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Hunter Mountain DGC reviews
5
1
Carlos
Experience:
1 played
1 reviews
Irritating 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 3, 2015
Played the course:once
Pros:
Disc golf is disc golf.
Cons:
Not easy to find or follow. "Fairway" (Read: slope) unkept and therefore plays like rough. Lack of variation. Overall, very frustrating.
Other Thoughts:
I signed up for this site just to review this course. Let me start by saying I'm not from the area near this course and my friends and I found it so frustrating that we only threw eight holes (3-10). This review only accounts for those holes.
We arrived just after 5 p.m. on a Friday, so the pro shop was closed and therefore we could not get a map/scorecard. Another employee pointed us in the general direction, but failed to tell us exactly where to find tee #1. This is my first and possibly my big peeve about this course.
1. Despite the abundance of "local directions" on this page, that will get you to the mountain from every conceivable point in the northeast, there is no mention or direction on where to find the pro shop or the first tee. How thoughtless. Anyone can Google how to get to the lodge, but everyone coming for disc needs direction on how to find it. For the record, it's in the base lodge. Follow signs for the zip line tours. By pure luck, we walked in the right door. I still don't know exactly where Hole 1 is, but I think it's to the right aways if you walk out of the lodge to the base of the mountain. The first basket you'll see will be for Hole 10. Go right.
2. The course is not entirely comprehensible. We saw no signage for the first tee and ended up walking up the mountain unnecessarily. Luckily, once again, we came across another player who had a map he let us take a photo of. Even with the map, finding the tees was still a problem, which the other player agreed with.
3. The course seems like an afterthought. Just something to do with the ground until winter. Tees were barely labeled, holes mostly zig zagged up the hill from woods to woods, and the "fairway" was two-foot high grass. We were losing our discs ... on the fairway. I don't know if we visited on an off week or if they just let the grass grow wild until the winter, but it was awful. When we finally got to the big "pay off," Hole 9, we couldn't find the tee and were afraid to throw because we'd surely lose our discs. We threw anyway, from a random spot in the high grass, and literally celebrated when we found all our discs. The hill's grade was near dangerous to descend on foot. One false move and you could go rolling.
For the life of me, I cannot believe this course has the rating it has. Maybe the back nine are amazing. Maybe the course is better maintained every day but July 3. Maybe I'm a stickler. But I will honestly say, in my personal opinion, in my years of playing in many different states, including other courses on ski slopes, this was my least favorite disc golf experience. I like the sport enough to enjoy being out and having new experiences anywhere, but I was so underwhelmed that I had to say something about it in hope that someone like me will see this and either save themselves the time or, at least, know what to expect.
I wish you the best of luck.
We arrived just after 5 p.m. on a Friday, so the pro shop was closed and therefore we could not get a map/scorecard. Another employee pointed us in the general direction, but failed to tell us exactly where to find tee #1. This is my first and possibly my big peeve about this course.
1. Despite the abundance of "local directions" on this page, that will get you to the mountain from every conceivable point in the northeast, there is no mention or direction on where to find the pro shop or the first tee. How thoughtless. Anyone can Google how to get to the lodge, but everyone coming for disc needs direction on how to find it. For the record, it's in the base lodge. Follow signs for the zip line tours. By pure luck, we walked in the right door. I still don't know exactly where Hole 1 is, but I think it's to the right aways if you walk out of the lodge to the base of the mountain. The first basket you'll see will be for Hole 10. Go right.
2. The course is not entirely comprehensible. We saw no signage for the first tee and ended up walking up the mountain unnecessarily. Luckily, once again, we came across another player who had a map he let us take a photo of. Even with the map, finding the tees was still a problem, which the other player agreed with.
3. The course seems like an afterthought. Just something to do with the ground until winter. Tees were barely labeled, holes mostly zig zagged up the hill from woods to woods, and the "fairway" was two-foot high grass. We were losing our discs ... on the fairway. I don't know if we visited on an off week or if they just let the grass grow wild until the winter, but it was awful. When we finally got to the big "pay off," Hole 9, we couldn't find the tee and were afraid to throw because we'd surely lose our discs. We threw anyway, from a random spot in the high grass, and literally celebrated when we found all our discs. The hill's grade was near dangerous to descend on foot. One false move and you could go rolling.
For the life of me, I cannot believe this course has the rating it has. Maybe the back nine are amazing. Maybe the course is better maintained every day but July 3. Maybe I'm a stickler. But I will honestly say, in my personal opinion, in my years of playing in many different states, including other courses on ski slopes, this was my least favorite disc golf experience. I like the sport enough to enjoy being out and having new experiences anywhere, but I was so underwhelmed that I had to say something about it in hope that someone like me will see this and either save themselves the time or, at least, know what to expect.
I wish you the best of luck.
