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Hilner Park reviews
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Hillner Park In Lockwood, Montana Makes A Great 20 Minute Pit Stop! 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Sep 11, 2021
Played the course:once
Pros:
This little course is what a great little recreational course should be. It's not trying be some championship course. It's not trying to challenge seasoned disc golfers. The course designers stayed the course and created an excellent experience for their small town disc golfing population.
There's a nice big course sign at the start listing all their sponsors. Each is then recognized on each tee sign. There is a map here although it's hardly needed. The tee pads are nice, slightly undersized trapezoid shaped. The tee signs are metal showing the route which is always straight, par, distance and the hole's sponsor. The course plays mostly about the park's perimeter playing in a clockwise direction. Each hole here is an Ace possibility. Only # 9 is over 250'. # 5 is the Top of the World shot here only it's not very high and it's only 148'. But it's a soft feathery toss and you do have to avoid one tree.
I was a little confused by a couple of the tee signs. They seem to be facing the wrong direction but then I figured out they are facing so as to be seen from the previous basket.
Granted this part of town doesn't look too prosperous, but it certainly doesn't look scary dangerous or intimidating. There was some graffiti on a building here and I believe that's the first example of tagging that I've seen on this 10 day trip through Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota and Wyoming.
There's a nice big course sign at the start listing all their sponsors. Each is then recognized on each tee sign. There is a map here although it's hardly needed. The tee pads are nice, slightly undersized trapezoid shaped. The tee signs are metal showing the route which is always straight, par, distance and the hole's sponsor. The course plays mostly about the park's perimeter playing in a clockwise direction. Each hole here is an Ace possibility. Only # 9 is over 250'. # 5 is the Top of the World shot here only it's not very high and it's only 148'. But it's a soft feathery toss and you do have to avoid one tree.
I was a little confused by a couple of the tee signs. They seem to be facing the wrong direction but then I figured out they are facing so as to be seen from the previous basket.
Granted this part of town doesn't look too prosperous, but it certainly doesn't look scary dangerous or intimidating. There was some graffiti on a building here and I believe that's the first example of tagging that I've seen on this 10 day trip through Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota and Wyoming.
Cons:
Short rec distances.
Very little challenge.
Mostly flat and open.
Very little challenge.
Mostly flat and open.
Other Thoughts:
Number of Ace Runs here (9). Number of Aces by The Valkyrie Kid (0).
Number of close Ace runs by the Valkyrie Kid (0).
Easily birdable holes here (9). Birdies by the Valkyrie Kid (5).
Missed putts by the Valkyrie Kid (2).
It took me 21 minutes to bag and tag this little course. It's a perfect little pit stop/bag on your way across Montana. If the westward bound wagon trains had a disc golf pit stop like, maybe they wouldn't have had to stop and pick up buffalo chips. If the Plains Indians had a disc golf course like, maybe they wouldn't have exhausted their bullets wasting Custer's 7th Calvary. Instead, they might have challenged them to a mixed dubs tournament. The soldiers probably would've complained that the course was not challenging enough and only nine holes.
Number of close Ace runs by the Valkyrie Kid (0).
Easily birdable holes here (9). Birdies by the Valkyrie Kid (5).
Missed putts by the Valkyrie Kid (2).
It took me 21 minutes to bag and tag this little course. It's a perfect little pit stop/bag on your way across Montana. If the westward bound wagon trains had a disc golf pit stop like, maybe they wouldn't have had to stop and pick up buffalo chips. If the Plains Indians had a disc golf course like, maybe they wouldn't have exhausted their bullets wasting Custer's 7th Calvary. Instead, they might have challenged them to a mixed dubs tournament. The soldiers probably would've complained that the course was not challenging enough and only nine holes.
