-Concrete pads (but short)
-Fanciful, stamped metal tee emblems.
-Functional tee signs (though photos r fuzzy).
-Some great holes, especially on the back
-Terrain variety. Field-Lowland-Ridge-Woods etc
-Easy to find in area that needs a good course.

-Swampy, at least when I went. Probably fine after 4/15?
-But gets buggy by May they say
-A bit hard to navigate. Download the map for sure.
-Missing a hole and then needed a detour around swamp.
-Even a full X step can be too much for short pads

First up, I could see this being a 3.5 course when dryer. It was a 2 when I played it, so I rounded up to 3 to be fair. People say it gets buggy after the swampiness but this is still a nice course in an area that needs one.

The course has long and short tees on most of the holes. Overall, I'd rate them Advanced and Lower Intermediate respectively. But holes 8, 14, 16 and 18 will test a pro player.

The lot was easy to find but there is not much for base facilities. The front starts out pretty easy with short meadow holes. Then the course goes around a large field, where I was dissappointed to see the #4 concrete sunk basket ripped out of the ground.

#5 is along the creek to your right and it has OB left and right. If you throw wild, it could be a true par 5, but it played Eagle/Birdie for me from the short and long tees. It's a par 4 really and there are other eagle ops later on.

The walk to #6 was a swamp. I detoured way around 9. That and the long walk to a swampy #7 kind of made the front 9 a long and tedious schlog. Again, that may not be true past mid-april.

The hike up to 10 is a path to the left of the #1 base area. After a very short Ace run, the course starts to pick up on #11. Here you are on the other side of a low ridge and the terrain makes for better holes. If you are short of time, you might hike right up to the back nine.

NOTE: the complaint about 'Disc eating trees' is no joke. The natural but very sculpted looking pines that resemble 30 to 50' piles of Marge Simpson's Hair: OMG! I did not even look long for my Destroyer. Gone! Just gone. The worst thing is that many of these menaces are right IN the fairway, especially on #s 9 and 11.

An entire review could be written about hole 14. Yes, it is 'Ridiculous'. But I loved it. Picture a 500+ foot rabbit hole of tunnel shots. You CAN get 200 feet off the pro pad tee, but after that, it's putter placements all the way.
Since I love those shots, I was POed that I shot a 6long/5short. Determined to redeem myself, I went all the way back and got my 5 long par....and 6 short bogey LOL. Suffice it to say, you will never have your patience and approach accuracy tested more than on this hole.

Along the way, I enjoyed to stamped metal Wizard of Oz tee emblem, the benchs and creekside setting. The back nine is just a nice place to be. Then there is the epic drive on #16. A long downhill hyzer that you must craft between 2 sets of trees. A beautiful meadow with an open pin is your reward if you can stick it.

The path to 17 is easy to miss. It is a right up the hill just after the wide spot in the roads beyond the 16. 18 is to your left and plays right back to the base.

There are lots of birdies here, especially on the par 4s and 5s. But I ignored all that and just played it as a tough par 54. Shooting in the 50s is likely for most solid players who choose their appropriate tee pad.

Glad Soda Springs has this nice course. It would be a long drive east from Pocatella to find another as good without it. Hope they get #4 back in the ground and you have a dryer and more navigable round.

Im an out of town golfer from Oregon living in Idaho for the summer and this course is one of the only place to throw some discs. As the consensus with everyone else this course is really beautiful. Whoever put this course together (class of 2008) had a lot of good support and the fact that a course exists in Soda springs at all is awesome. 
For actual playable pros of this course I really like the varied use of terrain on this course. Couple of easy birdie putter holes, then intermittent hyzer / annhyzer bombs. If you are comfortable with your aim you can be very successful on this course. I had spotters wi me (as recommended by other reviews) and was able to put up a six down on my second time playing with plenty of room for improvement

One of the issues I had with this course is the listed par on some of the holes. Compared to many of the Oregon courses I've played there seemed to be a disconnect with the hole distance and the par. For instance hole six is a 570 (ish)ft par 5. The first time I played it I eagled it (first eagle ever) and thought that this par 5 was a little too easy. One good drive and a well placed Up shot and you can have a gimme eagle. Maybe I'm just biased but I seldom see a par 5 on disc golf courses (even par 4s are rare) and when you do see them they are monsters. A par five at Milo Mcgiver state park in Oregon has a 1200 ft par 5 where making par from the pro pad even for a big armed player is difficult. With that said many of the par 4s should definitely be down listed for that same reason. It does make the course more forgiving which is fine for some, I was just surprised to see so many par 4s and 5s. 
Another con would have to be the length of some of the t-pads. Some of them are just fine, but when you have to worry about shortening your x-step to make sure you don't run off the end of the pad and twist your ankle it's going to affect your shot. Some are fine and I didn't really mind the rubber pad on hole 10 because the hole is so short you don't really only need to treat this shot like an up shot. There are just some that could use a few more feet. 
The course was a little difficult to navigate the first time playing and having the yellow signs near the pins is helpful on some of the holes. 

