Park fills a few acres of land just west of Enumclaw, WA. Enumclaw is located on the very southeastern edge of what could reasonably be called the Seattle-Tacoma metro area, where the land starts to rise into the North Cascades and the imposing Mt. Rainier dominates the southeastern skyline. There are a couple of picnic tables in the park, but the majority of the space is occupied by a disc golf course.

Farmers Park DGC consists of 18 tee pads playing to 9 baskets. The course plays as two 9-hole loops (i.e. holes #1 and #10 share a basket, #2 and #11, etc.) I firmly believe that this is the only safe way to lay out a course where baskets are shared between holes. Here, you cannot play hole 1 and be unaware of someone trying to play hole 10, etc. Furthermore, I only played the front nine but the tee pads appeared to be arranged so that hole 10 plays a little differently than hole 1, etc. This is about the closest you can come to a nice 18-hole layout in 9 holes worth of space.

The baskets are blue Prodigy models that are in great shape. All of the tee pads are large enough slabs of concrete. The tee signs can be found at each tee pad and are distinctly numbered 1-18. The hole number, par, and distance are typewritten in a cursive font next to a map of the hole on each sign. The maps show an alternate pin position for a few of the holes. There was only one basket installed per front nine + back nine hole when I visited, so I'm not sure if/how often the pin positions are swapped out.

Navigation is easy here. There are "Next Tee" arrows hanging in the bottom of baskets, staked into the ground nearby, and even painted on trees where needed. They must have been added since previous reviews were written.

The hole design uses the land available very well. The front half of the park is pretty open but the tees and baskets are placed to force some shot shaping around the scattered old growth trees. The back of the park is a little wilder, with areas of younger saplings and thick brush. However, the fairways are always well defined and on a couple of the holes there are clearly multiple paths to the basket. The distances are respectable, ranging from about 200' to 400'. Several mandos and OB areas are painted onto trees and the ground. The mandos not only make the course slightly safer (by pointing DG'ers away from adjacent fairways), but also a little more challenging. This course is a great place for beginners to practice and improve, and I think it would still challenge many players who are a little more experienced as well.

Honestly my biggest con with this course is the rough at the back of the park. In places, it is thick enough (at least in June) that you will have to really wade into it to search for discs. Those who are determined to find their discs will probably not actually lose any here because the areas of rough are pretty small - but they could get scratched up by the thorns that seemed to be prevalent. I was going to call this course pretty much perfect for practice until I saw the thorns.

The park is pancake flat with no water hazards. It is not likely to hold the interest of better disc golfers. It also lacks any memorable individual holes.

A couple of the holes are a little close together, although it is nothing egregious. A very poor throw or unfortunate tree kick on hole 9 or 18 could find the dirt parking lot. Otherwise, I believe the course has been redesigned to eliminate some of the safety issues discussed in earlier reviews.

Extras like a kiosk, trash cans, benches, and a porta potty are missing. There is actually a practice basket, although you'd be forgiven if you missed it! The course starts at the northeast corner of the park (nearest the road intersection), and the practice basket is at the northwest corner.

Multiple tee pads playing to the same basket is still not ideal if the park were to ever get busy, and probably doesn't offer as much variety overall as a true 18-hole course.

This park is accurately named for the primary use of land in the area in which it is located. This is my fancy way to say, I caught a whiff of manure from time to time. It wasn't overpowering, but definitely present.

Prior to my visit, the course listing on here showed 9 holes with no distances given, and no photos. So why on earth did I decide to take some of my limited time vacationing in the Seattle area to come play here? After playing Ralph Williamson Memorial DGC in the city, I had about three hours of daylight left. I sat in my car and browsed the course directory for over ten minutes to try to decide where to play. There are many other courses in the area that look to be solid, if not spectacular. In the end, I decided that instead of picking one of those at random I wanted to try to see Mt. Rainier up close - and with only three hours of daylight left I didn't have time to make it out to the actual national park. I plugged this course into my GPS hoping that I would be able to throw some discs in an open field in view of the huge mountain/volcano. As it turned out, most of the mountain was shrouded in a high cloud bank that evening. Having seen the mountain later in my trip from downtown Seattle, I now better understand the scale of it and I can say that while this park does not offer unobstructed views in that direction, I think the top of the mountain may even peek up above the treetops on a clear day (and if conditions had cooperated, I could have seen it without even driving out here haha). Those who are local to the area and reading this probably started laughing at me several sentences ago!

