-Great teepads and baskets
-Some really fantastic views especially on the latter half of the course
-The land is tailor made for disc golf: mix of open areas/moderate foliage/thickets, plus plenty of elevation changes.
-For a nine hole course, there's a decent variety of shot shapes to execute
-Fun factor is high. This was a really enjoyable place to play.

-Comes nowhere close to capitalizing on the potential that the land offers. Some examples of this:
* course could easily be 12-15 holes with no additional footprint. Could comfortably fit a full 18 if the course used just a little bit more of the park.
*the land has lots of elevation changes, but the course design doesn't really capitalize on it. There are lots of spots that require you to hike down or up significant inclines between holes...it would be a lot more fun to THROW up/down those inclines.
-Related to the first 'Con,' almost all holes require a significant trek to get to the next teepad. This begs the question: why not install more holes, rather than have large chunks of land go unused?
-Lots of blind shots, plus no park map. Thankfully some kind soul perfectly mapped it out on uDisc, otherwise I would have had no clue how to navigate.

-I played in the winter with 8" of snow on the ground, which means I can't really comment on course maintenance or how busy it gets. The park is surrounded by a college and very nice neighborhood though, so this seems like the type of place that would be well maintained.
-Black Elk has SO MUCH potential. Seriously, this could be a destination course with the right design. The land reminded me a bit of Water Works in KC, which is high praise indeed. But Water Works is perfect in both land and design, whereas Black Elk has awesome land but very mediocre design. This place could be great but instead it's just OK.

Two large tee boxes per hole, although they are pretty close to each other.
Nice baskets.
Neat views from top of hill.

A little hard to navigate. Never did find basket seven.
Using the map, if you look real closely you can see the tee pads which will help you figure out the flow. The trees all around basket 8 were cut down, presumably because they were dead or diseased. Seem to be quite of few that were not doing well. Basket seven which shows up on the map probably is buried in some new growth that I didn't feel like digging around for.

Some of the tee posts were missing, or the metal plates on top showing direction / distance to the baskets were missing.

A 2.5 is not a bad rating. It's just kind of typical. The topography really helped keep this course rating up. The maintenance issues pulled the rating down.

This course is on top of a very scenic hill with a great view! The parking area is nice and ends with some huge religious looking monument thing at the peak. This course is like someone installed the cement tee pads and baskets in the middle of a tree farm. This place has lots of trees, 2 tee pads and 2 pin placements on each hole, some elevation, and a well thought out layout for 9 holes. A few of the holes had well placed baskets. Don't get me wrong, there are pathways to the holes. So, this is not a throw and hope it gets through kind of holes. This was a very clean place to play and it seemed to have well maintained grounds.

For having such short holes, many of the holes required you to walk up a little ways to see where that basket was located. Navigation isn't that easy, and I did need a map. Mostly this is due to not being able to see the next hole or the length of walk between some of the holes. I really wish they had put in the full 18 holes as there was plenty of room to do this. The hole lengths did not vary that much. Many of the tee marker plates were missing. There were no trashcans on the course itself and I did not find a restroom here either. Basket 9 and tee 1 are not close to each other.

The Fun Factor for this course was just OK. Some of the holes were fun to navigate around the trees on, but the variety of length was a little dull. I tend to like these kind of courses with lots of trees, but this one didn't end up being as much fun as I anticipated. It is still a nice course for its size and the area. If you have the course map, it might be worth a stop.

Very nice scenery on a hill top with very challenging basket placements.

Up and down the hill too many times. You would often play a hole down the hill, then have to walk back up the hill to the next tee. Some of the basket placements are next to impossible to par (completely surrounded by trees).

Too much dead space. This is a nine hole course, but could easily be 18 if they filled in the dead space. You do alot of walking in empty space when you could be playing holes there.