Good DISCatchers that can be moved to multiple locations on just about every hole, and not just an A or B position, but some had up to 4 positions.
Good, large concrete tee pads on every hole, most holes had two pads, offering different looks.
Great tee signs showing the multiple pin positions, with distance and appropriate par.
If that's not enough variety for you, there are open holes, partially open holes, flat wooded holes and mountain side wooded holes.
With that many basket positions, the course could be set up with any number of left, right or straight holes.
Really nice, large multi-use park, something for everyone beyond the Disc Golfer. The ballfields looked to be in good shape as well as the tennis courts bordering #2 and #3.

Probably the strangest thing here was the practice basket, in the woods, just off the large parking lot. However, you have to walk across #4 fairway to get to #1 tee. Now 4 is a short enough hole that you can see the tee, but I wonder how often tee shots plinko toward the practice basket.
Kind of a strange transition from #10 to #11, but since I had a guide, and his pup, I didn't have to worry about it.
#12 and #13 both felt like the same hole, tight uphill shots, but there isn't any other way to get to cool #14.

I've read about Jackson Park for a while now, the second highest rated course in the Asheville, NC area. It looks pretty tame from the course map, a few open holes, then some wooded holes and a few partial wooded holes in between. But, just like the woods hiding a good still in the mountains, these woods are hiding some great holes.
SHORT and SWEET - #4 and #5 start out short and flat enough, but enough trees to get you ready.
LONGER and STEEPER - #6 and #7 jump at you with sidehill fairways and greens, longer holes and you need to control your disc landings.
WOODED PAR 4s - #8 plays up to 550' to the long position, with a steep dropoff behind the basket and #15 is over 450' to both, very different positions.
CLASSIC MOUNTAIN HOLES - #9 is your signature valley rim-to-rim mountain shot, I believe my tee shot stuck, but my missed putt was a bit of a rollaway. #10 fairway is on a left to right sidehill, leading to the B position (in play the day I was there), carved into a rock with a 10-15 dropoff if you go long.
THE FINISH - #17 is back in the woods, it has a tight drive than finishes up and to the right. Your round ends with a fairly tight drive that needs to go left, then finish in a clearing near the parking lot to the long position, standard for the day I was there. (A real good finishing position and layout to watch the close of a tournament.)
When you do get a break from the woods, #11 and #14 both have an OB creek bordering the right side and #16, while short, is guarded by large trees and has a park road along the right side.
While the wooded holes will probably be the ones you remember, #1 is a fun downhiller where you have to split two trees, and miss the bandstage. For a wide open hole, #2 has some teeth, you tee back in a tunnel and either go long just past the tennis courts, or (probably just for tournaments) go left over a small pond and near OB.
So that gives you one third open or partially open holes with two thirds in the woods. The string of 5 wooded holes together are payback after the 3 open holes to start and then just when you need a break, #11 comes along with its grass fairway. Yes, a real good job of mixing up the hole types as well as the up and downhill holes.
It looks like there is a pretty active group here, several organized events and my guides seemed to be well known on the course. While some of the elevation on the front 9 may be tough on certain players, this would be a fun home course. Not sure how often they move the pin positions, but that would certainly add to the replayability factor. I always like when I can come to a new course, be very pleasantly surprised by the layout and increase its overall rating with my score. Add to that, I had an enjoyable round with the local player I met and the course mascot.
So happy I arranged to make this my 200th course played. New Quarter in Yorktown was #100, so I'm scheduling the milestones pretty well so far.

I was very pleasantly surprise playing this course for the first time with a couple of locals. They have obviously done more work on it recently and the locals said the pins were moved recently to new spots. There are different pads and pins, so different options on how to play. It was challenging but also very rewarding if you hit your line for the birdie look. And this is just a fun course with great scenery and some memorable holes.

I was playing the long tees, and some of them had no signs at all. If I was not playing with a couple of locals, it would have been tough to figure out at first. But this is only an issue your first time (or two) out.

A very solid course overall!

The setting! Jackson Park is a beautiful property for disc golf, featuring six park-style (1-3,11,14,16) and 12 wooded holes--a fantastic mix. It has a course map and practice basket at the parking lot and the tee pads and baskets are excellent. Benches on most holes, too. Being from FL, I love the elevation here, with shots up, down and across slopes. Awesome. It is very well balanced, with both backhand and forehand opportunities throughout, but neither favored over the other. Most holes have two tees which I consider a huge pro. The shorts increase the fun factor for newer players (and older ones like me). The long tees do more than just add distance, though several indeed add massive amounts. They often change the angle and the way the hole plays as well. Multiple pin placements also add to the variety. Jackson Park is close to I-26, an easy-to-reach and very worthwhile destination course.

