Long Cedars is a fun course around a campground and a road that is somehow an actual racetrack sometimes. It has a lot of variety, a couple alternate baskets, a little water, and a bunch of fun shots.

The wooded holes are by far the highlight of this course. They're fun and unique, with some really tight lines to make up for the relative lack of distance. A lot of them have some subtle elevation change which somehow makes those holes a lot more spicy. Hole 10 is the overall best, and I like how it's kind of a mirror of hole 6.

There are some places where it's evident this course is more than just 18 tees and baskets. There are the walls around the island hole 18, the path leading to 17's tee, and the overall design of hole 8, which is pseudo-tunnel shot. There are also a couple mandos in important places to block boring shots.

This course embraces its status as an all par 3 course (except possibly hole 4) by making holes that are reachable in 1 but require some real skill. Sometimes there isn't all that much skill required, but this course certainly doesn't throw a teepad and a basket somewhere and say good luck.

Although there are a lot of aspects about this course that I like, some parts are rather clunky as well. For starters, hardly any hole is by itself. You're playing over gravel roads, paved roads, campsites, near fences with actual cows behind them, baskets too close to the next tee, the list goes on. It's also a bit of a walk from 18 back to the parking lot (if some gravel roads counts as a parking lot).

The elevated basket on 16, while cool, makes putting from the lower shelf nearly impossible. That hole is a fun ace run, but nothing else about it is all that great. Even hole 15, which is the overall hardest hole on the course, at least gives a chance at a heroic shot through the woods.

The easy holes are just too easy. The open ones around the start of the course (1-3, 11, 12) don't have much going on, and I'm pretty sure a lot of other holes become rather easy once you figure them out (7, 17, 18). Some favor a certain shot a little too heavily, or allow an un-fun over the top line (5, 7, 13), and playing a right-to-left shot over the fence won't do anyone any good, but it might be the right call for some players.

It's okay to have easy holes, but there's not enough difficulty to make up for it, and this course is only an okay place to take beginners. There's plenty of teeth (plus the water on 5 and the island on 18, which won't be fun for beginners), but also not real difficulty for better players. Maybe this is an decent course for intermediate players?

Holes 3 and 4 can be played a few different ways with their baskets. In general, I recommend playing 3 to the short pin and 4 to the long pin (in part because it adds a par 4 to the course).

I really think there was some meat left on the bone with this course. The woods around 15 and 16 could have been used better, and there could have been a wooded par 4 in there. There might be some more available land behind those holes as well. And since there are safety issues all over the place, the course could have embraced that a little more and added a few crossing fairways, which would have at least produced a few more good holes.

Hole 6's tee points the wrong way, but it's an overall okay hole, so I don't really mind. In some ways, the tee is intentionally awkward to make the tee shot a little more difficult.

There's a mound on hole 10 that I wish could have been used for a green, but it would have made that hole a little too easy.

At the north of Garnett Lake is an 18-hole course around and through the woods. Some good stuff throughout can't hide a lot of issues.

Concrete tees and 18 white Veteran baskets... and one red one (3 long and 4 short share that pin), and there's also a short tee on 4 as well, which likely means that 3 and 4 used to be 3 holes, but it's always nice to have options. A tee sign at every hole (except 12's was missing) with distances and a decent map.

Several unique hole shapes. 5 is a wide right to left that will test your stall hyzer, 8 has a left and right tree gap to hit to access the pin, 13 with two cedars to get around and stop up quick before you go long, the island on 18, but the best have to be 6 and 10. 6 is a left-to-right flex tunnel shot which is the mirror of 10's right-to-left (6 is slightly uphill, but also slightly shorter). It's not a long hole, but it's not a shot shape that you see get forced on you very often, and this park does it twice!

The distance to difficulty ratio is pretty good. The more open holes (3, 4, 12) are longer for par 3s, while the more wooded holes don't go too long and still try to claim they're a par 3.

Several interesting/difficult greens. Hole 4 long has the danger of skipping into the brush on the right, and the ground is sloped that way, 7's pin is tucked into some trees making the ace run a bit hard, 9's basket is right behind a tree, so you'll want to make it pin high or farther, 15 set up on a shelf of rocks that makes you weigh the risk of running a putt, and of course 18's island pin.

If you've played here before, you'll notice I left one unique pin out. It's hole 16. While it's an interesting ace run from the tee, the basket is then perched 10 feet above the rock shelf it sits on, with a possibility of it being even higher if you're another shelf down to the left. An elevated basket can be fun, this is not. This is just trying and failing to make something out of an old tree trunk. Maybe it used to be a long cedar.

