Forest Park Is a small city park with a small creek running through. It has a picnic shelter, a playground, some elevation changes, and plenty of mature trees. The course is interesting and extremely well marked. The 9 hole course has two, nice larger tee pads for each hole. Each tee pad has it's own tee separate tee sign. The metal signs are brand new and each one has a nice clear map, hole #, par, distance and a sponsor. Each hole has two baskets. One basket is a yellow Discatcher with number on top. The other basket is a pretty grey Discatcher with number on top (I have not seen this pretty color on any other course). It took me a couple of holes to figure out that these baskets were called the Gold and Silver courses. The Grey baskets (Silvers) are labeled on the tee signs as the "A" and the the Yellow baskets are called the "B". Is all this clear, thus far?
Now to help you with the navigation, each Gold and Silver basket also has either gold or silver tape on the bottom of the basket which points you toward the next tee. There is also wooden directional arrow hung below the basket pointing you towards the next tees.
The course plays somewhere between a pitch and putt and an easy rec course. I only had time to play from the "A's or Silver course.
I managed to find the creek on # 2. The creek sits probably 15' behind the A basket. I had no idea it was there. The creek could also come into play on # 9 as the basket is perched right on the edge of the creek.

Even with all these wonderful navigational aids, it's a little tricky getting around. It took me a hole or two to notice the tape on the baskets and also to figure out this Gold/Silver thing.
The course is recreational easy.

Hoe come with I play these simple little city park 9 hole courses, they have all these great arrows and navigational aids to guide you around and when I play some 18 hole course in the thickest forest, there's not an arrow to be found?
With two pads and two baskets, this is really an 18 hole course. It actually could or should be listed as Forest Park Silver Course and the Forest Park Gold Course. Two separate and distinct courses.

Another option (and I'm sure the locals already play this) is to play from the Silver tee to the Gold basket. And then switch it up and play from the Gold tee to the Silver basket!. Now this gives you four easy options here at Forest Gump Park DGC!

Also, these new baskets and all the navigational help must be recent upgrading as other reviewers haven't mentioned any of this in their reviews.

- Nice older park with bathrooms and water fountains. Scenic, and built on the side of a hill that adds dimension and depth to the course - as does a little brook that runs through the middle of the park.
- Two tees for each hole, except for #8. Looks like it was removed recently for the vehicle turn-around. You can still play from the turn-around concrete though. The 'B' tees have actually been laid out very nicely to create a whole different layout. It really could be a different and effective 18 holes.
- Definitely some thought put into tee placement. There is plenty of shot shaping required around the big older trees.
- Most holes less than 300 ft, but it's certainly not a pitch and putt.
- Signs at the 'A' tees with just the hole number. No map needed really, as all pins are visible.
- #2 up a significantly steep hill, which probably makes the 300ish ft hole play more like 350 or 375.
- #3 pin runs up to a shallow, slow-moving creek, about 20 feet away or so. Definitely crosses your mind from the tee pad.
- #7 pin placement is challenging, as it's on the downslope of a little hill to the road. Makes putting a premium, to avoid a roll-away.

- Finding Tee #1 was a bit difficult, for me actually. I didn't realize that the course started on the opposite side of the creek from the main park and entrance.
- Navigation is a little weird, just because since it's fit into a park, the holes don't directly lead straight to one another. #3 to #4 was probably the worst. You can hop across the creek on stepping stones, or walk around via the stone bridge.
- Older baskets in really rough shape, that it sounds like have been repurposed from and older course. Nice that they could be used to create this course though. They do have the hole number on top of them.
- Looks like the hole number and distance used to be stenciled onto the tee pads. Most have worn off completely though.
- Lots of stuff going on in this park. The pavilions and playgrounds are mostly out of the way, but if there are lots of people in the park, it could become crowded very quickly.
- A little bit of a shame that they didn't use the creek more for a couple of the holes.
- #8 has an interesting pin placement in some trees, but from the 'B' tee I don't know that there is actually a viable line through the stand of trees that guard it. Not really a fair hole, even though scoring a 3 shouldn't be much of a problem.

- I enjoyed my round here, and I wish I would've had the time to play a 2nd round on all the 'B' tees. Solid neighborhood park 9-hole, that definitely adds dimension most don't have with another 9 'B' tees. Probably adds 0.5 to my rating, actually.

Alternate tees on every hole. Good use of elevation changes and available trees/stream.

Park is a bit crowded with holes stuck between picnic areas, roads, and playgrounds. Long walk from #3 to #4. Baskets are old and some have bent baskets that can result in discs falling out that would be in on normal baskets.
Poorly marked - need signs back and tee pads repainted!

This is really a nice course on the cheap and fun to play. It requires a wide variety of shots but there are no par fours. It is good at what it tries to be. I wish there were tee placements that forced you to throw across the creek once or twice.

Forrest Park is directly across the street from PJ Irvin Park. The park is free from heavy rough and has some minor rolling terrain. There are large scattered trees throughout the park and many holes play in the shade.

Practice basket.

Correctly installed concrete tee pads. 2 per hole.

Wide variety with the 2 sets of concrete tee pads.

