North Strabane Township Park offers a great mix between a typical park setting and a rugged woods feel. This is a really nice park with a lot of other activities offered. There is a playground and walking paths very close to the course so this is the kind of place you can bring your family to while you play. The front 9 is more of a park style play - open with a few moderately wooded holes incorporating elevation changes to add to the challenge. Not filled with ace runs, but pretty easy to attain par and recover from bad shots. The back 9 has a couple more densely wooded holes and is more rugged with rough land and no tees. One of the benefits of the back 9 is that it is vastly secluded from the other park activities. This takes you away from the regular park feel.

There is great use of elevation changes throughout the course - in the open and in the woods - in the form of massive slopes as well as gently rolling hills. Elevation is incorporated on at least 2/3 of the holes and presents some nice uphill (2, 12), downhill (1, 11, 13, 18), and steep side hill (7, 9, 17) shots. The fast fairways and greens cause you to take approaches and putts a little more carefully.

There is a good mix of touch shots and open holes. While the course is a little more on the open side, there is a nice blend of moderately wooded holes and some with very tight gaps to hit.

The two tee positions do a nice job of giving different looks and adding distance to the holes. Hole 1, for example, looks very different between its tees with the short being a downhill backhand shot and the long being a flat forehand shot for a RHBH player.

Navigation is simple and the course loops back to the parking lot after the front 9. Many bridges and steps have been added to help you throughout the course.

The park is always freshly mowed and the rough is reduced for the most part, so losing discs is a low probability. This is impressive due to how thick the woods were when they first started carving out the holes.

Only the front 9 has concrete tees and they could be a little bit longer. The back 9 is without tee signs and the tees are natural. A lot of the ground is slanted and rugged for these tees, so it makes run ups difficult at times.

While the back 9 is secluded, the front 9 plays near many well-traveled walking paths.

The course always seems to be muddy in certain spots, even if it hasn't rained for a few days.

Not a whole lot of opportunities for scoring separation because of the ease of recovering from a bad drive.

There are some annoyingly steep climbs you must make. Sometimes this is to get to the pin (hole 12) and others to the long tee (13, 18). These climbs would probably discourage your average player/fitness level.

There are a few throwaway holes that are short and basically wide open. Just seem to be there to lead you to the next hole.

I've been playing here pretty much since its inception and it's nice to see the course mature over time. The designers had to deal with many uncontrollable circumstances throughout the designing process and their hard work shows. There's a quality mix of design/shots here. If possible, I'd give this a 2.75 but ended up at a 2.5. This is a pretty consistently solid course. There's potential here and not much disc golf between Pittsburgh and Morgantown, so this is a welcomed addition to the area!

Easily navigated, well laid out course. Pin locations make each hole challenging, back 9 is going to be awesome in a couple years.

The front 9 are definitely more manicured and less challenging. Be prepared for consistent elevation changes throughout the entire course. Back 9 is a little more challenging and fun to play, the layout for pro tees seem a little forced... you will see what I mean walking up giant hill to tee off

A fun course close to 79 that is well worth the stop. After a few events and the back 9 being played course will likely move up..

Set in a nice park with lot's of other things to do, sports fields, jungle gyms, etc. The course makes a nice loop from tee #1 to basket #9, with both close to the parking lot. The bathrooms beside the parking lot were open when I was there. There are lot's of places to eat and shop in Canonsburg.

The layout keeps you away from other park users, other than a walking trail that meanders through and around the course. The baskets are Innova Discatchers that are in very good shape. Two tees (sort of) per hole. More on that in cons and other thoughts below. There were nice tee signs at one time, but most are missing now.

The course makes good use of elevation change available on the property. A couple holes play totally in the open, but most play in and out of, or out of and into, some trees/woods, again making good use of the available property.

A couple holes have really interesting pin placements. One is on a "peninsula-like" area. Another is on a very steep bank (not actually sure if this is really a pro or not).

Navigation, without a map, was a bit of a challenge, especially due to some apparent changes to the course necessitated by what appears to be some sort of utility line that was run right through one end of the course.

Tees #3 and #4 were gone, but I did find a couple surveyor flags that I believe were marking the tee locations. After finishing hole #2, continue across the open field/utility corridor area to the property line fence. You will hopefully be able to find the surveyor flags there for tee #3. Then do the same thing for #4, only moving down the hill. I never did find the short tee location for #9. It could have been my fault, but it didn't stand out anywhere, for sure.

Most of the tees are made up of large gravel in wooden frames. It appears to me that the wood frames may actually be forms for future concrete tees. As is though, this type of gravel makes for lousy footing.

Generally short hole lengths, with #9 being the only hole that I couldn't reach from the tee. (I can throw about 350' on a good, level field drive for reference.)

***9-2-15 Update. Based solely upon the info from Jimpy's review, and the pictures showing off the concrete tees, I have updated my rating from 2 to 2.5.***

I uploaded the map from the the park's site here onto DGCR, but the course has been modified since the map was made. If you follow the map, it's like #9 on the map is now actually #3, only basically played backwards. Then #3-8 become #4-9.

When I was there, the short and long tee signs for #2 were placed at the wrong tees and need to be switched.

The course seems to favor the RHBH player, especially from the short tees. I only played the shorts, but I did observe that the long tees do more than just adding distance. They will definitely change the type of throw needed for many of the holes.

Holes #1, #8 and #9 are all basically wide open, with just #8 being lined by trees/woods on the right side of the fairway. The rest of the holes make interesting use of the trees and woods on sight. None of the holes would qualify as heavily wooded, they do make use of the thinned out treed areas.

Highlights.
#3) Short-ish downhill hole. Plays between a couple trees immediately in front of the tee, across an open area, to a basket in a grove of trees with the entrance guarded by several trees. I hit solid chains on this hole and splashed out.
#6) A very short hole, with the beginning basically open. But the basket sits among some trees, on a "peninsula-like" area, that falls off before, after, and to the left of the basket. This is just a fun little hole.
#7) I don't know when a 40'+ rollaway is really a highlight, but I'll mention it anyway. This basket sits some 25' (10-15' vertically) up on a very steep hill, with a narrow stretch of grass between the bottom of the hill and the woods below. Just take a look at the basket picture to get an idea of the slope. And, when you're pin high, at the bottom of the hill, be sure to get your putt into the chains, and not into the front of the basket. Or you might just turn a good shot at a 2 into a bummer of a 4 really quickly, just like I did.

This is an interesting, little, community park, course. It has a lot of potential if they improve the amenities. The loose gravel tees are the weakest point. Plus replacing the tee signs would help a lot, too.

If you find yourself on I79 between Washington, PA and Pittsburgh, I'd definitely recommend checking it out. It's pretty easy to get to off of the interstate. It's probably not worth a long drive, but it was fun. If the tees and signage are improved this could easily move up to a 3 and become a quality 9 hole course on the South side of the Steel City.