18 holes consisting of nice level turf tees, bright lime-green Prodigy baskets, and informative tee signs. Good variety mixing of pars and hole distances and fairway shaping for advanced-pro level players. Mostly tight well defined fairways and steep elevation changes which are the main features of this course. Strong club presence and love with the rough surprisingly well maintained, not much underbrush or thorny stuff off the fairways.

Basically one big loop - long 14 hole loop and short 4 hole loop back to parking lot. Long walk between 13, 14 and 15. No alternate tees or basket positions, brutal course for novice players. Navigation was tricky in a couple places, bring a map. Hole 1 plays down a walking path and hole 18 plays along a park road. Moderate chance to lose a disc in places. Some very steep and dangerous terrain in places. I don't recall any restrooms or portapotties.

Things that may vary/change - Wasn't the cleanest and quietest course, it plays along train tracks, and I saw a junked washing machine among other litter. The mosquitoes were absolutely atrocious, I had a cloud of them following me the entire round even fully soaked in deet. I had my first encounter ever with a skunk here on hole 6, I almost stepped on Pepe Le Pew and he growled at me while I was searching for my drive, luckily he didn't spray.

Starting off my GPS took me the baseball field parking lot, I asked the county cop sitting in the lot if he knew where the disc golf was and we were looking at the dg course map I had and figured out it was just across the foot bridge. So after finding hole 1 it took me even longer to find hole 2, go uphill pass basket 14 and go right down the park road. Hiking uphill on the sand dune with basket #4 perched on top it on was hell, this was also my last course on my 5 day road trip so my legs were already beat.

Hole 6 is probably the signature hole here, and standing on the tee I really liked what I saw, but hidden beneath the beauty is a very small landing area straight ahead, the left side slope next to the train tacks is extremely steep and loose ground and hard to traverse and harder to throw a standstill shot without tumbling, the right side off the fairway has more rough and trees and makes you play further uphill, I imagine there will be more many more 6s than 3s on this par 4, probably plays closer to a par 5.

I really liked hole 8 which is a par 3 421' downhill hyzer. Hole 11 was a fun par 4. Hole 17 was fun and unique, short downhill touch putter shot to an elevated island. Hole 18 is a tough long par 4 and the only hole that may resemble open or flat, it plays down the park road as OB left and the basket is basically situated on a tiny island.

Overall I have some mixed love-hate feelings about Rockwell, there are some really cool holes here, but as a traveling player playing here for the first time, it kind of felt more like work than play with the amount of time spent on navigation issues and searching for discs, and the amount of hiking involved, and the mosquitoes constantly buzzing me. I'd recommend this course to in-shape intermediate and above level players, and travelers with the caveat to allot for some extra time.

1) Signage - right off the bat, the DGCR description was perfect for getting me to the first tee, tee signs gave solid descriptions of the holes and even had some designs detailing the path to the next hole which was neat, there are grey signs with black arrows that are a bit small but direct you perfectly throughout the course if you keep your head up
2) Flow - the course felt very natural and although some pathways did cross over each other there really wasn't any feeling of the course being crunched into the space, naturally being a young course, there was no one there to wait on or to interrupt your round
3) Parking - since this course is already in an established park, parking is not a problem at all
4) Baskets - new Prodigy baskets had great chains and caught all the putts that it should have, and even some iffy ones too
5) Tee pads - they were a fake long style grass tee pad that felt really great under my feet, it also really fit with the aesthetic of the course being in a forest and keeping a natural feel, tee pads aren't just placed on the ground but actually are set on wood platforms and gravel, there are even some wooden elevated tee pads (holes 16 and 17 I believe) and that seriously raise the quality of the course
6) Signature holes - for me hole 17 and 18 come to mind as some extremely nice holes, hole 17 is a tasty island hole with a wonderfully built up island that is far down a hill from the tee, it is extremely amazing to walk up to at the tee and definitely made me throw my bag, it reminded me of hole 2 at Lufbery Park for those who know, hole 18 is easily a top pro level style hole, amazing fairway and water that comes into play twice on the hole

1) Baskets - the Prodigy baskets are a green color and that can sometimes make them harder to find if you want to get a look at the basket from the tee
2) Tee pads - this may have just been my situation, played the day after rain, but the pads were a bit slippery and I thought they would have drained a bit better
3) Walkways - on some of the holes, there are sand walkways that are pretty sketchy, namely hole 4 and 6 which have sand walkways with some serious elevation change

I tried to keep my pros and cons as objective as possible and for this reason I didn't add in my poor experience disc searching. I usually can zip through a round in 50 minutes since I usually play alone and this round took me an hour longer than that simply because of lost discs (still have a Star Tern down on hole 6). I am not sure if that is a common thing for other players so I left that part of my experience out of my cons section. Naturally it took quite a bit away from my round but with that one factor gone, this was an amazing round and course.
Giving a comparison to local players, I personally found this course about the same difficulty to a little easier compared to Page Park. I finished -1 my first round there but may have found it a bit easier since my home course, Camp Brook, is even tighter than Page and Rockwell.
I see a ton of potential in this course and it is obvious there is a dedicated volunteer group working on the course which will prove well for its future. I was extremely pleased to see another course go in in CT, but granted more will always be better.
Despite my lack of many cons of this course, I am not going to reward a "4.0 - excellent" rating because I wasn't wowed by the course as a whole. There were quite a few holes that I truly enjoyed but the course for me personally didn't bring me to give it a "4.0 - excellent" rating but I am positive that with more work, Rockwell Park will be getting that rating frequently. I am extremely grateful for the work that has been done already and for the people who pushed the idea through the red tape.