An old and well-known course that I found to be decidedly bland.

-Amenities: Lots of love put in here. Practice baskets, course map. Fantastic tee signs with maps, numbered DISCatchers, concrete tees, next tee arrows.

-Two Courses: Always convenient to have two courses in the same place. If you have time to play the Front, I recommend you definitely make time to play the Back.

-Maintenance: Immaculately kept up. Clean tees and signs, nice grass, overall welcoming environment.

-Flow: Good navigation hole to hole. The few strange double-backs don't detract too much and the next tee arrows keep you mostly on track.

-Rec-Friendly: I'm not sure I'd call this beginner friendly due to the number of holes over 300', but by and large there aren't too many problems a newish player could run into.

-Multi-Pins: Usually two or three different pin positions per hole, ranging from simple to difficult.

-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: Characterized by gentle hills, sparse trees, and mid-300' throws. The mild elevation is well-used throughout. Trees are scattered, and rarely do more than a couple come into play. There are some notable exceptions, like (2) and (13) playing through tight mando tunnels. Once in a while is a shorter or longer hole. Some low ceiling shots. I don't have complaints with any specific holes, but only (13)'s downhill tunnel really sticks out to me a few weeks after playing.

-Road Hazard: A handful of holes play either straight towards a road or alongside it with trees in play. High likelihood of discs ending up in car territory.

-Walking Paths: Paths crisscross the course like a spider web, and they are pretty full. There will definitely be times where you'll need to yield, possibly for minutes.

-Open Shots: Perhaps this will arouse the ire of the disc golf community, but I just don't see what makes this course notable. There's a lot of monotony of mostly open holes in the 300' range and mild elevation. A very few spicy holes, but even those most likely amount to pretty basic hyzers. Unobjectionable, yes, but also uninteresting.

-Disc Loss: Water comes into play about five times depending on how cautious you are. I lost a favorite on (13) personally.

-Pin Position Indicators: The lack of these makes it difficult. There's often a decent variation is distance and shape between basket options and you have to throw several blind without a good indicator system.

I was excited to see La Mirada, but this course disappointed me. The level of shaping required was pretty low, leaving a series of 300' chuck-it drives. It's still fun, especially the first four holes, but not somewhere I'd count as a destination. Overall, it's at the top end of Typical.

~Similar Courses: Lenora Park (Snellville, GA); Riverview Park (Augusta, GA); Greg Rogers Park (San Diego, CA).

La Mirada park features 36 holes of decent park style disc golf. And paired with the Back 18, this is clearly the best place to play what seems to be a fairly wide radius. This is a very nice park with large mature trees and neatly mowed green grassy fairways. Elevation is a key feature here.

My favorite thing about the front was the couple of holes (#6 stands out in my mind) that had the basket sitting in a circle of tall palm trees. Anyone not from California will no doubt love this feature the first time throwing into them.

A bonus for disc golf (and all outdoor activities) in this area is that the weather is comfortable all year round.

The name and reputation just did not live up to my expectations. There is decent to average play here, but nothing that really stands out when compared to so many other courses across the country. Don't get me wrong, it was a fine round of enjoyable disc golf, but not much stood out as special or left me wanting to come back and play again.

There was a walking trail throughout the course that came into play quite a bit. I had to wait on many of my throws for walkers (and some slooow walkers at that) to clear out of my throwing line.

A couple holes play really close to the road. No isolated feel here, plus the added fear of a poor drive ending up on the road or hitting a car on #7, 12, 13.

Navigation was not intuitive in some spots. #9 tee beside #7 basket (easy to skip 8), walk down the hill to #11 tee, walk back towards an area already played to get to #12 tee, after #13 walk past #16 tee and #15 basket to get to #14 tee (you will play your way back)

The small lake is scenic but is not really a factor.

The majority of the better holes are in the first half as it gets weaker over the last few holes. Holes 14-16 were noticeably bland, and 17-18 are not much better. (I am guessing the whole park used to be 1 course with less holes, and in an effort to get 2x18 the better holes were kept and many filler holes were created. If not the case, it is what it looks like.)

I was able to make this historic (and one of the oldest- 1976) course as my 300th course played! Always enjoyable to play where so many people before me have played, especially knowing the major contributions that this region had to disc golf in general.

As a 36-hole group, I would rate them around a weak 3.0 but as stand alone 18-holers I give the Front a 2.5 and the Back a 3.0. The best 18 holes of the 36 might rate around a 4.0, but there are too many poor filler holes that bring it down. Still the best of the what I have played in SoCal up to this point (includes El Dorado and Huntington Beach).

- Great use of the terrain.
- Beautiful pond in the middle of the park.
- Restrooms on site.
- Pro shop on site.
- Landscape is maintained well enough.
- Concrete tee pads on every hole.
- Tee signs showing layout of each hole and distance to hole.

- Layout was pretty confusing because the baskets weren't numbered.
- Baskets were pretty beat up.
- Pond doesn't come into play as much as I expected.
- The pro shop doesn't have much in the way of disc golf supplies. The wall of discs was pretty empty. It was mostly just a good place to grab a Gatorade or an ice cream bar.
- Tee pads weren't quite long enough to get a good run-up on the longer holes.
- There were a few spots where having a local show you around would've helped because it was difficult to determine what basket you were throwing at since they were so close in some places.

- I was visiting LA for the first time and had high expectations for this course since it was used for the Disc Golf World Tour. It was still fun to play, I just expected it to look much nicer than it did.

Overall the park is nice and the course is fun. The park is well taken care of considering the number of people in the park. The grass was well mowed and there are tee signs on each hole. The layout is fun and you should expect to shoot well under par on this course.

Nice elevation changes

There are homeless people sleeping on the fairway, near the baskets, on near tee signs.

There are people everywhere. Setting up shop right in the fiarways.

The design is old and not designed for today's long range discs. I played this course with a flash, a leopard, and a putter and shot 6 down w/ a circle 5 and I'm not that good. I would consider this course a pitch and put. Typically for courses this short I like tigher lines, this course is wide open with easy gaps to hit.

Reading the reveiws I expected an eipc course. This wouldn't even crack the top 20 courses within 2 hours of my house in San Antonio. I bet the course is more fun during the week when there aren't hundreds of people in the park.

Don't get me wrong, this course is fun and if you are in the area you should definately play it, but it isn't as good as the others who've reviewed here make it out to be.