Outstanding tee pads and multiple tee lay-outs.
Long and technical with exception use of elevation.
Signature PAR 5 holes through the woods with Roller coaster fairways that go up and down and sometimes even bank sideways if you get off the fairway.
Shot placement and Gap hits are a must if you want to score on the Par 5's and long par 4s.
The course demands you use your whole bag and all you shots.

# 3 and the walk from 11 to 12 will take you breath away. They are extremely up hill. Be ready for the burn. But the technical downhill par 3s that follow the uphill torture are really fun Ace runs, you will want to empty your bag.

Beyond the extreme climbs the flow to the course is fun. Not knowing what the next hole will bring until you stand on the next tee box is refreshing.
The noisy power lines by 3, 6 &7 are a little disconcerting especially when playing in the rain.

< Yes, that's who this course is intended for.

• Variety: Excellent - Very well to moderately wooded for the most part, with just a few holes open enough to strike some balance. All sorts of fairway shapes, with a bunch of them playing to landing spots. Distances range from short enough for noodle arms to ace (with some downhill help); to full oomph.. followed by another full oomph. White, blue and gold tees are challenging, more challenging, and you better have a cannon. The difference between gold and white tees is huge on some holes. Many legit par 4's and a few 5's. 3 pin locations on each hole, some providing very different approach lanes.

• Elevation: BIG TIME - Elevation is the theme throughout the course, employed in every way imaginable. Uphills, downhills, rollaways, elevated baskets, precarious pin placements, and even some fairways that slope left or right. I can't recall a course where topography can affect your round in so many ways. Terrain often makes runups on your 2nd or 3rd shot difficult, placing a premium on being able to stand and deliver at times. The hills can definitely take their toll on you physically, especially on a course this long. Nothing really prevents you from pulling a cart here, but I honestly think you'd regret it.

• Challenge: Phenomenal - Truly championship caliber. You'll be forced to make all sorts of decisions about angle, lines, and speed coming in as you approach the basket. Several holes really make you think about what the ground is doing where you want to land, and what you need to do to land softly without sliding/rolling away. Does a great job of challenging you off the tee, in the fairway, on approaches, and inside C1-C2. Requires distance and finesse to score well.

• Equipment: Excellent - Concrete tees are grippy, spacious and level. Yellow Discatchers are easy to see from a distance - excellent choice for this course! Some of the best tee signs I've seen provide current pin location, distance to all 3 pins, net elevation change from tee to pin, and if you look closely, points you toward the next tee. Gold, Blue and white tees each have their own sign. Benches at most (if not all holes). Clean bathrooms with running water, as well as a large pavilion with picnic tables convenient to parking.

• Aesthetics: Excellent - I found the front 9 particularly eye-appealing, perhaps because it's more open than the back, with longer site lines and vistas. A few pin placements are ensconced in handsome stonework, dressing things up and combatting erosion. The back nine is nice hike through mature woods. I bet this place is a stunner dressed in fall colors.

• Fun-Factor: Excellent - Won't be everyone's cup of tea, but the shot variety and way it made me think my way through the round really hit my sweet spot.

• Memorable holes: You'll have your favorites. 1, 5, 6, 9, 11 & 18 stood out to me.

• Routing/Nav: Good /very good - Pay attention to the "Next Tee" arrows on the tee signs. Also Next Tee signs in a few key spot to help you along. Tee markers are easy to spot from a distance, but there are a few spots where the first tee you see may not be the next hole. Finding the next tee is usually pretty easy, but course is pretty spread out, so expect some long walks. Front 9 loops reasonably close to parking.

• Holes this long, hilly and wooded mean you'll want to scout ahead... on holes this long and hilly. Even with signs showing pin's current position, I still needed to look a while to spot the yellow chastity belt.

• Given the distance, terrain and woods, it's quite possible to throw on players out of your sight line (or be the player getting thrown on). There's just no way of knowing who's over the next rise, or around the next bend, and you can't scout every fairway.

• Drainage: Not a big problem, but the course's ability to hold water in a few spots might make you rethink the order in which you play the area courses the day after a good soaking.

• Blind shots: Personally, I don't mind ' em and think they're part of the "Championship Caliber Package." But, if you don't like 'em, you'll hate NoBo. That's a fact.

