Pros:
Good concrete tees on every hole, just wide enough and just long enough.
The tee signs have all the necessary information, hole layout and the next tee location.
Yellow DISCatchers in the primary, normally short location. Brand new, red Veteran baskets in the long positions. These appear to be fairly new, most are tucked back into woods, often in a different direction from the primary baskets. Several look like tough greens to get to, so they add more challenge then just added distance.
Very good mix of open and wooded holes, a few more open holes, but nearly all of those have elevation change, some are significant. Most of the wooded holes have a defined fairway, sometimes split, except for #16 (more on that later).
Really nice, clean park, soccer, ballfields, playground, the holes are laid out to stay away from those other activities.
The course starts right at the entrance of the park (often times rare) with a decent sized parking lot and park building (Barn) right there, guessing there are restrooms there.
Cons:
Not a whole lot to dislike here, a few benches would be handy, especially on the longer, open holes.
#8 plays back in the opposite direction of #9 tee, so after you play #8, you have to walk the distance of that hole, plus a little further. There is a shelter, parking lot and walking trails between the two, but it is an odd transition.
#16 - after a truly awesome hole #15, this one continues through the same pine forest, but uphill without a defined fairway, that I could find. The tee sign showed the hole going straight uphill, then finishing to the left. It took me 3 throws before I could spot the basket, and it was not to the left. Looking back down the fairway, there may have been a narrow fairway, but without being able to see the basket from the tee, that line didn't appear as an option.
Other Thoughts:
Shank Park, certainly not a name you would associate with a Disc Golf or Golf course, and one of the few things in this area not named for Milton S. Hershey, but Shank is a great drive, right down the middle.
By my count, there a 11 open holes and 7 wooded or partially wooded holes. Of those 11, 3 are uphill, 4 downhill and 4 either flat or over a ridgeline. A real good mix to replace the challenge of vegetation.
#12 is probably the best of the downhill holes, essentially a Top of the World shot, nearly 400' feet down 50-60' to the baskets, a short distance in front of a thickly wooded stream valley. (Following that, #13 goes right back up, a little longer, an almost impossible "Par 3" to get.)
#3 - #5 are all short, heavily wooded holes, each with at least one path to the basket. But the best, and prettiest of the wooded holes is #15. The tee is in the open, slightly downhill into a pine forest of large trees, the first part of the fairway is wide but it narrows down, then you need to pick your way through the trees to the basket on the right of the fairway. As normal, the Red basket is beyond the Yellow basket, further into the woods.
Shank Park has only one tee, but the addition of the longer Red baskets on every (?) hole will challenge more advanced players, and add variety. #11 Yellow plays left to right around a hill, but the Red basket is down and to the left. On #13, after getting to the top of the hill, the Red basket is tucked into the woods, a J hook around to the left. But #18 is the big challenge, the hole plays downhill, through thick woods, having to split large, 3' trees and turn left down to the Yellow basket. From that point, the Red basket is a right dogleg, down a narrower path another 100', very tough.
The 2 Nine holers in town are pretty average courses, Shank Park will challenge beginners and intermediate players to the Yellow baskets and more advanced players to the Red baskets. More than happy to raise the course rating with this review.