Four Lakes Recreation DGC is set up along the ski hill. The course is seasonal because of this. So once the snows gone the course should be open.

The course starts at the bottom of the hill and plays up the hill for the first two holes. Hole 3 plays back down to the bottom where you'll again start your ascent back up the hill for hole 4. The next three holes basically zig zag across the hill getting you back toward the bottom. Hole 8 is straight up downhill to the flat hole 9 at the bottom. Decent design for the limited space available here.

There's pretty much nothing in the way except off to the sides of the fairways on a couple holes. Your main obstacles here will be the wind and the up/downhill nature of many of the holes.

The baskets are Mach III's. These are on the older side but worked well enough. One basket and pin position per hole.

There are tee signs at every hole. These are your standard white plastic ones that are really common at public parks and schools. Very basic map, hole #, par and distance. It's all you really need out here since every basket is visible from the tee.

The tees are natural grass which was all in good shape. There is a concrete block next to each tee with the hole # on it. Helpful if any of the signs were to go missing but that's about it.

The course was clean and well maintained when we visited. Free to play and starts and ends at the bottom of the hill by the parking area.

The place was pretty busy with other activities going on when we went. None of the activities should interfere with the disc golf except for people running or walking up and down the hill. There were quite a few people doing so though. Enough that there's paths worn into the ground going up the hill in a feww spots.

The baskets aren't in the best shape anymore. A number of the cages are bent and most aren't mounted level.

A few tee signs are busted, and they're getting a little bit worn out from sitting out in the sign for all these years. Not that big of an issue, but worth noting.

Just a pretty bland overall course with there being nothing in the way. The distances are all pretty similar too. Just feels like the same shot over and over again, the only difference being the grade of the hill the holes on.

The one redeeming quality of this course is the elevation. It is Chicago so most courses are pretty flat. Otherwise there's not much to like out here.

It's worth a quick round if you happen to be nearby, but it's certainly nothing to go out of your way to play. Not the worst course around here I've played, but nowhere near the best either.

As other reviewers have noted, this course is unlike other Chicago area courses.

The course benefits from proximity to the Base Camp Pub, the four lakes sand volleyball courts, and the fishing/boating area. After your round you can grab a beer or enjoy other activities the facility has to offer.

As far as the golf goes, the course's main feature is the elevation. Elevation comes into play on every hole.

There were two holes that were truly memorable and made me consider giving this course a higher rating:

*Hole 2 is a right hand turnover shot that goes uphill into a little cove of trees

*Hole 5 features a drive across the top of the ski-hill. miss left and you go WAY downhill. miss right and you go OB. Great hole!!!

The course has nice baskets that indicate the hole number, and tee signs that make navigation relatively straightforward.

There is a lot of room for improvement at Four Lakes.

Overall, the course is fairly dangerous. Hole 3 is a blind dogleg right onto the hill, and it seems that non-golfers often use the hill for exercise, so golfers need to be careful on that hole.

There are no teepads here, and since the course has such drastic elevation, footing is bad... rolled ankles are a possibility.

The tee signs are located to the right of the tee area, so I always felt nervous that my backhand throws would result in me smashing my hand on the tee sign.

Hole 9's fairway plays next to the sand volleyball courts.

If Four Lakes Disc Golf Course was given the proper safety precautions (safe distances from other park users and safe tee-off areas), then it'd be a slightly above average 9-hole course.

Worth a visit for the interesting disc golf.

This is definitely a unique experience for someone who plays a lot of flat, Illinois 9-holers.

While there isn't much distance here, the elevation provides a little challenge for experienced players, and provides for a little punishment on bad shots. The course also incorporated some trees on a few holes adding a little challenge... especially #2 which is probably the course's best hole.

The baskets and signs are all in great shape, and navigation is fairly simple.

Despite it's simplicity the course is in good shape and it's just kind of cool to play a course with this type of elevation in the Chicago suburbs.

This is basically a bunch of baskets on the side of a big hill. It's nice that they put a course in, but there isn't really enough land here to make a very good course.

The elevation presents the only legitimate challenge for experienced players. A few random obstacles dot the fairways of most shots, but very little line shaping or creativity is required here.

As other users have mentioned, the tees are grass and not flattened, so many shots require you to throw on an uneven surface. You probably won't need a huge run up on most of these shots, but it's still not ideal to have to throw on a big slope.

I played on a friday evening and there were a LOT of oblivious dog walkers and sand volleyball players around the hill, so you will definitely have to watch out for people here.

I didn't want to call this a con, but on #3, the basket for #9 is visible from the tee, but not the #3 basket which lies about 15ft farther to the right, so be careful to avoid throwing at the wrong basket.

If just for the novelty, I thought this course was a pretty neat change of pace for the area. By no means is this a technically demanding course or anything that will challenge an intermediate player, but it's pretty fun to play a round or two if you find yourself in the area.

The Four Lakes recreation disc golf course is built on a landfill ski-slope (think bunny hill). I was excited to play this course because it had the potential for something not seen in many courses in the Chicago area, elevation. The course features uphill holes, downhill holes, and some playing across the slope. The baskets are new and good quality, I believe they are Chainstars. The signs are fairly descriptive, with drawings of obstacles (when there are any) and what seems to be accurate distances. The course routing is intuitive. Most of the baskets are located on a slope, making rollaways a concern. There is some variety in distance with holes varying from about 200' to 420'.

This course is mostly open. Only holes 2 and 3 have much in the way of obstacles. One the other holes, the only things to make you think about your line are the rope tow poles, light poles and a few lift operator huts. Whoever designed this course has either never played DG or is a beginner only exposed to crappy Chicago area nine hole courses. All of the tees are grass and have not been leveled. So the uphill holes have tees that are sharply sloped uphill and the holes playing across the hill have tees sloped left to right or right to left. It is very hard to get a good run up on any of these holes. At the front of the tee is a 2' square piece of concrete with the hole number painted on. This seemed odd as there are already signs and the concrete squares are much to small to use as a tee. There are a lot of other users of this space, creating waits and danger for unsuspecting volleyball players and those that run up and down the hill. Hole 5 which plays along the flat top of the hill is especially dangerous as a shot that goes only 30' or so to the right of the target will land in a parking lot, below and behind the ski hill.
There is no true downhill bomb. The aspect that I was most looking forward to here was a long downhill hole or two. Only two of the holes play downhill, hole 3 is about 270' left to right over a fence and some small trees and hole 8 is straight downhill at about 215'. So there is no chance to open up and crush one from top to bottom. To me this is unforgivable as this piece of land is screaming for this type of hole. Watch your step if you throw into the brush to the right of hole two's fairway, there is a big dropoff just a couple feet into the woods.

To me this course was sort of interesting due to all of the rollaway possibilities and the uphill holes. I was really disappointed by the tees and the lack of a long downhill shot. The land offered so much more potential, I really want to work out some alternate tees to get the most out of this course.