Atchley Park is a busy community park that is mostly open/lightly wooded with a lot of multi-use space that the disc golf course covers. There is a decent slope to the land so there are some elevation changes to work with despite the lack of trees. The course has one tee/one placement, concrete tees and adequate (if small) tee signs. There is a small clump of woods that holds four holes. The hole lengths are not ridiculously long, but the wind factor on the mostly open course make it a place where strong arms fair better. There is a kooky mound placement on hole 16 to give the course a little character.

The park has a walking path that the course throws over repeatedly. Given the heavy use of the park, it creates conflicts with other park users.

Hole four really should not exist. It's a 600'+ shot tight against the property line where a hyzered out drive will go into the neighbors property. The field to the right it used for youth soccer, making the hole unplayable when soccer is going on. Once you make it to the basket, it is set so that being on the edge of Circle 1 can have you trespassing in a neighbors yard. It's just a poorly designed hole.

Three of the wooded shots are under 225'. The other is over 300' but has no route; it's a poke and pray drive into a gauntlet of trees. It's fairly disappointing since the rest of the course is so open.

Hole 14 and 16 throw directly at ballfields with the baskets set close to the outfield fence.

Both hole 5 and hole 14 use a double mando design; in neither case does there appear to be a safety reason so they are there to try to make the course play harder. It seems like if you are going to use a gimmick, maybe you should only do it once?

Otherwise, the shots are a lot of meh. It's a lot of unremarkable, fairly boring disc golf. There really isn't enough tree cover to make it anything else.

The park holds water so a lot of the course on the low (South) side of the park can be swampy. In the summer the lack of shade can be brutal.

In the end, JHMDGC is an OK course that I wouldn't avoid, it's just not a great or good course. It's passable. It was a big upgrade to Boswell Park DGC (the previous course in Lebanon.). If you are in the area, it's a decent course to play. I just wouldn't go out of my way to play it.

Great Baskets! 18 holes. Wide open "throw and go" on several holes - one hole was over 650 feet with no trees in the way. If you have a big snap - you'll love this course.

Small signs. Crosses hiking/biking path multiple times. Unimaginative use of space. No number plates on baskets. Signage backwards on some holes. No indication of where the next tee is - you have to look around to find which way to leave the target for the next hole. There are 5 technical holes - one of which is merely luck with NO discernable route. You just throw at the picket fence of trees and hope that your disc makes it through - you would have to be the Zen master to consistently make it through this maze on a regular basis.

I hope that this is a work in progress and not declared as complete and abandoned. It IS a good course with great potential - I believe that it does need some tweeks to finish it.
1) number plates on the baskets. You are not sure if you are throwing at the correct basket.
2) larger signs on the pads - these signs are 1/3 the size of any signage on any disc golf course I have played in America. After completing a hole you can locate a pad in the vicinity - however, I was unable to discern the number on the sign indicating if I was heading to the correct pad. Not only that the signs seemed to placed sometimes at the front of the pad and sometimes at the rear of the pad - not only that the actual sign may have been turned outwards from where the previous target was so you have to get within about 3 feet of the sign to read it and determine what direction your next throw would be. Larger signs and consistent placement would be appreciated. Someone has penciled in on the signs the distance to the basket - this was probably not done in the first place because the signs are only 5" X 7" and are fairly full. An indication on the sign which way to the next basket would be appreciated as well.
3) Crossing walking paths. This has been a bugaboo of mine in several courses - to their credit people on the multi-use path tend to stay on the track and either walk or bicycle around without straying out into the grass. I did have to wait several times for people walking their dogs and stopping or Parents with children walking the trail with little children before I could throw. While not a show stopper - it was minorly aggrevating. Whoever designed the course realized this and they have created yellow crosswalk lanes on the biking trail - if only the disc remains in this narrow 5 foot crosswalk we will be okay. There is one hole with the potential of injury resulting from someone screeming around on the path on a bicycle and the unsuspecting golfer making a throw. It would be a 1:1000 chance but could happen.
4) I know that they have already poured the concrete and set the targets but I hope that they rethink the course and make some adjustments that make it more than a "throw and go" course. While it appeared as though they were working with a lot of open fields - I did see opportunity to put the baskets in more creative spots. I hope the Parks and Rec can see some potential too.
Please do not get the impression that you should not play here - I think it is a good course - but has the potential to so much better. It was nice to be able to crank on a couple of throws without any interference. The technical holes were tight and fun (with the exception of the hole that was simply a picket fence without a fairway). I enjoyed a Sunday afternoon round on the rolling hills just north of Lebanon - it was relaxing, fun and challenging. This is not a gimme course - but could be played consistently at par with a couple more rounds. Give it some love and attention and this will be great course some day.