-Hydaway is the Underdog in the area. It's the better of the two courses at Liberty. The main course at Liberty has more capacity, a little more elevation, and more variety, and a better mix. But it has a ton of flaws. Hydaway is still very hilly, has many different shot shaping fairway. The main reason why Hydaway is better than the main course at Liberty is the fact that there was so much more initiative. The lines are logical and fair. There's little to no interference with other activities.

-20 hole course. Just like at the main course! The main course has a couple elevated baskets (one hanging). This course has a basket on a stump, a few of them near or over a creek, and #10 has a very neat green on a mound cropped with rocks. Nice change of direction with prodigy pins here at Hydaway.

-Hydaway has a great diversity of fairways. The first hole is a nice anhyzer. The second one is completely straight. Three is a dogleg right. Four is a nice RHBH fairway driver shot over a valley. Five is a sweet backhand up a hill. #6 is really cool under a canopy and up a trail. It doesn't stop there. This is the main reason why this course is better than the main campus course. The tee shot for #5 at the main campus could be one of the most memorable holes in the whole area but the line to get out of the clearing is just weird. Same with #11 long at the main campus. It's through a corridor that's too small then down a huge hill. #18 at the main campus doesn't have a full established fairway and a few of the holes there are wide open and tasteless.

-Elevation is very well used here. Great mix of uphill, downhill, valley. Just like there is at the main campus. It starts off pretty mild and slowly builds its way up. Holes #6 and #7 are both pretty significantly uphill. #8 is a good bit downhill. #9 and #10 offer a little more elevation than #8. #11 is a little more downhill than the previous two holes. Then #14 comes and the major elevation starts to take place. #14 is only 200' but is effectively much longer because its up a 40' hill. 40' is a lot when the hole is only 200'. #16 is an extreme downhill. Has a 70' elevation drop. #17 is back uphill (maybe 30') and it's under a canopy so it feels like it's up a lot higher due to a low ceiling in place at the gap. #19 is a super fun gauntlet down a steep hill (53' down).

-Two sets of pads on just about every hole. The whites are well suited for intermediates. The blues are still very attackable and give many birdie opportunities. Since there is more distance from the blues, there are higher accuracy standards and higher risk for bogeys. If you are able to throw 300' accurately on different lines, you have the capacity to score very well on the blues. It is punishing, but still forgiving. The opportunities to recover are frequent from the blues. The whites have more birdie opportunities due to them being more reachable, which could mean your score could be heavily influenced by your putting game rather than your scramble game.

-Alternate pin positions on most holes. Don't know if they are moved often, but they do look fun. The baskets were in the shorts when I played and even is probably over 930 rated from blue pads to short. So this course can get quite difficult. Blue pads to long pins would be at least an advanced level course that rates over 960.

-#15 blue was unique. You have to throw over a wooden rail that is nailed between two trees. So it's a triple mando where you throw over rather than under. Nice creative design here.

-I can't think of many. For the design itself, I don't think I have any complaints. It's not the best course in Virginia. There are some funner courses in Virginia, but Hydeway really lives up to its potential. Some of the holes are more on the average side, but none of them are poorly designed. I think they did incredibly well with what was offered here. I only have a couple the vagueness of where the first hole is. There's a parking area for disc golfers with a kiosk, but the first hole is a quarter of mile down the trail. I honestly don't know if it's a better idea to park at the parking lot further down the road or not.

-The tee signs give hole info but no hole diagrams. So you'll be walking up the fairway before you throw your tee shots on several holes.

-Could use an open hole, I guess. Just to show a change of appearance.

-I'll bring up the three big downhill holes here and the three at the main campus. #11, #16, and #19 here are all downhill. #11 is around 500' long and down a good thirty feet at least. It's like a tighter version of #13 on the main campus. #13 on the main campus is pretty open and drops probably twice as much as #11 at Hydaway. #11 at Hydaway has a better green over the creek and offers a little more forgiveness if you land off the fairway. Both #11 at Hydaway and #13 at the main campus give good birdie opportunities and could potentially be reached with one big accurate drive. Both are great holes with their own perks.

-#11 at the Main campus and #16 at Hydaway: #11 at the main campus has two pads. The white pad is the better of the two. The elevation on this one is similar to #16 at Hydaway. Both have steep elevation drops. #16 at Hydaway has the greater amount of elevation and has a much more logical line to the pin, despite the fact that it's wooded and #11 on the main campus is primarily open. The green on #16 at Hydaway is over a small creek after being down a 70' hill. #16 at Hydaway is without question, better than #11 at the main campus.

-#16 at the main campus and #19 at Hydaway: #16 at the main campus is probably the funnest hole. 300' and plays probably less than 50' because it's so downhill through a row of pines. #19 at Hydaway is about the same length from the blue pad. The elevation is not as severe as #16 at the main campus, but it's still over 50' down. The line is a little bit tighter and the rough is hard to get out of, and if you fly through the rough at all, you probably won't sneak out. This is a very fun hole, but I like #16 at the main campus a little better.

-This is a better design than the main campus. Even though, the main campus has a better mix of open/wooded, and maybe a little more elevation. The main campus falls short on many basics. Hydaway meets all the main standards and has many creative features.

-I'm not sure if the expansion to 27 holes will ever take effect. Hopefully it will. But either way, it's a great course. It's well suited for most players since there are three sets of pads on some holes. Some of the hole distances can be deceiving due to elevation. Some of the par fours might seem like easy birdies, but they aren't that simple. #5 especially. I threw a driver and it got me stuck in the rough. I barely scrambled to save bogey. The tee shot from the blue pad isn't much longer than 400', but the line is pretty tight. You may want to throw a mid in order to have a better chance for birdie.

