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Mount Joy, PA

Little Chiques Park

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Experience: 24 years 493 played 75 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Place of crawfish and disc golf 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 25, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Other Thoughts:

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.
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