The park is immaculate and sits behind the Georgia Motorsports Hall of Fame! Definitely a pro for an old racing fan. Everything looks brand new here or extremely well maintained. Amenities abound in this park including benches, multiple playgrounds, basketball courts, tennis courts, a skateboard park, walking trails, baseball fields, and new bathrooms. No doubt this park is extremely busy in nice weather.

Signage for the course is excellent. New baskets and concrete teepads throughout the course (except where the teepad plays off the paved walking trail). You can park anywhere on this course and start on any available hole making an easy walkable 9 hole loop.

Safety!!! A few holes are so dangerous they need to be pulled. This park will be busy in nice weather. Let me list the safety issues:
1. Hole 2 - You are either throwing a RHBH spike hyzer over the basketball court that'll clear the fence, or throwing a RHFH down the walking path to avoid the fence.
2. Hole 3 - Most of the fairway is the walking path. There's no way to avoid this. I decided to skip the hole. As I started walking forward, a woman pushing a baby stroller entered the fairway. No way I could see her before throwing. Pull this hole.
3. Hole 4 is awesome, but I threw a perfect sidewinding shot over the skate park parking the hole unknowingly over the head of a kid sitting down in the skatepark. Again, no way I could see him.
4. Hole 7 - Bomb your driver downhill 400 ft. to the basket surrounded by picnic tables. Time to move those tables before a person takes a driver to the head.

Other than those safety issues, the course is fine. Hole 1, an errant drive may make its way to the baseball field outfield.

Unfortunately, my poor planning did not allow a visit to the Georgia Motorsports Hall of Fame since I bagged this course early morning before they opened. I'm sure I'll pass through again as I often take the mountain routes to bypass Atlanta.

The Main Street Park – also known as Shriner's 9 – combines a beautiful finishing hole with several shoehorned designs and an inadequate solution for the construction on Hole #2.

The new course offers up some lovely amenities: nice concrete teepads, detailed signs and bright red Prodigy baskets. The teepads include the hole number and distance stenciled on the surface. The colorful signs include a large hole number, detailed descriptions of the out of bounds area and an arrow pointing you toward the next hole.

Hole #9 is clearly the signature hole. The teepad is positioned near the highest point of the park and the 391-foot, par-4 option includes a downhill throw toward a gorgeous forest with a clearly defined gap to aim for.

Hole #5 is another cool hole. It's less than 200 feet and heavily wooded with a tough but pretty line through the timbers.

It appears that a couple of the holes have multiple-pin options. When I played, both Holes #8 and #9 had two baskets in the ground.

Navigation is fairly straight-forward once you pass the construction between Holes #2 and #3.

There's a large net on the left side of Hole #8 to protect playground users from errant throws.

The course returns near to the parking lot. For the speedy baggers, this is a course you could play in 15 to 20 minutes.

For a course that is limited by area, the designers had to get creative. The result is a layout that is crammed into the available space with a few holes that pose danger to other park-goers.

Hole #1 involves a couple of sidewalks on the left side and some parking spaces behind a grocery store on the right side which are blind from the teepad. Cars that park there risk being struck.

The original Hole #2 is not currently available to play due to the construction of other park facilities. For now, the basket is about 50 feet from the teepad. Letter stickers now spell out "ACE RACE" on the basket banner. I was thankful to hit the banner and "take a 2" as it would have been annoying to explain how I "got a 1 but it wasn't really an ace" to my disc golf buddies.

Hole #3 is 256 feet, but the first 175 feet is basically out of bounds, as there's a chain-link fence and retention pond on the left side and a road on the right side. In between is a narrow strip of sidewalk and grass. The basket is in the middle of a small grassy area that is surrounded by asphalt sidewalks that are marked as OB. The ideal throw involves a line that goes over the road and fades. Keep an eye out for pedestrians and cars on this hole.

With the current construction, there's a couple-minute walk to find Hole #3.

The beauty and unique challenge of Hole #9 is the best part of this disc golf addition in Dawsonville. Most of the holes are ordinary and several are packed into recreational areas that are potentially too close to other park facilities and visitors.