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Oakwood, IL

Kickapoo State Park

1.865(based on 7 reviews)
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sisyphus
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Experience: 12.7 years 398 played 383 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Throwback 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 13, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

Well, there's a "Frisbee Golf" course here, and it's a chance to see the early adaptation of the game, when it moved from using trees as object targets, to actually having as your target a 6"x6" wooden post with a blue painted area to touch with your disc (the next level of evolution was often tone poles). There is a course sign which looks like it might have last been touched up about a quarter of a century ago, so you can more easily find the wooden toe board where you are supposed to tee off. You can see the target posts for holes 7, 8, 9 & 1 from the main drive beside the Ironwood Day Use Area.

Cons:

Aside from that, there's not much to commend this as a disc golf course. They may have once, but currently don't mow the tall grasses where the fairways for holes 1 through 7 belong (there are some 10 to 15 foot wide swaths in there to what I think were some picnic tables, and they might have mowed around some of the target posts, but they didn't follow the intended fairways. Don't play hole 9 if there is anyone using the playground, the picnic table, or parked in the lot so near the fairway. Trouble is, that only really leaves hole 8 as a legitimate, accessible, throwable hole. And it won't pose you a challenge.

Other Thoughts:

We stopped in as a leg stretcher on a long trip, just to see a target post course, and wound up just playing a handful of holes in 'safari' fashion (even working around some upshots and putts to tree trunks to make a loop), but I'm pretty sure only major, certified (certifiable?) course baggers like me would ever stop by to check this off their lists.
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