• Chance of disc loss: far from the worst I've played, but... bad kicks, around a turn, down a hill...
Run with the big dogs and you might get bit.

• (Admittedly nit picky): Even though they're different lengths, employ elevation differently, and you're shaping different lines... the entire back 9 plays through mature woods, and "feels" just a bit repetitive toward the end. Whereas front 9 has a few holes that open up enough create a welcome change of pace...at least IMO.

Truly an epic course, rivalling Moraine and Deer Lakes for best in The 'Burgh. On a road trip that included Idlewild, Mt Airy and Lincoln Ridge: NoBo's the one that stood out to my son (who's played some pretty standout courses himself).

Toboggan-esque in terms of the how much climbing/descending you do over 18 holes... with similar distance, and more trees - which perhaps makes it more challenging considering the lines are tighter than Toboggan (but the rough's not as bad). Would DEFINITELY require at least a couple of practice rounds for visiting tourney players to card a good 1st round.

Someone put some real thought into designing this course. Then put some $$$ into it, and it shows.

Nice, large park, in nice part of town. Only about 10 minutes away from a bunch of suburban eatery chains.

No Boundary is a beast of a course. Possibly the hardest course I've ever played. Maybe not the hardest shot wise, but the most physically taxing. But the golf is great. It's a little intimidating pulling up to the course and seeing this giant hill looming. It doesn't get any easier. This review is based on playing the middle tees, which are well over 8000 feet in length. And after having played Knob hill and Deer Lakes earlier in the day. I thought, well, it can't be THAT hard right? Wrong. So wrong.

The course design is exceptional here. The front and back 9 end close to the parking lot, which is great because you'll get a chance to fill up on fluids. The course has extreme elevation that is used tremendously. Many uphill and downhill shots and a few playing across the side slopes. I lost count how many times you go up that godforsaken hill. It felt like twice the amount you went down it. Great, but tight, lanes through the woods define the majority of the fairways here. They're multiple options/routes on many of the holes. Built up areas for a couple baskets and many perched precarilously on the edge of a dropoff. Death putts and rollaway potential galore. Championship caliber course and design.

There are 3 concrete tee pads on every single hole. The pads are probably 5 feet wide and 12 feet long if I had to guess. All are level and grippy. Or at least as level as can be expected. The differences between the 3 sets of pads is pretty drastic on every hole. The couple more open holes mostly add distance, which is to be expected. But the majority of holes in the woods alter the look at the pin drastically.

The baskets are DISCatcher pro-28's. I haven't got to play on these too much, but man are they fantastic. Couldn't ask for better baskets for a course of this caliber. One basket per hole, but 3 possible placements, again, on every single hole.

The tee signs are excellent, one at each tee pad. They have a basic diagram of the shape of the hole, all basket positions shown, all tee locations shown, distances to every pin, hole number and par. Also next tee arrows pointing you to the next hole. And the elevation changes for every pin position. Color coded Gold, blue and white to help locating the right pad. There's also big white next tee sign scattered throughout the course. These helped tremendously with navigation. There are trails and a gravel road that run throughout so the signs did a great job of pointing us in the right direction.

There is also 6 hole beginner course on site along with many other park activities for the family. I used the 6 hole course as a warm up after the 45 minutes drive from Deer Lake (and, obviously to bag it). The course is free and permanent. Kind of rare to see such quality courses not being pay to play. You're lucky Pittsburgh. Nice restrooms right by the lot too.

The main con for this course in my opinion is the inability to see the baskets until, often times, you're practically right on top of it. There were numerous times I walked a few hundred feet up the fairway to see where I was trying to get to. Problem was I still couldn't see it so I just went back and tried to manuever a shot through the forest. It's already a brutal hike. It got a little tiring walking extra to find the pin.

I honestly don't have much else Negative to say about this course.However, It can't be stressed enough that this course is a workout. You need to be in pretty good shape to tackle this course. Me and the wife played a round, and we're pretty fast players. It took almost 3 hours, with no breaks and surprisingly little time searching for discs.

Speaking of searching for discs. I guess you could say that losing a disc here is a very real possibility. There are so many blind shots that a tree kick you can't see can end up sending you a LONG way of the fairway. If you can spot for others, I'd highly recommend doing so. It'll save time and plastic.

