- I'm rating this sweet little layout an overall 3, maybe 3.2 from the longer blacks, and the previous review was helpful for my first trips around Starved Rock. This is a compact, short course, with a beautiful, strategic, wooded, and hillier final ten holes. My average drive is typically 210 to 240ft, and I made five birdies from the shorts. Longer throwers will be playing first or second gear finesse shots constantly. For me, putting many birdie tries, buzzing an ace run or two, and enjoying the woods had me walking right back on for a second round, to mix in a few longer/lower black tees. I will be back periodically, despite a two-hour drive. Very nice new course!
- The course is 15 minutes or less from the I-80/I-39 interchange, for travelers. Tee one, basket three, tee four, tall basket eight, and practice basket 19 are all close to the parking area.
- Holes one thru eight will be grassy, sunnier, and breezier. The final ten holes will offer more shade, up and down walking, and a smaller version of finer, forested Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri standouts. Many skinnies, mediums, and stout defenders to test your flight paths and aim.
- Most small towns will never offer a better, and free, disc golf experience.

- Smallish parking area holds maybe a dozen vehicles?
- A required gas-line metal sign and post, on the #17 left upper flat fairway, is a disc-gouging risk.
- Blind#14 short-tee shot, and likely-blind #17 uphill second shot (stay right of the gas-line sign!). Make sure the landing area is clear.

- A cookie factory is across the park on E. Walnut St. Snackers might enjoy a tantalizing scent with a light southeast breeze?