-Fort Washington was established in 2004 as a 9-hole target course, rated a measly 0.85 on DGCR. (DGCR Course ID = 511). Looking at the old photos and reading reviews, it is clear that a tremendous number of man hours have been put into the place over the past six years to transform it into an excellent 18-hole layout. Huge kudos to whoever spearheaded the project.

-This course has an active club which takes great care and pride in the course. Every hole has a large brick tee with a boot scrubber (great feature), two baskets, color tee signs, next tee signs, hand-made benches — the works. There's also a clubhouse near holes 3 and 7 with course maintenance equipment, picnic tables, an extra basket, a lost-and-found bin. I played on a Monday and two guys were mowing and weed whacking the fairways.

-I'm not always a fan of two baskets per hole, but it works here. The short basket is always the older Chainstar and is a par 3, usually 300' or less. The long basket is always the new red Chainstar Pro, and typically adds 100-300 feet to the hole. Several of the long baskets are par 4s, and hole 10 is a par 5. None of these holes are terribly long, but at least four holes have double doglegs and are really hard birdies.

-Well Designed. Especially memorable were hole 6, the only opportunity to open up on a drive, and #7, a beautiful downhill tunnel shot. Most of the holes are tree-lined but not heavily wooded and with grass fairways. For the long baskets, you need to be proficient working the disc both ways to navigate all the twists and turns. The layout makes good use of a moderate amount of elevation change. There are maybe a few too many blind holes but no silly holes on the course.

-The fairways are fair, clean, and appropriately sized, but one tree kick can easily send you into the DEEP stuff — thick bushes, sharp rocks, thorns, as well as poison ivy in a few spots (especially hole 11 past the OB stakes). With the number of blind shots, downhill shots, and holes that tempt you to throw a driver when you shouldn't, there is ample opportunity to lose a disc. Although some areas have been cleaned up, plenty is still left to be done. Long pants are highly recommended.

-The course length to the short baskets is very attainable for newer players, and there is also a designated "kid's tee" halfway up the fairway (a small area marked with bricks). Unfortunately, the thick rough makes the course absolutely not suitable for anyone new to the game, as more time will be spent searching than playing.

-On hole 4, a large tree fell and must have smashed the long basket. There's currently a portable DGA basket directly behind the uprooted tree, which makes for a very strange approach to the hole.

-For your first time, I highly recommend playing the short baskets. The shots are much simpler but still challenging, and you can get a look at the shot required for the long basket, which is typically blind from the tee. The tee signs are very colorful and nice to look at, and the distances are accurate, but the diagrams are not to scale.

-The park has a "Pack it in, pack it out" policy, and provides no trash cans of any kind. It seems to work — I did not see a single piece of litter.

-The facilities are top notch, the course is well kept, and the design is excellent, but the heavy rough is the one factor holding Fort Washington back from being a really enjoyable round. With the amount of work that is continually put into the course, however, it could easily be 4-4.5 rated within a few more years.

+ All eighteen tee signs are detailed, colorful and accurate.
+ All eighteen holes have identically constructed tee pads: decently long and wide wood-framed tessellated bricks.
+ Benches everywhere and brooms present every so often.
+ Some gentle elevation throughout.
+ Trees in varying density the whole way through.
+ Plenty of visible next tee signs all over the place.
+ Lost disc box, info board and big practice area by hole 1.

- The forested environment is awfully samey and familiar. Repetitive throws among trees start to get tedious.
- Try to keep your throws on the fairway because some rough areas are dense with thorns and/or overly twiggy undergrowth.
- Very little variety among the holes. Just one or two open holes to throw at full power.

This review is based off of the red layout.

My favorite hole here to look at was #5 because the bumps and divots along the wooded path give it a slightly rugged feel. My favorite hole here to play was #10 because it was nice to encounter a technical and satisfying par 5 in the middle of it all. My least favorite was right after it. #11 plays too close to a road to my mind.

