Well marked with good tee pads, beginner friendly, good verity of holes

park can get crowed on weekends and summer making it hard to play some holes, have to pay to enter park during peak season, little elevation change

This is a really nice course for beginner players. The course has 9 holes with two (A and B) tee boxes per hole. The holes are well marked and easily navigated. Some holes (especially 8) can be hard to play during peak time as the basket is placed near a well used pavilion. Although you have to pay to enter the park there are several parking areas you can park for free at and walk to the course. There is a lot of potential in the park to expand the course

Course is good for a variety of skill levels. It is easy to navigate the course. There is plenty of parking available. Each hole has 2 tee boxes which gives each hole a different look the second time thru. They now have hole maps and yardage at each hole. They tend to keep the course mowed unlike some of the other local course that I play.

There is a fee to get into the state park but seniors can get in for free during the week.

We always play during the week here and we never have a problem with people that are walking in the park getting in the way. It is a good corse for beginners to learn.

First, the "thank you." Thank you course designers and NYS Parks for putting this in. This will be a great way for a lot of people to learn more about disc golf. If layouts like this can be put in more and more places, this sport will grow.

I live ten minutes north of the State Park and, for me, options have been either to throw in a field (which can harm technique if done too frequently, as I've discovered) or drive 40 minutes to Hyzer Creek (which I love). But, the drive to Hyzer, and course time, takes up close to three hours. Now, instead of killing either my day or my form, I can bop over the the State Park (on the Empire Pass, which I'll have to purchase in order to avoid spending $8/day), and practice with some obstacles. Most of the holes have just enough going on for me to be able to try out different types of throws. I'm a backhander. Several require anhyzer drives with overstable discs, which is great. It's fun to see the throw arc left just at the right time to land for a birdie throw. Understable backhands might be too much for some of these slight right-ward bends, particularly with a pathway abutting the fairway.

This will be a great replacement for my random throwing in a nearby field. But, only if I get up REALLY early come summertime.

Each of the holes plays like a par 3.

Obstacles. This is one place this design falls flat, particularly come summertime. I understand the grills and picnic tables are to be moved. This is very good. But, there will be conflicts with people walking the paths into which the fairways are either integrated or too closely aligned. Moms with strollers are going to write angry letters. Other obstacles will most certainly include the dozens (hundreds?) of kids who will clog the pads and baskets on warm summer days either trying to learn the game, or just being worn out by moms or dads hoping/praying they'll nap at home. I predict that getting to this place after 11 a.m. on any day during the summer is going to suck, badly.

People will be hit by flying discs; people who attempt to play will be frustrated by park-goers who don't get that there's something else going on here; people in the pavilion at hole 8 will get ticked off as errant drives hit the roof or, worse yet, the people trying to eat cole slaw.

There's one word missing from my entire review. It's the word "course." Having played this morning (a Tuesday morning) at 8 a.m., it felt a little like a course. Maybe not a great or even a good course, but still a course. I was alone. When summer hits, and other players and kids jam this layout, I don't think there will be anything "course-like" at all about it. The experience will be anything but seamless. Heck, friendly dog-walkers are going to retrieve your discs for you! Maybe a "course" is, in part, the feeling you get while playing where the game is the intent of the place. I think this will be an awesome place for me to practice my throws and an even better place for the next generation of players to learn this sport. But, it's not "a course," in my humble opinion. If, in the summer, you get there early and see me throwing, I won't be "playing a course." I will be "working on technique," and for me, that's what I really need. For this reason, I am so glad this is close by. It's just what I needed. Thank you to those who worked so hard to make it happen. It's going to be very good for the game, overall, and for mine, in particular (I hope). For personal reasons, combined with a recognition of the value to the sport of visibility, I'd give this a "5." But, this is a "course review" and, frankly, this doesn't feel like one.

9 nice new Discatchers, and a practice basket

Its a new course that appears mowed and in relatively good condition.

The park itself is very nice, well maintained and in a beautiful setting.

It has potential, there is adequate land. The course is just not on the best land in the park, its probably on one of the most crowded areas of the park come summer.

Safety is a huge concern of mine. As a designer, there are several major concerns with the positioning of the baskets and fairways down or near walking paths.

Of the 9 baskets, I think about 6 of them are far to close in proximity to park grills, picnic tables, and walking paths. Also, there are several fairways that throw long, across, or worse - have blind corners around trees with walking paths (both asphalt and gravel) that yield significant potential for injury when the park is crowded.

Additionally, the entire layout is around the pool/parking area, which I would assume had a lot of foot traffic; increasing the potential for a pedestrian to get hit by a disc.

Please, relocate the course, there is a ton of land in this park, and there are plenty of unused wooded areas that could be developed.

I'd rate this much higher if the safety concerns were not so great. Probably a 1.5-2, knowing it'd be a 2.5ish when tee pads and tee signs got completed.

There is plenty of land, a great park, with elevation, woods and I;m sure much more potential - I played on a Monday afternoon in November and nearly decapitated a woman on a very low foot traffic day.

Hole 8 is ultra dangerous, pedestrians coming from the right can not be seen until they walk across the fairway as discs come out of the narrow lane through the treeline and into the field, with the basket setting in front of a pavilion... Can't think of too many less safe holes in the 252 courses I've played.

I get it, its new, and the tee signs and tees have not had time to get installed. But I'm not knocking it for being new, that would be a minor issue as I understand courses take time to get completed.

Hire a designer that understands disc golf, and its potential, and the safety concerns I'm expressing. At the very least, take the baskets to another area of the park with less potential to give disc golf a bad reputation.

Beautiful area, high quality baskets, has a practice basket.

As for right now,I understand this course is new and in progress. There are no signs up yet, and some tees aren't even marked.

If you want to drive into the park.it's 8 dollars to get in..
But if you walk in or bicycle it's free. Felt like every hole was a par 3. Hole 1 ( blue tee) is in my opinion the best hole. Hole 2 could probably be a par 2. I wish they had shortened one hole to give another a true par 4 feel. Overall...happy to have another course in the area!

Nice mix of shot selection when using both tees.
Two tee pads on each hole.
Beautiful Park.
Closest Disc Golf Course to me!

Natural Pads for now - permanent pads should go in soon.
Lots of foot traffic so be mindful of walkers throughout the course.

Navigation Tip: After finishing hole 6, follow the black-top trail into the woods behind the pool. At the fork, go left about 50' and the tee is on the right. Or follow the right fork about 75' and the other tee will be on the left.