Didn't really know whether this was a A pro/con so i guess ill put this here. I thought the lack of crowds coud be both. Being an out of town player or whenever i play a new course I prefer to jump in with locals and play a round. Its Always fun to play with people who know the course and the routes. Plus if I hadn't had hikers with me having some extra eyes would be essential. Both times I've been there I seldom saw anyone at the park let alone on the disc golf course. Having no crowds is great and all for popular college courses but i suppose it makes sense given the local and nature of the course. The consensus is that this course is not for beginiers and I agree. There are some holes appropriate for beginers but many of the deep woods holes are a scavenger hunt waiting to happen. I spent about an hour looking for discs/climbing trees to retrieve discs and I understand how discouraging this aspect can be to people. The sport isn't as fun when you have to hack through thick underbrush (pulling burrs out of your leg hair gets reallllly old). I'm a seasoned player and will put up with just about any conditions just because playing a good course in the first place is more of a pro than any cons. 
I really liked this course but rated it as such for the reduced ability to play this course on a consistent basis without having a lot of money to spend on plastic.  For me its a really important aspect of a course because if i live near a course I'm going to be playing it as often as i can get out of the house. I ended up scrapping my normal bag after the first round and pulling out some dx discs I don't really care for to play this course. I like the design of this course and for the location it's an awesome course. There are some really unique holes that use the landscape perfectly. I would gladly (and will) try to play this course again before I leave because it is a well made course.  It would be really difficult to completely hack down the sage and open this course up so if you play this course play the safe lines and keep an eye on your disc. 

This is certainly a rough course! It offers a great variety of throws that are extremely challenging and unique.

The tee pads are great. They are rough which provides great footing. The only exception is hole 10 which has a temporary pad that wasn't great.

The tee signs are awesome looking. Check out the pictures of the course.

Multiple tee pads for intermediate and advanced players. This is not a beginner course.

The cons of this course are many.

The mosquitoes are insane! Holes 6-9 are the worst, but they are everywhere and relentless. I felt like a human pin-cushion after playing the front 9. BRING BUG SPRAY!

The hole transitions are not great. You have to do a lot of walking from one hole to the next, particularly between 5-6, 6-7, 9-10, 10-11 and 15-16. The design doesn't flow very smoothly.

Hole 14 is ridiculous. I don't know who thought that hole was a good idea but it's so narrow and long that it certainly warrants the par 5. I just don't think it's very well designed hole.

For how much work has been put in to the tee signs, it's unfortunate that the satellite images are so blurry that they are useless. The signs aren't oriented for the tee pad either, so it can look like a dogleg left when it's actually right. The distances on some of the holes can't be accurate either, (hole 18 comes to mind).

The weeds are crazy! There are these spiky ones that are an insane irritant. In addition there are insanely long weeds all over the course which is easy to lose your disc in.

The trees are like disc magnets. I've never seen so many discs get stuck in trees before on any course.

This is certainly not a good course for beginners. It is really easy to lose discs on almost every hole so spotters are essential.

It is anything but redundant from hole to hole. Each one is pretty unique which adds to the overall rating of the course to me.

Be sure and get the course map or play with someone who has played it before or it will be extremely difficult to navigate.

Bring your bug spray. Seriously, unless you want to lose weight via blood loss from mosquitoes.

Very Challenging- the course record was set at a recent tourney at 48.
Well-defined fairways
Great signs
Never crowded
No poison ivy
Great hole length variety
Beautiful setting
Well-run C Tier tourney each July

Deep, deep, awful schule/rough
Stinging weeds
Thick mosquitos
Chin-high grass in the rough, and, if not mown, in the fairways
A long hike
Very tricky connection between front and back nine
Spotter required on nearly all holes
Very easy to lose discs, even with a spotter
Many short tee pads
In the middle of nowhere
Rarely played

The pros of this course are very, very good, but unfortunately, I could only give it 3 stars because the cons are so bad. If you've ever tooled around your local course and said, "I wonder what this was like before 200 people played it a day for 20 years", well, go to Soda Springs and find out. This course is most definitely NOT beat in. Even if you were a local, you wouldn't be able to go play this course every day for two reasons: First, you cannot go play this course without a group of 3 or 4 people. 2 people only allows you one spotter, and that just isn't enough sometimes. Second, it takes several days to recover from playing this course. Not only is it a pretty good hike, but tromping through the brush cuts you up so badly it just takes time for the wounds to heal, not to mention the mosquito bites. WEAR PANTS! (Thanks English for this tip on the pants, and for the great round!) If you can stand it, wear long sleeves too. Bug spray and sun screen are mandatory items during the summer. You will be out there a long time.
Because the course is so rarely played, the locals and the park folks have to put in a ton of effort to keep the jungle back. You'll only want to play this course early in the year before the grass gets going, late in the year after it dies off, or after it has been mown. When you're lucky the grass is only two feet high. Also watch out for the "disc-velcro" trees. I've never had to pull so many discs out of trees in one round.
All that said, this is a don't miss course. It really forces you to hit the lines. Hole 16 from the long tees is incredibly fun, a long 500 foot bomb with a well-defined landing area guarded by cliffs and trees on the left and trees and a pond on the right. Don't miss, because not only will you card an awful score, you'll probably never see your disc again. Hole 14 is a nearly 600 foot true par 5. If you're smart, you won't use anything but your putter on it. Hole 5 is also pretty cool. It is a long, narrow fairway with sandtraps (OB) right in the landing area. 3s are pretty rare on it and a 5 isn't a bad score. This course plays more like a ball golf course than any I've ever played. You'll need to hit fairways and play mids and even drivers from the fairways.