Nice kiosk board with hole information and course map on it, also paper scorecards with map and hole lengths
Nice navigation signs pointing you through the course with nice tee signs showing hole number distance ect.
Great mix of open and wooded holes, as well as backhand/forehand lines. Makes you throw both!
Nice baskets with new blue banner rims making them easy to spot. Beautiful views of Hagg lake and scenery. Good mix of hole distances allowing you to throw some bombs and have some shorter holes as well in the woods. Great elevation change, most likely have course to yourself as it's a ways outside of any major city. The 3 tee spot is really cool designed and this course is very underrated.

Tee pads are a little rough....they're gravel that has some sunken spots in them. The walkout from hole 9 to 10 is super long....thank goodness there is signs or you would question if you're going the right way. Hole 10 itself is a terrible designed par 4 that just isn't a good hole period. Some spots can get confusing after 6 make sure to look at the tee signs.

I've heard if the grass is long it's borderline unplayable....thankfully every time I've been it's cutdown. This course is much better than its rating. It's a little off the beaten path but for sure worth the stop. The open holes don't really have much to them, and the wooded holes are maybe a little to wooded but it's got a great blend and deserves a higher rating

The course at Hagg Lake is set in a beautiful regional park that plays half in a large meadow with rolling hills sloping towards the lake, and half in some tight, old growth forest. Elevation coming into play on nearly every shot, and occasional winds coming in across the lake both serve as redeeming challenges for the meadow holes that many golfers might otherwise find tiresome and repetitive. The holes where these appear to be the only challenges are 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 17. The elevation on #2 only matters if you overshoot by 30 or more feet, and if one chooses to go for the green on 6 or 7, a righty may risk turning a drive over (right), and going into a patch of tree-brush. I wouldn't think of attacking 6, as it plays about 450 with the uphill, but 7's downhill makes it play more like 360.
The wooded holes are each very unique, with some short ace runs, as well a couple very long par 3s, and I think hole 10 is a placement par 4.
The course was reinvigorated early in 2015 in preparation for the course's first PDGA-sanctioned event (the Lake Jam), and much work was done downing dangerous trees, expanding the parking lot, building new [elevated] gravel tee-pads, redesigning holes 3, 9, 15, and 16, building some cool stair features, and an awesome bench at pads for holes 2, 5, and 18. If I tried to name all of the leaders involved behind this effort, I'm sure I'd miss somebody, so I'll just mention the groups: Disc Golf Or Die, and Friends of Hagg Lake Disc Golf Course. I heard that artificial grass tee-pads were in the works to overlay the gravel tee-pads.
In combination with the revitalized interest in the course, the park staff has apparently committed to keeping at least ~20 foot wide fairways and ~30 foot greens mowed on the meadow holes, which make finding discs MUCH more reasonable. Searching for drives on the meadow holes used to be a huge deterrent, and now it's hardly a problem at all. If I get out there again in 2015, I can update whether the park is actually doing this. The staff seemed very interested and proactive in the work parties I attended.

Walkouts are often long, especially between 9 and 10. There's not much that can be done about this because hole 15 takes up all the usable land between the road and the lake, so you have to walk all the way past it one way, and play it on the way back. The course is still a little tough to follow, but with the new course map (posted on this site), and a few more signs, it's quite doable.

Permanent signs with distances, and firmer tee-pads would improve the experience, but the course is much more enjoyable and approachable than it used to be.

The 3 other DG locations in the area (Stubb Stewart, Buxton, and Hornings) are all excellent alternatives, and may continue to draw me and others away from Hagg Lake. However, the things that set Hagg apart are the open meadow holes (with beautiful views of the lake), which I contend are not boring, as long as there is some wind coming into play.

