Good mix overall, uphill, downhill, etc. Nicely shaded for much of the course.

Walking paths crossing the course can slow you down. Poison ivy everywhere.

Great fun, while in town from Ohio, very glad we stopped.

-I loved this course. I first saw it on this site back around 2013 and thought it looked awesome. But after I saw it, I never had seen it again. Until a few days ago. And I found out it's only 74 miles away from my college campus. I knew right then and there I was going to play here and bring a couple of friends. It's well worth the hour and a half drive. The layout is stellar, and the fact that the space is quite limited (maybe 20 acres) makes it even more impressive of a design.

-The woods are beautiful. The whole land is gorgeous, so it makes the holes more pleasing. To add to that, there isn't a bad hole here. I've played many forgettable courses with high ratings but there isn't a hole here that is forgettable in my book.

-Two sets of pads on every hole. The shorts are funner for beginners but the longs are what make this course stand out. You have more variety in length, and a good amount of challenge but nothing too brutal. Course is relatively wooded, but you'll be able to throw some bombs here.

-Both of my friends as well as myself all loved hole 15. We all threw more than one driver on this hole. It's 447' long and downhill the entire way; so it plays a little less. Hole is quite difficult because it demands accuracy, as the fairway cuts slightly right and there is a mando tree that'll make you question throwing a bomb. I threw a saint with little power and was pin high, but I landed in the woods to the left and they are penalizing. I bogeyed this hole and it didn't feel as bad as it would on most holes here, but it's worth the effort to bomb a driver. A birdie on this hole would be extra.

-#11's the other hole we all loved. This is that one hole that you have to love, otherwise you should never consider designing courses. It's 269' (223' from the short pad) and is down a large hill. This hole (as well as all the others) is scenic. It is tight, so you'll have to be accurate to receive the pleasuring sight of watching your disc hit the bottom of the hill from the tee.

-The tee signs give hole info and if the baskets are tough to spot, there are arrows that show where the fairway turns. Some baskets are difficult to spot, but the fairways are well defined so they are easy to find.

-Course is demanding and deceptive (from the longs) but you can be saved if you get in trouble. The rough is sketchy in some places and will make you wish you had a get out of jail free card. It's tougher than I anticipated; I actually shot +1 here with seven bogeys (AND with an ace on hole 1!). But I had some easy opportunities for redemption that I blew. It's the perfect challenge for a player that's looking for a fun time

-Danger! But the fun kind. Some holes play on the side of the hill that is thrown up and down on holes 10 and 11. It isn't too likely that you'll end up all the way down, but the hill can impact your score.

-Many other signature holes. Both of the par 4's (holes 3 and 9) were great bomber holes. Some tight left turning fairways (downhill #8 and uphill #10). And right turning fairways (14 and 18.)

-North Georgia Canopy Tours isn't too far. With that being a gem of a course as well, you may feel the urge to go there too. I actually passed a place with an 18 hole course (know it was 18 because I saw the eighteenth basket) on the way over. It's about twelve miles from here and it isn't on this site but it may still be open for play.

-The course and park are on the opposite side of the highway, so you won't have to worry about pedestrians.

-It's cramped. Holes 5 and 14 practically share a fairway. The road is very close to #3, and I agree with one of the previous reviewers on how it's odd that #2 isn't the first hole and how #1 isn't the finisher. But my first throw of the day was an ace, so I'm personally happy with what's hole 2 not being the starter.

-The main problems are the overhead branches. Some of them are good and make the holes more challenging. However, the last five holes are better off without the overhead branches. #14 is nearly 400' and the branches are like 3' off the ground. #16 has some overhead branches, but I think they'd make this hole a great challenge if it wasn't for the drag pile and the tall tree stump in the middle of the fairway.

