-Appropriate distance and challenge for kids age 3-8
-Clean course, with short green grass
-Other kid friendly activities at the park
-Good tee signs at holes 1 and 2

-Missing basket 3*
-No elevation change or anything special

A year ago the pioneer diamond trusted reviewer said Friendship Park is a 2 disc rating. However, since that time, the course lost a third of it's holes (hole 3). So what does that make it? I say it's now a big fat 1. Sorry Friendship park, but 2 baskets is not scoring better than that unless they are some sort of epic thing of beauty.

I will say that it was a busy park and I'm guessing hole 3 was removed due to too many discs nailing little children, so maybe there was good cause.

*See wall post from April '23- sounds like basket 3 is up!

Nice splash pad, toys, fields, tennis courts and park, but the bathrooms were closed (even the porta-potty had a lock on it) and the two baskets they do have are nothing special. If you have small kids, go ahead and make the stop, but otherwise, keep on drivin'.

Friendship Park is a mostly typical medium sized city park with BB courts, picnic shelter, children's play area and splash park and the usual tennis courts with weeds growing up through the concrete. Let me take this moment to give the parks department some free advice. Resurface these unused tennis courts and convert them to pickleball courts and they would be filled most of the time.

Friendship Park- Junior DGC in one five junior disc golf courses in Spokane along with the two in nearby Cheney. All seven courses have the same great signs, heavy duty Mach Series baskets and grassy tee pads. The parks are all similar typical city neighborhood parks with scattered mature trees and lovely maintained grounds. This is the first junior course where I have actually seen evidence of play. The grass tee areas actually are worn in places.

# 1 starts at the corner of the unused tennis courts and is 107' to the basket set under some tree branches. 2 is 148' needing a slight annie bend to your tee off. Next walk past the kid's play area and # 3 plays up a very slight hill 146'.

Cons? The same tired argument that some will make about each of these junior courses.

Only three holes.

Too short.

Too easy.

Natural pads.

As usual, I left an old beat disc in one of the baskets. I hope some kid finds it and figures out what it's for. Maybe this kid embraces the sport and grows up and wins $1,000,000 in the world championship of 2040. Endorsements add another $1,000,000 because twenty years from now, disc golf will be as big as regular golf is today. And he'll never know that his first disc was a gift from the Valkyrie Kid.

Or some other kid picks up my old disc and never makes the connection that the disc is somehow connected to these funny looking cage things. He uses my old disc as a bowl to feed his mother's mangey cat!