Mount Simon is the most popular course in Eau Claire. It appeals to the widest segment of disc golfers and it's easy to see why. The course is free, centrally located and is just an all around fun course. It's now my second favorite of the Eau Claire 9's, just behind the more dynamic Pinehurst Park. Mount Simon is still the OG over here for free to play courses.

The baskets are standard yellow banded Discatchers. These are showing their age no doubt, but all still catch fine and are easy to spot. One pin and pin placement per hole. No complaints with these.

Single, tapered concrete tees on each hole as well. These are nicely done. Level, grippy and of sufficient size for a course of this length. These are needed here with how busy this course can get. It'd be a rutted, muddy mess at every tee without these.

The flow of the course is very easy to follow. Not only the design, there's literally worn paths leading from each basket to the next tee. It's basically impossible to get lost out here. The course starts and ends right by the parking lot near hole 1.

Very nice tee signs out here. Detailed hole map showing trees and other tees/pins as well as distances. there's also the hole #, par and distance. All the pertinent info you'd expect. Nicely done.

Good design for the little chunk of space that they have available. The course plays mostly through a lightly wooded flat section of the park. The usage of the fringes of the woodline are what elevate the design. Hole 5 starts out open before entering the woods and playing to the pin in the woods on a hillside. Hole 6 is shorter, but a nice tight wooded hole with a couple different options on how to go about attacking it. Hole 7 has a nicely guarded green tucked just into the woods. The excitement really picks up on the latter half is what I'm getting at I guess.

During peak hours in the summer this place can get busy. Really busy. Not a con, more a warning. If you want a quicker round plan on arriving early in the summer.

A few overlapping holes. Nothing too crazy for the most part, but it is a tight fit for sure.

It'd be awesome if they were able to use some of the wooded hillside behind holes 5's pin and holes 6 and 7. I understand why they didn't, but it's just RIGHT THERE. There could be some cool holes along there.

The rough gets thick and there's always poison ivy just of the fairway. It's been this way forever now.

For as popular as this park is you'd think they'd have some marked shorter tees for beginners at this point, and just to add to the replay value. Plenty of room for it. Hell maybe even a longer option on a couple instead of shorts. Just some other options

This course will always be a memorable one for me. This is the first course my wife and I played together. But i gotta rate them like I see them. This one is just an average to slightly above niner. Definitely worth a spin if you're nearby but not worth going out of your way to play. Fun course but there's just nothing that stands out above most other nines in WI.

Open holes with decent distance make it fun to play. The changes in landscapes make it fairly fun.

Not a huge variety of the types of holes, and nothing all that technical. During the afternoon, it gets extremely busy.

Fun to play, but nothing to write home about