You'll find elevation, distance, and variation at Jones East. One of three courses on site, East offers several tricky approaches and a few very nice placement based two-shot holes.

Huge parking lot with a practice basket, course sign and even a small chain-ring Marksman basket to really dial in your putts.

All the tee signs are very informative and tell you whether there are multiple pins or not.

There are so many options for play, especially with the gold course interspersed throughout. There are alternate tees on holes 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9, while alternate baskets are available on 1, 3-6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, and 18. That's a lot of alternate layouts that can be made which is always a big positive.

The main feature of this course is it's water carries. Holes 4 and 11 are the toughest, but it also comes into play on 10, 12, and right behind the basket on 14. Hole 11 is the best as it is only 382' and is definitely reachable for the just-above-intermediate player, but sitting just 30' from the basket is the pond, which is about a 70' water carry. It's a tough decision. Hole 4 has water most of the way down the fairway, but there is an alternate tee to keep the water out of play.

Plenty of enjoyable elevation. Hole 6 is uphill and has a lot of trees on the way up. Holes 8 and 9 are both big downhill bombers, and Hole 16 is a double-drop with the last drop just in front of the basket.

The two-shot holes make placement the biggest challenge instead of just distance. Hole 3 is a long uphill that will really punish you for going to the left by sticking you behind the bathroom building. Hole 7 is my personal favorite. A blind tee shot from either tee (there isn't really a short/long tee here. Its more of a left/right), you must push the far side of the landing zone, but not so far that you go OB (like me). From there the fairway cuts back to the left and you've got a small but steep downhill to a very small green. Hole 9 forces you to stay to the left off the tee or be in some nasty trees.

The OB is well-marked and well kept up. It adds a lot of challenge and keeps the most dangerous of player honest.

A few more extra challenges, hole 12 short is a nice elevated basket, 13 has some tricky guardian trees to access the green, and hole 17's green will punish you if you're even 15 feet long.

While having some of the best holes of the East/West dichotomy, East also has some of the worst. 1, 2, and 3 are all flat without much in the way. 5 and 8 are just carries over OB grass that feel forced in to get to 18 holes, and 17 and 18 are just 1 and 2 in reverse. It's unfortunate that there are so many unimpressive holes when there are also some very good holes here too.

With so many gold baskets on this course, it can be really confusing what exactly you're shooting for, especially when some of them are so close together (looking at you 13 and 15). It's really important to pay attention to the tee signs of the course you're playing and nothing else.

A few navigation difficulties. Having to go out on the road for 1 to 2 and 17 to 18, and finding 16's tee from 15's green is pretty difficult the first time. We are lucky to live in the Udisc age.

East has some excellent holes to really test your placement and accuracy, but unfortunately the rest of the course isn't at the same level. East is definitely the tougher of East vs West, but there isn't the same sense of completeness that West has.

Overall, though, East is 100% worth your time. Play it, enjoy it, and throw better than I did on 4 so you don't have to go for a swim.

Jones East is a very big Disc golf course. The veteran baskets our in amazing shape, and great tee signs. The course allows you to throw big distance drives. Good mix of lefty/righty holes and open bombs. The east side uses the water well here as multiple holes have you throwing over it. Theres a couple holes that are very high risk high reward which I enjoy. Couple really cool basket placements and settings. Good use of elevation change and well marked obs.

The layout is beyond confusing. There's short and long pads on some holes, as well as jones gold playing through most this course. some holes had 3 baskets even on them. Not even sure if we played it how it was truly designed to be played. Not a great place for beginners as most the course is open long holes. Not much tree coverage and the summer sun on this long course is rough.

Jones east and west together makes a great day of disc and a destination area. I did prefer the west however as the layout just flows better.

This course utilizes water very well. The water is there and definitely in play, but not too intruding.
This course really tests your arm, especially with the Emporia wind.
The technical holes on this course are a great change of pace.
If this was the only course you play in a day, its a great length.
Great baskets!

There is a lot of back and forth on this course.
Distance is great, but it would be nice to mix up the distance a little bit more. This was my 3rd course out of 4 on a day trip, and it was by far the longest and most tiring.

This is a great course to test your distance and somewhat of accuracy. However if you are playing multiple courses in a day, make sure to plan a lot of time for this one. I would like to give this a 4, but there is too much back to back and monotonous of holes.

Nicely laid out course, lots of challenges, water, trees, doglegs to the right and left, tunnel shots. This course has it all. Rolling Prairie scenery, old growth trees, set in a large public park. Lots of opportunities to 'let it fly' if you've got the arm for it.

I mistakenly played the 'East' course, after being lured here by the description of the 'West' course. 'East' is considerably longer and harder, from what I understand. Some of the signage could be a bit clearer, I got lost and played a few of the wrong holes around the back 9 where the two courses intersect. I imagine this course is pretty tough when the wind blows.