--Soccer fields between parking lot and course are good for airing out some throws before or after a quick round.
--First four holes have significant elevation changes

Showing its age

Staring Lake Park sits across the access highway from Flying Cloud Airport. It has an amphitheater, a water park, multiple soccer fields, and...a nine hole disc golf course. I've played there twice during the afternoon. Both times the soccer fields were empty. The course is nothing to write home about, but empty well-mowed fields are great for working the kinks out without losing discs. It might be worth a stop just for that.

-Easy to find the tees and holes
-Reasonable distance between holes

-A lot holes have hills that are awkward and tiring to walk up and down
-Easy to loose your disc on a few holes because of large forested areas.
-Not a very creative course

I didn't like this course much. Some of the holes were way too short while others were too long and annoying with trees. I spent almost 20 minutes looking for a disc that fell into a grove off trees. I'm also not a fan of traversing hills on multiple holes and this course while only 9 holes had a lot. It was also quite crowded when I played through.

- Beautiful area in remote back end of park ensures that disc golfers are left alone.
- Fantastic elevation changes and doglegs to contend with.

- At least three of the holes struck me as being too short and un-imaginative in comparison to the rest of the course. It's a nice piece of land, but even with nine holes there just isn't enough real estate.
- Course was extremely busy. There could easily be lines here on a nice weekend day.

- Witnessed my first ace here. Shanked my drive on the fifth tee into the woods and then the guy behind me in my group then proceeded to hit nothing but chain. I lent him my sharpie so that he could record his first ace on the basket.