Northwood Nature Trail is a fun, simple layout. If you live here, I think it's a great option. If not, prepare for a lot of wasted walking.
- A simple, straight ahead 9-hole layout. The course starts on a nature trail, right next to the neighborhood's main road. You follow the trail throughout, making this a (mostly) easy course to follow and play.
- Course is relatively simple in its layout. There isn't room (width or depth) to create a lot of variety in terms of length or shaping. As such, throwing a putter or mid-range off the tee on every hole and you'll be fine. That's all I did. The variety is basically slight dogleg left or right, teeing off on the left side of the trail or the right side.
- Course is easy to par. Course is a little more challenging to rack up the birdies, due in some part to the risk of a disc ending up in thick rough alongside a creek. Do you want to be aggressive off the tee and possibly risk getting scratched up or searching for a long time for a disc? Or do you throw a disc straight ahead, leaving a 30 foot putt?
- #6 is fun in that you throw over a bridge to the putting circle. It gives you the added risk of laying up, or being aggressive, which brings the risk of the creek into play. At 270 feet, length isn't the challenge here. The challenge is a blind tee shot to a slight dogleg right basket protected by underbrush. This is the only hole I could see on a full 18-hole course.
- Fantastic concept for a course if you're in the neighborhood. Your exercise is playing disc golf. You can sneak out of the house without being noticed. Shoot, in these work-at-home days, you could play a round of golf while being on a conference call, and make it back home within 5 minutes. Nice!
- There are tee signs. They're decrepit. They at least list the distances and give a general shape of the hole's design.

If you don't live in the neighborhood, or close by, it's hard to quantify this as anything more than a stat-padder.
- Poor flow. Fo' sho', flow blow. So po', yo' go. Yo' no mo' go-no throw. D'oh.
- The first tee is right next to the neighborhood's main road. You then play deeper into the wooded area, often playing right behind people's backyard and finally end up in a field. You then walk backwards, past #8's tee, then #7's basket and tee, all the way back past #1. You play a 2200-foot layout and make a half mile walk back to the road. I guess you could play reverse disc golf.
- The course is built on the and around the walking trail. I played on a Wednesday morning while I had time to kill. I came across multiple people walking the trail. Be diligent when throwing.
- As it is a walking trail, part deux, the fairways aren't necessarily designed for a course. They're tight in spots, most notably the dreadful #7, and don't flow as fairways might. You also play holes #8 & 9 in a field that, at least when I was playing, had knee high grass. From experience, I doubt this is a high priority maintenance area for the lawn care company so the tall grass is probably to be expected.
- The rough is THICK. On #9, my tee shot lands 25 - 35 feet from the basket, but it was in some nasty thorns. It only took several minutes to navigate them to get to my disc just so I could chuck it near the basket.
- Some holes had multiple tee pads. Actually, I think most holes were supposed to, but signage was inconsistent.

The NNT is a good mid-range practice course. I had two mid-range discs and a putter, and rushed through my conservative, bagger round without many issues.
- For a regular/local, you probably start playing this course aggressively. In that case, yes, there are some holes that have an ace-run vibe to them. Yes, you could try to shoot 9 under. You probably could even leave a lost disc in the rough and come back the next day to retrieve it as you know nobody else will be looking for it.
- The theme of holes #1 - 7 is to place the basket close to one side of the fairway, bringing the rough into play. For all nine holes, actually, if you throw slightly long, left, or right, you're in the rough. It is a pattern.
- #9 would be a fun practice, multi-shot hole if the rough wasn't so out of control. It's no joke that any shot 10 feet long, left, or right of the basket is in the thicket. It turns a fun layout into a just-get-out-of-here-without-any-scratches tee shot.
- The course is listed as private, for the neighborhood only. I parked right next to the walking trail's entrance and played without issue. YMMV.
- I'm not a fan of playing deeper and deeper into the woods one-way, then walking the duration back. There's not a shortcut as you'd be cutting through people's yards.
- It's a perfectly decent practice course. With some awkward tee positions, you do feel as if you're throwing secondary shots on long par 4s or 5s with odd approach angles to the basket. If you view this as a nine-hole course, you're going to find flaws. All told, enjoy the course for what it is and you'll be fine.