-This was it when this course came to life. When this course was designed, that was the day we disc golfers thought would never exist. The disc golf Gods and Devils decided to design a course together and see how it ends up. I played here and I felt like I was in Heaven and then felt like I was in hell. I'll explain in the pros what the Gods did.

-First hole there were angels singing on the gold pad at the gates of disc golf Heaven (a 529' downhill bomb). It was beautiful and they saved my drive from being in the rough. I threw a culverin and it navigated through the woods and somehow went past the basket. The blue pad is marked more clearly but the long pad is a joy to play. It's further up the clear marked by a gold rock. Awesome starter hole.

-Then we get to hole 2 and it's really disc golf Heaven. You have to love this hole! The disc golf Gods are divine making a beautiful downhill midrange toss down a beautiful pasture. My favorite hole here. I threw a slammer and parked this hole, but the view alone makes this hole great, and the fact that you throw off an elevated tee-pad makes it greater. Hole 3 is another cool hole down a trail and the basket is perched slightly in the woods. This hole is harder but it's still a great one.

-You get to play a 150' drop shot off of a bunch of rocks and over rhododendrons. How awesome is that? Some people may think it's a filler to play a hole like that, but it looks awesome and it's very aceable.

-It's a very pretty course. Everywhere you walk here, you enjoy the walk through the woods. The drive over was nice too. The mountains in Pilot Mountain may be the most beautiful mountains I've ever seen. They were like giant rocky crystals with mature trees around them.

-Since this place has mountains, this course is hilly. I said that earlier, but this place has some serious elevation changes. Scenery and elevation is what I love. #15 is off a pretty huge hill and continues to decline a little for the rest of the way. #9 was a gem of an uphill backhand shot as well. This hole is a real monster for RHFH or LHBH throwers. This was a compromise for the Gods and Devils (see cons below, there was a LOT of compromising).

-Tee signs with hole info that seems mostly correct. The diagrams are accurate and have you trusting the Gods on where to throw. Know who to trust. I walked some of the fairways to see where to throw and saw that there was no deceit on the diagrams.

-You're mostly in the country here, but there's gas and food nearby.

-Now lets talk about disc golf hell. Unfortunately, when opposing sides collaborate (if they do) they have to do one thing. Compromise. There was so much of it that it's unreal. I have no idea who this course was designed for (I guess they tried to please everybody). You have long bomber par 3s that are 500+ and sub 200' par 3s that are steep downhill. I've never seen that kind of variety when it comes to par 3s. Shape is more important than distance I guess.

-Who knew disc golf Heaven has a pitfall that you fall under to get to hole 4 and are damned to disc golf hell. The gold pad I never found, but from what I saw on the tee sign I had a good feeling and it's a terrible hole. The blue pad is another buzzkill. You throw down a trail that cuts right but you shall not dare go right cause you'd be in the underbelly of disc golf hell. #5 is a long bomb and the long pad is like 530' and it's a par 3? It's brutal enough as a 3 from the blue pad because the rough is hell. #14 is bad too, all around bad and the turn is confusing. There should be devil horns on a few of the baskets here.

-Lots of compromising between the Gods and Devils. There are many dumb holes here where the scenery makes them a little less excruciating. Most of the gold pads are dumb and turn a great hole from the blue pad into a bad one. I started from the golds on hole 1, couldn't find the gold on hole 2, and the gold on 3 is fun, but once you get to hole 4 the golds get terrible. It's like the Gods said to the Devils "Here, go ahead and take over. It's cool. We are compromising right?" Hole 8 is a prime example. Gorgeous hole. Nice green perched on a hill giving a gorgeous view, but the hole is a SEVERE DISAPPOINTMENT UP THE REAR. So much that pepto bismol won't do the trick. It's a 330' dogleg right par 3. Good luck getting a 2 here. The landing zone is like 150' ahead and turns 180' right. Same with #17. Gorgeous hole, but don't see how to get within 20' here from the gold pad. It's a 411' "C shaped" par 3. The blue pad is a little more manageable but I don't think this hole is as good as it can be. At least its pretty.

