I've waited a few years to review this one, knowing that once the teepads were in, it would give a much better perspective. Between the design and the county / locals maintaining this course, it's a must play in the Kenosha / Racine area.

-Parking area is located right next to hole #1 (#10 just up from there) and the end of #18.
- Plenty of signs indicating where to go to begin and for the next tee.
- Large and level teepads on each hole, that start wider in the back and narrow slightly to the front.
- Good mix of distances, elevations, and tight / open shots.
- Off-fairway can be punishing for a bad shot, but not so brutal you can't get in to retrieve your discs.
- Trash cans on most holes.
- Tee-signs on all holes that seem to be fairly accurate for direction and distance.
- Good flow between holes, so as not to jam up course traffic.

- Not much in the way of benches, which is really only a "con"
for me when it's wet and you want a clean spot for your bag when you tee off.

This is a challenging, but fair course. Fair, because it's maintained well enough that if you can throw the shots you plan, you most likely won't get sniped by random brush and dead branches.

It's remarkable the differing terrain and tee-shots that you're getting all on this one property. #9, 11, 13 and 17 are some of my favorite holes anywhere and they're all located here. 9 looks like a jail of trees straight out, but there are lines that can be hit there that leave you with an easy up to the pin. 11 and 13 use elevation, but play very differently. The challenge to keep it low on 11 and to hit the opening on 13 can be rewarding. 17 reminds me a bit of Montana and seems very out of place. It brings a smile to your face when you walk out and see what your about to play!

If you've got time to play this and add Grey / Red Fox courses, just up the road, you'll have a great day of disc golf ahead of you.

beautiful course that is VERY challenging. in july the place was impossibly green. and the over growth once you are off the fairways were pretty very brutal. staying on the fairway is CRUCIAL, even at the expense of distance.
the elevation change was also close to ideal! great mix of up and down hill without being too arduous.
tee signs were adequate. concrete pads are excellent. navigating to the next hole was very straight forward.
i would love to see how elite players tackled this course.
i personally ended up throwing an alarming number of rollers out of the rough.
did i mention many of the greens are like 10 meters wide?

if you cant keep your disc on a 10 meter wide fairway, this could be a very frustrating round.
the bugs were not out of control, but we did keep getting these large bodied daddy long legs spiders on our bags.
i believe there were bathrooms, but i did not happen to see them.
you WANT TO USE a spotter on more holes than naught.

as a free course (weekday) in a verdant park, this place was gorgeous.
to be fair, we only played this place because the river course we had aspired to play was under umpteen feet of water. no joke.
that said, there was only standing water on a single hole (#1) here. so even after a deluge, you can still play this course without driving through deep amounts of water

you cant really get lost because there are so many signs telling you were to go
the tee pads are really nice
the baskets are really nice
really well manicured grass
there is a trash can at almost every hole

lots of bugs (mostly mosquito and big spiders)
the maps of the hole are not that helpful
need a spotter on lots of the ho

bring bug spray
you play in a forest the whole time

this place has what it takes more than anything to make a super killer DGC , a amazing piece of land . Its that above everything that does it , the rest is great design imagination and safety awareness. every hole is notable my favorite holes are 10,11 and the last 5 so most the back 9 . the front is awsome too.

sparse facilities [benches n such] but thats about it.

i hope more holes get put in like 9 more .there is room this is the best southeastern wisconsin course

All 18 holes have good concrete tees, and baskets in great condition.

This place is the real deal. You will face challenge fairways that will demand the most you have to offer. You will be using nearly every shot in your bag, and will likely need to scamble to get out of the menacing rough.

A great amount of elevation changes, wonderfully implemented.

Has plenty of long holes for the big arms, but you better still be accurate! This course will not take it easy and give you many open rips.

Holes 11 and 17 can be listed as pros just by themselves. Absolutely amazing holes.

Tee signs. All that the tee signs show is the hole number and the distances. Would be very nice to have an actual map, especially considering the number of times the basket is not visible from the tee.

The rough is very rough on the back nine. Hopefully it clears up a bit as this sees more play. You could easily leave with scratches and cuts.

Not necessarily a con, but don't bring beginners here.

This is an absolutely fantastic course. It is very challenging. I honestly like this even better than the nearby grey fox. This is currently what I believe to be amoung the very best courses in SE Wisconsin.

I'll start with the basics, 18 Chainstar baskets in excellent shape, big, and caught well. Big, grippy, level tee pads - you can get a nice run up on these - you'll need it on many holes!

Quality of disc golf - holy cow. This course plays up, around, and through a series of wooded hills - elevation is prominently featured on this course, every hole requires precise, technical shots from tee to basket, and while you spend most of your time in the woods, no hole is particularly unfair with a too-narrow fairway. Hole 17 in particular feels like a Rockies type mountain setting, shooting over a wide ravine-like terrain feature.

You'll be shooting backhand, forehand, tomahawking or thumbing it whenever you inevitably wind up in some rough, taking any other manner of shot types, and will need every shot in your arsenal and disc in your bag. Distances are often long and challenging, but never patently absurd - you will need to put together strings of long, accurate shots to score well here!

Course is also free (aside from holidays, when you have to pay to enter the park), which is nice, but honestly, this is a course worth paying to play.

Only two I could really tell, both of which are fixable:

1) Not much hole signage. The front 9 had what appeared to be temporary signs, with handwritten distance/pars, but the back 9 was just poles saying the hole number. This is likely a later step in the course building process, given its relative infancy, but is an area for improvement.

2) Only a front 9 map was available at the start of the course, and the course was fairly easy to navigate until 14-15 or so, which was a narrow muddy path. A few transitions from then on out were tough to figure out - 15->16 had no next tee signs, and is a possible "get yourself lost" point. I actually got turned back to 10 here, before figuring out where 16 was. Again, fixable with some work / better signage.

