All baskets and tee pads are in great shape. For the most part navigation is good. Many holes have a blue ground marker pointing towards the next hole.
Hard to loose a disc here.
Holes are just long enough to be challenging for most players.
On many holes the trees have grown in to make the course more challenging.
Many holes now have garbage cans.

A few picnic tables and benches adjacent to the course but generally needs more seating on the course itself.
A few holes are hard still hard to find without a map.
Flags are very helpful on longer holes but all are either faded or frayed. Essentially useless until they are replaced.
No hole numbers on baskets. This would help navigation especially near the parking lot where it's hard to tell the practice basket from the holes.

As previously mentioned, this is a great antidote to loosing discs at Kensington. Practice driving without risk (except 18 which has tall grass and bushes).
Pay box on the driveway has scorecards/maps though I'm not sure the box at hole 1 always does.

Well-executed, well-maintained course sprawls across a shared use park atop an old landfill. Features a fun mix of elevation, distance, and judiciously utilized OB.

• Variety: Plays longer than most local courses, with enough shorter holes to achieve decent balance (i.e. several holes are reachable for Ace and birdie opportunities for noodle arms like me). Pretty much every hole is open enough to allow various lines/strategies off the tee, but all of them feature one or more elements that can add strokes.

• Elevation: Present in one way shape or form on all but a few holes, and ranging from subtle to substantial. Uphills, downhills, over gullies, rollaways, fairways that play parallel to a drop off ...all present and accounted for. Many holes play longer or shorter than the posted distance.

• Challenge: For the 300 ft and under crowd, much of the challenge will be distance related, but the vast majority of holes present one or more features to make you think about your tee shot; well-placed trees, elevation, OB and wind all come into play to affect decision making. Sloped greens + wind can make running the pin on longer approaches a dicey proposition. Some will hate the OB, but most of it's safety related (uneven/rocky footing or roads/ paths), and it serves to place a premium on placement vs. sheer distance.

• Equipment: Basic, but well-executed, and all in wonderful condition.
+ Spacious concrete tees with simple tee markers (hole # and distance).
+ Pavers with painted arrows point you toward the next tee... just look for the turquoise & white brick in the ground behind the baskets.
+ Red brick pavers in the ground show you when you're 10M from the basket,
+ Home-made distance markers indicate distance left to go on longer holes.
+ Some baskets are flagged for visibility where obscured by elevation
+ Scorecard w/map available at the Pay to Play drop box (still a bargain at $2/person, with no park entry fee).

• Maintenance: Park has been keeping this place up very well (even the mulch around the baskets).

• Memorable holes: #'s 3, 4, and 17 stand out to me. # 15's Island green is a quintessential deuce or die: if your tee shot lands outside the circle of rocks (approx 60' diameter), you're throwing from the DZ for what should be a circle 4.

• Not quite disc golf exclusive: definitely brings OB walking/running trails into play, and while it's possible come across non-DGer's, most other park goers don't have much reason wander out where the course lies, and this park simply doesn't get much pedestrian/jogger traffic.

• Drainage: Poor. Expect standing water and sloppy fairways for quite some time after the spring thaw and several days after a good soaking. Things get much better in the summer.

• No holes force specific lines that you must execute and most are pretty straight. Except for # 16, there really isn't any need for shot-shaping.

• Hole #13: 190' Ace run that some will think is just "meh." For the record, this hole wasn't designed as it exists today. Originally had several more trees preventing you from running the pin straight up the gut. Shortly after the course was installed, the park bulldozed the area around this hole, removing those trees and making this section of the course feel sterile... no clue why they did this.

• Very little shade on hot summer days - plan accordingly.

• Vents from the landfill dot the landscape and are an eyesore. I've never noticed an odor, but apparently some have.

• Some players will think this course feels a bit repetitive (but personally, I think the holes are different enough to avoid it).

The open layout of Lyon's Den is a refreshing change of pace from the well-wooded, brush lined fairways you'll find on most metro Detroit courses.

• Wind: More of a factor here than any other course in SE Michigan. The fact that the course sits atop a landfill, combined with open design of the fairways mean there's nothing to impede the wind, so it has the opportunity work on your disc pretty much the entire length of every hole. Some will hate this course specifically for that reason (especially when you consider the OB hazards), but it definitely places a premium on disc selection and shot execution.

• Cart Friendly? If you don't mind pulling a cart up some serious hills... but there are no obstructions or rough to deal with.

• The holes are spread out quite a bit, so expect a few long walks between holes (which actually makes sense on a windblown, bomber course like this). None of them are all that bad, and spreading things out keeps tees out of play, greatly cutting down of shouts of "FORE!"

• Very much the Yin to Kensington's Yang. The two courses are located minutes apart and complement each other quite well. Together, they make a solid destination for the visiting player, with each offering what the other is missing to provide a great day's discing.

• Conveniently located near restaurants and convenience stores, as well as Wal-mart if you need to re-stock supplies to continue your road trip.

-Great use of the land that was given for the design.
-Nice sized level tee pads.
-10m Bricks dug in on EVERY bucket.
-Next tee arrows by every basket.
-OB traps marked really well with stones.
-Every basket has wood chips circled in stones which gives a nice look.

-Not a ton of shade for those nice 90 degree sunny days.
-Parking lot (CARS) may come into play on a couple holes on busy days if someone really shanks (REALLY SHANKS) a drive.

-Course is located in the police's backyard so I would think that will keep all the casual shenanigans down which will be nice.
-Kensington has needed a course like next next door for a long time!