Pros:
Hiller park is a large multi use park that neighbors a large block of military housing. There are baseball fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, walking paths and a very nice disc golf course.
The start of the course is a bit challenging as its at the back end of the park, but there is a large gazebo by hole number one and a huge map with a slot at the bottom with scorecard/map combos. These are very helpful and well printed.
This course is all about using what they have to make every hole as interesting as possible, and one of the main features is the lagoon that you play over and around on many holes. It's a beautiful saltwater expanse with diverse wildlife and an added challenge.
It hits you in the face on number one, a short tee shot going over some shallow water with the basket up a hill.
Again on three, ten and eleven you throw over some water and it makes for an interesting mental game.
There are three sets of tees for most of the layout, a few markings are shared, but only the red(medium) layout has concrete teepads, the other blue(long) and white(short) are natural, but certainly adequately marked.
Each marker is a small mile marker type sign near the ground with the distances marked on them,
Baskets are nice and well balanced and it looked as if there were pockets for a couple of pin placements on many holes.
One thing I loved was the risk/reward on so many holes. One hole, 6 I think plays around a long U curve, but you can also bomb a tomahawk over the trees and hit close, whih is what I opted to do to great effect.
The use of tree cover and strategically places copes and Mandos were nice as well.
I had a great time overall really pretty park, tons of wildlife near the lagoon(coots, herons, geese, turtles) and very diverse holes.
The short ones(and some are under 200) are largely technical, but there are some great challenging longer holes as well, several over 400 whoch I enjoyed. Especially as they didn't sacrifice the most interesting golf lines for the sale of a long hole.
Cool thing I hadn't seen before, all te baskets had a small pvc pipe with the direction of the next hold on it, interesting and helpful.
Cons:
Some parts of the park were not in great repair, including the restrooms(no closeable stall door and no TP).
You may have trouble navigating without the map.
Tee signs are functional but not the best available.
Weirdest thing to me; the practice basket is in between 16 and 17. Why there? What's the point? Especially when there is a very nice area to put one just to the right of the pavilion at the parking lot.
Leads me to thing the holes may have recently been renumbered or the layout altered I. The recent past.
Not much in the way of elevation changes, but it's southern MS, so that's not much of a con.
Other Thoughts:
I had a great time at Hiller park the natural beauty of the area paired with the well thought out layout made for a great time. I would play there often if I lived close, I would play often, and in fact met a guy who drove from mobile for a round at Hiller.
If your in the area, come play this park, you won't regret it.