-If the last few holes had less branches to deal with, this course would be in my top 10. I really loved it. Whenever I'm home from college, I usually don't bother drive more than 25 miles to play somewhere. But most of the golf in the WNC is pretty mediocre and has a "raw sewage in the middle of the barn" odor to it that tells me to play Meeks Park. From what I saw, this course is pretty secluded too. But if you live in North Georgia, you have your options open and will less likely get tired of the golf down there. I've played this along with North Georgia Technical College, Rose Lane, and North Georgia Canopy Tours. Those courses are all well worth the time spent, even though they are pretty spaced between each other.

-The pars on the tee-signs are way overparred. The par of 56 given on the hole info seems perfectly right. Ten of the holes are under 300' and the longer ones are generally more open and allow long drives. Pars should be adjusted.

-I also heard from a local that there are singles events held here on Tuesdays, but me forgetting to ask what time they start, I don't know when to go. If you attend those events, please message me. And if you haven't played here, then do it if you contemplate it. Oh, and the Meeks Madness tournament is AWESOME!

-Excellent tee areas, concrete tees, good signs with par and distance.
-A few baskets are blind, but the yellow band makes it easier to see if you walk around a little
-Fairways are good quality, mostly grass, not super long, but not short enough for big skips.
-Rough is fair, it is adequately challenging and yet not impossible.
-Amazing elevation use, not a whole lot of massive drops, but there are some hills and undulations that are made to be a distinct part of each hole.
-Trees are very good here, there is a stretch of trees that separate the two more open parts of the course, this section isn't top of the line woods play, but it is good and fun.
-Relatively easy to navigate, I probably would need help without a map, but with the map, I only had to check it twice.
-This course has a cool vibe. It feels like a typical park course, but the distances are long, also, this course is in a rural area that does not have a whole lot of options, and this course is an amazing option that could hold its own in some larger city areas.
-Very large park, that is also really pretty, it is almost solely devoted to dog walking and disc golf, which is super cool.
-A wide variety of shoes here, a lot come down to personal preference, but there is equal opportunity for all types of shots.
-Most holes are wide open or mostly open, which allows for your creativity to run wild in regards to how to get around the few trees in your way.
-An impressively small amount of garbage for a course that deserves to be well known

-Disc Golf Paths aren't great, easy to slip. However a couple holes play near a walking path or two, and those are high quality.
-There is a river nearby, and 17 is the only hole that it could come into play, I would have like some more water.
-A couple holes could use some established OB, there are some holes that are pretty easy and would be much better if a path was OB.
-Not a whole lot of benches

this course gets a 2.5/4 on the new shoe index, that being said, I played in post-thunderstorm conditions, i.e. it was super wet
This course deserves to be played way more than it appears to be, because it truly is a wonderful course.

-great layout!
-greatly marked
- multiple tees
-nice scenery
-beautiful course

-tee boxes need to be leveled.
-walk ways run through the course
-must watchout for pedestrians.
-pedestrians can mess up your flow If you have to wait.

One of the best courses I have ever played! Great lay out and amazing flow to the course WILL PLAY AGAIN! It is a great all around course

Well manicured, technical and challenging pin placements. A good mix of open and wooded holes.

Teepads are not ideal. A couple throws could get close to pedestrians.

I played at the Meeks Madness and love it when they move the pins to the Island and across the road.

- Easy course to navigate. There are small signs throughout the entirety of the course which clearly display the current hole, and the hole next to come is never far away.
- Baskets and tee areas are in excellent condition.
- A long and short tee are available for every hole, all of which are well marked.
- Great variety of throws needed throughout the woods. You will use every disc in your bag.
- A course designed for the intermediate player. Expert players will certainly have fun, but beginner players may see it as too much of a challenge.
- Even a bad day on the disc golf course can still be a good day for a hike. Wonderful scenery in Blairsville, GA make for an aesthetically pleasing afternoon.
- Clean area, free of trash and graffiti.

- Although foliage is well maintained, the grass could certainly be cut more frequently.
- As of the beginning of April, hole #3 is gone due to construction.
- Meeks Park is a popular spot for walking dogs and running, so when teeing-off one will need to be aware of others nearby.

