If you've played a few city park courses, you've played one that looks just like this. Lots of widely spaced mature trees with limbs starting 10' up in the air, and acres of mowed grass. No shrubs, no brush, no rough at all.

Good baskets with HUGE homemade number plates on top. A couple were facing the wrong way, but most were very easy to read from the tee.

Decent, if smallish, concrete tee pads. Good tee signs with usable hole diagram, distance, par and sponsor name. Next tee signs on the baskets, though some were not oriented correctly.

This is a well groomed course in a pretty park. Great views of snow-capped mountains (Adams and Hood) and nice looks across the Columbia River at the grassy hillsides of Washington. Ample parking, restrooms, water, etc. are all available.

Hole 13 offers two wildly different tee positions. The long position plays from an edge of a sports field and drives diagonally across the field to a basket tucked into a small corner of the park, resulting in by far the longest hole on the course at 571'. The alternate tee position starts in the same corner as the basket resulting in a very short (less than 150') hole. The tee signs say to use the alternate tee only when the field is in use, so it makes sense that they've got the alternate tee just in case.

There is a lot of similarity to the holes on the course. 16 of the 18 holes play from 250' - 350', with little or no elevation. All play through moderately spaced trees. There are no fairways to hit here, you simply have to miss a few trees. And if you happen to pull your drive 10' right or left the odds are good that it will pass on the back side of the critical tree and give you about the same result. You can save par on every hole on the course, even with a tree-kicked drive.

Some odd course flow out here. For instance, Hole 6 plays from near a parking lot across a grassy park area. Inside of playing the reverse direction, Hole 7 requires that you walk all the way back to the same area and play essentially a parallel hole. Likewise, you walk back a considerable distance along Hole 14 to find the pad for Hole 15. I'm sure that if you've played the course once navigation isn't an issue, but for a travelling player some of the transitions were odd.

As noted in some previous reviews, Holes 1 and 18 are almost identical. They are parallel holes playing up the same modest hill. There is a freshly poured elevated tee pad up behind Basket 18 that was intriguing. Might be a alternate tee for 16??

This is a multi-use park with a walking trail that winds throughout the course. We had to wait a couple of times for pedestrians to clear an area before driving, but it wasn't an issue. I imagine that a busy weekend could present an entirely different level of challenge in this regard.

Sorosis Park in The Dalles sits high above the majestic Colombia River. It has incredible views of Mt. Adams to the north and Mt. Hood to the south along with some amazing Colombia Gorge views. The park kinda has a Pier Park vibe to it with it's green well manicured lawns and scattered mature Oak and Pine trees. There is almost no underbrush to look for discs in. The park is a large multi use one with all the usual park amenities such as ballfields, gazebo, restrooms, a large play castle struture for the kids, fountains and more. The teepads are concrete with metal house numbers inbedded in them. The baskets are discatchers with the biggest yellow number signs on top I've ever seen. They're like 8" x 8" and visible from far away. They really help with the navigation. There is some elevation on most of the holes.

While I was blown away with the beauty of the park and incredible views, I was luke warm to the course design. I wasn't real fond of starting and finishing with uphill holes. There weren't any holes that really wowed me. I tried to navigate the first time through by following the next teepad signs on the baskets. That didn't work too well although when I finally decided to use the map, navigation was fairly easy. And finally, I felt there were too many holes where you were throwing uphill or slightly uphill. Most of us enjoy throwing down hills more.

Lovely, beautiful park, take your breath away views of the surrounding mountains and gorge. Nice course! Suitable for everyone from beginners up to more advanced tournament players. This would be a course that most of us would love to have as our home. Just another of Oregon's cache of fine disc golf courses.

the layout is back together , i like this course,fun park setting, one of the better courses in the area.varying difficulty in holes. not hilly so its easy on the out of shape frolfer , not many people in fall/ winter

picnickers in summer lots of walker/joggers on nice days

im glad they fixed this course. outside a company picnic or a family reunion ,i found that most of the time i went it was no problem playing.the new 18 is tough

Open field with enough trees to slow you down.
Overlook of the gorge.

Holes 4 and 5 are missing.
The holes thirteen through seventeen go behind the baseball field which are occupied by children during a game. Congested area on the back nine

Could be easily reset up to accompany both golfers and picnic parties.