-- Elevation. Lions (not Lion's) Park has beautiful views all around, and the elevation, especially for Texas, is impressive. This is far from the typical city park course.
-- Water is in play. You've got two water carries, a couple of baskets near water and a couple of fairways that play beside water.
-- At the start of hole 1, there is a kiosk, garbage cans and a big concrete barrier that acts as a bench.
-- The concrete tee pads are good and the signs are small metal ones that have the route and the next tee on them. That is the signs that are still there (about half of the holes). And about half of the signs present are difficult/impossible to read.
-- Two sets of pads (my preference over two baskets) for about half of the holes. The longs can add nearly 400 feet to a hole (2) or add to difficulty (5 makes the water carry longer and more difficult; 12 make a RHFH uphill shot longer and a harder turn).
-- In addition to those holes, I really enjoyed hole 13: 239 feet uphill. It's open for the first about 200 feet, and then you've got a narrow gap to a protected basket that is SERIOUSLY uphill.
-- Restrooms.
-- A practice basket (oddly, it is labeled #5), but the basket is not in great shape.

-- The baskets are Discatchers (my favorites), but many of them are not in good shape.
-- Navigation is difficult. Much of this has to do with missing/unreadable tee signs. I played with a local, so I never got lost, but it would have been difficult to navigate by myself.
-- The course is in a multi-use park, but other than the walking path, it avoids much of the other park amenities. However, the walking path is in play a lot.
-- A couple of tee pads are not level, but this is a minor concern.
-- The final few holes (in the woods) are pretty close to each other and bring the risk of someone getting hit with an errant drive.

-- Lions Park reminds me of Michael Jordan -- when he was with the Wizards. Sure he was a good player, but he was nowhere near the player he had been. Based on the land and the hole designs, I can see where this was a 4.0-, or even a 4.5-disc course. Sadly, the tee signs are a mess and the baskets aren't in great shape. This course really needs some TLC. The most-recent review of the course before this one was more than four years ago. Time has not been kind.
-- This 100-acre park features playgrounds, a pond, picnic facilities, softball fields, a dog park.

Nice sidewalks for 12 holes, terrain rolling. Front 11 open, back 13 wooded., concrete teeboxes, signage good. grass maintained.

some long distances with small pars

One of the local favorites. Shorts for me as I am new player. Enjoy the challenges.

This is the best disc golf course hands down in the Temple area. It features many challenges such as baskets on hills to putt to, throws over water, and even open areas to air a few discs. Without going into too much detail, I will mention the holes I personally liked. Hole 3 with its 150 foot throw over a pond to the basket 198 feet away was good. Hole 12 with its throw to an elevated basket was interesting. Hole 17 as well, just not as long. And hole 18 with its curving fairway to the right was a challenge as well as the tree dodging that had to be done to get to the basket.

First off, most of this course is open and the first 11 holes are scattered through most of the park. This means a disker has to always watch for walkers and runners on the sidewalks. I played early in the day, so I had few problems with this. That said, I did come close to somebody with one of my throws, but they were still far enough away I did miss them. There is always a surprise at these courses sometimes. There is nothing worse than playing a hole and making the required throws to find there is no basket there to play to. This happened on hole 14. That basket is missing. I imagine its been stolen. Not that that would matter, considering you still have 20 other holes to play here. It is just so frustrating when that happens. It is good practice to make the throws, I guess.

This course had several good challenges. I could not see me giving this course more than a 3, though. There are just so many others I have played that are just as good, or better. This is a good course, I am sure for the local people, and I did enjoy my round here overall. Nice park, interesting course.

Holes 12-21 are pretty great holes with a variety of shot selection needed through modestly wooded areas. Hole 4 is nice with towering pecan trees and hole 3 is a great ace hole with water surrounding.

Quite honestly, I find the cons to this course out weigh the pros. Not that it's a terrible course, but many holes are completely unimaginative. Hole 1 is not bad, but then you get to the massive depression of the lower part of Lion's Park where, with the exception of holes 3 and 4, the designer basically placed baskets in the middle of a field trying to create a course that make some sense in terms of its layout. I realize holes 5, 6, and 7 are part of a redesign, but geeze, just scrap the holes 2-7 and 10-11 and start over. Actually holes 8 and 9 kind of suck too. And it's terribly unfortunate because holes 12-21 are pretty awesome. I just don't like throwing in massive fields disguised as disc golf courses.

If you're in Temple and want to play a round of disc golf, go to the 5th Street course, referred to as Lion's Junction or Rotary Club course also. As far as lay out goes, it's not the most creative course in the world, but it's consistently good (with the exception of hole 1. Again, a basket in a field). The distances are nicely diverse and holes 7-11 are commonly referred to as "birdy row" with some very entertaining par threes. Unfortunately most tournaments that make their way through Temple are at Lion's Park due to holes 12-21.