Nice variety
Challenging yet you don't have to be a pro to snag a deuce
Spread out and just really relaxing and enjoyable.
The course is like a winding adventure.

Seattle Trend: Markings and navigation can be difficult the first time. Only reason I didn't give up 4.5

Whats with Seattle and the lack of signage and descriptions. There are great courses in the area you just typically need a tour guide to navigate.

Definitely challenging; I really like this course. There is always variety to every hole and it's rare when you drive the same way twice in a row. The grass is green and fresh, except for holes 8 through 11. Even the long holes are fun to play!

There is often hole re-arranging without warning. You don't always know if your even throwing to the correct spot until you get there. Parking is sometimes iffy, especially on a beautiful day. Make sure you bring plenty of water or something due to the length of the course. If you pack it in, though, make sure to pack it out.

This is definitely my favorite course in the Seattle area. Just when I think I'm a good player, I play this course and realize I've still got some work to do!

Lakewood King County Park is spread out over a huge area of rolling hills, water, and other complexes. The majority of the park is very well manicured and with the recent changes and even with being so spread out - it's still pretty easy to navigate. Note the interchanges from #6 to #7, #10 to #11, and #13 to #14 as you go through the park. The maps posted on this site are out of date with the current numbers posted on the course.

The majority of holes have two distinct pin placements giving you a fresh look at holes depending on the spot. The pins are showing their age, but are in good shape, and the concrete boxes are great to tee from. Parking is easy, but this will change with the construction.

The biggest pro to me were the elevation changes throughout the park in conjunction with the amount and placement of the trees. There are lots of old growth as well as open areas for all types of players to enjoy themselves. I loved the super long #11 (old #12) hole as well as the big downhill of #8 although the softball field can come into play with a bad shot.

BEST HOLE/S: #5; #11; #14

The biggest con is the impending word that the front five holes of the course may go the way of the dodo when construction starts. Areas by #7 through #10 are already war torn on the far side, so it would be a real shame to see one of the best Seattle courses get destroyed. Thankfully there is enough room to modify the course, but it still won't be the same.

Navigation, although not a huge deal - can be a negative to first timers due to the current changes. We had to guess a few times on the proper pin placement for many holes, and the general direction of the next hole. I would bring the map anyway, because it did help a little in spots.

There's no real integration of water, which is too bad since there is a big lake next to part of the back nine. Maybe it will get incorporated, if there is a redesign. This area of Seattle isn't the greatest either, but it shouldn't be a real issue in the park.

WORST HOLE/S: #1

It looks like Lakewood King County Park is loved by many golfers, which means it should certainly come through any future construction. It was well-balanced and challenging for the intermediate level player, and just has a lot of offer with its length, layout, and terrain features. I really hope construction isn't a big issue, because this is certainly a top Washington course east of the Sound.

-Plenty of open holes with great chances to score low.
-Risk reward pin placements that can lead to low scores
-Well maintained course
-overall a very simple course to navigate
-A great mix of open and tight holes

- Cutbacks on a few holes puts you in the line of fire
- Vandals have damaged a few tee signs

This is by far one of the nicest and most well maintained courses i have played. Not a crowded location with plenty of room for error off the tee. Its a good walk with some rolling hills.

Large parking lot, Clean restrooms, extra large concrete tee pads, Well groomed fairways, friendly locals, mach V baskets with multiple pin locations that are changed weekly. Course offers all skill levels a challenge with elevation changes and long drives and high risk reward pin placements.

Some tee signs had been vandalized making them unreadable. Some occasional dog walkers may hold up your game. Course flow requires a few cut backs or walking back up a hill holes #4-5, 7-8, 11-12 come to mind.

Lakewood King County DGC is sprawled across rolling hills of lush green grass with mature trees throughout with very minimal under brush. There is a beautiful pond and a small marsh in the park, the marsh is the only water hazard. The course layout uses every corner and nook and cranny of the park making every hole just as challenging as the last. Each hole has a lengthy concrete pad, plenty of benches
Keep your eye on your disc they love to roll and roll and roll!


They play flip doubles every Thursday at 5:and change the pin placements on Wednesday or Thursday before 5:00 pm

I WAS ALSO INFORMED THAT THEY ARE STARTING CONSTRUCTION IN AUGUST 2010! THAT MEANS PLAY IT WHILE YOU CAN CAUSE LIKE OTHER REVIEWERS MENTIONED; THEY ARE REMOVING MOST OF THE TOP PART OF THE COURSE AND FITTING IT INTO THE REST. THIS COURSE COVERS SO MUCH GROUND AND IS SPREAD OUT MAKING IT SO GRAND SEPERATING IT FROM THE OTHERS. I HOPE IT WILL KEEP THAT SAME FEELING. I DO KNOW THAT HOLE #1 BASKET WILL BE BY WHERE #15 BASKET IS AND WILL TEE OFF FROM ACROSS THE POND! A TRUE WATER HAZARD

Beautifully well-kempt park. Nice fairways with obstacles tastefully used. This course is where you take a newbie to learn how to play. There are so many tee options here. You can effectively play 21 holes by using alternative tees and baskets. Even your young children can have a good time here.

