- Challenge: from long tee to long pin, this is an actual pro level course requiring no changes. Excluding #17, every hole requires big power and precise control. The par4s and par5s are true. The CCRO event in 2019 didn't even use the gold layout for 4 of the holes.
- Variety: with 2 tees and 2 permanent pins on each hole you can scaffold down the difficulty if needed
- Maintenence: the fairway grass was cut to a perfect length. Looks like they have a real staff that maintains the course. Some of the holes are gorgeous with OB, boulders, fountains, etc...
- waterless OB ponds/zones. The challenge without the risk of losing the disc.

- the rough is rough. Use a spotter if you're trying a big shot past your comfort zone
- Needs OB stakes. Since the rough is not OB, you can smash full power shots and land off fairway with no penalty. The 2nd shot of hole 6 comes to mind where you can go deep left to avoid the trees and OB pond. The pros really abused this at the CCRO event.
- cheat lines: guys with over 500 feet of power can "break the course" by throwing over some of the obstacles. A few strategically placed trees (or Mandos) could help here

This is a 100% must-play destination course. If you want to play a real-guy open course with par 4 and 5s, you HAVE to experience it. It has extra layouts and another course on the property (rivers edge) so you can make a day out of it. The river's edge course had a breath taking back 9 by the way.

Fantastic course design. Fun deuce or die shorts to shorts. Fun, challenging two shot par fours from the longs to longs. Long basket positions are challenging and unique in many cases. I used to think of elevated baskets, man made obstacles, etc as gimmicks, but this course uses just about every trick in the book well without seeming like putt putt. The course maintenance/landscaping is better than any course I've played (this was #73). The OB sandtraps are used brilliantly on several holes. This is the first 5 I've given. It's based on the whole complex. (I lied, also gave Flip a 5)

Many people think I'm a tough grader. About my only con for this course is the mando wall on #2. Just seemed silly to me, and is about the only "clown's mouth" thing that detracted from this course.

The park is a very nice county park with numerous options for things to do. Having two completely different courses, as others have mentioned, makes this possibly THEE destination location in the state. Add to the fact Devil's Den is really FOUR courses in one with the tee/basket options...you could make this a multiple day trip and not be bored. The addition of short tee pads on River's Edge to make it more beginner/junior friendly is literally about the only thing lacking at this facility.

This course was amazing. We researched courses in the area to play while we were traveling from VA to Grand Rapids, Michigan and were very glad we chose this.
You will throw a lot of discs in your bag. There was a great variety of shots and every hole had a great location.

The only thing negative was a lot of mosquitoes.

And maybe not scheduling enough time to be able to play the course again from the other tee or to the other basket.

It's worth your drive and the fee to play. It's well designed and well maintained.

Love it. Can spend ALL day here. Worth the 5$.

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None really. So much to pick from

Massive holes if you play gold.

Designed and manicured very well. Lots of perfectly placed autumn olive shrubs and the like make its many open holes not feel at all like open holes.

Long and short tees and baskets for each hole means 18^4 different game permutations are available! Long tee to long basket setup is over 9,500 feet for the pro and advanced player. Short to short is in the 4,500 feet range, and you could devise anything between the two to suit your desires. There's something for everybody.

Artificial O.B. is created niftily in many spots throughout the course. There are several unique features, too, such as the brick wall on #2's long tee, the "island" basket placement nearer the end of the course, and the breathtaking use of box elder trees that grew diagonally for the long tee on one of the holes later in the course.

Pay to enter and pay to play (as much as $9/day for out-of-county residents) probably helps keep the riff-raff to a minimum.

Anything in the "con" category is merely nit-picking...

I dislike the basket placements on top of pimple-like artificial mounds.

There could be a few more tightly wooded holes to balance the game-feel. Only #8 sticks out in my memory as I sit here as primarily a wooded hole.

The logistics between #10, #11 and #15 can be confusing if you miss the signs.

Burchfield Park (in combination with the brand-new River course) is a destination Disc Golf facility all day long. I played it today for the first time, and the excitement I've got is similar to when Hudson Mills first put in their Monster course back in about 1997, and many of the holes feel similar. In fact, my 79 and 81 playing the Long to Long setup is commensurate to what I'd shoot playing Hudson Mills' Monster...except that Burchfield is only 18 holes, HMM 24!...and I loved nearly every inch of it.

I want to draw particular attention to Hole #10. Every course should have several holes like this one. It's not even close to the best hole here in terms of cool terrain, unusual trees, or some sort of unique device on it (such as #2's brick wall!), and it's dead flat in terms of elevation, but I just adore the designer's eye for creating an actual GOLF hole here. There is risk/reward if you choose to go right...You risk going O.B. due to the perfectly-placed park road, and if your Disc barely peters off to the left, you've got the large circle of dense shrubbery...BUT, if you pinpoint a great 300ish foot drive, you've got an easier (not a breeze, though!) upshot at the basket. If the drive to the right seems too risky for your desires at the moment, you can instead aim way left and have a longer, tighter tunnel to the basket for a second shot. Less risk at the beginning, but more at the middle to end of this option. #10 is simple, yet outstanding...And I'd like to see a lot more of this kind of thing throughout all of our courses (especially since it doesn't take a lot of special terrain or obstacles to make it happen).

The four permutation-per-hole setup is...is...astonishingly awesome, and this layout is a prime example of how you're supposed to make "open" holes. My 1996 self is giddy to see that we've finally arrived at a time and place in our sport's history when courses like this seem to be popping up on the map all the time. To think I used to travel this far for courses much more banal...

This course is super, it has elements of Flip City (my favorite) with the some rock landscapings and Hudson Mills (my 1st favorite course) with some "prairie" golf holes while being extremely well mowed. Generally I despise "prairie golf" but it was so well maintained it didn't feel like it.

The park/course is beautiful. The cut grass defined the fairways in a terrific fashion. Moderate elevation and sand traps made this feel like a ball course at times. It's one of the best manicured courses that I have seen including Idlewild.

Two baskets on every hole, the blue (short) was a nice challenge for this Adv Masters player while the yellow (long and extremely) were pro or world class caliber.

Extra long concrete tees.

A few ace runs and some holes over 500 ft from the short tees, nice variety. Nothing too tight on the wooded holes.

Secluded feeling in the park is much appreciated.

#18's long basket area with a rock wall, flowers and a waterfall!

It's now in my top five out of 300+ courses played!

Not obvious from the parking lot to find tee #1, after you start it's well marked with plenty of next tee arrows.

The long baskets were EXTREMELY long in places. I thought about playing from the short basket to the long basket several times.

I played here after Labor Day and didn't have to pay but am willing to send a donation to this great DG destination. Donation sent!

The baskets and flags do NOT have the hole number on them.

The mando wall on hole #2 made me think "WTF" from the tee but my tomahawk shot cleared it easily.

When playing #11 it is easy to throw at short #15.

While playing it I was thinking of rating it a 5 but due to some slight repetition and not enough elevation as my other 5's have, I'd like to give this course 4.75, it's that good!

Playing it a 2nd time a year later (short tees to long baskets) I'm upgrading my rating to a 5!

A 2nd course is also in the same park, you have to see and play #2 down the toboggan run. Do not leave without doing this!