Some holes were missing signage, but I seldom deduct for navigation-related issues since they only affect one's first time playing the course (plus you can take a pic of the map). There are some toe-stubbing opportunities in the woods from small trees not removed all the way to ground level, so watch your step. You will likely huff and puff after a few minor climbs, but not really a "con" since it results from such a huge "pro" (elevation).

If you fed Jackson Park some steroids and took away the park-style holes and short tees, you'd get Richmond Hill. We played both courses during our NC spring break and found Jackson to be way more fun thanks to the short tee options and slightly fewer trees. But I'm well-aware of the masochism suffered by advanced players who crave huge distance and poke-n-pray forestation. You can still have that at Jackson thanks to the long tees. Love this place; it's definitely in my top-five.

UPDATE 7/2019: Another NC visit gave me a chance to play JP again! I experienced some of the excellent alternate pin placements that I failed to mention in my first draft. #2 has a SUPER long/ dangerous (water) basket. Plus a new hilltop location for #6 was clear evidence of a steroid injection!

UPDATE 7/2022: Improvements to this awesome track continue. Dual baskets now present on at least six holes (2,6,7,8,14,18). The long basket on 14 up in the woods is inspired! JP also has extra-short tees in the works (framed out on several holes).

Played the shorts in this round. I liked that holes 1,2, and 3 gave you an opportunity to get warmed up with relatively wide open shots to dial in your lines and get the doo doo out. Really enjoyed the wooded holes. Even though most of the holes were in the woods, you could find a decent line that you were comfortable with getting from point A to B. All in all, this is a well thought out course. You have elevation, water, tight lines, open drives, and beautiful scenery. Benches at every hole. I can't wait to visit again and play.

Not much I can say about cons but if I was to really be knit picky about the course, I'd say that they should install more navigation from one hole to the next. Also, each hole only has one info post on the hole. Some of the holes the info post is at the longs and some are on the shorts. They could install info posts on both tees and that would help. Other than that...this is a great course for only being 3 years old.

Good mix of elevation, and distance. Only one long hole 450-ish. The rest are mostly under 300, with a few between 300-400. Winds through woods and open fields around an old plantation looking home.

Not 100% clear how to navigate. The signage is plastic sheets that fall off and blow away. There are concrete Tees that are often unmarked completely.

Worth playing when on vacation in the Asheville area.

To start. the course has two tee pads for and multiple basket positions for every hole. Regular and pro tee can suit your style. Multiple baskets give course locals even more variety.
I find this course to have such a fun variety of shots, the course starts with a downhill shot between two trees into an open field, hole two features water now and hole three is uphill. You enter the woods on hole four where you will find up and down hill shots, light to heavy tree placement, rights, lefts and laser straight approaches. The course returns to the open later on for two beautiful open shots that both require some skill.
I find this course challenging, not only with the holes but challenging to endurance, but not too much so that it takes from the fun

easy to loose discs, especially in the summer time, lots of growth, lots of thorns if you go OB. hole one has a tough OB to the left.
one hole has a walking/ bike path in the middle, a few in the woods have trails nearby, some my travel through.

lots of steep up hill.

love this park and love this course.

Layout - Jackson Park is one of the most solid all around courses I've played. Everything about it is done well and while there's nothing there that screams amazing, it just chugs along never taking a break.

For starters there are two pads on every hole (I think) and multiple pin positions on about half. So to really get to know this course you'd have to play it multiple times. I did try to check out every pad and pin position as I went through.

The long pads seemed to go back and forth between being a bit longer on the same line or being a bit longer and off to the left or right slightly changing your line. What I did like about the longs on some of the holes where the line was pretty much the same as the shorts was that the long pads usually brought in an early gap that wasn't a factor from the shorts which really heightened up the difficulty.

Jackson not only has a really good balance between open/park style golf and wooded holes (6 park style, 12 wooded) but it brings you out and sends you back in so that it keeps the round interesting and changing. The design also switches up hole distances and how tight each fairway is going through.

The selection of which trees to leave in fairways is done well, there's no late random trees on blind drives that annoy me in so many places. Some holes give you multiple routes and some force a certain line which is balanced well.

The terrain is pretty much all rolling hills, there's a couple flat holes but not many. The design uses the elevation changes well along with gaps to hit throughout the fairway to make you work the disc a bit while navigating the ups and downs.