This course is about to be drastically changed. A large community center building will be built (beginning this summer) in the middle of the 18th hole fairway. The result will effectively be the loss of holes 1,2,3,4,5, and 18. A re-design is underway and, better or not, will take place in less park space than we have now.

Very friendly layout, with some elevation change and a little water coming into play. All holes have 2-3 pin locations. It is also nice having SeaTac close. With these two courses together it is the ultimate place to play some golf!
There is plenty of parking available, and restrooms by #14.
All holes have concrete tee pads and top notch baskets.

Some transitions between holes requires you to walk on the fairway of another hole, like #4 to #5, and #11 to #12.
Also hole 3 runs right along peoples fenced it back yards, so keep it low.

Great place for everyone to play, pros to if you are just learning to play.

-Lots of elevation change
-Hole diversity
-Hard to lose discs
-Benches at nearly every tee pad

-It was a little difficult to find hole one, drove to wrong entrance of the park.
-Lots of human traffic (not all disc golfers) and fences.

-Very fun course, can't think of much to improve it.

This course has something for everyone. Multiple hole positions makes it a joy year-round as it is constantly changing - and always adding a challenge. Fortunately you do not spend time finding the basket - as most of the new pin positions are subtle - adding 15 feet or moving left 20 feet, etc. There are a few hill holes - with an upshots on 2, 6, 9, 11 and 18, and downshots on 4, 10, 12, and 14. Hole 8 is a tight and narrow corridor shot - or if you have the arm - a huge heizer. Look to holes 1 - 3, 7, 10, 15,and 17 for birdies - though all the holes, except 12 long, are in range for many players.

The biggest con this course has - and this will apply to someone new to the course - signage. It is terrible. Luckily this course is busy enough you can stalk the group in front of you - or if you are feeling friendly join them.

The course is the main attraction to the park, and encompasses most of the available park space. Most of the folks that go to tha park are either players - or are familiar with watching people play. There will eb construction happening that will affect about 6 of the holes - luckily there is local leadership that has ensured that a new course layout - and funds to make it happen are ready to go when the construction starts. There is also a water fountain and restroom at hole 14 - seasonally open.

great elevation changes. Good variety of shots needed. The fairways are very well kept and the tee shot views are beautiful.

Dont know what it's like normally but it was extremely windy today. I wouod've liked to have it a little calmer for better putting conditions.

-Multiple pin locations!
-Lots and lots of elevation, both up and down. Much different than my typical courses in MN and SD.
-Most tees had accurate signs, although some did not.
-Nice benches at each tee box both help find the next tee and provide a place to sit while waiting for other groups.
-Enough trees and cover to make good obstacles but not to provide many opportunities for lost discs.
-Playable all year due to Seattle's climate.
-Tee pads and chains are both in good shape.
-Varieties of shots, no two holes are too similar.

-Broken Glass and garbage lying all over most holes.
-Some faded tee signs make it hard to find the basket or the way to the next tee. Also, some tee signs were inaccurate and not proportionate.
-Very busy course so it took over 90 minutes to play when it could have been less than 1 hour.
-Somewhat hard to find of the road. Entrance is not clearly marked but after you've been there once it isn't hard to find.
-Could have used the pond in a few holes to make an interesting water hazard.

If this is the only course I get to play while in the Seattle area I would be happy enough with it. If you aren't in the best shape be prepared for a hike up and down some of the holes.

- A lot of wide open holes, you can really let it rip
- Even though not every tee pad has a sign, still easy to navigate
- Plenty of elevation changes
- Multiple pin placements
- Concrete tee pads with benches
- Very little chance to lose a disc
- Course starts and ends at the parking lot

- Public park so there is plenty of traffic
- Next to a school, also baseball fields so it can be busy
- Though there are plenty of garbage cans, but not all trash is making it to it's rightful place
- Can get packed in the summer
- Could use some new signage

Overall a very fun course for beginners and advanced players...not overly technical. The word is the first 6 holes will have to be moved because of construction in that area. It's a large park so there's room to relocate the holes. Locals have been given maps of the area so they can add their input.

