• Discover new ways to elevate your game with the updated DGCourseReview app!
    It's entirely free and enhanced with features shaped by user feedback to ensure your best experience on the course. (App Store or Google Play)

Tylersport, PA

Salford Township Community Park

1.385(based on 17 reviews)
Filter course reviews

Filter reviews

Filter reviews

Salford Township Community Park reviews

Filter
8 1
itsRudy
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 7.8 years 74 played 63 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Go Elsewhere for DG, Go Here for Suburban Exploration 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Aug 2, 2020 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

It has baskets? The park somehow packs a sizeable 2000 foot length course in a very small footprint. The course is flat terrain, about four open grass holes bookending roughly five forested ones in the middle. The open part takes place on a 360' long x 200' wide field with a small mound in the middle. Field practice is possible but obscured by this.

Across the street from the Post Office / Playground is the Salford Township Openspace with a basketball court and newly erected calisthenics park that looks much more welcoming.

+It's completely empty most days. In 5+ trips, I've never seen another DG player, perhaps a single park patron twice, once with kids.
+Old DGA baskets in good condition, correct #s on poles
+#3 was my favorite hole. Open drive going into forest via path.

Cons:

There's nothing to recommend driving to this place. It's a complete dud in both execution and upkeep in an area surrounded with better opportunities. Go elsewhere. Beginners should try Branchwood, Plains Park, or Upper Salford Park instead. I never left this park actually glad I played a round here.

My annual visit is to laugh at bad halloween props and out of morbid curiosity. Sadly, it has been all downhill since it opened in 2004 as an Eagle Scout project. Old pictures here show calisthenics equipment and a walking bridge, but that's all gone. I'm surprised the baskets are still there. Even the playground looks sad, with old sunbleached papers and dead wasps in the bulletin board greeting people.

The main purpose of this place is a Halloween hayride. Props and sheds are languishing in the woods year round, until replaced by other ghoulish upgrades for the next hayride season. Everything else about this course just screams neglect. Trees had huge 'NO TRESSPASSING' signs that kept me off half of the course years ago, until I realized it was simply meant as additional spookfactor.

---Wet and swampy. The forest is going into bush overgrowth near the edges and there's a lot of swampy areas exactly where discs want to land. Best to play in cold but dry winter.
---There are also no course maps nor tee signs onsite and enough parts are non-intuitive. Look at the online map under "Links/Files" tab.
--The tees are two square rubber tiles per hole but many are MIA or overgrown bushes. You probably won't find them w/o a course map. Most holes start within a dozen feet from the previous basket, so just pick a tee-off spot.
--Trajectories in the forest are a major problem. At best, too tight for a beginner course to fully unrealistic 'S' curves on a 6' wide trail on #6. #7 is just a dumb, impossible 105 degree dog-leg for this skill level.
--Another problem is that forest "fairways" actually are just the walking paths. Stupid and unsafe for regular patrons, if there were any.

Other Thoughts:

Terrain Potential: Xx - Passable. Small patch of land, half open, half forest.
Actual Execution: Xx - Passable. Barely. Super tight fairways. Tight gaps. No signs/map.
Upkeep: x - Bad. It gets mowed, that's about it. Tees go missing, myriad of issues never fixed.
Difficulty: XXX - Intermediate. Difficult through it's own flaws.
Fun Factor: x - Bad. The only fun here is looking at Halloween gags in June.
Overall: x - Bad. A short lesson on what course should not be like.

Amenities: Portapotty by playground shed. Old review talk about disc rental at front building?

Course Layout: RHBH POV. About 2000' length. #1-6 go in a overall counter-clockwise loop with #3 being an open drive before entering the woods. #4 & 5 follow forest path. #6 is forest tee-off with the basket back in open again. End loop. #7-8-9 is a smaller clockwise loop inside that. #7 enters forest near bushes straight on before doglegging right towards the barn hidden in forest. #9 is open and the drive goes over the mound.

Note: When teeing off for #3, you might mistake #8 basket in the field as the goal, but the hole goes into the woods behind it, on the right-handed path.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
4 0
nosajeel99
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 22.9 years 37 played 24 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Not worth it. 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 1, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

There is decent variety here in 9 holes. There are open shots, doglegs, woods, etc., so something to please people in that respect. This is about where the pros end for me.

Cons:

Navigation is tough here. Even with a map I was confused. The tee pads are tiny - so tiny that you can barely find them. There are no signs and the baskets are not numbered.

After the first three holes the course goes into the woods and plays along a walking path. Yes, gravel is your fairway. There are poles in the woods with numbers on them, which I thought would correspond to tee pads, but I didn't see any pads and it didn't look like there should be a pad there according to the map... so, I wandered around for a while looking for tee pads and baskets. Not sure if I played the course really or not.

The open holes play around athletic equipment (pull up bars, sit up benches, balance beams, etc). I never see anyone using these anywhere, but if someone did want to use them, they would be smack in the way of baskets and tee pads.

Things were over grown. There was no elevation, no water, no risk/reward, no memorable holes.

Other Thoughts:

This may be the worst disc golf course I have ever played. It sounds harsh, but I think this one takes that "award." Navigation was a joke, other park equipment was in the middle of the course, and going through the woods felt like a haunted trail (maybe they use the trail for that during October, who knows). Short, unchallenging holes did not help this course.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
10 0
optidiscic
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 21.9 years 156 played 149 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Poor Baskets Going To Waste 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 1, 2005 Played the course:once

Pros:

The Baskets are nice. No traffic. Great course if you are trying to introduce your toddler to the sport. Perfect course for an elf, a gnome, or perhaps someone trying to get their first ace.

Cons:

Short, I mean ridiculously short! Flat and uninteresting as far as disc golf goes. The holes are between 80 and 150 feet perhaps. Think of it as 9 putting greens clumsilly layed out in a park that gets little to no use. Despite its tiny size it is hard to navigate as their is no signage. Course seems to begin and end at the little brown bridge. Just look for little asphalt Shingles on the ground...these are tees! (perhaps 12" x 24" yeah inches) The tees point in the direction of the baskets....usually. Once in the woods I think the course plays along the gravel haunted trail. Yeah it's a haunted hayride trail and they don't ever bother cleaning up the weird stuff out there. I found a Jason Mask in one basket in January. In summer, dont be alarmed by seeing blood and gore everywhere!

Other Thoughts:

I have nothing against the kid who was able to get a course built.I realize the course was an Eagle Scout Project, but the money the township spent on the baskets is such a waste. Truly a shame that with all the local clubs craving baskets that there are nice baskets just going to waste in this substandard never used park!
Was this review helpful? Yes No

Latest posts

Top