This is only my second course played in Georgia, and I must say I am thoroughly impressed. This is a course I would certainly recommend for intermediate and expert players. Be on the lookout for tournaments during the year, as this is a course very worthy of often tournaments. The course is very easy to find and easy to navigate, just remember your most comfortable tennis shoes, as you will be doing a lot of walking. I look forward to soon returning to Meeks Course to play another round!

Meeks Park in Blairsville GA has many of the features that I love to see in a golf course.
There are many holes short enough in distance to score 2's, and there are very long and challenging holes. Mostly the long holes are very open, while the shorter ones have trees to navigate. Elevation changes will be a factor on many of the holes. All of these factors are blended well throughout the course, and in the wooded fairways left and right are both well represented. 1 and 2 are wooded, 2 substantially uphill. 3, 4, and 5 are very open and lengthy. 6 and 7 are back in the trees. My advice is throw something stable on 6, I turned my drive over and wound up at the very bottom of the hill. Not easy to recover from that. 8 starts in the woods, requiring a downhill hyzer to make the more open pin position. 9 is a beast, 733 feet but fairly open with water on the left of the fairway. 10 is back into the trees and up the hill. 11 is a nice downhill ace run if you can hit the gap between all of the trees. 12 and 13 continue through the wooded area. 14 is back over the grassy field a good distance, and 15 is a downhill anhyzer edging the woods. 16 woods, 17, and 18 woods. Very fun, and distance is manageable on 75% of the holes. It is not a pushover, but not overpowering, especially once you get past 9. I really liked the land and the layout was pretty good.

Short and long tees are marked well by white signs with distance. Not paved, but two fairly level dirt tees on each hole. Baskets were good Discatchers. Not much traffic on the course, but it was lightly snowing when we started our round. This one I would love to play over a few times because there are a few great holes.

Cold, and breezy. Some of the open, lengthy holes were sort of bland, but the elevations on the hillsides and even some water added enough to still be interesting. Improved tee box surfaces would be cool, but my rating would stay at 4. Dogs are required on a leash, so mine was kind of irritated. There is a small dog park. Trails could potentially bring pedestrians in nicer weather.

The drive between Helen and Blairsville was scenic and mountains make awesome disc golf terrain. Worth the long drive to play this course once. Wish I had regular access. Did not play well, which was frustrating but acceptable. Better conditions would have been nice but what do you expect the last day of February? Birthday luck helped me hit a nice jump putt on 8 for a birdie, first of two at on the round. Reminds me of Rankin Lake.

Some long open holes in fields mixed in with mostly wooded holes. Makes for a good variety. Some holes you can just chuck your drive others require lots of thought. 1 mando. 2 tees on every hole.

Poison ivy. Just watch out for it. 1 hole where it's easy to lose a disc into insanely thick brush.

Really fun course with lots of shade. Good for all skill levels.

Two tees per hole
Nice Innova Double chain baskets
GREAT mix of holes (long, short, hyzer, anhyzer, wooded, open)
Easy to navigate
NO CROWD
Bathrooms at hole 1
Beautiful views
Benches EVERYWHERE

Tee pads can be uneven

First time I played here, I LOVE IT. I travel to Blairsville for work frequently and will play this course every chance I get.

A good variety with the challenge of tight woods and massive elevation changes.
A decent amount of left and right doglegs and definitely a lot of up and down.
Decent tees, not horrible, not fantastic
Adequate signage and benches at regular intervals.
Small next tee stickers tell you the general direction to go.
A couple mandos from the longs adding to the challenge a bit.

If this course was ever busy it would probably look like a cluster, several tees and baskets are very close, several fairways cross as well.
Crosses walking paths several times that seem to be frequented by senior citizens...while they certainly do not appear out of nowhere, they do take a bit to get out of range.
Some rough traversing up and down the side of the large hill which is a signature part of the back 9 when it is wet.