Fort Washington is not a bad course. I originally played it way back in March 2019 when it was just a 9-hole course. Back then I remember a regular telling me that the course was destined to be a full 18-hole course in the future. So, I decided to wait until I played its 18-hole layout before publishing a review. The 9-hole course was decent enough, but was the wait worth it? ...Yes...?

Fort Washington is not a bad course. A lot of the courses I've played so far in my limited disc golf career need to take a page from this course's book because many of the things that I normally like to see in courses are found here. The tees and signage are all present and consistent from start to finish. Getting lost is almost impossible here (except for the notable exception of the criss-crossing paths between holes 8 and 9). There is always enough information for the player to use, regardless of their skill level. The baskets are pristine. The info board, lost disc box and practice zone are all in the right spots. It is a perfect example of infrastructure and ease-of-use within a course. However, it's not the tee pads or the next hole signs that attract players. No, it's the holes, how they play and whatever features reach out and grab the player to make the course memorable.

Fort Washington is not a bad course. It does the basics well, and, all other things being equal, I do prefer disc golf in the woods over disc golf in fields. But it has to nail the execution, or else the course runs the risk of being just another garden variety course in the woods. So, to that point, there is no oomph to my taste. There was no moment that made me think, "Ah, now this is more like it!" The elevation here didn't scratch my itch. There were no nice views. Precious little qualified in my mind as memorable. There wasn't much to distract me from the similar throws along similar trees. Certain moments did add a noticeable degree of variety like the wide-open hole6 and the welcomed downhill slope on hole12. But otherwise, it is a very tight and tree-heavy and safe and clean and perfectly playable course with no frills and no gimmicks.

Fort Washington is not a bad course. Warmly recommended.

+ Expanded to a full 18 since my first play, with two sets of baskets (silver and red); a layout that's added six holes, but integrated them is a way that it still loops back to the parking lot. Beware of photos or reviews older than 2020 - a lot has changed.


+ Very good level paver teepads, great new Chainstar Pro baskets in the "red" positions, older Chainstars in the sliver, excellent signage showing both basket positions, some benches, some brooms at tees, and some mounted shoe brushes to remove mud at some tees that are nearest to low areas of the course


+ Short tee positions are clearly marked on the signs. The tees themselves are dirt marked by lines of bricks in the ground, but they're there to play if you want to bring along a kid or a newbie


+ Although this course is set in a heavily wooded park, the holes have well-defined (if sometimes narrow) fairways. There are some guardian trees, and some of the baskets are tucked away, but this isn't "woods golf" requiring really tight lines


+ Very good balance of straight and turning holes. Some left-to-right and some right-to-left. Not a lot of elevation change to work with, but several of newer holes take full advantage of what's there


+ There's a raised basket, and several holes have additional pin positions ("C") to add variety. Hole #5 has a sneaky additional C position that tucks the basket right between two big trees

- Off fairway areas can be thick and thorny. By the end of the round, you'll wince at every treekick

~ Plenty of parking (use lot #2), a practice basket, a lost disc box, and bulletin board. Wooden planks with non-skid are placed at various wet locations around the course. The course uses the bottom sections of a long ridge in the park, and the lowest parts hold water. The layout anticipated this, so it doesn't affect play very much, but the trails between the holes get pretty wet


~ Navigation signage is excellent. This is especially important in several places where the layout crosses itself and you have several paths to choose. It seemed like whenever it could get confusing, there was sign right there, pointing to the correct hole


~ There's even a "clubhouse" - a small park building dedicated to disc golf between holes 2 and 3. It's used as Tournament Central and a remote location for D Town disc shop.


~ The course obviously gets a lot of attention, both from the park staff and from a supporting club or volunteers.

Two baskets on every hole
Paver tee pads
Great course flow
Lost and found box at tee of hole 1
Great supporting club

The rough as many thorns

I rate this course as a RED level course (850 - 900) and subsequently will be enjoyed by players of this level the most.

This 9 hole course will be an 18 hole course by the end of 2019. The fairway of hole 10 has been cleared.

