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Sparta, WI

Amundson Park

2.215(based on 7 reviews)
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Bfrolfer
Experience: 3.9 years 35 played 15 reviews
1.00 star(s)

No longer in service 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 3, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Easy to find in the city of Sparta and along the scenic LaCrosse River.

Cons:

Only 5 baskets are visible. The parks department assured me the other 13 are out in the woods somewhere but they quit maintaining them. No tees are visible.

Other Thoughts:

I hope they begin to maintain this course again.
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Stardoggy
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Experience: 12.8 years 1009 played 214 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Deliverance, WI. 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Oct 9, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

It's a disc golf course. I think.

Really nice Chainstar baskets. The ones I found were mounted well enough, and caught great. One pin position per hole. I think. A theme is going to start forming now.

I'm being super creative to come up with pros for this course. Of the holes I found (I think they were actual holes), there were some cool lines, especially around the river.

Plenty of parking. I think. Unless a lot of people are using the archery range. Be careful to not get clipped by an arrow. I think. It may be better to just put you out of your misery before starting, though.

Cons:

Natural tee pads. I think. I kinda sorta stumbled across a few areas that were tees. I think. It's hard to tell, though, outside the occasional tiny, rusty, bent to the ground flags. What I'm saying, I think, is that there aren't many discernible tees. Just spots where it looks like somebody may have once thrown frisbees from. Or performed a seance. I think.

The course is built in a f@#ing swamp. Remember the scene from Stand By Me, where the kids are walking through the water, and suddenly sink? Yeah, that happened here. I just can't fathom how somebody walked through this area and said "yeah, people are going to love walking through a f@#$ing swamp to play disc golf".

Not cart friendly.

No signage anywhere. Navigation is a nightmare. There are some winding paths that run through the woods. I think. I'd call them deer paths, but I think a buck would slap his fawn if he created such a crappy path through anything. There was the occasional arrow painted on a tree, but I'm pretty sure they just led to a scene from Deliverance (I'm almost positive I heard the banjos playing in the distance). It's most assuredly a trap.

If you're a three toothed yokel, you may see this as a pro, but the course is located directly behind a large trailer park. A swamp behind a trailer park. I can't make this stuff up. To top off this hillbilly sundae, the trailer at the entrance to the park flies three flags: Confederate, US, and "Don't Tread On Me". THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!

Other Thoughts:

I'm sure there's a group of five locals that completely know their way around this place, as it feels far more like somebody's backyard course than it does anything planned by a city (shame on you, Sparta). It's completely dumbfounding, in such a beautiful, picturesque area, that THIS is the spot that was chosen for a disc golf course.

Basically, this is a pretty big waste of some really nice baskets. Don't bother wasting your time here.
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