What a beautiful course. We played the longs and certainly got humbled. There were several holes which were just wow...like the bomb off the hill for 11 at 269' that you can practically putt off because the drop is so big...in fact I did and overshot the basket by about 100'. There are other holes that wind along the steep slope of the hill (12,13,14) that if your disc catches wind or you get a roll, you can end up all the way down the hill...it happened to me on 12 and to my wife on 13, she rolled all the way down the hill to the path and "saved" a 7.
Our drive took us up and over a mountain into an area that was more like upstate NY than GA...this took us back and made us very happy. It was a nice, relaxing break from the nerve fraying traffic of Gwinnett County.
It was well worth a 99mi trip and we will come back! On the way home we met a local at a BBQ joint that plays there all the time, it was nice to be able to chat about disc golf with a random stranger.

**3/11/10 Update**

We played the shorts last weekend in preperation for Meeks Madness 2010. Much more agreeable for mediocre/decent players. Just as fun and just as enjoyable though.

Well designed course that makes use of elevation and mixes open and wooded holes, with emphasis more on shorter, technical holes. Each hole had a long and short tee that were gravel, but were in great shape. Also there was a gravel ring around the baskets, I assume to help with erosion, but also kept the disc from rolling away. The walk between holes was quick easy to follow, and the baskets had arrows pointing toward the next tee. The park was well kept, and wasn't crowded when I was there. The pines also provided nice shade, and kept a layer of needles on the ground to kill off any undergrowth. Restrooms were located at the beginning of the course.

The back 9 had some really short holes (~200 or less). I wish they were longer because it was a let down after a solid front 9.* It took a few minutes to find the first hole(its on the left coming from the parking lot). Some of the baskets(15, 18) had two numbers on them and was a little confusing. I confused the 9 and 11 baskets(9 is to the left in the trees, 11 is in the open). The walk from 14-15 crossed 6's fairway, unless you walk behind the basket. There were a few holes we had to wait on walkers because the paths were in the fairway. Could have used some trashcans around the park. The big one for most people is probably the gravel tees, but these were in pretty good shape I thought, better than most I've seen, so it wasn't really a con for me.

I would love to have this course closer to me.

*I wrote this review having played from the short tees only.

I liked the variety of this course! There was enough open holes to keep my sanity, but plenty of wooded holes to keep me challenged and cursing at the trees. There is also a good amount of elevation play both up and down. There are some really short holes, and there are a couple really long holes. I found I did not get bored as there seemed to always be a new challenge. The course was not crowded at all. I think I saw one other group as I was finishing up. It was very well maintained and the grass was cut. I really appreciated the clean restroom facilites and for those packing a lunch there is a nice picnic pavilion near the parking lot and hole 3. There are adequate signs and I was able to find all but one basket with no trouble. There are also gravel tees which are not great, but adequate and there are two tees per hole for pros & recs like myself. Adequate benches are spread throughout the course. I loved the fact that in the woods, there was not really any undergrowth to speak of. No poison ivy on steroids, which always makes things more enjoyable, and finding discs much easier.

This course is kind of in the middle of nowhere (no offense if you live in Blairsville), at least it's a beautiful drive there. I don't really have any personal problems with this course, other than the 2 holes I remember that were barely over 100 ft. My other complaint is that the tee boxes are short. I remember tripping on the landscape timber on one hole b/c of this, but if I were bright, I would have started further back.

I probably should rate this a 3 1/2 judging by reviews prior to mine by people more educated than me, but for me personally, this is one of my favorite courses I have played. Granted, I've only played about 20 courses, but this one just had me wanting to keep playing. I can't remember playing a course with such a good fun/challenge ratio. Most really challenging courses leave me in a frustrated cursing state, but I didn't find that here. I also appreciated the mailbox on hole 1 which had scorecards. The first tee: when you are walking towards the pavilion from the parking lot, take the gravel path to the left about 200' and 1st tee is on your left throwing back towards the pavilion.