The greens here are well thought out in placement, usually tucking the basket left or right a bit to add challenge. There's a few fast greens but it's not overly done like some courses on this type of terrain tend to do.

The par 4's are great; they give you the ability to really get down the fairway if you hit your line while also bending so that errant drives will be punished. They also allow you to get creative on your second shot depending on where you end up, instead of punishing you if you're not dead in the fairway.

A handful of the holes let you rip a driver but at the same time has elements that make you consider your line and where you're landing. There's some OB/nasty rough on pretty much all of the open holes to consider.

Equipment - Pads are concrete and big enough. Baskets are in good shape. There are temp looking tee signs on the short pads noting distance with a hole map. There's some strategic benches placed throughout. There's also next tee signs on pretty much every place where it's not obvious.

One thing this place got right was going in and putting down erosion controls and steps on the steep hills right from the get go. It gives the course a real professional look and let's you know a lot of time and planning went in to it.

Atmosphere - It's a multi-use park but you are pretty much in wooded areas that take you away from the rest of the park activities. It's a nice looking course overall and is really clean around the edges. You can tell they got all the brush and limbs out of there after putting the course in which again really adds to the professionally done feeling of the course.

Layout - My one real criticism of the layout is that there are never any holes that really make you work a disc left or right. Most of the wooded holes bend a bit left or right but never force a big hyzer or anny.

The one hole that sticks out to me as approaching filler status is hole 3. Now it is a big throw up a hill and the only hole of it's type on the course but it just seems a bit boring after the first two openish holes. I'd plant a large tree or some smaller evergreens off to the right of the fairway that not only separates holes 1 & 3 a bit more but keeps people throwing RHBH or LHFH from hyzering up there. Hole 2 just gave you a RHBH/LHFH hyzer so it's repetitive.

Holes 11, 14 and 16 do bring you near the walking path/road. On every hole visibility is not a concern but this could cause you to have to wait. 11 is the only one that could pose some safety concern imo.

The only other criticism I could see of Jackson is the lack of bite some holes have. If you're coming from CLT this course isn't as demanding or punishing if you get off schedule. Although note I have not played all the iterations and have not played all the long to longs.

Equipment - I don't know the deal with the tee signs but I'm guessing what's there now is temporary and something more permanent is on the way. I hope they eventually get signs at both pads because it does irk me having to walk up to the short pad then walk back to the long.

I also think some effort should be made to level off some of the pads more with the ground, that could be a safety issue.

Atmosphere - My biggest gripe here is that when they cut off some of the trees in fairways/walkways they left small nubs sticking out of the ground. My son tripped twice on one of these and once was going downhill so he tumbled a bit.

Some of the holes go near a creek/marsh type area and we got ate up by mosquitoes so bring bug spray.

Jackson is the type of course I'd love to have where I lived. It's varied and an all around really fun course that you can play a lot and not get bored or frustrated with. I think it's great for players of all skill levels so it's definitely a great addition to western NC. It doesn't have the eye catching valley holes and giant hills you'll find at Richmond Hill but overall I think it's a better course and more accessible to a larger demographic.

Whew boy this is a gem of a course. Right off the bat this is a tremendously balanced course with technical woods, open fields and park-style mix of the former coming in fairly equal measure. The front nine is spectacular, starting with a terrific starter hole of a downhill bomb. Hole 2 seems really routine until you notice the pond just left of the basket. Holes 4-9 are superbly pleasant wooded holes with rolling elevation, very appropriately sized fairways and plenty of line shaping. The wooded holes are very Charlotte-esque which is always a good thing.

The back nine mixes it up as well, starting with hole 10 that is a solid, wooded hole reminiscent of the front 9. Then hole 11 gives you some relief from tight woods with a city park-style hole with open grass and a few ornamental trees to circumnavigate. Holes 12 and 13 give you more tricky woods to thread, then another interesting hole by some very marshy vegetation that you have to clear. This is a polarizing hole and it's not a really long carry but if you are paralyzed by the thought of losing a disc you may not enjoy hole 14. 15 is a nice wooded par 4 then hole 16 gives you another park hole with some old growth trees to avoid. Two more fairly wooded tunnel holes and you've ended a fun round.

This course has two sets of perfect concrete tees I believe on every hole which turbocharges the variety. To spice it up even more, many if not most holes have an alternate pin placement. I played it in the shorts which yielded plenty of fairly earned birdie opportunities but I wish they were in the longs because those holes looked like they had a little more bite to them.