All that is to say, I didn't see a mountain here but I still was happy with my decision to visit this course. It is not a destination, but is great for practice and beginners. I was between a 2.0 and 2.5 rating, and decided to round up. Hopefully someone can clean the rough out a little bit. If you are local or travelling to/from Mt. Rainier, Farmers Park could make for a worthy quick stop!

-The blue prodigy baskets standout fairly well
-There is a store/market right across the street with a bathroom and can grab drinks/snacks
-the baskets have the hole number 1-9 on them marked and our still in okay shape
There's a bright pink basket on the course it is not used but I guess can be a practice basket or just a cool disc golf addition if you wanna use it for a safari hole.
There's a good mix of hole lines backhand/forehand or backhand turnovers
The two different pads do give you different tee shot feelings

Let's see where do I start there's no signage at all or markings. It's got that farm smell to it, Tee pads are just worn in dirt spots which are fairly easy to identify except hole 6 and a few others. There's supposed to be two sets of tee pads to make 18 holes with 9 baskets some have little stake marking but for the most part there's no signs at all. Most the " tee pads" are pretty unsafe with roots all over the dirt pads and are flat out bad.

It kind of gives you a safari feel and without a map you'll 100 percent be lost. Thankfully a local showed us around. The course actually gets some play so with 18 holes 9 baskets might have a little backup, with tee signs and pads it wouldn't be half bad but it's nothing special

- Quick and easy to play.
- Easy to navigate after a round or two. Thx for the next pad tape
- Technical approaches challenge better players, while allowing novices to have fun.
- Enough longer holes to satisfy bigger arms.
- RH/LH equally represented.
- Great mix of 'let it rip' and 'precision' shots.
- Multiple pads offer a very different view of the basket.

- A little bit off the beaten path. Long drive for many.

I'm ~750 rated, so YMMV.

- This is a great, much underrated Rec course, which challenged every aspect of my game.
- Quiet times provide endless safari opportunities.

Farmers (In my brain I read "framers", dang dsylexai) is a nine (9) hole course with two dual or duel tee pads if you wish. WHat I really like about some of the tee pads is that the shot to the basket for one tee pad is completely different from the one which I enjoy much more than just a "short" and "long" pad which is boring. Sadly a few holes out here are just that but the majority are different so it's actually worth playing from both sets. I"ve been here on a Friday morning and a Sunday afternoon and on both occasions I was able to throw from each tee pad without bumping in to anyone else which is nice because I hate walking the entire course twice if I don't have to. .

Navigation is slightly challenging at first but once you find one through three you're golden. Note or you: Hole one starts on the corner with the highway and the intersection across from the convenience store. You'll see a couple of baskets but yours is to the left. Hole two is a walk straight back from basket one throwing out to the field; the basket to the right while looking from tee pad one. From here you throw into the woods away from the car to a blind basket tucked in the trees so you may want to scout before you throw, it's not very far. From there you should be good, it flows and makes sense fairly well.

Holes five and seven are probably the best holes out here and both are carved out of the trees, stickers, and other underbrush making for tight landing areas around the basket with penalties for errant throws ranging from an uncomfortable putt to a toss it ten (10) feet from you into the ground because you have no shot. Learning to find the correct approaches in the air and on the ground is something that you will learn over time which is fantastic. There are also multiple pins on these holes which makes them even more challenging (especially hole five (5) ) sadly both pins were in short when I played them. If the powers in be for this course are reading I plead with you keep five (5) in the long at all times.

I have to respectfully disagree with the prestigious Valkyrie Kid on the baskets at this course as I find them to be some of the worst baskets I've ever played on. The problem with the adding all of these extra chains is that you're making the target zone wider without making the actual basket wider, consequently you hit chains and it kicks it out of the basket instead of in. It increases the possiblity of good putts being kicked to the side and falling out instead of down and inside the basket where we want them. If you don't believe me go out to this course and putt a few times; watch how much you hit all chains (not a glancing blow) and the disc falls to the side of the basket. If you want to improve upon the catching ability of a basket great but this isn't the way to do it in my opinion.