The designer did a good job utilizing the land and making good use of the land.

This is a very beginner friendly course.

The baskets are old Mach 1's that were used at the old Miller Park course. They don't catch like the new Mach series baskets. One of them had a broken ring with chains hanging.

There are tee sign posts at the short tee pad for each hole but there is no sign in them.

The tee pads used to have the # and distance painted on the back of them but they have strated to fade.

Without the tee signs and information on the pads it's hard to navigate.

To utilize the land and have 2 tees per hole there are some long walks. There is a long walk from #3 to #4 is the creek water is to high to pass. It's not obvious where to go and an easy place to get lost.

This is a fairly short course. Only a few holes play over 300ft.

I wouldn't drive out of my way to play this course but with the 18 hole PJ Irvin across the street this is worth the time to play.

-Relatively clean and well maintained park.
-Concrete tee pads.
-Two tees per hole with mostly different angles giving two quasi-unique shots, makes for a round of 18 holes.
-Mostly good navigation, with a couple of exceptions.
-Has plenty of trees, but for the most part there are clear lanes. Only a couple of shots, would I consider a bit too tight/crowded to be fair.

-Bordered by busy roads, stray shots on 1, 5, 6, 9 and especially 7 could end up in the middle of traffic.
-Playground smack dab in the middle of course. Has been problematic often enough to mention.
-Holes are bit on the short side and a bit repetitive.
-Baskets are old and mean.

Because the tees are usually not simply longer variations they do give more variety than multiple tees at your typical course, but in many cases the shots feel similar. Which leads me to another point...for the most part you'll only need one shot here, a low hyzer. There a couple instances where it won't do the trick, but you could certainly get away with nothing but a roc and a putter and not be much worse off.

It's nice to have a third course in Bloomington-Normal, however, it certainly isn't as good as either Maxwell or P.J. I do however think the designer made the most of what he had to work with, I don't think a better course could have been put into the ground. The park isn't particularly big nor does it have particularly interesting terrain. However it does have trees, and it will force you to learn a low hyzer, which is at least a valuable lesson.

• Alternate tees do add some variety
• Very nice semi-wooded park
• Nice restrooms
• A couple of nice shots on the course. One hole that especially stands out in memory is the red tee for hole 3. There are three legitimate routes to the basket, and I had to think for a long time before choosing a route. Love holes like this! Well done. Wish there were more like this on the course, but you take what the land gives you.

• Layout can be confusing. There are a few spots where you have to trek a good distance backward to the next tee (navigational tip: the direction to the next tee is painted on the tines of the basket).
• The concern about hole 7 is legit. There is a narrow strip of trees/scrub protecting a grip-locked shot from cruising into a busy street. Be careful!
• Hole 3 finishes in front of a creek, and to get to hole 4 I had to walk around the woods, back up and across 9's fairway (dangerous blind spot) to hole 4. Perhaps the intent is to build a bridge across the creek at some point--until then, be careful. If there's an intended route to hole 4 there, I missed it.

I won't repeat everything that's been said, but rather try to supplement it. I agree with what the other posters have said, with these exceptions: the course is actually pretty flat. There is one hole that plays up a modest hill. Also, there are some holes where you will need a driver, especially if you play the blues. One hole measured over 400 feet--not a mid-range hole for most throwers. I also remember a hole playing slightly uphill that measured over 300.

Overall, a nice walk in the park and some fun shots. Not a course you'll remember, but worth stopping if you are in the area and have an hour to kill.

-The Bloomington Normal disc golf community really cares about the sport and it's very obvious when you see courses like this.
-The course spans over the entire park which means you should be prepared to do a lot of walking for a nine hole course.
-New teepads, and, while this course is only two days old today, there will be new maps and a big map when you come into the park.
-Alternate tees add an entirely different perspective to every hole, which make it justified that you can play 18 holes here and not get bored.
-I'm really glad that the course incorporates the little stream on holes 1, 8, and 9. They definitely add to the ambiance of the course.

-The holes are all very short. While it spans the whole park, I don't think any of the holes are above 350 feet. I parked almost every one of the baskets on my first time playing here. There's not really a challenge.
-The baskets are old and brown and I know it's really cool that they took them from an old course and are recycling them, but with the new teepads and signs, they don't really fit in.
-There were a lot of people here and I almost hit a couple on a picnic because I didn't see them. So just be careful.
-You can see the road from every hole. There's not really that "secluded feel" that all of the great courses have. There's a risk of throwing your disc onto the street on hole #7 as the fairway hugs the street. If you accidently grip lock, you're in big trouble.

It's great that Blo-No Recreation cooperated with the dedicated disc golfers of the area and created a new course to play on. While it's not as great as Maxwell or Irvin, it's definitely fantastic that they added this one in case you wanted to play something other than Maxwell/Irvin but didn't want to drive all the way out to Peoria. I can't wait to see the new signs and the big map of the park.
So in summary, it's a nice course to practice your short game on, but you probably won't need a driver.
Also! I'd like to add that Forrest Park is known to be a meeting place of homosexual men after the sun has set. So...be aware if you plan on playing after hours that you may be approached.