The course looks like it is being well-maintained and I have to shout-out the nice preservation tactics I've noticed like the logs used to terrace hole 9 to retain soil and keep it from turning into a sloped mess. Great little hole by the way. This is also a really nice park with plenty of other stuff to do.

15 comes a little too close to a playground for my liking. I don't love hole 11 playing over and near a popular sidewalk, same issue with hole 14 and you can easily hang a hyzer out and hit the park entrance road on hole 16.

Hole 3 is the only real ho-hum hole, just a wide open field bomb decently uphill.

Navigation is really easy after you figure out the hole's start, for now. I say for now b/c the "next tee" signs are laminated paper signs stuck to stakes that could easily get dicked with or blown away. These same signs make up the tee signs as well and clearly show an impermanence. So far so good though.

Minor quibble but the "long" tees don't really add much length as far as I noticed. They're more like alternate angle tees than long tees and the difficulty added doesn't seem substantial. This might also be just me but I seemed to throw a lot of the same discs repeatedly; I was doing work with my stable mid and putter. Maybe I was just on, maybe the fairways needed a bit more tweaking to induce other shots out of me, I'm not sure.

This is a great course, truly. You could plop this down in Charlotte and it wouldn't miss a beat. It's more in the Scrapyard, Eastway, Reedy, Robbins tier of CLT courses but it can hang with the big boys too I think. The woods are really nice and pretty, the park is nice, there's great use of elevation change and terrain, etc. It doesn't quite have the length or space to get in that elite tier of courses but it's maxed out and perfectly entertaining as is.

Located in a nice big park

Recently added flags to top of baskets for easier pin location

Long tees have nice new pads

Lots of longer holes so you have a chance to use every disc in your bag but still a few short ones where you have a chance for an ace

Beginner tees have no pads yet and not always clearly marked

A couple holes are easy to get lost unless you've played it before

I play a little better each time I play here. Hard course for beginners, but once you get a feel for it, it's a pretty good course (my buddy from Michigan shot a +17 and says it's the worst course he's ever played because of the elevation changes... just be careful when shooting uphill at the basket because there's a chance you roll 200 feet downhill and behind a tree)

Great teepads, benches, and baskets on every hole. This is one of my biggest gripes on courses but Jackson has solid course hardware.

The location of the park is great, especially in a multi-use park like Jackson. The only issue I could foresee would be spill-over near the tennis courts on Hole 2.

Greens and fairways (for the most part) are well-defined and manicured. Exceptions in the Cons section.

Course flow again (for the most part) was pretty straight forward as I was a first-timer.

Variety of tee shots is definitely there. As a 50/50 FH/BH player I threw all shots. FH, BH, BH annys, FH annys, driver shots, putter shots, etc. Good variance of drives.

Signage, especially near Hole 1. With the massive size of Jackson Park, finding Hole 1 was pretty annoying. There were no directions or signs pointing where to find Hole 1. We ended up parking by the tennis courts and back tracking from Hole 3's teepad.

Hole 12 and Hole 14 are gimme holes with no real obstacles to navigate. I would recommend an elevated basket platform on Hole 14 and moving the basket on Hole 12.

Hole 12 and 16's fairways/greens are within 80' of each other with no obstacles between the two. There were some errant shots from Hole 12 that inhibited our play on Hole 16. These two holes could use a redesign.

Hole 15 needs some trees removed to make it a legitimate hole with a well-defined fairway. I was able to birdie this hole, but I am not sure how. There doesn't seem to be a defined line after the first 250' of the fairway. The green is great, and the early part of the fairway is great. After 250' however it turns into Plinko.

Hole 18 could also use a better defined opening to the green from the woods, it's much better than 15, but a few trees could go to make it a much better hole.

Overall, this is a great course. It is new, so changes will come with time and I am optimistic for its future!

I found a disc on Hole 3 and called the owner who showed up with a beer for me. Much appreciated sir. This just goes to show that you should always call numbers on discs, good is always earned!

This was my first course in the Asheville area and would highly recommend it to anyone in the area. This is a great addition to western NC and will definitely be back to play it again!!

Most if all hole have some kind of alt/long pin for a different look. Could be finish left in one layout and right on another.

Benches on every hole and well needed with all the up and down the hills.

Tee boxes are level and aproprite size for the hole. None of them felt like you had to start way off the tee pad to complete a throw.

Baskets are top notch disc catcher that are easy to see in the woods.

