Slater Park Disc Golf Course is located in a huge multi use park . The course itself is hard to find because there are no directions and many of the park patrons have no idea where it is . Once you find baskets , it is hard to find where to start . I only wish I could tell you . There are bathrooms close to the ball fields on hole #5 or 6 . Parking here isn't ideal .
The Equipment - The tee pads are boxed crushed gravel . There are sometimes several tee pads per hole . The tee signs here are pretty good , nice maps inside them with several distances , giving you options to play twice and have 18 holes in . The baskets are Orange DGAs and seem trustworthy to hold putts . The nicest thing is that there are 2 baskets per hole , giving you more options .
The Landscape . The course was mowed and paths on some of the back holes were cleared , but the course was a little dirty when I was here . It is park style on most of it , and flat . There is a narrow path that you will throw down on several of the back holes . On these back holes , there is a lot of tough overgrowth on both sides . Stray from the path and you may lose time and your disc . The last 2 holes head towards a woods . The whole park itself is gorgeous , but not necessarily the course .
The Highlights - just finishing the course . Staying on the path on the back holes are a challenge , and the 2 baskets and multiple tee pads are by far the nicest thing about this course , but it looks as though the idea was fought for , and won , then lost again .
No Signature Holes - #3 is a nice grip and rip hole with some canopies formed by mature trees that dot the fairway .
The Time , After finding it , I played the course in about 30 minutes .
Disc Risk - Very low the first 5 holes , 6 & 7 on the path make it medium Disc Risk , then it goes back to low .
Disc Golf is an added bonus to a beautiful park that the public seems to take advantage of .

#1 Safety - Some of these holes play very close to the road . If on a windy day , a pretty decent intermediate can drift a disc into park traffic , I'm sure a group of some newbies or casual players will throw on the road a time or 2 . This is a populated park and the locals make this " the place to go " . You will have to be on the lookout for them both on the open holes , and the paths on the back half of the course .
#2 Navigation - The huge park has tons of roads to travel through it , and not one points you to where the course is . Even after finding hole #1 , the course breaks off and is hard to follow . Going from #7 to #8 is a disaster . Hoe about some Next Tee signs , or some tape on the spokes of the bottom of the buckets , to point you to the next hole ?
#3 The March Of Death - Hole #9 sends you to some spot that makes it quite a hike to get back to your car . Forget the online map . Buy a compass and a pack mule to carry your water . Maybe make this a 12 hole course so the end of it can be close to the beginning .
#4 Unclean - bits of broken glass , litter , garbage near the path . The park is nice and seems mostly kept up , but the course isn't . Maintenance must have abandoned this part of the park .

It looks like there were enthusiasts that were gung-ho about adding disc golf to Slater Park . The park invested some money into some nice signs and 2 baskets per hole . Then , either the enthusiasts stalled out or were repelled by Park Politics and Park Board Intervention . Don't get me wrong . I am glad that they are introducing disc golf to the Pawtucket population . There are only 4 courses total in the whole state of Rhode Island . All of the locals seem to know where this park is , and many seem to take full advantage of the park's perks , but I only saw a man-woman couple playing a round while i was there , and they cut the course short after #7 because they didn't want a longer walk back to the car .
My Recommendation - The park is wonderful , there is even a historic house ( The Daggett House , ca. 1685 ) , that you will pass on your round . Disc Golf is shoved to the backround , though . It is a fine way to introduce the game to the curious locals , and even give a 1 discer or a newbie some practice , at least for the first 5 holes . Other than that , not much else .Locals might stop here for a round but many flee to nearby Massachusetts for some play . Intermediates thru pros are doubtful . Travelers would use this as a leg confuser than a leg stretcher . Course Collectors , it is not far off of I-95 . Collect it and run . Otherwise , I would advise to just pass this course right on by .

Tee pads are rutted, crushed gravel and aren't great.

I was happy after the first five holes, but then the course dips into the woods and gets weird. Several holes are drives through the woods with a fairway that is maybe 15-20' wide with gnarly rough on either side. This is not what good holes are made of.

The short-to-short configuration was decent, but I wouldn't have any desire to play the long tees here. The last few holes have tee pads that are not oriented toward the basket, indicating they were not installed by anyone who plays the game. Hole 9 from the short tees requires keeping one foot on the corner of the pad to have any reasonable drive up the fairway.

Tee pads are rutted, crushed gravel and aren't great.

I was happy after the first five holes, but then the course dips into the woods and gets weird. Several holes are drives through the woods with a fairway that is maybe 15-20' wide with gnarly rough on either side. This is not what good holes are made of. The short-to-short configuration was decent, but I wouldn't have any desire to play the long tees here. The last few holes have tee pads that are not oriented toward the basket, indicating they were not installed by anyone who plays the game. Hole 9 from the short tees requires keeping one foot on the corner of the pad to have any reasonable drive up the fairway.

I understand that this was supposed to be a 18-hole course. That said, hole 9 finished nowhere near the parking lot, and the walk back was the longest I've had back to my car of any of the 175+ courses I've played.

Oh, one other thing. I was looking back toward the sun on one hole and saw the fairway glittering like a pit of diamonds. I realized there was broken glass. Everywhere. Even 50+ feet from any hard surface, there was somehow a ton of broken glass. Be careful picking up your disc. And probably don't bring your dog here.

From what I've read, this was a tough course to get installed, with irrational fears from neighbors about dangers that are far less than what one could experience from monkey bars or a swing set.

I was hoping this would be a good short course that might give me reason to bypass the overly busy Borderland to get some solitude here. You might have the course to yourself (I did see one other group here), but it's not a great course right now.

Free
Multiple layouts
Directions to next tee
Holes 2-4 were scenic and very playable

No hole maps with distance or par
Crushed gravel tee boxes
Extremely tight, wooded fairways with unnatural flight lines on hole 1 and 5-9.

The short basket on hole 8 was either installed wrong or deliberately messed up and is almost unusable.
With many other good to great courses in this area, I will not be returning to Slater Park any time soon.