The Blue Ridge Elementary six-hole layout teeters between being a course and a practice area, but the fact that there's an intuitive and natural order of play versus baskets being scattered randomly about makes me lean toward granting this downtown Dalton school a "barely has a disc golf course" designation.

If you can determine a starting point for teeing off on Hole #1, you can play the rest of the course by teeing off near the previous basket in a counterclockwise manner around the school yard.

For every hole but the last, there are a couple trees to navigate as well as the chain-link fence. I might be generous in rating this as a "moderately wooded" course, but there are trees in play.

This course will be quick to play. In fact, my group of three nearly spent more time trying to figure out the best place to park than throwing plastic.

The baskets are Prodigy T2s and are appropriately blue.

Considering that this string of baskets just barely qualifies as a course, you won't be surprised by the lack of amenities here. No teepads. No signage. No numbers on baskets. No valet parking or concierge service either.

The course is only open to the public during school closures, including after school hours and on weekends and holidays.

There's a chain link fence running along the schoolyard border and if your disc flies over it, you'll probably have to venture into the road to retrieve it.

The playground area has some dirt patches and could be susceptible to muddiness with a little rain.

This course won't rank high on anyone's beauty metric. A well-worn playground and some rundown buildings are visible in the distance.

You can make the first hole as long or short as you like. There's a small sign upon entering the schoolyard that seemed like a decent option. After that, none of the remaining five basket-to-basket distances are more than 120 feet.

There's a through road between the fenced playground and the Blue Ridge Elementary School, so that's the street to take to secure close parking.

Blue Ridge Elementary is close to other courses too. There are five courses within a two-mile radius of the school, from the beginner-friendly Par2 Trail and Park Creek Elementary layouts to the more challenging Christian Heritage and Heritage Point courses.