Open holes do add a element of challenge with uphill, down hill and ob.

Long pins have a feeling of being long just to make a long course. Fairways for them in the woods on a couple of holes just don't make sense.

I don't feel like this is a con because you should pack out but no trashcans.

I got the chance to play a couple of rounds for the Greatful Jay tournament and was plesnely surprised on the quality of the course and the attention to grounds. I would love to rate it higher then a 3, however the long pins on a few holes just didn't need to be put in. Example: of hole six if I remember. In the short you have a tree that leans over the fairway to guard a rh hyzer route to the basket. When the pin is in the long tree is not needed and is more of a nuisance and doesn't make a real line.
Couple of other holes are similar in nature and just left a odd feeling.

Don't let that hold you back from playing Jackson. I loved the short/original layout more. Even in a hybrid layout of the two I would still enjoy it. I did say to a couple of people that just a tree down here and there and this would be a 4.0 easy. Im not one for slashing and hacking but love a defined fairway even if its tight. I just not a big fan of a smaller tree that just doesn't fit the look and feel.

I will be back to tame the beast of a course Jackson park can be. Maybe next time Ill have a higher rating feeling.

Jackson Park is a great, all-around course that offers plenty of fun and challenge. For someone who's been visiting Hendersonville for years, I was shocked to discover there was a great park so close to downtown.
- This was a great course throughout. There isn't one throwaway/filler hole throughout the round. What separates good courses from great ones is the lack of consistent quality. Jackson falls into the latter category.
- Great flow to the design. Course starts with a fun, stretch out the arm, 351-foot downhiller. Make sure the arm is loose by the time you get to #3 where you'll be throwing right back up that same hill. From here on, you're spending most of the remainder of the round in the woods.
- Course is challenging, but fair. I kept feeling like I was playing Hornets Nest (in Charlotte) with better elevation. With both courses, you're able to salvage a hole even after a bad tee shot. On multiple holes, I was able to salvage par when solid second shot made up for the poor tee shot.
- I loved the variety throughout. The course's second longest, and one of the most challenging holes, #8 at 489 feet, is followed up by the shortest, an uphill, 165-foot ace run shot. That's followed up the duo of #10: a split fairway, slight dogleg left; and #12: an open, 309-foot hole with several trees playing key obstacles. Even on shorter holes, you get the variety. #13 starts out very tight, opening up slightly the second half of the fairway. #14 is the easiest hole on the back 9 - a 250-foot open hole with swampy ground on the right side of the fairway. Oh so close to nailing an ace here!!
- Along those lines, I enjoyed the impact elevation had on this course. Not only did it directly impact holes by making them play longer or shorter, it also had a heightened risk of roll away shots. I had one 25-foot putt hit the basket and end up rolling 50 feet downhill. I also had an approach shot land just short of the basket and end up skipping & rolling another 75 feet past. It's an added level of strategy (and some good/bad luck) that players will have to account for.

Better signage is needed directing players from the parking lot to the first tee. I followed the online directions, and that led me to hole #4. It took me a bit to realize you have to walk past #4 to get to the first tee. I also ran into another first timer player who was driving around, looking for the course. Having signs pointing players to the parking lot, and then from the parking lot to hole #1 are no-brainers.
- Signage could have also been a little better in a couple spots where the course intersects with walking trails. For example, after #10, you walk down a goat path to a main trail that goes both left and right. Without a printed map, it'd be easy to go the wrong way (to the right) instead of the correct way to #11 (go left). You'll also see the same issue on a couple of the wooded hole transitions on the front 9.
- The course was missing one or two elite holes to really make it special. #8 is excellent as the course's toughest hole. I played two average shots (at best) on the longest hole - #15 at 495 feet - and still had a 35-foot putt for a birdie 3. Add to that, the closing hole seems like it's missing a little something, even if that something is simply 100 more feet. It's also shouldn't be a par 4; but, that's a separate issue.
- I didn't notice many benches or trash cans throughout the course. That said, the course was surprisingly clean. Maybe people are actually packing out their debris.

Jackson Park makes for a great round. For a relatively new course, it had a feel of an established course. I didn't notice many of the new course 'issues': no stumps in the fairways; no piles of branches just off the fairway; no fairways that look like they still need to be cleared out or mowed more often.
- Having a true signature hole would have been the cherry on top. Or is that an apple because we're in Hendersonville? That said, I'd rather see the locals keep the course as is, rather than start tinkering with it as is too often the case with overly eager club members.
- I enjoyed this course more than any others in the region. And that includes Richmond Hill in Asheville. In this area of western North Carolina - along the I-26 corridor - this is my new favorite course.
- This is a solid 4.0 in my book. I'd be excited if this were my local course. I'd get to test all parts of my game and enjoy some great scenery. Through in this being a great all-around park with lots of trails, and this is a positive for the community.

