The Schiavoni Disc Course plays along the Swatara River Trail on a fairly thin piece of property that lies between the river and the parking lot. The trail comes into play a few times and the mighty Swatara is ever present on your right side for holes 2-6. This property is river front and would be soggy for part of the year.

The course is easy to navigate as it basically plays in a loop, five out and then the final four playing back towards the start and the small parking lot.

There is a small kiosk at the beginning with some basic information. There is a small plastic mailbox for maps but alas, it was empty. Hole # 1 starts right at the parking lot and plays 339' toward the river. The pads are nice sized concrete ones and the tee signs are small composite material, colored with a map. The baskets are Discatchers with the yellow band.

Hole length range from 223' to 339'. The course mostly follows the walking path so you may have to wait for walkers.

Excellent use of Mandos on holes 4 and 6. # 6 would be a routine 255' hyser but having to go left around the tree makes this hole much more interesting. The Mando on # 6 definitely makes this hole more interesting as well as more challenging.

Being in a river bottom area, this course will often be wet. Today, the # 6 basket was basically in standing water, and this is late April. Holes 2-5 all have the river on your right and then 6 has swampy water just beyond the basket and # 7 has the swamp later to the right. If you don't have good control of your disc, one will like,y end up in the water somewhere on this course. # 3 plays down the walking path. This river bottom land is not the prettiest setting for a disc golf course.

Unless you like playing Russian Roulette with your discs, this might not be the course of choice for you. If you throw with your left hand and you are a recreational type player, I urge you to play elsewhere.

I applaud the course designer in his work bringing another disc golf course on board. I compliment him on his excellent use of Mandos. Designing and building a course on this piece of land with it's limited potential took some doing.

The course layout is great. If the path was not in this park, this course would be great. Holes 8 and 9 go into the woods and take the path out of play.

Most of the course follows near the walking/biking path through the park. There are a few tees that you can't really see the path from the tee, hole 1 especially.