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.

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.

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.

- This Amish-heavy area has a nine hole disc golf course as part of the small multi-use town park.
- Port-a-johns, pavilion, ball field, and the big draw to the park: an awesome playground for the kiddos.
- There could be some lines to hit around some trees and things, if one could only find more than one or two of the tees from which to throw.
- There does seem to be some sort of flow from the baskets, in that, they are all there and kinda lead you around the park in a counter-clockwise circle.
- Friendly locals! Love the Amish peoples, please drive carefully and watch for the increased bike and carriage traffic! Be sure to wave hello!

- Good luck finding the tees. The tee signage is set flush in the ground, and the longer grass totally obscures all but one or two. Never did find #1, and that's a bad start to a poor course. I gave up halfway through because I had a three year old dying of boredom and safari golfed from "where it seemed right"...
- Literally tethered carriage horses on picket lines blocking #2's basket from just about anywhere you could choose to throw from.
- Ugly surroundings, sorry, *checks town name* Millersburg, IN. You foul. And kinda stinky.
- If you're, like, uptight n shizzz, skip this course cuz these missing tees will drive you up a wall.

- Came into this expecting to do some searching for the tees; did NOT expect to run into such difficulty. Did a *lot* of walking around searching. Skip entirely unless you're the most degenerate bagger hitting bottom. Not even a good course for beginners, or field work, and the raggedy shaggy factor doesn't help out on the aesthetics.

nice layout for basically flat course.
enough trees to provide some challenge.
hill is fun to play up and down
nice playground if you have young kids to entertain.

tees are really hard to find. we found 6 of 9.

Don't know why they didn't play hole 7 off of the top of the hill. That's where we played it from. Would have enjoyed a 2nd play if it hadn't started raining,.

"Millersburg" and "disc golf" were never uttered in the same sentence when I was growing up. I never even would have considered using this park for a course. But somebody did, and on a recent visit I had to go play it. We'll ignore my childhood memories of the place and focus on the course.

Equipment: The baskets are in pristine condition, as this course is still quite new. Being in a multi-use park, I was pleasantly surprised to find that none of them showed any damage from climbing children or vandalizing teenagers. I've found bent baskets on courses that were three days old, so any time you find them in this condition? Bravo. They're also quite easy to find, being Discatchers that the designer placed the "Innova" flags on top of.

Navigation: Navigation pros? I don't know. They at least started to mark hole lengths?

Design: It's hard to speak to the design of the entire course, but what I did figure out provided some interesting looks. They did a great job of utilizing large areas of a park that weren't being used, but managed to stay out of the baseball diamond, volleyball courts, and playground. There are some decent lines that you have to shape throughout your round. Despite the fact that it's a flat course (excepting hole 6), you're forced to shape your shots around the small and scattered trees around the property. The player isn't forced to take a particular shot due to the lack of technicality, but some holes have more obvious lines because of the trees.

Equipment: There are no teepads. At all. There isn't even a railroad tie sunk into the ground. Being a newer and low traffic course, there aren't even bald patches in the grass to hint where one must tee off from. This is dangerous too considering how wet grass can get and how long some of these holes are. You aren't throwing 400+' from a standstill after all...

Navigation: This aspect of the course really crippled the experience for me. The navigation aids are abysmal. Some of the "tees" have cement markers in the ground indicating distance and direction, but that's it. There's no map, no signage, and not even any tape on the baskets. Free tip to any locals who know the course: Find some caution tape. Tie it on the side of the basket to indicate which direction the tee is. Or use yellow tape. Or glow tape. SOMETHING. Even the cement markers on the ground are useless to a first time player, because they're sunk in and can't be spotted until you're about 10' away. I walked all over that property looking for those things, and never did find the markers for 1 , 3, 4, or 7. By the time I'd figured out what I could I just wanted to leave.

Design: I was pleased with the design overall. This course lacks a lot, but the designer used what the property provided intelligently. My only complaint would be that either A.) They didn't make a "top of the world" shot (albeit a 20' high one) from 6 to 7, or B.) if they did, they made players throw directly over the teepad for 8. It seems like they could have made "A" happen without "B" being a problem if they'd put their minds to it. I also felt like the walkout from 4 to 5 was asinine. More thoughts on that in my "other thoughts".

Northern Indiana needs more 9-hole courses. They provide an introduction to the game to new players who aren't ready for the more difficult 18's of the world, and who don't necessarily want to pay to learn the game elsewhere as most courses in this area require. I feel like this course falls just short of the "family friendly" approach that most good niners achieve though, because the holes are a bit long for new players. I personally liked the length, but as a brand new player I know I wouldn't have fallen in love with the game as much or as quickly if I'd been asked to throw 420' on the second hole I ever played.

Now for some tips to any players who are just passing through and feel like bagging a course like I did: Don't bother. But if you do want to add to your "played" list, the following may help you (hole tips):

1. The basket is located just past the pavilion. I have no idea where the teepad is. You could park by the baseball diamonds and start there (for a long walk back from 9), or you could start by the pavilion, avoid the playground, and have a super short tee-shot.

2. If you walk towards the path from the 1 basket, you'll find the tee marker buried in the ground. You're throwing to that basket tucked into the trees to the slight right.

3. No tee marker that I could find. I just walked back to the path and threw from there to the basket in the back.

4. Again, no marker. Just used the path again to throw to the basket between there and the 1 basket. You can create all sorts of interesting lines through those trees depending on where you tee from.

5. This marker is all the way down the path back to the road (a good 400+' away from the 4 basket). To make it a less boring walk, I threw to the 1 basket. I think this should be the actual design anyway. Start from the 2 pad as 1 and play in this same order. Then throw from the path at the current 4 to the 1 basket and call it 4. Just an opinion. Then you have a much shorter walkout to number 5, and you finish relatively close to where you started.

6. The marker for this is on the other side of the road from the 5 basket, between the sign for the snowmobile path and the shed. The basket is on top of the hill behind the shed for a fun uphill hyzer shot. Or, if you noob hyzer it, a fun opportunity to park your disc on a roof.

7. I didn't find any marker. I just threw from the top because it was fun. You're throwing to the closer of the two baskets on the other side of the road.

8. You passed the marker on the edge of the road on your walk to the 7 basket.

9. The marker for this one is on the far edge of the basketball courts. This was probably my favorite shot on the course. It reminded me of a much younger sibling to hole 1 at Blue Lake (see Portland Worlds coverage) and opened up some interesting roller routes.

This course has potential. Despite the lack of technicality, it requires some interesting lines. But unlike technical courses, it allows newer players to learn the flight of their disc without much damage to the score if your shot doesn't land quite where you aimed it. So it's a great course to work on one's game.

I later heard from a local that they're hoping to put in another nine holes in an open area to the north of hole 6. I don't know anything about that. Hopefully they work on the flaws on the existing nine first, and then maybe add on the back. I'm not 100% sure where that new nine would be, but I'll gladly update my review (and my rating) if I pass through town next time and find that it's improved. But as of this week? It is what it is.

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.

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?

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.