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Millersburg, IN

Cook Station Park

1.85(based on 5 reviews)
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Radrad
Experience: 6 played 5 reviews
2.00 star(s)

New Course Coming drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Dec 29, 2023 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Nice Innova baskets with yellow ring and red flag on top - easy to spot.
Park/restrooms open 5 am to 10 pm.
Had the whole park to myself on the day I played.
Little chance to lose a disc except hole 3.
Surprising for a little farm town in Amish country.

Cons:

Tees were hard to find - five easily, two with a little bit of searching. Never did find #7 and #9.
Two horse picket lines must be thrown over or around on hole #2.
#3 hole is next to impossible.
#9 hole has a row of large trees in line with the tee and basket.
Low branches on many holes.

Other Thoughts:

A lot of Amish buggies and Amish bicycles on the roads in this area. Please drive carefully.

Update: I talked to an Amish, of course, maintenance man who said that this spring (2024), a new course will be set-up. It will be 18 holes with new baskets. I played the old course in December, 2023 and the ground was a little squishy in places, but not bad for the rain we had yesterday. Someone uncovered tee #9 near the basketball courts. #7 at the base of the hill is still MIA. Restrooms were closed for the winter.

October review: Played on a Sunday morning after three days of showers. Was surprised that there was no standing water. All the Amish were still at their meetings. I've been to Delt Church Park when there was 100+ buggies. I would expect the same here on a sunny weekend. Park in front of the pavilion. Restrooms were open on 10/22/2023. I remember in my hometown everything was locked up the day after Labor Day. Grass was shorter near the pavilion, cut longer (4") further away. Bright color discs a must.

I was surprised at the facility. Millersburg is a tiny town. The "downtown" shopping district consists of a single store - Dollar General. The park has two volleyball courts (one net up), a huge playground, a gravel jogging loop with exercise stations, two basketball courts, four baseball diamonds and a half dozen sets of all-weather cornhole games (bring your own bags).

There is a row of pine trees on the far side of the volleyball courts and another one on the right side when standing at the pavilion. Tee one is under the row of trees to the right.

Tee two is between the road and hole one. This one will be difficult, throwing over/around the horses and buggies during an Amish gathering.

Hole three is near impossible. Low (7-8 foot) branches and a 15-foot wide "runway for 200 feet then a left turn along another runway with low branches for 200 feet, then the target is in a gap in a row of trees to the right. There is some rough, two-foot-tall grass that you could throw over to "cut the corner". It was laying down on my visit in the fall. I can imagine it swallowing a disc in the summer.

Tee six is right next to the access road. Your run-up will be on the road. Hole six is on top of a man-made hill.

Never did find tee seven. Pacing back from the target 289 feet, it should be right at the base of the hill, near the steps. More fun to throw from the top of the hill. Careful on those steps - an accident waiting to happen.

Did not find tee nine either. Pacing back from the target 281 feet puts you between the road and the closest corner of the first basketball court. From there a row of trees, again with low branches line up with the target. That puts you back to the parking area.

I will probably play this course again as there ain't much else in this neck of the woods and it is a nice bike ride on the rural roads.
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Central Scrutinizer
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Experience: 35 years 168 played 17 reviews
2.00 star(s)

How Wonderful for Millersburg Residents! 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Dec 26, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

9 holes laid out with as much purpose as the park allows, utilizing moderate amounts of 20-ish year old trees here and there, plus a winding path or two, a softball fence, etc., that could be used as artificial O.B.

One pin on top of a steep man-made hill that was pretty nifty. Another hole with a lot of character (#3, if memory serves) with a steeplechase-like tee off, or a layup to its right, rewarding those who attempt to go over the steeplechase-like trees with an easier approach to a well-placed pin in evergreens. The next hole is also cool, utilizing the softball fence for an O.B. threat to the right, but scattered trees to the left.

The holes are lengthy enough for me (a middle-aged, former mediocre Am-1 player who can still reach 300' with my trusty Blizzard Destroyer) to use the drivers in my bag, some of them a drive and an upshot with a putter.

Nice double-chained DISCatchers with the flags still on top for visibility.

Cons:

It's so new that not all of the tee markers are installed yet. I think we had to improvise our own tee-offs for four of them. Right now, it's just a small block of wood and natural grass tees for those that are marked.

There weren't really any tight woods holes. Several of them are pretty wide open.

Also no map or anything yet. I was lucky enough to be playing with a friend who lives in town and had scoured the park to identify which baskets were which. I'm pretty sure we played the baskets in the right order. I think.

There was one weird lengthy walk from one of the interior hole's basket to the next tee, but I'll cut some slack considering all of the other stuff going on in the park too.

While I was pleased that the holes were lengthy and I could use my drivers, none of them were mid-range holes where I teed off with any of my Buzzz/Roc/Stingray/Stratus type Discs. I pretty much used the same two or three drivers and my putter for the whole round. Then again, we didn't know where four of the tees even were supposed to be, so maybe those are going to be marked a little shorter?

Other Thoughts:

This is the small town where I grew up going to elementary school, and for it to even have a course with baskets at all is utterly amazing to me...and it's even a pretty good 9-holer! The designers did a great job putting in 9 holes that had purpose and I enjoyed myself.

By no means is this a destination course, but if you happen to be in or near the area, it'll be worth your time for a quick round or two especially once they get a course map up and properly install something that denotes a tee for each hole.

UPDATE from July '15: I returned and played the course again for the second time, which now has every tee defined. I need to amend this review back to reality a bit.

The one really glaring fault of this 9-holer is a lack of scoring separation. Lots of wide-open holes in that range of distance where you're not going to deuce or bogey very often, unless you're a good pro player, and probably not very many of them will ever set foot on this course.

Sadly, some key trees have been cut down since my visit in December, too. It really subtracted from the character especially on the last few holes.

Last December, I was giddy to even see any sort of Disc Golf action in this horrifically conservative area where I grew up and probably gave it a little too much love. 3.0 is not accurate here. It's still very nice to have something like this if you're a Millersburg resident and I still have fun when I play it. Just be prepared to pull out your driver and throw it hard, attempt 75' upshots, and make lots of easy 3s with low probabilities of 2s.

Also, on #7, it's way more fun to tee off next to #6's basket on top of the hill rather than play the prescribed tee. That's what I'll do each and every time I'm there.
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