- Great Variety: of lengths, defenses, elevation, etc
- Perfect length: not grueling, but plenty of long holes
- Good community of disc golfers, but never so crowded that I get slowed down
- Not super overgrown and wooded, like a lot of NW disc golf courses can be
- Concrete Tee Pads in good shape, as are the baskets

- It's kind of in the Barrio (for Seattle), and a bunch of hole markers and benches are vandalized.
- A couple of holes might be confusing if you don't have a map (7/7a in particular)
- The water fountains are a lie! (Until you get to newer playground area)

Easily my favorite course in the Seattle area. A great test of general disc golf skills with a great variety of everything. Also, they move the pins around on a couple of the holes, so things stay fresh. Highly recommended if you are in the area.

This is my home course. I've played it hundreds of times and like The Valkyrie Kid said in his review it is also my favorite course in the state!
I like that they move the baskets around fairly frequently (multiple pin positions). I also think the amount of elevation change this course has is about perfect. It has a good mix of uphill and downhill throws. In the afternoon you will usually find someone selling discs in the parking lot.

It's a busy place! If you want solitude get there at sunrise. (But hit the chains softly as the neighbors are sleeping!)

Read the other reviews. I agree with them. It's a great course. Play it while you can because changes are coming. In 2009 a community computer center is going in just south of the upper parking lot. This will wipe out holes 4, 5, and 18. 6 and 17 may also be effected. The club is going to find new locations for all those. After that the course may be better or it may be worse but it won't be the same!

I would tend to agree with most of the earlier reviewer's comments. The course has a wide variety of holes, just about everything except for a classic Washington "throw it through a forest and hope you don't hit any of the dozens of tree trunks" shot, which is fine with me. I don't mind having to be accurate, but a lot of those types of shots are more about luck than accuracy. The course was in great condition, almost no garbage anywhere to be found, green grass, nice tee pads, and a generally nice feel to the course.

At a couple of points I was a little confused about course layout, and I think a few more signs scattered about would be helpful, or some course maps at the bulletin board place at the start (looked like there was a place for some, but it was empty). Also, I don't know if this is a frequent occurence or not, but there were three guys playing paintball down around holes 12-16, though I must admit they seemed to be pretty considerate about us "civilians"

All in all, I thought this was a very good course. One of the things I liked about it was this: I consider myself to be a fairly serious player (I shot 58 today and felt like it should have been a 54 or 55) and I played with my wife (who enjoys the game but is nowhere near as serious) and two of my younger nephews (11 and 15, and neither of them take the sport too seriously, either) and all four of us enjoyed playing here. It was tough enough to challenge me, but not so brutal as to be not fun for them, which can be a difficult balance to achieve.

It's a complete park course. Water, distance, elevation changes, good tee boxes, and multiple pin locations, some short, some long, some open, some tight, what's not to love? Of the courses I played in Washington this one so far, is the most complete course. It has all sorts of different shots and even has more than a couple holes that are open, which is rare for Washington. Sixteen is unique with the basket in a "tree hole" and then there is a mildly confusing walk to seventeen. The first five holes are pretty tame and treeless. Seven-B plays through some interesting trees on the side of a hill. A pond comes in play on the back nine. My favorite hole on Lakewood was twelve, it was playing 650. I like the way the disc golf course uses space that would otherwise seem wasted like hole 10 behind baseball fields and the nearby neighborhood.

I played just as a nearby Jr. high or high school got out and I was invaded by about 100 kids for about ten minutes, it was strange. Because its in a big park it loses Washington's woodsy rain forest setting that Washington is know for. I rate this course just behind NAD Bremerton, but it has more variety than anything I have seen in Washington.

It was at Lakewood that I learned a hot tip. Play new courses the day AFTER a tournament. The course is in tournament shape, the signs are all out, unvandalized and there are still maps in the kiosk. I know the local "guy" who takes care of the course would front but I'm willing to bet that two weeks before the tournament there wouldn't any maps in the kiosk, just random notes from people slandering the good "guys" name. A note from some dude wanting his Wraith back if found, but not a map, I'd put 20 bucks on it. (That's a big reason why sites like this are so helpful).

I think Lakewood King County Park is a lovely place for a course. There are some nice elevation changes including a couple of holes where you can really "air it out". The course plays around a lake in the park bringing the water into play. You're in and out of the trees, up and down the hills, playing mostly on mowed green grass. There are a few holes in the more remote, uncared section of the park.

I once read a reviewer from the east coast who was quite upset that a couple of holes on this course played across the parking lot and incoming street into the park. He thought this was some kind of a major safety concern. I don't find that to be a big problem at all. The lots and street are visible before you throw, if there's traffic and there seldom is, just wait a second or two.

This is my personal # 1 course in Washington state. I believe it combines most of what most of us seem to want in our courses; A naturally, scenic location with elevation, some water hazards and a course layout which is challenging to everyone from the pro to the novice player.