Boyertown, PA

Earl Township Community Park

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itsRudy
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 7.8 years 74 played 63 reviews
1.00 star(s)

A Long Walk Back Uphill After an Underwhelming Round

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 21, 2022 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

This is an open field 9er northwest of Boyertown with a scenic view down into the valley. It's mostly dead straight holes of differing lengths and no obstructions. Oftentimes the fairways are narrow strips mowed into tall grass. Median distance of 253', it feels a bit long for the absolute beginners. Elevation is a factor mostly on downhill #3 and return uphill #7.

If you want a solitary place to practice disc golf, this is it. It will be free of players 99% of days. It's okay for DG newcomers in autumn but any appeal wears thin quickly, there are much better courses nearby.

+Grass tees and the tee posts do a good enough job here.

Cons:

Seven repetitious straight holes and fairly narrow fairways cut into tall grass, that will play hide and seek with your discs come summer. Overall, it's just too much hassle. I don't even bother to play during my annual visits.

I got really excited as I first toured this huge, expansive, beautiful park but it's a bait and switch on the expectations. It's as if, walking in, you think you're gonna get this massive Waterpark of a course and then just find this stupid dinky Kiddie Pool after the gate instead. I never wanted a total remake so badly in my DG life.

There's a complete lack of signage in the parking lot about the course and even the park map onsite doesn't mention it. It's easy to wander around a long time without finding it. Read up on the starting point on the course info tab.

It's about a 10-minute walk down from the parking lots. 150 feet elevation change downhill to the first tee, however, the course only uses of a further 50 feet. The asphalt paths are steep in places and can be hard on the knees. The nature is nice...

But the uphill return after a completely underwhelming round just about curb stomped any enthusiasm I had left for this place.

-Signs in lot repeatedly warn that parking gates close automatically at dusk. GTFO! I guess.

Other Thoughts:

Terrain has lots of UNTAPPED potential. But the Execution is bad. Upkeep is minimal. Difficulty lies in finding disc in tall grass. Fun Factor is abysmal. No crowd. Overall just a poor experience.
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swatso
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Experience: 15.8 years 755 played 414 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Missed Opportunity? 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 17, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

Safari and/or glow possibilities. Room to expand/re-design.

Cons:

Many tee signs missing - posts still remain to identify tee location. Natural tees, although nearby paved walking path could be used for some of them. Many tees too close to baskets. Some cross-fire problems.

Other Thoughts:

Caveat: I have no idea what design and/or budget constraints were in force when this course was installed. That said, the course does not utilize the landscape as much as it might have. This course is on a huge hill, I'm guessing maybe 1/4 mile long and about equally wide, with woods at the top, bottom, and right side. Scattered about the hillsides are hedgerows, some running cross-slope, some running up-n-down. One can easily imagine an exhausting (think up-n-down the hill twice) 18=hole course, going up, down, and across the hill, in-and-out of the woods, up-n-over/along hedges, etc. Instead, you have a 9=hole course, where holes 1-2, 8-9 play along the flat top of the hill, best hole #3 down the hill and over a hedge, 4-6 a wide-open, |_|-shaped field combination, to #7, wide-open, back up the hill.

Five minute downhill walk (at the fork, bear left) to the course, so obviously a bit tougher return. Basket-3 is just behind the large tree on the left side of the hedge about 300' away down the hill.

I actually liked the course, but oh, what might have been (could be) ...
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optidiscic
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 21.9 years 156 played 149 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Hidden Hillside 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jan 18, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

A really sweet park on the side of a small mountain. The disc golf course (they label it frisbee golf here) is far away from other park activities...so feel free to grip and rip. Open hills with elevation. Nice baskets and tee signs...Easy to navigate. Well maintained mowed fairways. Open so it is relaxing disc golf. Fun to throw up and down hill at open baskets. Great place to work on shots and teach the game. The views here are really pretty.

Cons:

Looong walk from car to hole #1. Takes about as long to walk to course as it does to play course. It is not real challenging, except for chances at aces, experts will get bored here. Baskets are literally next to tee pads of next hole. Just 9 holes. holes 1 and 9 literally face one another, like a game of chicken almost. A tough to see road is very close to hole 2 and 7 baskets. I did not notice it until a car roared by. woooah! Tee pads are not great, but you don't need much here. Seems like this land has a lot more potential. Trees everywhere but none on the course.

Other Thoughts:

Along the long beautiful walk I observed a few open fields a lot of old growth forrest with natural lanes. Amazing elevation. This could be a destination course if someone gives some love. I keep getting pleasantly surprised by some of these 9 holers. I would suggest other disc golfers make a point to at least check some of them out. Some of them are really fun.
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nosajeel99
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 22.9 years 37 played 24 reviews
1.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Oct 4, 2008 Played the course:once

Pros:

Easy to navigate. Good place to work on approach shots. In a really nice park.

Cons:

No variety, no distance. Every hole is a couple hundred feet (117' to 339') to a wide open basket. The course is set up on the side of a hill. Only about 5 trees come into play during the whole course and they are all on hole 3. The tees are about 15 feet from the previous basket (literally). There isn't much to this course at all.

Other Thoughts:

The only reason you would want to take more than one disc out is for practice on shots. I took my overstable Roc out and played the entire course. Whoever put in this course obviously never played the sport before. It gets one disc because the baskets were nice and the course seemed to be in very good condition.
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