Beauty/Peaceful (4/6) - Jasper Park feels like a quiet, out-of-the-way park. Well off of Highway 58, the park seems only sparsely utilized. The main portion of the park and disc golf course are very well-maintained, and the park is right next to the Willamette River.

Multiple Configurations (4/5) - The course features two tee pad locations (short and long) for each hole, and appears to have two pin positions for each hole too.

Shot Length Variety (4/6) - Between the short and long tees and the two pin positions on each hole, the holes range everywhere from approximately 150ft. All the way up to 430ft. or so, providing a nice variety of hole lengths.

Tight/Open Variety (3/6) - Jasper Park is more open than wooded, but still includes a reasonable variety of hole types. As examples, several holes are moderately open but with significant OB areas. Hole 6 is mostly open but with a guarded (and slightly uphill) basket area. Holes 5 and 7 are tight wooded tunnel shots with significant rough on each side.

Risk VS Reward/Punishment (4/6) - Overall, the course does a good job of utilizing the available features, despite being a lightly wooded park. Many holes incorporate guarded baskets (trees/foliage nearby, restricting lines), and holes 1, 3, 4, and 8 have well-defined OB areas (roads/parking lots). Hole 5 and 7 also have very tight lines with rough blackberry along each side.

Targets (4/4) - The baskets are brand-new Prodigy ones, in the stock yellow color.

Layout/Flow (3/4) - With a little bit of educated guess-work and scouting, I was able to fully navigate the layout without any kind of map or signage. The course follows the traditional counter-clockwise flow, and there are only a couple non-intuitive walkouts (where the next tee isn't clearly visible from the previous basket).

Maintenance (3/4) - The main portion of the park seems to be very-well maintained, with an on-site park host that seems to do a lot of maintenance work. Parts of the disc golf course (the area of holes 5 and 7) seem to be under active development, with evidence of recent blackberry removal and dirt/gravel work.

Pay to Play (2/4) - For a $5 day use fee, Jasper Park is probably the most expensive disc golf course locally, and for a nine-hole course lacking a lot of infrastructure (e.g. tee pads), even in a well-maintained park, I suspect that the price tag is going to keep a lot of players away. Being so close to Dexter will also probably cut down on course utilization as well.

Elevation (2/6) - The course property is extremely flat, with minor elevation changes really only coming into play on a few holes.

Water (3/6) - I am listing this as a con, because in this case the water on the course is in the form of seasonal pools of standing water in the low spots on holes 5 and 7. These areas are in the center of each of the two hole fairways, directly off the the tees. They're small enough that I don't think many discs will ever end up in one, and the water is only a few inches deep (at least at the time of writing, in January), so they mostly seem to pose a challenge for crossing the fairways. Fortunately, some clear thought has been put into how players are supposed to navigate these spots, and walking routes around them are present on both holes.

Signs (0/4) - There are essentially no tee signs anywhere on the course currently. In a few cases, a number has been written on one of the stakes marking a tee pad location, and holes 3 and 4 do actually have an extra stake correctly marking their number. Hole 6, by contrast, has a stake that labels it as hole 7, which I'm fairly confident is incorrect. I did notice covered areas next to each tee where it appears that holes for tee signs may have been recently dug.

Tee Pads (1/4) - At this moment, the tee areas are all just areas of grass/dirt marked by a pair of stakes.

Shared Use & Crowds (2/4) - Although this is a mixed-use park, the course is fairly well buffered away from other park uses and play areas. The only real concern I have is around the use of park roads and parking lots for holes 4 and 8. These were completely empty when I played the course, but parking areas could definitely be in play on those two holes, which may become a problem when the park is busier.

Jasper Park is an interesting course with a reasonable layout, but a few situational challenges: It's a 9-hole course in a park with a day-use fee, within just a few miles of the extremely well-regarded Dexter course. The course itself is clearly still under development, and I'll try to keep this review updated as I hear about improvements happening there, but in the short term the lack of infrastructure like tee pads and signage also hurt its playability. As I mentioned above, navigating the course wasn't *that* difficult, and I've uploaded a map that I think may help. Hole 1 starts very near the camp host RV, and the course plays generally counter-clockwise around the eastern portion of the park.

With tee pads and signage (and perhaps some other amenities around the course areas of the park, as opposed to the mixed-use areas) I could certainly see giving the course a 3 or 3.5 rating: for a 9-hole recreational course (with some longer tee options), it seemed to use the available features fairly well. Even with these features, however, I imagine the course won't ever be very popular. Perhaps with a full 18 holes some day (I'm not confident there is enough space for that, even theoretically) it *might* be able to compete with Dexter, but this might not be a bad thing really. With the utilization of park roads and parking lots on several holes, the course is probably best played when the park is quite empty (as it was in January when I played it).

Final thoughts: this seems like the kind of course that you might play when visiting the park for other reasons. i.e. to justify the day use fee. It seems like a nice park for a picnic or a dog walk (I saw a number of joggers and dog walkers while I was there), and the multiple tee options are nice for accommodating a wide range of skill levels.