Jackson Park has just enough variety of wooded holes, elevation changes, challenging throws, and fun shots to make it a very enjoyable course. There are also some more open easy throws, and little water in play, keeping it tame enough for a novice player. I took a friend along who was playing for the first time, and he managed to make a couple of pars, learn and have some fun. I shot two over par on my first round here, 3 bogeys and a birdie. There are tee signs at each hole, concrete tees, and some benches. The baskets are fairly new and in great shape. Layout is fairly easy to follow. The first 3 holes play up and down the side of a large grass covered hill. A couple of trees frame the fairway at hole 1, a nice downhill par 3. Hole 2 is flat, with some rough to the left of the fairway. Number 3 is back uphill a little and wide open. At hole 4, the distance is shorter, but you enter the woods for a while. The gap to shoot through trees off the hole 6 tee is pretty narrow, but the distance is short if you can make a good throw. Hole 8 is the first of three par 4's, still in the trees. Hole 9 is a fun uphill birdie run, only 165'. 11 comes out of the woods for a break, and is the only hole I made a birdie putt. Hole 14 is a nice flat, mid-range between two mature trees. 15 is the longest par 4, just under 500' through the woods. 16 is more open, but still some mature trees. The last hole is the final par 4, and finished me with a bogey. I liked the shifts between open and wooded during the round, and the distance and elevation elements are also mixed well. If you played on a slow day and don't lose any plastic, one or two people should be able to finish a round in around an hour, I would think.

Not any complaints from me. Not a high degree of difficulty for the advanced player.

My favorite hole at Jackson Park was 10. A downhill throw with enough of a window for a big hyzer to the basket at the bottom. I wouldn't say there was a signature hole, but it is a very nice course overall. The course is well kept and fun to play. If you are in the area, or seek unplayed courses obsessively like me, it is worth a visit for sure.

Beautiful new course. Great design. Some nice challenging heavily wooded holes. Great course for novice or expert alike. Not much traffic. I played this course every morning while there visiting family and only saw a few other people there.

They are still working on this course putting on the finishing touches. Biggest con is if you want to run into town to grab a disc or two good luck. You have to drive 45 minutes to Asheville to find a store that sells disc golf anything.

I really enjoyed this course. Review title "finally" because out of the 40 states and 250 courses I have played, few live up to their rating. I was (for the most part) thoroughly impressed with the thoughtful clearing of this course. Underbrush was removed before course broken in, trees relatively limbed, mulched fairways and teeboxes. Wow, great job. The course is not overly difficult but the variety is totally there. I liked the mix of open and wooded shots. The beauty of the fairways enticed me to throw multiple shots on almost every hole. Lines were clear and distinct. I highly recommend this course. I would have to say this is a designer that gets it. Great use of land, elevation and course creation.

I've purposely written my "con's" in other thoughts. These are meant as positive feedback and things that hopefully will get attention to make Jackson a 4*+.
1. PLEASE PEOPLE (around the world)do not cut trees @4" when making courses, either to the ground or 2ft tall so you can see them. I literally almost bit it 5-6 times. These stumps are dangerous and no joke, there are far too many just tall enough to turn an ankle but short enough to not notice in the leaves. These absolutely need to be taken out with a saw, not just kind of painted orange.
2.slight issue...who ever installed the baskets might have been inexperienced. a few were not pointing in the right direction and numbers were not aligned with fairway
3. there are a number of drop offs after tees, some were shored up with logs that will rot. I saw tons of 6x6 in the parking lot, hopefully those are for the course. Sooner than later will prevent much erosion and safety issues now
There were a few areas where cut lumber was not put in condensed piles ( I think I noticed this the most on 6). Dont forget to make retaining walls around your side hill baskets to prevent erosion.
4. Seems like the course could easily hold some long tees like #2 & #3 and a lot of the wooded holes, so this is a great thing for the future of the course.
5. Erosion control throughout on fairways and on steep transitions, if addressed now, will really help the course maintain its beauty. (Logs or lumber directing water flow) I could see areas where water will flow right down paths or through fairways and create erosion, killing trees.

