The Heritage Farm Park DGC serves up plenty of open-field disc golf in an area that is limited in elevation, imagination and variety.

The course sits on the west side of the park, which offers views of farmland and the Blue Ridge mountains in the distance. The course does intermingle with a walking path, but most of the utilized area is for disc golf.

The 20-hole course offers red (short) and blue (long) teepads. Sometimes the difference is significant length; for other holes, the teepads offer different angles to the basket.

The most memorable hole on the course might be Hole #13, as the basket is on an incline with the historically protected and beautifully-bricked Harris Farm barn in the background. A couple other memorable holes include Hole #6, which from the short tee requires hitting a line that drops into a lowland, and the picturesque Hole #7, where the teepad is just across Glade Creek and under the pines and prompts throwing across the slight valley to a basket on the side of a small hill.

The maintenance seemed good. The fairways were mowed and the couple holes with rough appeared to be contained.

The course is wide open. Nearly every hole would be described as lightly wooded and that would be generous on some holes. The back half of the course is in a nearly open field with several small trees sprinkled around. It reminded me of a ball golf course with open and straight fairways and few obstacles.

The course was extremely windy when I played. That might be common, considering that the playing area is quite unsheltered.

The navigation is decent, though there were a couple times where I had to look around for the next teepad, and with two teepads, the correct choice is not always immediately apparent.

Near the end of the round, there are a few short walks in between several of the holes.

More disc golf is usually better, but after the mind-numbing monotony of the back half, having two more holes and a long walk back after 18 holes wasn't appreciated.

The rating fooled me into expecting a more dynamic course at Heritage Farm Park. To me, this course is below average. It has the basic bone structure of a course but little more. There's only slight variety and most of the holes are lacking distinctive or interesting characteristics.

Front 9 is on very pretty picnic-like grounds. The holes are different from each other, and some are challenging due to distance or trees.

Back 9 is in an uninteresting open field.
The rough for the front 9 has banks of poison ivy -- be particularly careful if you go down the bank on hole 9.

I enjoyed the course, and would enjoy playing the front 9 again, but will not go out of my way for it.