- brand new concrete tees
- brand new tee signs
- brand new blue Innova DISCatcher baskets
- nice bridge across sand gully on hole 9
- navigation is straightforward; good use of aids
- hole lengths are very family friendly and accessible to all ages/skill levels
- cool lighthouse basket is on brand for coastal Michigan
- well maintained park in great shape
- a few holes play into mini sand dunes
- most of the back 9 play through some wooded areas
- typical park amenities - benches, garbage cans, etc.
- disc golf is generally isolated from other park activities

- very short
- mostly flat and open with almost no obstacles/shot shaping
- risk of hitting campers on hole 17
- long walk between holes 10 and 11
- will not be very exciting for experienced players
- no real uniqueness factor for most of course
- almost no elevation change for most of course

This one was hard to rate. In terms of quality disc golf, it's probably only a 1.5 for me. However, the name says it all - First Street Beach FAMILY DGC. It's cool this place exists at all. I don't know if I would have come, but I had my 9 year old son with me on this trip. This course was perfect for his age/skill level, allowing him to throw for pars and me to throw for birdies. It's truly fun for the whole family, and that's great.

The equipment is top notch and brand new here, and the bridge mentioned in the description is installed. The play is very repetitive here and not particularly exciting, particularly on wide open holes 1-6. Holes 7-10 go through the woods a bit before emerging back into the open, and the end of the course finishes in light woods a bit again. When we were there, some sort of carnival event was going on and RVs were parked behind hole 17, creating a high risk of hitting them if you overthrew the basket. This may be something that frequently happens on weekends or it may have been a once a year event; I don't know.

The round concrete tees are a little weird. Definitely no room here for a run up or true x-step, but let's face it, you don't need anything like this for a 150 ft. hole, so the round, short tees don't really harm anything.

The signature hole for me, and what really made me want to come here, is hole 9. No, this is not the lighthouse basket! Despite that hole looking cool, it's really just a lighthouse basket in the middle of a flat, open field. Hole 9 has the basket mounted on the slope of a mini sand dune and almost looks from the pictures like you're playing on the actual First Street Beach. You're not quite, but you are very close. There's a bit of a gully and your disc can end up in quite the sand trap if you don't play this one well. The bridge over the gully helps but you might find yourself traipsing in the sand anyway. It's a cool shot that I wish this course had a bit more of. The other wooded holes are decent and offer some challenge, but the open ones on this course are more for the kids than anything and don't add much.

The designers did a good job of keeping this course away from other park activities like the playground. Nothing makes me cringe like having to throw towards an area explicitly designed for children. This is a very quick round; with 1-2 people you could easily play 18 holes in an hour. For what it was designed to be, this is a nice course that is clearly well maintained. Hopefully a few years down the road it will still look this nice.

I think this may be my shortest 18 hole course ever with nothing over 200 ft. Now - if you want to play a barely longer course that's infinitely cooler and still very family friendly - head a bit south to Ludington and play The Tinderbox, which is entirely wooded and quite technical despite topping out at a max of 225 ft. and having 13 holes under 200 ft. First Street Beach is good family fun, but The Tinderbox is next level cool while still being easy on the kids/beginners.