A few guys were doing some work, clearing out brush/branches on hole #1 when I played - earlier reviews criticized some of the gnarly rough - the rough was not really an issue playing in February, but maybe this is work being done to address the rough for the summer?

Also on site at this park - bathrooms are present close to the parking lot / tee #1, and this park also features a beach on a lake, so take a dip and cool yourself off after you traverse this course - you will be hot and tired after playing Silver Fox in the summer!

Not particularly beginner or stroller friendly, so this one's probably not a place to bring the little ones, but you do have Grey/Red Fox nearby, plus the aforementioned beach adjacent to the Silver Fox course. Add this all together, and you can make the little town of Silver Lake a destination for a wonderful day of disc golf, though this course by itself absolutely would warrant a trip on its own!

Finally, I don't say this lightly, but this course has the bones to be a legit 5.0. The pure quality of disc golf, and the course composition is there for a 5.0 rating...fix some of the wonky later transitions and put in good permanent signage, and this is course achieves its perfection.

Silver Fox DGC is an intricate course that plays over rich terrain, with lots of subtle and not so subtle elevation covered with different levels of woodedness to test your game. The course is technical, but even in its still somewhat raw state not so technical as to be stifling. Challenging par 3s and true par 4s require considered placement and risk/reward assessment to manage: you'll definitely get punished for playing too aggressively. Distance is never gratuitous, but rather the product of good design that harnesses the inherent features of the land. There are several different environments the course plays through, and that variety helps mix things up. Silver Fox requires a well-rounded game to score well.

The best holes require you to make technical shots while contending with hazardous elevation. Roll-aways are a common threat, but can be managed with smart play. Baskets are often smartly positioned to ensure that well-executed approaches are as important as your tee shots; you have to string together good shots to score well. It's a well thought out design that provides technical play and requires thoughtful management owing to the importance of placement and the various hazards in play.

I didn't come away feeling that there were any major cons. Rather, small things keep this from being a top course in my eyes. The design is great, and perhaps hard to screw up given the awesome land it sits on, but I also feel it could even further maximize the surroundings to produce a top level course. There are some minor recurring themes, such as holes playing along slightly rising elevation paired with blind shots, that are a bit over-repeated. Such nit-picks don't keep the course from being great, only truly outstanding.

The course was raw during my summer visit, although concrete tees were in the process of being poured and are likely in now. Signage was similarly underdeveloped, and navigation got a bit ambiguous in a few spots. Nothing too hard to manage. The play itself was unimpeded: grooming was solid.

The course is not beginner friendly. It requires above average accuracy to properly enjoy. That said, with such a spectrum of courses in the immediate area - Red Fox is fine for absolute beginners, and Grey Fox sits somewhere between Red and Silver - the focus on higher level play here doesn't seem like it should detract.

Silver Fox DGC is under the radar considering the caliber of play it offers. I've played some awesome courses - Selah Lakeside, Sugaree, Harmon Hills, Moraine - and Silver Fox has the makings of joining them. I loved the beautiful environments and shots that required thoughtfulness. It was the highlight of a day trip that spanned nine courses including the much-heralded Fairfield Park. For my game, Silver Fox was the slightly better of the two in its challenging and varied wooded golf. Don't miss the opportunity to visit!

I'm going to start out by saying that I gave this a 4 because It's very apparent that concrete tees are going to be added at some point. With just natural pads it's 3.5. With that being said this is an awesome addition to the area. This course is just as challenging as the grey fox down the road. The baskets are all chainstars that are in awesome shape and catch great. There is quite a bit of elevation here that is used very well. You'll be required to use all different types of shots to do well here. The lanes were all fair yet challenging with a good variety in distances too. The course starts and ends right by the parking lot and hole 9 even ends and 10 starts there too making it easy to only play 9 without a ton of extra walking. As mentioned earlier hole 17 is unlike anything I've seen around here. Probably the signature hole. There was nobody else there on a beautiful Friday evening. I don't know if it's still kind of unknown but it was a very quiet and serene round. The course is free except holiday weekends in the summer. Excellent design here. There are a few longish walks between holes but this was only done to make all holes great and not have lame filler type holes. Great job in this regard. They have signs or next tee arrows spray painted on the road or a tree so navigation was a non issue.

As the course gets broken in these will all be less of or a non issue. But as of now are worth mentioning. The rough off the fairway in a lot of spots is THICK. Be sure to pay close attention to where your shot landed or it'll be a potentially long search. The fairways being very new have a lot of little stumps and other tripping hazards. Not that big of a deal but just watch your step. The course was very well maintained in the grass areas just the newer fairways.

This course is still in it's infancy so I'm basing the 4 disc rating on what it will be like soon. This along with the red and grey fox courses down the road will make for an outstanding day of disc golf. Best in the area for sure. We played Fairfield in IL first (both white and gold) then this and were beat down afterward. I'd planned on hitting up the grey too but this course is no joke. Experienced players will be challenged here. It's not a must play YET. When they get concrete pads the silver lake area is definitely a must play if in the area. I think it already is but when this thing gets completed look out.

The silver fox is a fine contrast to other nearby foxes. Combined they make a fine day or weekend of disc golf. In SF there are some great long fairways that have been carved out of the rocky wooded hills and some challenging shorties to keep you on your toes. By the end of the day you will likely need every shot and disc in your bag. The designers have created some very challenging layouts with very fun use of the moraine terrain. And there is a surprise at the end! Think badlands... or black hills. I have not seen such terrain in Wisconsin before. The signs, garbage cans, benches, are much improved over the rough early years.

The edges are a bit rough so stay on the fairways if you can. The terrain is a smidgen rocky so be sure to wear some good boots and watch your step.

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