I am shocked that this course was approved and installed. Holes like six (6) and nine (9) play right next to the parking area and busy highway. I threw an approach on six (6) that caught a little wind, stayed straight and carried onto the highway which is right next to the course. Hole nine (9) as well is a RHBH hyzer where if you hyzer too much you are breaking windshields in the parking lot or again going in the busy highway. Again on this hole I threw what I thought was a good drive (and it was) ended up right close to the hole but five (5) feet from a parked car. I'm not a chucker or a n00b, I've been played for many years and can control my discs fairly well and I'm close to danger here, imagine the n00b hyzers at this course an how dangerous that could be. This could have been avoided by reversing the hole; throwing away from the road instead of at it.

Like I said I can't believe these holes were approved. This is a huge problem that simple things like safety aren't even taken into consideration when designing a course. We (disc golfers in general but more course designers) need to factor this stuff in before we think of anything else. Designers sometimes seem to get tunnel vision on a cool hole or shot or whatever. Sadly this course has symptons of that. With the growing amount of players in our sport now we can't keep doing this; courses get pulled because of stuff like this. You could get away with some crossing fairways and clashing of disc golf and other park users in the 80's and 90's but those times are over. I don't think you could get away with the throwing towards parking lots and freeways at any point in our game's history.

The Farmer's Park DGC is located just about 2 miles west of Enumclaw on 164th E or SE 436th (Or the Auburn-Enumclaw highway for us old timers). The course is directly across the street from the Enumclaw Cattle Sales Barn.

Farmer's Park is maybe, a 10 acre piece of property, completely flat with scattered Douglas Fir trees and some underbrush for obstacles. There are a couple of picnic tables and one garbage can, by the # 11 tee box.

The baskets are lovely, heavy duty Prodigy models. They're great! I finally noticed on about # 16 that there is a tiny taped (1 inch long and the same color blue as the baskets) next tee arrow on the bottom rung of the basket. They will help you with the navigation. Navigation is currently a little difficult the first time through as there are no signs, no tee pads and just these little ribbon flags to mark the tee areas. The tee areas are worn just enough to see that this is the tee pad area. There is also a small homemade wooden sign after # 5 pointing the way to both # 6 and # 8's tee areas. But in favor, I must say that I was able to find and play all 18 tee pads.

The course has decent length with several holes reaching maybe 350-425 feet. There is a nice mix between wooden holes and mostly open ones. There are some fairly tight lines/fairways to hit and you will need to throw anhysers on a few holes.

I don't think I found a favorite hole here but there are a couple of pretty looking natural fairways to play (3,4 and 7).

The course designers need to think heavy duty when signing this course. Currently, all the signage could be pulled out and destroyed by a first grader. I think the tiny next tee markers might survive, only because they could go unnoticed, even by the players. The one helpful homemade wooden sign showing the next tees will soon disappear. The same with the little flimsy tee markers. You have to think of teen aged vandals and what they are capable of destroying.

My other Con is the # 8-17 tee areas. Currently, the # 8 ribbons are 10 feet directly behind the # 17 ribbons, BORING. My suggestion is to move the # 8 ribbons back about 25 feet (Yes, onto the previous fairway. I doubt this course will ever get busy enough that will be factor) and maybe move the # 17 ribbons up 15-20 feet. That will help to make these two holes play different.

This rec course is perfect for me but will not offer much challenge for Enumclaw's resident pro player, Lou Tran, who live just up the street 1.5 miles. He'll have his way with this course shooting easy double digits below rounds.

I believe with better, more vandal proof signage, that this is a solid 2.5 rated course, very typical of many park courses around. I'm giving it a 2.0 and will tack on the extra .5 when better signs are installed. Does Enumclaw High School have a metal shop class? Designers could approach them and maybe get some metal signs constructed?

I enjoyed playing here and will hopefully get back on a warmer day when it's not 32 degrees with wind gusts, making the wind chill factor a frigid 23-25 degrees.