-Hole 16 is basically hole 7 in hell. The devils were probably jealous of how great of an idea the Gods had and wanted to fight back and make a drop shot that's more irritating. The gold pad is a miserable 183' slight hyzer through a very small gap. The blue pad is 141' and is better off jump putting down the hill going right to left rather than going straight through the wee little gap at the basket. Nice use of the creek but that's it for this hole. Not unfair (I parked it), but gimmicky. I just think this hole would be better if it were lengthened and had a couple less trees.

-This is more of a nitpick. The tee-pads give the elevation changes on every hole and I don't believe many of them. I am a hardcore number person, don't tell me it's weird we all have our perks. Live and let live. There's NO way hole 8 has a 17 foot loss in elevation. This hole goes down a few feet and then back up that few feet. I really doubt that #15's long pin loses 93 feet. It has a major drop, but I don't think that much. Many others that seemed too high. The devil is full of deceit. You look at the sign and expect that great of a change and it's not as much as it says it is.

-Some holes have pads, and others do not. The only tees with pads are the blues. The whites and golds are incredibly hard to find. I couldn't find most of the golds or whites. Course isn't very well marked. Now I do think that some of the golds and whites are not needed and that the blue pads make the hole all it should be, but the gold tee for hole 1 (EPIC hole) I would never have found if the locals didn't tell me where it was. I never saw the white.

-The Civic Center starts off incredible and would be perfect if it continued with how it started. There's a lot of good and bad that comes along with it and there are a lot of gimmicks that you see the good and bad in. For instance, 7 and 16 both gimmicks. But 7 is a fun one. #16 is a filler that tries to overcompensate by being so gimmicky. 141' steep downhill through a <5' gap. I love extreme disc golf more than old fashioned frisbee golf. This place is definitely not old fashioned, but some of the extremes are liabilities rather than assets to the course. But the assets are nothing light. They are huge and almost appear to be inflated from a fraud cause on a balance sheet. The first two holes are what every disc golfer loves and dreams to see.

-I would recommend you play the blues since they are more visible, except for hole 1. Play the long on that one too and rip some drivers down that hill and try to reach it. It's over 500, but plays way less. The long pad on #18 was pretty good too.

-This course is definitely aimed for casual play rather than tournament play. If you are serious about your courses, I don't know how you'd feel about this course, I would recommend you play Yadkin County instead. If you like to kick back and play a loose round with friends, I'd give this course a shot. You might like it more than I did. As for me, I like the first three and only a few others. I played again in 2022 and didn't enjoy it at all.

Very scenic and natural course that is a much improved redesign from what I hear. This course is a bit of a mixed bag but overall it's definitely worth a visit.

You can tell they're trying hard. Tee signs are great and navigation isn't a problem is if you study the tee sign a little and behoove the little arrows on the baskets. Hole 1 is flush with amenities: Bag hanger, scorecard holder, bench, nicely maintained tee. After that it gets au naturale really quick.

Outdoorsmen will enjoy rounds here as the course undulates along a variety of terrain and elevation. Up and down along creeks and hills, all the while surrounded by lush vegetation. Nature doesn't suck (at least when it's pretty to look at it doesn't).

The golf is solid and occasionally spectacular. None of the holes suck outright, although a couple are certainly nothing to write home about. The best feature of the design is that elevation is used well and there's a terrific mix of wooded and open, short and long. Downhill holes are always fun and there are plenty. Uphill holes (especially steep and/or long ones) are almost never fun and thankfully you don't run into those much here. Overall the course flows well and intuitively with some minor confusion due to intertwining trails (more on that later) but heed the signs and you're good.

I played the Blue tees as they existed and I'm a sucker for playing tees that exist. They're gravel over rubber hexagon mats and they're easy to find. The flat ones worked great. The Golds and to lesser extent the Whites seemed to be afterthoughts, as if the course was designed around the Blues first, fairly common. The Blues are a good round though and seem to call upon many tools of my bag, sometimes unconventionally so (a flippy midrange for a 744' long hole!? Inconceivable!).

Biggest determining factor for disc selection? Visibility. The rough is rough. Like "Smokey and the Bandit 3" rough. That's the one where Snowman plays the Bandit b/c Burt Reynolds was like "I'm too good for this movie." Every exit from the fairway turns into an Easter egg hunt with our friends the briers and poison ivy. Then there are those picturesque, serene creeks running in numerous directions; they're always keen on acquiring more plastic.