All in all I was picky. The stumps are a major and real issue 1. for safety and 2. for general randomness of discs skipping and hitting in the fairway. Get those fixed PM me, and Ill update to a solid 4* Some well designed longs prepared the same way the current course was... 4.5 all day long.

Very nice layout that is easy to navigate even though it's a new course and it's still being broken in. Hole #9 is the best hole out there IMO. I believe it's fairways throughout the entire course are very fair even though the pictures on here make them look very difficult. I honestly like this course better than Richmond Hill because most of the holes out there have a lot of luck involved to hit a small gap and to make sure if you do that your disc doesn't roll down into the valley 300ft away. That's not really the case here. I also love the fact that there's a great mix of open and wooded holes and combine that will the mix of elevation changes. A+ course for sure and I believe it will only get better. Play it, you will not be disappointed.

Honestly none that I can think of.

It's a course that has excellent 'playability'. Also a course that you can take someone with you that is not playing and it's not too much on them - hint: If someone is tagging along with you after hole 8 have them walk to the left to 9s basket to save them from walking all the way down to 9s tee and back up.

-Course continues to evolve. Started off great and is a true gem. There are two concrete pads on most holes and there are markers for beginner pads. Your experience here regarding disc golf should always be positive, and the next will most likely be different. Look forward to what you'd see next. There are multiple pin placements on all but one hole here, and that hole with a single pin has a long pad. So it can all differ.

-You go straight into the action once you start. Hole one from the long is a mix between fun and technical. The elevation change plays a factor since you have the woods to the left and a wide open field further to the right. You have to throw through a fair gap out of the woods. The short pad is more simple but the elevation decline lingers still. If you are too soft, you'll likely be either too far left or right. Just a downhill hole that gets you pumped. #2 theoretically is nine holes into one. Three tee pads, and three different pin placements. My favorite pin placement is by far, the par four placement over the pond past the tree. Play this hole from the longest tee pad beside #1's pin or the second pad back into the woods, and you have an awesome and challenging par four. The other pin placements are great too and give a pleasing challenge. The next hole is wide open and uphill and helps you with optimum height and strategic placement.

-Then you go into what will be a beautiful walk into the woods. Holes four through ten are all wooded. If the pin placements are not in the shorts, then a scary challenge awaits you. Especially on holes seven and eight. The "A position" on hole seven is a flip up hyzer and is especially hard from the short pad than it is on the long, since it's only a par three in the short. The "B pin" is a bit more forgiving and down the straight path.

-#8 can be nasty from the "C pin", or known as the original. The short pad and long pad aren't much different from each other, but the drive to the landing zone is more reachable from the short pad. There's one position, the shortest, that isn't very scary. The second one is a par four tucked nicely into the woods and guarded by three sides of rhododendrons, meaning if you throw too far, you might lose a stroke. There is very little room on that green. The final (C pin) is actually the original pin. It's the longest, 535' from the long pad and 489' from the short. The approach shot is highly dependent on your drive. Trees are sporadic in the fairway and will contribute to your decision on what to throw. Then you are left with probably a scary putt. The basket has a drop off behind it. Yikes!

-#9. The infamous ace run around Asheville! Both pin positions are pretty sketchy. Especially the longer one as it is further up the hill by a rock. Hole is wooded but the fairway is wide. Not to mention the elevation on this hole is well used. The elevation is well balanced here and on the next hole.

-Lots of experimenting. Hole two has a 280' par three as one of its holes and a 600' par four over some water around a tree. #6 has two pads and four different placements. The furthest placement is the only one that I haven't played and I really want to. It's uphill over 25' overall and plays as a par four tucked to the right side. The short pin is a technical ace run around a tree on a slope. Another pin is perched on a ledge! #10 has a pin position beside a rock face that sits between the open and the woods. The other pin is to the left and plays as either a nice downhill hyzer on the long pad, or as a sweet narrow ace run.

-#14 and #18 are both valid signature holes. #14's long position is easily the best one and is a brilliant addition. Open bomb that enters the woods and uphill. The long pad is barely any longer but plays more challenging because you have to throw around a row of trees. #18 is a great finisher, particularly on the long pad. The "A pin" is the hardest, since its long and is the only par three on this hole. Navigate the fairway completely, and it can very well be tamed. The "B pin" is the easiest on this pad. Only about 460' and it's a par four. The elevation makes the hole play less. It takes an impressive drive to reach the open and if do you, you'll have a chance for two. The long pin is challenging. It's further down the open.

