R-Ogre
Double Eagle Member
Got most of a round in at Green Valley this evening before it got dark. Park golf, but still had a good time. Also holy crap how is that course still there? Non-golfers must get hit like once a week.
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Got most of a round in at Green Valley this evening before it got dark. Park golf, but still had a good time. Also holy crap how is that course still there? Non-golfers must get hit like once a week.
There's at least one hole that literally has you shoot across a basketball court.Yeah that course had me nervous due to how close it got to other park activities. Recall shanking a shot with a basketball court near the basket. Saw quite a few folks around there and kids running around, tried so hard to keep it low I basically threw it right into the ground to avoid hitting anyone.
Old Johnny Roberts (RIP) was like that as well, walking paths so close or even crossing fairways. Loved that course but I understand why it was changed drastically to the new, park friendly version. Maybe its a Denver thing? Quite a few courses really push the boundaries of disc golf safety and encroaching on other park goers. Expo, Interlocken, Green Valley, old Johnny, Arapahoe CC, etc...
I didn't mention it because you said you were short on time, but Prickly Pines is a great woods course and just under an hour from DIA. Definitely NOT a Park course.
I just wanted to come back and give a shout out for this recommendation. Prickly was 100% worth the hour drive.
I saw the pictures in the media section on that course, and decided my occasional shanked shot couldn't afford the lawsuit.
The picture of the basket next to the playground really sealed the deal.
Beaver and Bailey are about 90 minutes from the airport. I would make the time.
Approximately when do they shut those down for the winter? I'd wager a guess they gotta be getting snow up there in late October/early November?
Been awhile (2014) since I was out there.
Approximately when do they shut those down for the winter? I'd wager a guess they gotta be getting snow up there in late October/early November?
Been awhile (2014) since I was out there.
As of the last time I visited I would say so. Prickly Pines is probably too far out to qualify but it's at least on the airport side of DEN. I'm also a big fan of the museum of nature and science.Sorry to revive such an old thread, but I'm going to be at a wedding in Denver in September and looking for the best course nearest to the airport and metro Denver. Is it still Adams Hollow in Brighton?
(Yes, I'm well aware of all the fantastic courses elsewhere in Colorado…please don't suggest anything in the mountains! I am only looking for courses near DIA and Denver)
As of the last time I visited I would say so. Prickly Pines is probably too far out to qualify but it's at least on the airport side of DEN. I'm also a big fan of the museum of nature and science.
I'm not sure what kind of courses you're used to up in Juneau, R-Ogre, but I'm scratching my head at any recommendation, even a lukewarm positive one, of this Adams Hollow course.
Maybe they did the best they could with the land available, but I got the heebee jeebees on the drive in. And sure enough, while this may be great land for ball golf layouts, for disc golf, it could hardly be any worse. The fact that this course is billed as having "mature trees and a variety of terrain which allows the course to evolve throughout the year" and is "the Denver region's top-rated disc golf course" is simply farcical to me. A pancake has more elevation changes than this course, with the exception of man-made mounds and a waste ditch running through the middle of the course. The entire course is dirty desert scrub, with a comically few number of trees, which do absolutely nothing to force flight lines. Every basket position is pretty much straight in front of you, and you can basically throw any shot or flight path you want on any hole. Want to simulate a round at Adams Hollow? Go out into a open flat field and place a portable basket and then walk 200-300 feet in all four directions from the basket and throw back at it. And after slogging through all the blandness, to add insult to injury, the walk from the basket of hole#18 back to your car in the parking lot is probably close to a half mile.
I think that the reviewers on DGCR who gave this course an average of 3.78 were surely smoking too much of the legal recreational weed here in the city of Denver. I feel bad for all the courses which I gave ratings of 3.75 to. Out of close to 300 courses played lifetime since 1995, this is surely one of the bottom 25 I've ever played.
Ok dude. And what on that side of Denver is better? Dry dock? That city park one that has you throw over basketball courts and walking paths? Sure it's not great, just better than anything else on that side of town. You have to get out of town there for better Dg.I'm not sure what kind of courses you're used to up in Juneau, R-Ogre, but I'm scratching my head at any recommendation, even a lukewarm positive one, of this Adams Hollow course.
Maybe they did the best they could with the land available, but I got the heebee jeebees on the drive in. And sure enough, while this may be great land for ball golf layouts, for disc golf, it could hardly be any worse. The fact that this course is billed as having "mature trees and a variety of terrain which allows the course to evolve throughout the year" and is "the Denver region's top-rated disc golf course" is simply farcical to me. A pancake has more elevation changes than this course, with the exception of man-made mounds and a waste ditch running through the middle of the course. The entire course is dirty desert scrub, with a comically few number of trees, which do absolutely nothing to force flight lines. Every basket position is pretty much straight in front of you, and you can basically throw any shot or flight path you want on any hole. Want to simulate a round at Adams Hollow? Go out into a open flat field and place a portable basket and then walk 200-300 feet in all four directions from the basket and throw back at it. And after slogging through all the blandness, to add insult to injury, the walk from the basket of hole#18 back to your car in the parking lot is probably close to a half mile.
I think that the reviewers on DGCR who gave this course an average of 3.78 were surely smoking too much of the legal recreational weed here in the city of Denver. I feel bad for all the courses which I gave ratings of 3.75 to. Out of close to 300 courses played lifetime since 1995, this is surely one of the bottom 25 I've ever played.
Ha. Adams is five minutes from my house and according to Udisc is my most played course. If it wasn't so close to home I guarantee it wouldn't be my most played course. It's location just makes it convenient for a quick round after work.
I will say that other than the walk to and from the course it is fairly representative of most of the courses along the front range- lots of dirt and weeds for fairways, few trees in general and they typically don't come into play, little to no elevation in play, and most baskets visible from the tee and generally straight in line with the pad.
The mountain courses are where it's at for Colorado disc golf but even us locals along the front range don't always have time to make a trip to the mountains every time we want to play.
Yeah, I get that, Ray.
Sure I have my local courses which are quick and convenient for a round after work and before sunset. They do the trick quite well.
I guess the difference is that I wouldn't rate them 3.78 and actually advise out-of-towners that they are the best course in the area.
I'd be giving them a caveat that yes, while this is the highest rated course near the airport and the east side of the city, set your expectations low.
I'd tell them to expect a completely flat course with about 25 trees on the entire property with a ridiculous walk from the parking lot to the first tee, and then back again.
I guess that's the big difference.