I had fun playing this course. Well-balanced mix of straight, left-turning, and right-turning tee shots. Several holes require a significant turn to get near the basket. Most holes are park-style, set among mature trees, but most of these holes require you to shape your drives. The remaining holes play through denser woods beside the creek. Nice variety of hole lengths, ranging from 179' to 366'.

Much of the course is set in a flat floodplain surrounded by a bend in Little Chiques Creek, but the designers were able to incorporate elevation on a few holes. Hole 1 is a short RHBH hyzer over a hill and through a gap to reach a blind landing near the creek; hole 8 is a right-turning drive to a basket on top of a wooded bluff; and hole 7 is a mildly downhill right-turning drive to a basket tucked back into a wooded pocket near the creek.

Informative post-mounted tee signs include a hole map, distance, and par. Excellent navigation throughout the course, with a "next tee" arrow on each basket and directional signs provided where needed. Well-mounted, yellow-banded baskets caught well. Grippy and level concrete tees are not huge but adequately sized.

Smallish but pretty park, with pavilions, playgrounds, and a dog-walking area. The course is mostly separated from other park activities. Trash cans by the pavilion.

Two days before I played the area received more than an inch of rain. When I played the hole 6 tee pad and half of the fairway was entirely underwater, the hole 5 basket was surrounded by a shallow pond, and the hole 4 fairway featured a mucky pond if you yanked your drive right (I did). I would not play this course after heavy rain without waterproof boots (and even then, sloshing through the run-up on hole 6 seems like it would be a problem).

Fairly long walk between holes 7 and 8, but "next tee" signs provide reassurance that you are headed in the right direction. About half of the walk looks like it could make a nice fairway, with a brushy wooded hill on the right and a tree-lined creek on the left. Perhaps the local club will install a long tee on hole 8 to make a challenging par 4.

Some risk of disc loss on several holes that play near the creek, which was muddy and fast moving when I played. To be fair, the creek is lined with trees and low brush so the risk of disc loss is not overly high.

You need to scramble up a steep bank to reach the hole 8 basket. There is a rope strung between posts if you need assistance, but stairs should be installed up this bank for safety and erosion control.

As you drive into the park you will see hole 9's basket on your right. On your left is a small sign that marks the path leading to hole 1's tee. I suggest parking in the outer parking lot hear hole 9's basket; there is also an inner parking lot near the pavilion but your walk to hole 1 will be a bit longer.

This is a pleasant neighborhood park in the back of a pleasant neighborhood, with nice houses bordering hole 9's fairway. Gosh it would be a treat to walk out of your back yard onto a lovely neighborhood disc golf course like this.

According to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, the name Chiques Creek derives from the Lenape word "Chiquesalunga", meaning "place of the crawfish." I did not check for crawfish, but I bet you could find some in the muddy creek banks.

+ Varied holes for a park: some open, some with spots of trees, one really wooded

+ Holes #8 and #9 take you out of the main park for a narrow out-and-back pair of holes bordering a creek on #8 and a line of backyards on #9. The basket on #8 is up on a steep bluff that requires a pretty precise left-to-right through some woods about 250' out

- Hole #1 is the one heavily-wooded hole. There's a creek all along the left side, and I think the original design allowed for a great risk/reward RHFH or anny over the water at the basket that's only 180' away. But it's become so thickly overgrown that it's eliminated that shot, leaving only a very narrow line up and over a steep cliffside that pushes in from the right. That makes for a fun high hyzer, but again, it's all so overgrown that you really don't have much of a line. It's too bad, because this was probably a "signature" hole when the course was conceived

- Hole #9 is pretty narrow, with woods along the right OB backyards along the left, and a sprinkling of large trees up the fairway. It's a good hoile, except: there's a mando tree about 175' forcing you to play to the right, along the woods. I'm guessing it's there to reduce stray shots into backyards, but it really forces the "best" shot (RHFH) out of the picture. I understand the need to protect the neighbors - it;s just too bad that the last hole you play feels compromised by a mando

~ Course Amenities Summary: Very good poured tees, good baskets and signage, easy to navigate (although #1 tee is a little hard to find)

~ Much of the park is in a "bowl" - probably gets very wet

~ Park traffic will definitely interfere with play on several holes

~ The second tee is closest to the parking lot, and easy to find. You can backtrack to find the heavily-wooded #1, or just play your way around, and find it at the end. That's what we did, but it meant that we finished with the two most-compromised holes (see above): #9 and #1. That risks leaving you thinking about the course weaknesses, when actually it's a solid 3 park course on balance

Cement tee pads, Variation of shots

Only 9 holesThe ground stays very wet after a rain due to it being in a lower spot