Campgaw Reservation - Blue/Black reviews
3
2
coyotisdog
Experience:
9.1 years
54 played
2 reviews
Way Over-rated 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 23, 2018
Played the course:once
Pros:
Some fun holes. Nice views.
Cons:
Horrible signage. Difficult to navigate. Little to no maintenance. Play here if you enjoy losing discs.
Other Thoughts:
A few years ago, this place was rated the best course in NJ. Not true anymore. Not even close. Greystone, Field of Dreams, Tecumseh, And Thompson Park are all way better.
A friend and I had been wanting to play this course for years based on the reputation. We finally took a trip up there, and what a disappointment!
When we got to the first tee, we met a local who advised us not to play the "black tees" unless we wanted to lose discs. He happily told us about the green tees which were all a bunch of par 3"s. We had driven over an hour to get here, and we wanted to experience the best that the "Mighty Gaw" had to offer, so we went with the black tees. What a mistake.
First off, most holes had no next tee signs. Second, none of the baskets had a number on it. One hole had a hole map drawn on a piece of plastic that was laying on the ground, held down by a rock in waist-high weeds. I found this by accident. And speaking of waist high weeds, that's what you play the last 3 or 4 holes in. Hole 18 could be an epic 1500' hole, if only someone knew how to operate a lawnmower. We lost 3 discs on this hole and gave up.
If anyone reading this has any influence whatsoever in maintaining this course, for the love of God, please fix your signs and cut your grass! With a little effort you could have a great course.
A friend and I had been wanting to play this course for years based on the reputation. We finally took a trip up there, and what a disappointment!
When we got to the first tee, we met a local who advised us not to play the "black tees" unless we wanted to lose discs. He happily told us about the green tees which were all a bunch of par 3"s. We had driven over an hour to get here, and we wanted to experience the best that the "Mighty Gaw" had to offer, so we went with the black tees. What a mistake.
First off, most holes had no next tee signs. Second, none of the baskets had a number on it. One hole had a hole map drawn on a piece of plastic that was laying on the ground, held down by a rock in waist-high weeds. I found this by accident. And speaking of waist high weeds, that's what you play the last 3 or 4 holes in. Hole 18 could be an epic 1500' hole, if only someone knew how to operate a lawnmower. We lost 3 discs on this hole and gave up.
If anyone reading this has any influence whatsoever in maintaining this course, for the love of God, please fix your signs and cut your grass! With a little effort you could have a great course.
5
3
Sketto
Experience:
12.5 years
147 played
10 reviews
Needs More Signage And Mowing 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 24, 2013
Played the course:once
Pros:
- A good physical challenge since you're climbing a mountain while you play and doing lots of scaling of rocks and trees.
- Decent mixture of looks on most of the holes
- Heaving it down the hill at the end of the round was fun.
- Decent mixture of looks on most of the holes
- Heaving it down the hill at the end of the round was fun.
Cons:
- Impossible not to get lost several times. Signage was spare, to say the least. Really, really needs more indicators of where to go next. It's a heavily wooded mountain with hiking trails all over, so I found myself often guessing at where the next tee was.
- Because there are several courses overlapping each other (Black/Blue/Green) but not consistently, it's always a guess as to if you're on the right course. I tried to play Black, which has uses the Blue/Green teepads sometimes and sometimes has its own, but there's no way to tell when. Also, you could be on Hole 8 Black, but the teepad says Hole 16 Green. Yes, this could work and other courses do it too, but there is so little consistency and so little signage, it really took away from the enjoyment of the round.
- I played in June, which should have been "summer course", but playing the Black tees sucked after about the 10th hole because all the upper slope fairways were covered with waist high tallgrass, making even clean, simple drives into the center of the fairway a game of "find the disc". It was more of a slog through the high grass and mud than a disc golf round.
-Really wasn't worth the drive for me (3 hours).
- Because there are several courses overlapping each other (Black/Blue/Green) but not consistently, it's always a guess as to if you're on the right course. I tried to play Black, which has uses the Blue/Green teepads sometimes and sometimes has its own, but there's no way to tell when. Also, you could be on Hole 8 Black, but the teepad says Hole 16 Green. Yes, this could work and other courses do it too, but there is so little consistency and so little signage, it really took away from the enjoyment of the round.
- I played in June, which should have been "summer course", but playing the Black tees sucked after about the 10th hole because all the upper slope fairways were covered with waist high tallgrass, making even clean, simple drives into the center of the fairway a game of "find the disc". It was more of a slog through the high grass and mud than a disc golf round.
-Really wasn't worth the drive for me (3 hours).
Other Thoughts:
- This may have once been a cool course when first created, but it really doesn't seem cared for and eventually that feeling made me just want to enjoy the strenuous hike and skip the constant disc-hunting that I had to do.