The tees of 6 and 11 aren't pointed how they should be. The extra tee on 4 makes me think they may have been different holes at some point.

Lots of throws near other course and park infrastructure. 2's basket endangers 3's tee, and the same goes for 11/12. Crossing the main road on 5, 11, 13, and 18 (you can't even see the road from the tee of 11), while playing over or near side gravel roads on 1-4, and 12. Also near a camping area on 14.

There is a fence running along the north border, affecting holes 7 through 10, and 15 and 16. Someone was kind enough to put a pool ladder over the fence of 8 so you can hop over, and the gate was open near 15's tee.

A few bad routing spots, you'll walk a long way back down the fairway of 3 to get to 4, and the same for 8 to 9, and 18 back to the parking area is a small hike as well.

Holes 1, 3, and 12 really have nothing going for them besides a few trees, and 17 is a little too pinball-ish for a sub-200ft hole. Not the holes you'll be writing home about.

Garnett has an 18 hole course that works well, but just barely. It's just the right step up in difficulty for someone moving beyond the first phase of their disc golf playing, but the woods keep it interesting for more experienced players. No matter how experienced you are, be sure to throw carefully. Not a bad stop if you're in the area, but not the most exciting of courses to go that far off a main highway for.

Long Cedar is an 18 hole layout that is fun, not too hard and is set in a nice park. The tees and signs are good, and the Dynamic baskets are too. Concrete tees, with a longer option on a few holes. Multiple pin positions on a few holes too.

A little water, and some slight elevation changes give Garnett a little extra zing here and there. OB is in play on a couple of holes too. The fairways are open on most holes, but usually not without at least one or two obstacles to clear. A few holes have narrow corridors or small points of entry. The distance isn't usually that intimidating.

I really liked holes 4-6 on the front nine, playing over contoured terrain with trees and/or water looming. 7-9 also have a few more trees to make drive placement more critical.

The last few holes comprise a fun run. 15 has woods restricting the flight path. 16 is a really cool hole, not long but shooting narrow gaps into a crater. There is a pin set atop a stump with the wall of the pit circling the right side and behind the pin. 17 is a mid range with low ceiling and a tree or two limiting the available air space. 18 is also a fun tee shot. The look off the pad is framed by junipers and low branches, and the drive crosses the road to a flat landing zone. There is a stone wall on the right next to the road, and another blocking the lake behind.

Some of the holes are very open and flat with little that stands in the way of a drive or approach. It isn't super difficult. I made 5 birdies on the first 6 holes, but only one after that. Not repping as a professional level disc golfer, but I don't do that often. Especially on the first time around a new course.

Garnett Long Cedar is a cool little course overall. The seriously skilled player may find it a bit of a yawner, but I had a good time. Worth the drive from KC to get in a new track.

I did shoot a 53 on a par 55 layout. There were putts missed and poor approaches that cost me a couple of strokes for sure. The weather was cool and cloudy in early March, I wouldn't mind seeing the place in spring greens or full summer splendor. Maybe I will head out there again if I find myself nearby.

Great course, every hole is unique. Good balance of open and wooded holes, fun to walk and challenging to conquer. Almost no hole is straightforward; interesting tree placement and water hazards force you to think about every tee off. I've never seen a basket hanging from a tree, or a basket 12 feet high out of a stump, but you'll find them here!

How many discs I've lost on holes 1, 4, and 5 But that's hardly a con. Strong wind off the lake makes some days more challenging than they could be, but that's part of the fun.

All 18 holes have concrete pads and signage. I've played many courses in the KC area (Rosedale Down Under, Swope Park, Heritage, etc). Garnett is my favorite. It is challenging, varied, and simply unique.

Good mix of wooded and open holes.
Range in distance from roughly 150 all the way up to 400+.
A few unique holes that make you think outside the box.

Only about 12 concrete teepads.
No signage on the entire course.
Very close overlap with Basket and following teepad on several holes (within the circle)
The no signs caused us to almost miss a few holes.
One or two very short holes that seem thrown in last minute.

Overall I did enjoy the course. The first three holes were very open field shots but after that it introduced more of a mix of holes and shots that made it enjoyable. I would say the course has the potential to be a very fun course if they finished the teepads and made signs. The two holes we almost missed turned out to be some of the most fun holes which would have been a bummer to miss.