-Something that makes Jackson so special is that it's a place to advocate disc golf to newcomers. There are beginner tees marked by wood. They aren't concrete like the rest of the pads, but that's okay. They offer nice beginner shots.

-Cross country events occur here in the summer. I know because I had meets here before the course was even here.

-Par is debatable on a few holes here. Hole two's second pad in the woods to the medium pin is like 460', it's out of the woods, and has a water hazard. It's enough to be a four, but it could be a par three. It says hole seven is a par three from the long pad to the left pin, but it's 459' long, wooded, and down a demanding fairway. Is that really still a three? And hole 3 long to long. 453' and uphill over 20'. It's wide open, but plays SO long.

-Lots of sneaky roller potential that's not as obvious. Several pins are on very gentle slopes that could be a lot more punishing than what they are worth. If you barely miss a putt, you could still stay by the pin or you could roll 40-50' away. #10's green is a prime example. There are a few other deceptively fast greens that can be gracious or ruthless all based on chance. The big retention tree near the long pin on #2 can be a pain too. The pond is a serious disc eater. Even if you barely got in it, your disc could still be gone because the tree is just on the bank and if you hit it, you could be wet in some real murky water.

-I've been meaning to earlier, but I finally found the right time to re-write this review. I want to be completely fair with my reviews and upvote the course if it has gotten better. And it has. This is probably the most "experimental" course that I've ever played. Jay McCarthy and the locals have done an outstanding job with their keeping ideas open and because of that, you see a very fantastic course. Dual tee-pads, many different pin placements, and the tee signs are updated. Jay is a disc golf course designing finesse. Before this course you could only play Richmond, a cool wooded course. But if you wanted an even better one with more assets to it, you'd have to pay over $200 to play Wintersun. Now, you don't have to! Jackson Park is better than ever. We owe it all to Jay!

-I love experimental golf. I understand the belief that too much has been done, but I like this. If you take the hardest hole inside of every hole here, then you'd maybe have a 980 rated course called Jackson Gold. We had a Hornet's Nest Gold, so why not a Jackson Gold in tournaments? That'd be a memorable disc golf experience for sure.

-This is a great large family park with an awesome disc golf course. Make time to play here, because you will for sure see something excite you.

Wide variety of shots, quick to play, challenging shots that if played well are rewarding, easy lay out

Briars. Those cursed thorned vines! Other than briars I'm thoroughly satisfied. With it being so new I expect it to be unkempt in areas.

I'm proud to call this my home course! I look forward to the many, many saturday mornings I will play before work!

*04/27/16 Update: New concrete tee pads improve the play substantially! A few new benches add to the enjoyment! I named it "Mid-way" because the location is in between the disc golf hot spot "Asheville" & the upstate (South Carolina). This course is set in a large, busy park. There are many sports activities going on here besides disc golf. The course itself offers a good challenge in course design & elevation! The hiking up & down the hills will test your fitness. The course plays long & will take a couple hours to complete which will test your endurance. Pace yourself as most will want to play a second round. You have to 'learn' the course & basket locations, etc. so one round is never enough! The course flows well with intuitive direction & "next tee" signs. I like the mix of open & wooded holes. There is a variety of short & long, up & down, left & right-hand shots! A couple long par 4's force decisions on the drive vs. lay-up shot.

This is a fresh new course so natural (dirt) tee pads are what you get. Some have roots, holes, etc. Tee signs are temporary but are very well made! Deep rough, stumps, cut branches, sticker bushes, etc. can be expected at the edges of the fairways. The leaves have fallen & there is a full, deep carpet of them on the forest floor to swallow up a wayward throw. Trails between holes & fairways are starting to get tramped down a bit & will get better with time. Until then, keep an eye on your throws! Walkers, bird watchers, bicyclists, etc. all run in & out of the course in certain areas. They all have the right-of-way of course & are not afraid to prove it. Keep an eye out for pedestrians! No benches yet & they are needed to catch your breath after hiking around the property!

There is talk of making this a "show-case" course for the area so many amenities are planned such as multiple tee pad & pin placements, bridges & other infrastructure. I live nearby & cant wait!

Good variety of shots. The opening 3 holes are awesome to warm up on and get the round started. The wooded holes are challenging and rewarding. There are a few holes that are long and tough, but allow for some good opportunities.

Pads aren't in yet, but they'll be there before too long. A little length between pins and next tee on some, but no real issue there.

Good course that I'm glad to get near my home area. Should help grow the sport. Looking forward to a few work days out there and a bunch of foot traffic to beat the course in. Pads will make a world of difference.