Very beautiful and well-maintained course that lies on the floodplain of LaNana Creek. This course also plays under an old pecan tree orchard that houses upwards of 30-4o very large pecan trees that bear quite a good harvest of nuts every year. If you need a snack and forgot one, don't worry; pecans are everywhere. In the growing season even the squirrels can't eat them all, so plenty of fresh pecans can be found. A thick-rimmed driver like a Champion Boss makes for a great nut cracker.

- As previously mentioned, this course is lightly wooded with well maintained fairways. The pecan trees do not branch out until about 15 feet up, so the trunks of the trees are the only obstacles present normally,

- Very open course comprised 60% of holes less than 350 feet. Hole 2 is a massive 500 footer, with holes 3,4,11,16 and 18 coming in at a tad over or around 400 feet, so there is plenty of room to air out the long arm.

-An old, almost 100 year old truss bridge now resides in the park and has become quite the obstacle for holes 8 and 9. Interesting scenery and historical object of Nacogdoches county.

-Thick vegetation will be found if a disc leaves the fairways. It would be ill-advised to play with a green colored disc. The forest likes to eat those the most.

-Poison ivy is out in the thickly vegetated areas, so be careful if you are susceptible to that kind of chemical warfare. Roomate played that course and git into it a lot, and ended up with a serious infection after the chemical agents got inside a laceration on his leg. Walking around with a itchy black/blue leg that looks like it's about to fall off any moment is no fun, according to him. I'll take his word for it.

-The course lies in a floodplain, so after rain events portions of #2, 12,13 and 15 will be saturated or inundated with water. Don't play in your Air Jordans, they will leave the course as Muddy-Soggy Jordans.

-This course shares space with a park, so other park patrons will often be unwittingly in your way at the worst time and will set up shop in the fairways. Not a bag deal, just irritating. Most of them know the course is there and will make room, but some are woefully ignorant of disc golfers.

-Earthen teeboxes. These can get terrible after a rain event, but as with everything else, the costs of putting in better options can get high.

-Course navigation is nonexistent.

Pretty fun course to play in your down time , but not one I'd make a special trip for, like the awesome Lake Nacogdoches. I play this course the most, mainly because i live a stones throw away from it.

This place gets a lot of traffic from university students, families, joggers, walker, bikers, rugby players, and almost everything else you could think of, so be mindful when you are playing a round that you may( will) not be the only one there. Unless you play in the morning or in the late evening, you are bound to run into somebody.

Variety of players can enjoy the course, playing a variety of shots, on a variety of elevation and obstacles! My beginner wife and I (Sr GM) had a lot of fun on this course. There are a mixture of open, treed, uphill and downhill, ditches to cross, long and short holes to play. A rest room is available. The course is in a scenic pecan orchard with plenty of shade. On most holes there are several lines you can play, and risk v. reward shots are optional on many holes. I really thought the basket placements were well-planned and a definite plus. The placement could make an seemingly easy hole more challenging for sure. Parking is very adequate, even when competing with SFA students. Steve at Old Town General Store on Main Street was really helpful, and you can buy discs there as well. He gave us a much-appreciated map, and invited me back for the Nacogdoches Open coming up. If he is representative of the DG'ers in Nacogdoches, you guys are doing things right. Plus you can get some great food at OTGS.

Had we not been given a map, we would have had a bit of a struggle doing the course from the signage in place now. A map on the Nacogdoches Crushers website, as is present for Pioneer and Lake Nacogdoches, would be very helpful. We went the morning after a heavy rain, and our shoes got pretty wet. So, if the course had a recent rain, wear waterproof or be prepared for wet feet from standing water. Those are my only two cons.

Nacogdoches has three courses, and Pecan may be the easiest. Pioneer is harder I'm told, and Lake Nacogdoches is getting a really great reputation if you are looking for a challenge. So Nacogdoches has something for everyone. I think you could make a DG weekend there and leave very happy.

Fun course, well kept up.
Good use of pecan orchard and several creeks. Not a lot of trash which is a plus for me.

A little difficult to navigate course as signs are not the best.
Mostly flat and no real "wow" holes for me.

I am an Alum for Stephen F Austin and wished this course was around then as would have kept me out of trouble. I really enjoyed course. Better signage and would rate higher. Of course I'm sure alot better now then when I last played. It is on my list to replay some day.

A lot of good open shots. There are a few long holes and a few that have some good tree coverage you have to throw around.

Old baskets, a lot of walkers and other pedestrians you have to watch out for, signage and directions to other tee boxes could be improved. Nothing real major though.

Clean, friendly players, plenty of room to throw hard.

IMO, this course is nicer than Pioneer Park. Its cleaner and while significantly easier, its because the course is straight forward. It doesn't have very much elevation, but that's ok. Free to play, so nice after being used to San Diego's Morley Field.

No creativity with holes. Almost all the holes feel the same. Tee boxes are not well marked, but the course overall is pretty well marked for a free course.

Solid beginner course.