There are a lot of holes where you really want to let'er rip but feel restrained to thanks to a variety of factors, like the aforementioned jungles of Nam bordering many fairways. Even the Blue tees are more often than not rutted out badly and making footing treacherous. Some tees were completely filled with water (to be fair, we've had A LOT of rain lately). The tees are super wide except they're mostly gravel with the actual rubber mat being much narrower. Can be quite awkward if the tees aren't level.

Huge RHBH bias. I hate those miserable left-handed SOB's like the good Lord intended but this course has to be rough on them. If a hole isn't straight it's a hyzer with the exception of some doglegs (which I don't count as lefty friendly since they're generally just 2 straight holes combined). Hole 13 is probably the lefty friendliest dogleg and a super solid hole. Other than that, hole 4 is basically the only feather a southpaw will have in his cap here.

I'm a big safety guy so here's my obligatory "Oh noes, fairways and walking paths/trails too close to each other" rant. As mentioned in other reviews, there are some sharing of real estate on a handful of holes. Best I can tell, these trails aren't being used much and 99% of the time the frolf and hiking community will coexist peacefully. Would be better to avoid this if possible but I think it's alright.

I'm not a fan of hole 16, it's a crazy short and luck rewarding and easy to throw into a creek. It gets the course's "Filler hole" award. Hole 7 would've but it has cool boulders on the tee! I got a thing for rocks, don't judge.

The baskets are not, how you say, championship caliber. They do function but they are a bit shoddy. The chains are really light (thank God someone added another set, these must've been bounce-out city before) and the tops are usually sitting at rakish angles. Some of the trays look like they've worked over by a heavyweight (maybe the longhorn steer I saw by hole 14 got loose and decided to bang the chains?). They look like crap but I'd vote for them as President before Hillary or Trump; at least I know they work somewhat.

The mobility impaired may want to play elsewhere, especially if there's been rain recently. There are some nice steps cut into the really steep sections but there are plenty more walks where I was sweating an ass busting.

Rating explanation: I'm a self-admitted tee snob. This course is a bit rough but it's still oodles of fun, even in an adventure golf kind of way. You can't hate on the variety of fairways (unless you're a lefty) and it sure is purdy up this way. But the tees are still janky and the rough is, you know. It's a reasonable course that can grow easily into the "good" category but 4 disc ratings? C'mon guys.

Still though it's definitely worth a visit. It reminds me of a sort of hybrid of Highland Hills, Rockness and UNC. All of those are fun and this one is too.

Hole 15 is superb (as is the tee, hint, hint). Get over the "must throw a driver on a long hole" mindset and float your flippy slow plastic down that bad boy, it's fun. I like the doglegs; they're pulled off well I think. Hole 8's par might be generous and could be more deserving if the 2nd leg was longer. Hole 9 is neat but gonna take some routine limbing to preserve the gap. 18's not the greatest finishing hole and kind of bottle necks hard at the green but eh.

Beer pairing: Foothills Brewing Co.'s Pilot Mountain Pale Ale. The crisp, hoppy flavor really invigorates the round and keeps you bounding along. Also a great beer to cry into after you've spent considerable time searching in the brush for your disc, ha ha.

-a fair amount of elevation changes
-18 holes
-nice view with some interesting holes
-mix of long and short holes
- multiple tees

-little to no signage
-terrible tees
-a few holes that don't work
-the course is built in and around numerous running and hiking trails and picnic areas

I approached this course with some trepidation, knowing that it was recently redone and that it was still in the process of being finished. I arrived at the Civic Center and drove around for a while looking for the start of the course. There were no signs directing me to the start, and I was lucky to find it. I found a sign lying on its side near the first hole that signifies it as the start. There was a post that said "hole 1, par 3," and some flat rocks spray-painted blue. I came to realize the white, yellow, and blue painted rocks were the "pads," which were grass. The post signifying the first hole was one of few, if any, posts that identify where holes begin. The yellow tee, which was supposedly on the other side of the road, was not to be found. There was no course map on the kiosk near hole 1, nor were there copies of the map.