I was shocked how great this course is. I was equally as shocked how physically demanding it is. I also hadn't realized that it's only been in the ground since 2019. I'm glad I didn't come to Western PA before this one got up and running. Pairs well with the others in the area. This course makes the others almost seem quaint. I mean they're still great, but this bad boy is crazy. I'd highly recommend this one to any serious disc golfers. Once again, I'll be adding another Pittsburgh area course into my favorites.

I gave it a 4.5. I have no doubts it will rate a 5 after a few years to mature. I'd rate it a 5 now, but I know it's only going to get better.
I am writing this a week after playing in the North Boundary Flex Start, which was the first PDGA event held there, and the volunteers who readied the course for the event truly did a fantastic job, abating most of the negative comments you might find in the older reviews.

That said, the pros:
+The meticulous care that went into the design, which delivers on form and function.
+The teepads are all concrete and exist for all tees: whites, blues, and golds
+Benches, benches, benches!
+The baskets have interesting variety, and some have really cool aesthetics, such as a terraced tower.
+Permanent, clean, and plumbed bathroom facilities are in the parking lot between the practice baskets and the baseball field.
+Very clear signage. Tee signs have elevation marked on it and the basket is indicated by a moveable pin. The next tee markers are also helpful, as there is a walking path that runs through the course which might otherwise confuse a visiting player.
+Ample variety of shots are required. It rewards good decisions and punishes iffy ones with extreme prejudice
+You get one heck of a hike out of it, regardless of tee. The short ones (white) is still a 7500 foot walk up and down a lot of hills

I don't have any true cons for this course. As of this writing, the course is in amazing condition. I will say this: the course is tough and unforgiving at times. And if it's your first time playing it, you should play with a friend and spot each others' shots. Even in its current (excellent) condition, really good players are losing discs because a fantastic blind shot is still a blind shot. The number of shots you have to make like this is worth noting, but if it's truly a con... that I'm not sure.

If you've ever driven (or even heard of) the Tail of the Dragon, it is a road that folks go to just to drive it for the thrill of driving it. It is technical and you best not drive it while drowsy. North Boundary is a course that you have to be alert and cognizant of what you can do with a particular disc and you have to trust your line because you are going to have to go find your disc without seeing it land from time to time. Get ready to throw over a treacherous gulch, but don't nose up on it or you'll hit the tree branches which will guarantee a drop to the bottom of the gulch. Hyzer forehand or turnover backhand? NoBo knows the right choice, but will you make it? Roll-aways abound and running a C1x putt could end in total disaster here, but that means the challenge is what will separate the champions from the rest of us. This course is a beast.

I really enjoyed the shotmaking challenges and strategy that this course demanded. It combines dramatic elevation changes and mature forest into a championship-caliber course that is rather unique. You have to hit gaps and shape lines to progress forward on these long holes through the woods. So many of the angles through the woods linger in my head days after playing it, which is much of what makes disc golf fun for me.

This is a brutal but beautiful course through the tall trees that will take you up and down both sides of a steep ridge several times.

I really like throwing flippy plastic, so this course was a lot of fun for me with its numerous uphill shots and lines to shape through the woods. Even though I carried a full bag, I used my flippiest driver for my teeshot on 10 holes and a somewhat flippy driver for four other teeshots.

Favorite holes are 2, 6, 11, 16, and 18. Three of those are Par 5s, which reflects how much I enjoyed winding my way through the woods several times for the approximately 1000-foot holes.

My biggest criticism is lackluster Par 3s, or at least the lack of a really special and fun hole. Holes 4 and 12 registered as the same hole in my mind (and also the same as Hole 5 at Deer Lakes). Maybe I'll end up liking Hole 9 more when I see the other pin positions or once more limbs are trimmed.

There are a couple spots on the course where there wasn't a clear tunnel, but not too many.

Imagine Holes 13 and 14 at Deer Lakes; No Boundary is basically a whole course of holes like that. Or maybe it's like Iron Hill if an earthquake created a steep ridge 200 feet above the base through the middle of the course.

Looking back from the basket, no hole really seemed as hard as it looked from the tee. Some of the Par 5s seemed really intimidating when you see how much is left after your first drive, but two shots later I was at the basket and feeling much better about playing the hole in the future.

I played a full-round from the middle tees with the course designer, and we finished in 2 hours and 45 minutes (compared to about 2 hours for either Moraine or Deer Lakes).