As has been said before: beautiful setting in an old, mature Pecan Orchard. The Course starts and finishes at the parking lot. It is a safe park, with the parking lot on a fairly busy street by the college (SFA), so your car is rather safe.

Most holes are open, even when you get into the orchard, so it's a good course if you want to learn, or brush up on, a power drive. Heck, if it bores you and you want to get crazy, make up your own mondos and see if you can weave your disc in and out of the pecan trees (set up in grid pattern)..

There are a few mondos that might (I emphasize might) make you step up your game. The mondo signs/markings could be better defined/highlighted though.

As has been said before: the park can get busy, but the people are friendly; if you want time your game when people won't be there (school hours, late morning / early afternoon).

There are minimum bathroom facilities (I couldn't find any -- they may be around the play area and not near the disc golf course), but plenty of corners and trees if you must...

Baskets need a fresh coat of paint on the top blaze and numbers. Several signs are missing, but many of the next tee pads are so obvious it is hard to miss (2 or 3 can be confusing).

The tee pads are dirt (filthy, East Texas red clay/dirt) and pea gravel, and tend to not get filled in regularly, so there's a ditch or a puddle of water/mud in the middle of them if it recently rained... Seriously though, don't wear anything you won't want red dirt on, especially if you go into a creek ditch for a disc.

The park is in a flood plain, so water tends to stand for days after a rain, especially in winter when nothing is soaking it up. The back holes (15 - 18) stay wet the longest and will be marshy for DAYS after a good rain. This isn't as bad as the neighboring disc golf course at Pioneer Park, though, where you might have to forfeit playing 6 or 7 holes.

Most holes are very open: they use the pecan trees often, but most shots are more distance/power intensive than technical.

It's hard to do anything about being in the lowlands, but If the local club, or whatever they are, would get the money for new signs, basket paint (maybe some chains?), and either keep the tee pads groomed or slowly replace them all with concrete, the course would be much better.

Hole 9 has the sharpest dogleg/hook (left) I've ever seen; it is also common to land in hole 10 fairway on this drive. In fact, holes 8 - 11 are crammed into a corner.. kind of sucks, but I guess they worked with the space they had. It makes for a couple technical shots, though.

Hole 11 has a crazy-cool double-mondo shot between two trees.

The long, open holes might get monotonous to some (and indeed would for me if I lived in Nacogdoches), but I enjoy the chance to bomb a lot (most holes at my home courses are tight/wooded). Besides, that's what traveling disc golf is all about: seeing how other places utilize the land they have. And as far as that goes, I give Pecan a thumbs up: might not become a favorite or an out-of-the-way stop, but if you are: close, have the time, and weather permits, you won't regret spending a couple hours.

And if it's that time of year, take a sack and pick up pecans all you want. Hope this helps.

Easy to navigate. freshly mowed greens. extremely peaceful setting. Mature pecan trees with little to no low hanging branches set up in a grid with perfect spacing, resulting in multiple paths to the basket on most holes. A creek in play with a couple of baskets making use of it quite well. Numbers are visible enough to be able to read it. Tee signs with terrain detail and pin location and when 2 baskets are visible the tee sign will have them both numbered so you will not waste any time re-shooting your tee shot. Design makes good use of space, terrain and what little elevation is available. Hole 1 and 18 are both by the parking lot. Good course to teach or learn on without having to sacrifice overall quality, instead of the typical mostly flat and open city park cram job. Clean course for the most, enough benches and a decent amount of shade. Not busy today, a fun change up from the more technical Pioneer which is 1 mile away, both are a blast.

Not enough trash cans. some pars were not correct. 1 hole was about 360 and labeled as a par 4. Would be easy for most pros or experienced players. Not much elevation considering the elevation at pioneer. 1 or 2 tee signs were missing. Several times 2 baskets would be close and would confuse some people.

Pecan Park is a course that is fun to play and perfect for introducing new players to DG. It isn't a bunch wide open field shots but isn't too tightly wooded for a newbie. It does not have many cons if you are not a upper level player. With Pioneer a mile away this is a fun day of disc golf in East Texas. After hole 8 walk past 11's basket and look to the left for 9's tee.

Plenty of Room to throw bombs all day long!! very nicely laid out. nice course for begginers. There are a couple locals that are fixing the tee boxes(adding more dirt) and changing up the holes. if you play the mandos there is a good variety of shots. No technical holes, could be a pro or con. if you make a bad drive you have plenty of room to make it up. locals are very friendly, i used to be one of them. Great place to go and just enjoy the great outdoors. very well kept.

Dirt teeboxes. personally i preffer concrete, just depends on personal prefferance i guess.

Not very technical.

needs new signs. still not hard to follow though.

lots of people at park(its a multi-use park) most will move if asked nicely.

this is my original home course, this is where i learned to play, i imagine i ranked it a little higher than what it deserves as i am a little biased. but overall it is a beautiful course. very nice place to go if you just want to get out and throw and not have to worry about 10-15 ft windows. fun course, very shaded. if you ever drive through nac you must stop by pecan.