The layout and variety is world class. It is a long course and a tiring walk in the woods.

The course is minimally maintained. There are no benches at the holes, no clear signs or walkways between holes. The fairways are overgrown and losing a disc in the middle of the fairway is possible. It is expensive to play but that includes lunch. It is closed in the summer because of the summer camp.

If this course had more maintenance then it would live up to its world class potential and would earn a 5.

Good design for intermediate women players. A great workout, many uphill holes.
Distances from 108' par 3's to 820' par 5's.

fairways were clear and well defined when we played on 10/20/18. No one lost a disc or had trouble finding wayward drives off course.

Tee Signs were good.
Tee pads were great, large enough to accommodate any players launch style.

#16 was everyones favorite, big open field downhill with target to the right behind a few trees. Only hole with a view.
All others in Catskill woodland.

Next tee signage could use improving.
Luckily there were paper signs still readable from a tourney in Sept, otherwise path was not clear to next tee at times.

No easy way to play 9 holes, you are pretty much committed to all 18 unless you are familiar with the trail system. Could be improved with proper signage on trail system that intersects with course.

NO benches! This is a mountain course, a heafty workout and hike. Benches should be installed at most tee areas.

It took our group of 5 players 3&1/2 hours to play all 18. Everyone played the "red" course, and played it well. But.....it was a workout.
No belly aching, we loved it!

We stayed at Lakeview Lodge and it was fine. Frost Valley was full that weekend and the dining situation was crowded and not very good.
If I play this course again, I will go as a day guest. Seems like a good deal to play with lunch included for $25.

It's a great property in the woods. Multiple tees and multiple baskets on a few holes. We knew we'd miss the hot lunch, so they gave us box lunches, very nice of them. Lunch included: two turkey sandwiches, an apple, banana, chips, granola bar and a capri-sun! We were the only people on the course, it was quiet and peaceful...besides occasional outbursts due to errant throws. The 3.5 hour drive was mostly curvy, tree-lined back roads. Of course, it's fall so leaves were banging.

Maintenance doesn't exist and that essentially killed the experience for us. The course doesn't look like the pictures at all. We struggled to find tees and baskets often. Everything is overgrown with ferns and other underbrush. Don't get me wrong, I love looking at ferns and stuff, but underneath the ferns were rocks and holes between the rocks, which made walking a pain in the butt. I don't mind rocks, but like being able to see them instead of stumbling around. One hole was a literal swamp for 75% of the fairway, hole 9 if I remember correctly. Hole 16, the signature hole at FV, shined a little but that light was dimmed by the maintenance issue. Yes, there was a single next tee sign for each hole, but the trails to some holes just didn't exist so you're left to bushwhack of ankle breakers again and again. As with many courses that have multiple tees, the short tees didn't offer that much different of a look to be worth it. some holes had multiple "fairways" but one option would typically be next to impossible

It's a Houck designed course, yippee, but you need to maintain it. Houck should make people sign a contract saying they will maintain the course for x number of years, so people don't associate the Houck name with a bad experience. I don't mind paying to play, but at $25 I'd like to see maintenance, benches at each hole, maybe a trash can somewhere, great directional signs...