+ Do you like heavily wooded courses? Then boy, is this the course for you! 20 holes of unrelenting, punishing woods golf. There are no open shots here to provide a breather. It's just endless, suffocating, claustrophobic woods, putting the pressure on your mental game and testing your breaking points.
+ Pretty much all of the fairways here are fair, there's no poke-and-hope at all. And the angles for attacking the baskets are sensible. If you are on top of your game and have mastered the angles of your discs, you could carve up this course in a thrilling exhibition of pure woods golf. But if your game is just a little off, prepare for a beatdown on hole after hole.
+ Fortunately, you can adjust the difficulty by choosing from amongst the three teepad options that are available on most holes. The lines are generally the same from all three, you're just choosing how long of a tunnel you have to navigate through.
+ While catching your breath between holes, do admire the beauty of the woods. This is clearly an old forest, secluded from the world, that the course has carefully woven its way through. Small streams also come into play occasionally, and add to the beauty.
+ Many holes, particularly on the back 10, also feature fun elevational changes.
+ Though there isn't much basket-to-tee signage, navigation is mostly fairly straightforward, with obvious paths leading the way. Only one or two spots might confuse on the first time through.
+ Hole 15's duck-blind-style triple-mando was a very creative approach to forcing a challenge.

- Personally, I prefer my woods golf to feature strong doglegs and s-curves, to at least tempt you into throwing drivers with heavy fade. Here, while few holes were dead-straight, they were pretty much all slight variations on that. Lots of slight turnovers, lots of baby hyzers, but pretty much no big sweeping hyzers or aggressive flex shots anywhere. And though I don't remember many holes forcing a low ceiling, the straight fairways mostly encouraged relatively low shots anyway. All told, it felt like there wasn't much shot variation in this course.
- The teepads are all turf, and while most were okay, a few were lumpy and uneven.
- Hole 16 is a massive downhill shot, one of the more fun tee shots on the course. But, the walk downhill on that fairway is very very steep and muddy. I would only attempt this if you have good coordination and balance. Young and old disc golfers might struggle with this walk, and I'm not sure if there's a good way around it.
- A very popular shooting range is right across the road. During my Saturday round, there was almost non-stop gunfire in the middle distance. Not the most peaceful soundtrack for this otherwise secluded woods course. I'm not sure if other days would be better or not.

It sounds like 27 holes are planned, and I'm not sure if I could mentally handle 7 more holes of the same unrelenting woods. Emerging from those thick woods felt like coming out of a cave, back into the sunlight. I generally prefer woods courses, and this one is fairer and cleaner than many/most, but the experience as a whole is pretty extreme.

-Fair wooded fairways
-Turf Teepads
-Three Sets of Tees
-Good mix of Distances

-Tee signs not very descriptive
-Baskets blend in during spring and summer
-Kind of hard to find starting hole

-Alternate pins have been designed and will hopefully be in soon
-New tee signs have been suggested and should be approved soon
-Liberty has given permission for off fairway cleaning so that should improve within the next few months

-The elevation present on this course is amazing, especially on the back 10 hole of the current 20 hole course. The top-of-the-world shots here are great.
-This course really has that private, secluded feel that I love. Just you, disc golf, and nature.
-This is the first course I have played with Prodigy baskets and I loved them. They stand out well in the woods and catch great.
-There are a variety of pin positions making good use of natural features such as hills and creeks.
-There are three tee pads on every hole making it a true "Choose-your-own-adventure" course.

-The biggest flaw of this course is that there are currently no tee signs and no directional signs at all. This is okay at most spots, but the baskets are not even numbered, so I lost track of what hole I was on after a little bit.
-There is a fair amount of mud present on the course especially along the gravel road and near creek beds.
-While probably not a problem for most, I was not a big fan of the turf tee pads.
-I wish this course had a little more variety in hole type as I felt like I was throwing a lot of RHFH shots.

This is your typical tight and technical course, but the extreme elevation and winding creek really bump this course up another level.

I would say that I disagree with the directions provided on the course info page. My advice would be to park in the large lot by the wooden "Camp Hydaway" sign. Then walk down the hill and past the lodge. You will then see a basket ball court and a zip line in a large open field. Walk below the zip line and into the woods on the trail behind the course. You will walk around a curve and the basket for hole 20 will be on your left. Continue walking past the creek and the tees for hole one will be on your right.

Very technically challenging course playing through heavy woods. The first 2/3 of the course plays over gentle elevation changes while the last 1/3 plays over some extreme mountain elevation. Most holes have 3 sets of color coded turf tees and a bright green Prodigy basket. Nice use of the some of the unique land features and elevation. Interesting triple mando on 15. Zero underbrush or chance to lose your disc except for being buried under leaves maybe. Navigation is really easy.

One big loop of holes playing through existing walking/biking paths. Repetitive straight forward tunnel forced shots felt a little mundane. The epic downhill holes are impossible touch shots and don't really let you air out your discs. Muddy in some spots near the creeks and lower areas. No restrooms(maybe at the camp) or amenities on the course. No signage currently, but I assume there will be soon.

I played the new 20 holes, so there are still 7 more holes to be added to the course. I would hope they get to use some the more open area around the lake for more variety, but that might be a pipe dream, or at least provide some holes with multiple fairways in the woods.

Overall the Camp Hydaway course is a good play, it will probably frustrate beginners and bombers with it's tight wooded tunnels, but still has some fun holes. It's not as varied and epic as the older East Campus course with it's top of the world shots, but it's easier to navigate and safer.