Wilmington, IL

Rivals Lookout Park

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Experience: 22.9 years 351 played 178 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Quiet beginner 9 bagger 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 16, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

This park is located in a very quiet area of town. The Kankakee River runs down the south side of the course and there is a fantastic walking path that goes over the river. It's a cool looking old bridge. The land is mostly flat and open. There are scattered trees pretecting a few pins and some rough lining the edge.

Hole #1's tee pad is located to the north of the pavillion with the basket on the edge of the pine trees.

Brand new Mach 3 baskets. Since the tees do not have signs having the # plate is much needed on this course.

Once you find hole #1 it's super easy to navigate.

Great beginner in an area that doesn't have a course.

Cons:

No tee signs.

The tees are lined by lumber. They are dirt so when it rains it's going to be muddy! Most are very uneven and difficult to throw from.

The design of this course was pretty bad. The tee pads are only a few steps from the previous basket on several holes. The land did not offer an awesome course but it did have more. The river does not come into play on 1 hole and the rough could have been put in play.

Other Thoughts:

If you are traveling down I55 and you want a quiet place to stop and have a picnic this place is for you. There is a nice walking/bike trail. If you are looking for some quality disc golf skip it all together.
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klittle08
Experience: 16 years 156 played 3 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Some Potential 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 20, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

++Baskets are new
+Good course flow
+It's a disc golf course
+Course plays quickly

Cons:

----Tees are dangerous, small, rutted/grown over
----Layout could be much better with land available
--Most interesting features of course are not used
--Course is too far from everything for the lack of challenging/interesting holes
--Competitive rounds would average 7 or 8 down
-No signage, although not really needed with this simple of a layout

Other Thoughts:

This course has the potential to be a good little 9 hole dinker course (maybe even 18 with two tee pads.) However, the current layout is barely passable as a disc golf course. Holes are very short, many wide open holes, and interesting features such as tree lines and the nearby river never come into play. The course plays way too easily. I'm an 850 rated player and felt like I was having the worst round of the month at 3 down.

Onto the infrastructure portion of the course. There is a porta-pottie on site, which is great because the course is in the middle of nowhere. The baskets are great and brand new Mach III's. The tees are absolutely awful. They aren't even sand/gravel filled, they are just natural tees that are blocked off by wood. The pads are short ~5-6' long and are horribly rutted. For safety reasons I would advise teeing behind the pad whenever possible.

I would not recommend this course unless you happen to be driving by it. I hope this course gets a face lift as it could be a great course for beginners and get more folks in the area interested in disc golf as the park was full with a family reunion when I played. I just hope some changes are made before the tees are made permanent.
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