- BEAUTIFUL SCENERY
- VERY CHALLENGING
- GREAT TERRAIN DIVERSITY
- TRASH CANS PROVIDED HOLES #9 TO #15
- A FEW VERY NEEDED BENCHES PROVIDED
- GREAT DISC CATCHER BASKETS
- MAC GRAND LODGE IS 7 MILES AWAY MAKING AT LEAST A 2 COURSE PLAYABLE DAY

- POOR/MUDDY NATURAL TEE BOXES W/ THE EXCEPTION OF HOLE #1'S TEE BOX BEING 1 FOOT SQUARE COBLE STONES
- HARD TO NAVIGATE (EVEN W/ A MAP)
- MOST WOODED FAIRWAYS AREN'T DEFINED
- VERY LONG ODD WALKS TO HOLE #9 TO #15
- OPEN FIELD FAIRWAYS ARE BLAND
- THE PARKING IS VERY LIMITED (4 CAR MAX)
- NO HOLE MAPS/GUIDES PROVIDED W/ THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW NAVIGATIONAL LAMINATED GUIDES TO THE NEXT TEE BOX WHEN FOUND

***TIP!!! TO BYPASS THE LONG WALK FROM #8'S BASKET TO #9'S TEE BOX... SIMPLY WALK UP THE HILL FROM #8'S BASKET JUST PAST #16'S TEE BOX ABOUT 30 FEET INTO THE WOODS (YOU'LL SEE #15'S OUTLET MARKED BY A 4X4 2 FOOT WOOD POST) THEN GO DOWN #15'S FAIRWAY TO #9'S TEE BOX TO THE LEFT ( YOU CAN SAVE ABOUT 15-MINUTES OF WALKING ) IF USING COURTNEY'S MAP***

*** tip # 2 take the 1st left after the toll both towards boat ramp "C" if you go strait you have to drive the majority of the lake's road. (if you chose this route the disc golf sign is not readable)***

this by far has been the most challenging course ive played. it also has been one of the most beautiful courses i've played. i would say its a cross between the 2 horning's hideout courses with the endurance/commitment of milo mcgiver.

this course/park is a 5 buck day pass. it also offers many hiking/biking trails and fishing. you can even rent boats to fish which makes it a nice park for non discgolf players to have other options/activities to do while you are playing.

the best way i can describe the course would to be a lot of hiking w/ scattered holes along the way of the heavily wooded fairways/paths offering 5 to 6 bland long bomber holes in open fairways. (i can see this course being extremely worse/harder to play during full plant growth of summer).

- Very challenging forested holes
- Long meadow holes that let you air it out
- Elevation is a factor on almost every hole
- Beautiful setting in Coast Range foothills

- New layout means most meadow holes are boring
- Horrible teepads
- Tons of underbrush in the woods
- Very long walks between some holes
- Limited parking

Hagg Lake has a reputation as a very hard course. It's true that the woods holes -- #9 through #15 -- are pretty tough, but most of them do have legitimate, if narrow, fairways. (My favorite is #14: 300 feet straight ahead, through a narrow gap, but the last 200 feet of the flight is down a very steep hill.) The problem is that if you go off those fairways, it's pretty tough to get back on course -- and if you play in the summer, you might not even find your disc. Winter is definitely the best season to check out Hagg -- plus, between Thanksgiving and the first week of March, it doesn't cost anything to visit. (At other times, it's $5 per car.)

The wide-open "meadow" holes at Hagg Lake are, for the most part, pretty long; the longest is about 600 feet, but it's so far downhill that getting a three isn't out of reach. Most others are three-able as well -- but at 350-400 feet, very difficult to deuce.

I have three main complaints about Hagg: First, the meadow holes are somewhat boring, and it wasn't always like this. Half of the course was closed for most of 2008 while they re-planted the grass; when they re-opened the course, they changed the layout of most of the meadow holes, and not for the better. Several baskets that used to be along the edge of the forest are now well away from any obstacles; they leave you shaking your head and asking, "WHY isn't this basket over there instead?"

Second, the tee areas are very muddy and slippery, and not always level. This is probably not as much of an issue in the summer.

Third, the flow isn't very good. There are very, very long walks between #8 and #9, #9 and #10, and #14 and #15. There are a few laminated 8.5"x11" signs stapled to trees, but for the most part you'll be sunk without a map.

Despite the flaws, I can't rate Hagg too poorly because the woods holes will really kick your butt (in a good way, I think), and there's more elevation change than almost any other course in northwestern Oregon. If Hagg were ever to be re-designed, there's potential for it to be much better.