-Very clean park. No trash can on every hole, but were strategically placed to be useful on many holes. - Great use of elevation. Lots of up and down shots.-Not too open, but not super wooded. There's just enough trees to make things interesting. - Great shot length. This is a pretty small park, but the way it's laid out there's some long holes we weren't expecting. - Great use of the stream. From throwing along it to baskets right up on it. If you land in the water though don't worry, it was probably less than 6 inches deep when we were there.

-No signs. There was a hole number and par painted on the pad, but no indication as to where to go next. It flowed really well, and wasn't hard to figure out, but there were a couple places that signs or at least a course map would have been nice.

Watch out for hole 12. It's a very long hole, nice and open, but there's a baseball field and basketball courts right there. One of us ended up in the outfield, and the other hit a pole to a basketball hoop. This wasn't really an issue as no one else was using the park, but a good thing to keep in mind. Also the only restrooms avaliable were by the bandshell on hole 11, and they were locked. I'm sure this was due to covid and they're normally open, but there was a port-a-potty available to be used in the mean time.

+ Plenty of parking.
+ Well-maintained grounds
+ Good tee pads (concrete) and baskets
+ Mix of several runnable short holes and the rest were reasonable long holes (several legit grip-it/rip-it holes too)
+ Plenty of uphill, downhill, sidehill shotmaking required
+ Most holes were accepting of either FH or BH, though a couple were highly easier one way or the other (like that when course forces you a bit to have a decent FH or BH).

- No signage for next hole, so some minor hunting around required (we did suggest to the grounds maintenace guy they could paint a spoke on the basket to point to the next tee pad, he thought that was something they could do).

Franklin Park was on our way west as part of a DG weekend, but I would still recommend it as being worth the drive from the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City corridor.

Awesome TURF
+ Concrete tee pads
+ Mach 3s
+ Great use of elevation changes.
+ Hole 15 beautiful downhill bomber shot.
+ Easy to navigate.
+ Hard to lose a disc. Only one real water hazard.
+ Clean restroom after hole 10.
+ Nice shelter after hole 10 for break time.
+ Never crowded
+ Beautiful park with majestic trees scattered across course.
+ Course loops back to parking lot after hole 7.



Peaceful & rarely busy this park has something for everyone. Long short wide narrow and all in between . Though a little short for big arms there are still 4 or 5 holes to fire the big gun.

A few jagged edges but overall very beautiful.
- Short concrete tee pads play above ground with 3 or 4 inch lip so take care.
- Though signage is non existence course navigation is a breeze. See course map in links tab.

Off the beaten path with small town feel. The whole posse gets excited when we pull into Belle plaine. Don't bypass this great course.

Go have a birdie fest. It's a blast!!!

*On site bathroom
*Water hazards with no fear of losing disc
*Well taken care of lawn
*Doesn't have alot of people playing there very often

*Some of the par #s are a little short making you think you are batter than you are
*People like to picnic right in your way at times

All in all, pretty fun course

Extremely well maintained course with cement tee pads and alternate pin locations. Long and short holes with many mature trees and a creek that comes into play throughout the course. Hilly in a park setting with no player congestion.

Only a 12 hole course. Can get very windy in late afternoon.

Great small town course with many other things to do within the park itself (Baseball, basketball, tennis, volleyball and swimming.)