Everytime I come here there's something new and positive to the experience. It has a very involved club and that's always spells good things for a course. It was easily the best 9er in the area the first time I came here and now it's growing to be an 18er, which I expect will be done within the year and polished by next summer.

Tees are excellent and well sized, bricks in a frame, about 10'x6'. They mostly give me a good experience. All holes have two baskets, DGA iirc (?) and a more distant Chainstar Pro. More often than not, the chainstars adds to the course. Beginners and Intermediates can feel at home here.

The course is forested with generally generous fairways on each hole with a few exception. The rough gets less rough every year but a bad throw will still land you in rough brush. It's feels mostly flat, 6 and 7 are downhill but I didn't feel much of an uphill on the first five although it has to be there. There is no water on the course, which for me is a plus.

I have to update everytime I visit and I feel my review is outdated by the time I type it? Work-in-Progress and lots of progress. Most cons feel transient.

Consider my point rating for the original nine still. It's said there is 17 holes now, I know the original course well enough, with much trouble I found three or four more holes off of #7 basket, going right. The new but transient ad hoc signs were't really all that helpful in pointing me in the right direction of new holes. UDisk had no complete maps after 13 nor did the course itself. There was a lot of chainsawing going on so I wasn't eager to find the rest of the new ones anyway at that moment. I may be stupid but I ain't dumb.

#6 and especially #7 with all that underbrush are where disc loss will occur.

Yesterday (drizzly) the tees were rather slippery like there's a layer of algae growing on them. Most tees are flush but there are a few that look like I can fly off of and prematurely end my promising career in the prestigious noodle arm league.

The distant chainstars have the effect of feeling like the real hole as they take that extra turn or whatever and make the shorter baskets feel like less developed holes unto themselves.

About the only real gripe is that it's busy, especially on weekends! Park crowd is mostly away from the course but there are a lot of players. If you like to play alone, check local club events and do it early on a weekday.

Field Practice space seems limited to the field on neighboring Parking Lot #3, which is also on a similar incline as the course.

There are a few other minor nitpicks, like laminated paper signs on the original nine, well illustrated, but I assume the medium is temporary.

Starting Point: First tee is located 40.116208, -75.228925 (Google Maps), near the end of Parking Lot 2. Tees 2 and 4 can be accessed through parking lot 3 with a little bushwacking.

Amenities: Has the nicest restrooms ever seen in a State Park, on parking lots 1 and 3. All the original nine holes now have generous benches. Surprisingly, on this course or section of park, there wasn't a trash can to be found although the distant bathrooms have them.

-Varying Types of Shots
-Lots of Elevation Play
-Very Clear and Maintained Fairways
-Great Parking
-Signage to Lead to Pads Everywhere
-I Saw Some Deer!

-Very, very bad roughs. Losing a disc on a nuffle is a good possibility.
-Narrow Fairways in Many Places
-Pads were mucky and not so great

I really did have a blast at this course. I wish I lived closer. The elevation play was fantastic and not overbearing as some elevation play could be. Some of the holes were just very cleverly laid out and fun. Hole seven and hole eight were both a blast I thought. On a couple less than spectacular throws, I clipped a tree and almost lost a disc to the extremely high grass. I will certainly be coming back however when I get back up this way. Thanks a bunch for the great time!

Played this course years ago when it was just posts and I thought how great it would be to have baskets. Low and behold they are here now! Nice layout with elevation and a mix of a couple long holes and a couple that you can get a possible Ace. I live close by so this will be my new "home course" I hope that this draws more players to the park. I would love to see another 9 put in. Facilities are well kept and bathrooms are clean. Very nice State Park.

Still under construction so tee pads need a little work.

Stay on the fairways, a lot of Thorns!

Plays fairly quick, good for that quick game on the way home from work.

Played this course for the first time last night and I have to say I am impressed with what they have done with it.
-Good variety of short and long holes
-Some very cool and unique holes
-Nice new Tee Pads
-Works in many different shots

-only 9 holes
-Lots of Thorns