A lot of volunteer work has gone into this course snce I last played it over a year ago, and many of the "Cons" have been reduced or eliminated. A few tee platforms have been added (they're short, but the holes don't require a lot of run up), signage is greatly improved, and the thickest brush has been removed. A short, hilly and wooded technical 9 is emerging from what used to feel like baskets randomly placed in the woods


+ Hole #1 is a nice downhill with a dropoff to a narrow creek right behind the basket. This is a short par 3, so there's plenty of challenge to both hit the narrow line, and stay out of the creek long


+ Hole #4 is the longest hole at 300+ feet, and it's slightly uphill along an old dry creek bed or trail. Elevated basket up on some rocks - nice hole


+ Holes #5 and #7 have received a lot of clearing (7 was especially bad; the last time I played it wa easier to just play up the road on the right and hope to fade in through the trees to the basket). Now you can actually stand on the tees and see the lines to hit: #5 is a narrow fairway with a late left turn to a slightly lower green, and #7 gives you a chance to swing a long left-to-right shot into a hillside basket


+ Hole #8 is a throw across a deep ravine, and #9 is uphill threading through woods


+ None of the nine holes is particularly long - and par here is pretty easy - but it's surprising how many different types of shots you've going to need to make birdies

- Now that the rest of the holes are getting better, #3 is probably the weakest. It uses a pair of large trees to frame a double mando That's a good idea, but the hole is only 126', so you're really just flicking an upshot for your ace or birdie

~ There are a few very steep climbs down when playing the course, dramatic enought to have safety ropes along them (holes #2 and #8). These could be pretty hazardous in muddy or icy conditions


~ There are some fun and challenging shots here, though the quality of the holes varies. On my second visit, I was lucky enough to hook up with the guys doing the work. They're realistic about the layout's shortcomings, but the amount of improvement they've already done - without any municipal help - is pretty remarkable. They're currently adding alternate tees on most holes to keep it interesting for the regular players (and yes, they have leagues and small tournaments)


~ The oldest reviews here might actually be of a different layout. It appears from reading them that the course moved to the current location in 2010. In any event, this is a work in progress, so the most recent reviews are your best bet.





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Unless you live very close by, High Plains is a bagging stop on a day when you're hitting other courses. We played it at the end of a day bagging courses around Norwalk, the closest being the very good Veterans Park

Had the opportunity to play this course over the summer. Just a couple miles off the Merritt Parkway and or Route 34. This course has a variety of holes allowing for some low scoring opportunities on short holes, challenging accuracy on others and a couple with some distance. It is quite wooded, has some elevation and a little stream that runs through the first few holes. Nice baskets and a quick round for 9 making 18 quite doable.

No tee boxes on any of the holes. Decent signage for each hole layout, but no direction between holes. The later holes of the nine were especially challenging forcing us to wander around on our first time there. I am sure no problem for locals, but a little tricky for first timers. Also a couple of the holes lacked a true fairway that I could find forcing some head scratching.

Overall a fun course. We did it as part of a little DG/Brewery run. New England Brewing Company, arguably CT finest, is one exit north on the Merritt, about 10 minutes away. Made for an nice Saturday afternoon. Enjoy some DG and some fresh Ghandi Bot!

Fun, Quick, and fairly easy to play. Wont even need drivers on most holes. Hole nine ends right at hole one and you will find yourself done so fast that another 9 holes is easy to endure.

Tee markers are small concrete blocks on the ground, hard to find first time through but once you play through you wont forget so hard to even call it a con. Heavily wooded but not impossible.

Great for beginners and as others said its good for short hame practice.. Minor elevation and all holes are short except for maybe hole 4 where basket is on a hill surrounded by trees after a long dogleg lright

The High Plains course plays down below the picnic area in lovely wooded, hilly area. It's a grand area for a disc course golf course. The course from the shorts is definitely a recreational or beginner with only # 4 playing over 230 feet. It plays longer from the Longs but I wasn't always able to determine which tee Iwas playing from. But in spite of these relatively short distances, the courses offers some challenge with it's tight windows and hilly nature. It's too bad that the parks dept. won't allow any more permanent signage or teepads because they both lacking here. The teesigns are just patio bricks lying on the grounds with the info written on them. I'm sure they regularly get thrown into the brush. The teepads are natural and hard to determine where they start and finish. A board at the start would help. How about pavers? Would the parks dept. go for them?
# 8 was my favorite hole from the longs. It's 315', throwing across a tree ridden valley. I liked it a lot.

I's really like to see some kind of simple improvement made to the teepads here. At least, bury a 2" x 4" at the front of the pad. Man, you should be able to work with the parks department ton the pads and some kind of simple signage that is non-permanent in nature. Almost every other course in the country is managing to make it work.

There's a sign at the beginning notifying golfers that this course will be removed if they don't start picking up after themselves. Then I get to about three baskets in a row where the baskets are being using as trash cans with cans, glass bottles and plastic bottles stacked on top of the baskets. It was disgusting! I packed as many out as I could squeeze into my bag. Pick up after yourself guys, freaking slobs! Don't screw up and lose this course. Sounds like the parks guys already have their panties in a knot.