This beginning should have been a warning to me about the rest of the course. In fairness, the course is not horrible, but it is unfinished. Faded spraypaint on rocks in high grass or dirt on uneven terrain does not make good tees, and they are hard to locate to boot. Thankfully, the map linked to on this website is accurate, if sometimes hard to read. Each basket has a red and white arrow pointing to the next hole, and there are blue spraypainted arrows on the ground as well to help guide you. The baskets are old and wobbly, but certainly playable. One problem is that some of the holes, while interesting ideas, just don't work. Hole 7, for example, is a short throw from the edge of a cliff to a basket surrounded by chest high foliage. It's a concept hole that just doesn't work- hit the green or don't. 13 starts with the dreaded lay-up shot, then a steep, uphill turn. Hole 4 is a medium range throw with a 90 degree turn at the end. Another issue is numerous areas that need trimming of some sort. Overhanging branches on hole 2, and 10, the harsh turn on 8 that allows for only one lane to the basket where there could easily, and probably should be two (if some clearing was done on the right side of the trees larger trees at the bend it would be a better hole). In fact, quite a few of the holes could use some clearing, whether high or low (beware the poison ivy!).

But the biggest potential problem I foresee, is that the course was built in and among walking and running trails. Signs for the trails litter the course, making course navigation difficult. And a lot of the holes run alongside trails, or throw over, through, or at them. 17 throws at and over a foot bridge, while 3, 4, 5, and 8 double as fairways and trails. I threw long on 12, and realized a running trail went right behind the basket, and with all the trees on the course people will be coming from behind blind spots and in the line of fire on a busy day. 13 throws over a picnic table, and 14 throws into a picnic area! Luckily, I went on a Monday about lunchtime and I never saw another person throughout my round. But understand that on a busier day you will be interacting with people who don't know what it feels like to get tagged by a disc.

All this is a shame. There could be a really nice course here, and someday perhaps it will be once finished. Tee signs with proper distances are a must if no map is available. Uneven ground makes for poor tees- concrete would be appreciated, but gravel tees might be a better option. And I hope the designers realize putting the yellow tee 20 ft behind the blue tee doesn't really much change the hole or add anything new. At the same time, the short white tees offer very little challenge and will likely not interest any but the youngest players. There are some beautiful parts of the course- The green for 8 is gorgeous, and the short 16th is an interesting little challenge. 15 is by far the signature hole- 744 ft downhill in a tight fairway centered around telephone poles- all in a par 4, where landing outside the fairway is devastating to your score. Overall the course isn't as challenging as it could be, but it does what it can to make use of elevation changes, and for an area with no other courses it's the best available. It's a bit of a shame Pilot Mountain doesn't make much of an appearance in the view once on the course itself, but the landscape on the course is pretty enough. I wouldn't call it a destination course by any means, but if you're traveling through the area its close to the highway and good for a few hours of fun.

Several different shot types required as the course offers a nice terrain change throughout.

Confusing layout at times.

In no way do i mean any disrespect to the original designer of the layout,, but there are a couple of opportunities to "tweak" some of the holes to make it a great course.

The course is close to home. The closest decent courses to the Pilot Mountain area are in Winston-Salem or Yadkinville. The course is easy to navigate. Clear marked tee markers with hole numbers and par number. Most of the course is mowed grass with little trouble to get into by beginners.

This may all sound a little harsh. To begin with I do not agree with some of the Par numbers on several of the holes. It looks like they went strictly on distance when choosing the proper par for each hole. Some holes are easy pars, while others force you to make perfect shots to even come close to making par. The next thing that I picked up on was that 2 of the holes are very close to ball fields. Beginners with a hard left tail at the end of their flight pattern will put a few discs onto the fields. Also, 3 of the holes travel down parking lots or roads within the park. If there arent any games going on then this shouldnt be an issue. 7 of the 9 holes are mainly open with few obstructions. This can get old after repeated play. Hole number 7 is the only hole that incorporates any form of a wooded area. The fairway is only about 10 feet wide which isnt a problem, except for the poison oak that thickly lines each side of the fairway.

Its not too bad of a course for locals to squeeze in a quick round. It will be nicer if the tee boxes were concrete. In my opinion it isnt a course that will continue to pull people from miles around. That being said, the civic center did do an excellent job in using a lot of the available space around the park. Its not difficult to move through. It should be a good course to introduce people to the game, without having to drive a longer distance. It did make me feel a little better about the course after speaking with a groundskeeper while playing. He mentioned something about 9 more holes being added soon.