Rocky Mountain Disc Golf at Seacoast Fun Park is conveniently located and clearly visible from Route 302. The course is new for 2010 and, for the most part, is off on the right foot. The course has a decent layout. There is a solid variety to the holes at this course. While there are more mostly straight fairways than anything else, there are still numerous left and right fairways where elevation comes into play on almost every hole. Additionally, there is decent variation in hole length, from 210-506'. The course design does a decent job of incorporating the wooded areas of the park. Most wooded fairways are wide enough to forgive drives and approaches that might be a little off the mark, while open fairways are much wider and more forgiving still.

Due to the wooded and hilly nature of the course, Rocky Mountain Disc golf can be challenging for all levels of players and provides a great workout.

The "new" concrete tees appear to be repurposed sidewalks or parking lots. I have to give a big thumbs up for this as it is a great way to pull an eco-friendly aspect into disc golf.

The Kingpin baskets were brand new and in fantastic shape.

The course featured new and fairly detailed tee signs that showed distance, par and obstacles (mostly trees).

SAFTEY! I don't think enough thought was given to player and pedestrian safety when the course was designed. The 18th hole poses the biggest potential danger to bystanders. The fairway is similar to many ski hill courses and drives down a long, expansive hill to a wide-open basket. The problem is that there is a tubing ride and walkway that is adjacent to the left side of the fairway. The combination of most players throwing RHBH and the downhill drive creates a very real potential for countless numbers of discs to bombard (and seriously injure) unsuspecting patrons. The mind-blowing part of this equation is that there is a section of netting that extends several hundred feet along the right side of the fairway (the side that borders woods). Instead of protecting the people using the tubing ride, the netting saves the thrower from having to hike into the trees to retrieve an errant drive. Further, the proximity of baskets to tees is of concern. Specifically, hole 1 and hole 5 both drive toward the same location, with hole 5 being a downhill drive that, if it gets away from the thrower, poses a serious risk for anyone on the fairway for hole 1. Not as extreme, but still of concern is the proximity of the tee for hole 5 to the basket of hole 4.

Second to safety was the ridiculous volume of underbrush on nearly every hole. It's difficult to enjoy the solid course layout if you have to waste time looking for drives that were placed solidly on the fairway but were hidden by excessive shule. Hole 5 was an example of what appeared to be a wide-open fairway, but in reality, most of the left side of the course was covered with knee-high brush. The design of hole 16 was fantastic, but the volume of bushes and other wild growth completely ruins the appeal of the layout.

Following closely behind dense brush was the distracting music. If you want a quiet, peaceful round surrounded by the sounds of the woods, you won't find it here. Seacoast Fun Park has many other activities on site and they blast the radio all over the park. The sound system (playing a pop hits commercial radio station while I was there) is so loud that it bleeds onto the disc golf course and is very clearly audible at every tee, fairway, and basket.

As much as I love the reuse of the concrete tees, the pads are a bit small. The tees would be too small for most players that use a standard X-step or have an elongated run-up. Several of the tee areas are situated such that it would be difficult/dangerous to do a run up onto the tee.

There were a few instances where navigation was an issue. Going from the basket on hole 1 to the tee on hole 2 confused me and the three groups that were behind me. A few of the wooded holes required a bit of back and forth until the next tee was located. A "Next Tee" sign would go a long way to alleviate these issues.

Despite pointing out the cons, Rocky Mountain Disc Golf is still pretty solid and challenging course and seasoned players will enjoy it (especially if the dense brush is cut back). That being said, due to the volume of wooded holes, the excessive brush, and the elevation changes, I don't think that this course is the best entry point for families and new players into the sport of disc golf. If the safety issues could be addressed, tees lengthened, and if the extensive wild growth and underbrush could be significantly cut back, Rocky Mountain Disc Golf could start to look like a contender in the pantheon of Maine disc golf courses.