This Course is a nice medium length park course on the bluffs overlooking the Columbia Gorge. This is a well established course that has very nice pads, well made signs, and a good flow overall. While there is no longer a map at the kiosk it is fairly straightforward to follow. There is a walk out across Rose Garden between 9 and 10. Only odd one is tee for 13. Regular tee is by tennis courts throwing across ball fields to corner but there is an alternate tee closer to pin if ball fields are in use. Other change is there is a new tee pad for 17 without a sign to the left of the old one. Old pad points you to pin of 18.
These are some nice changes, improves the flow and gives you a longer downhill throw on 18 to finish the course. While it still has many of the drawbacks of a park course it is a big park and they have made good use of the space and elevation changes available.

There are a few. Most have to do with the course getting older and it is starting to show. The tee signs are missing on about a third of the holes. There used to be big numbers on the pins that made navigation very easy that are now gone. The most unfortunate one is that the trees are ageing out and having to be removed but it doesn't look like they are planting replacements. This lowers the difficulty and more importantly cuts down on the shade that made this such a nice place to play. Still a pleasant place, just not quite as much.
And the usual for this area, wind can be brutal and it is a popular park, have to watch out for walkers.

If you are traveling east of Portland there are not very many courses to stop and play if you need a break and this oasis is still one of my top choices. I first played it many years ago and it is still worth the stop.

Good use of a city park! Not to bad of shape even in the winter. Had a great view of Mt. Hood from the easiest hole (13). Spring time the cherry orchards are in bloom that is cool. Good parking-bathrooms. Best number signs on the baskets of any course I've played, period! Signs at pads not as good. You could easily play this course with a good driver and a putter. Big trees are the main obstacles, hole 1 and 18 have a little hill that might catch your second throw by surprise...well it does me. Course is otherwise flat. No Oregon fees-it is a city park!

Winter bathrooms! No trash cans. Signs to next pad lacking. Map is a little hard to understand...you need to turn it upside down. Hole number 1 and 18 also throw through or hopefully around a playground, today I avoid it both times but I have in the past landed right in it. An exercise class used the playground area this saturday a.m. for their group.

City park might be busy on weekends. A major walk path for those who use it for their walking routines come into play here and there. It is a fairly easy course and is a great place to teach the game.

Tree Top DGC at Sorosis Park in the Dalles, OR is one of the most beautiful parks I have ever had the opportunity to play disc golf in. With the massive pines, firs, and oaks spread throughout the entire course, it is the perfect place to be on those hot summer days. What helps separate this course from so many others are the amazing views which can be had high on top of this quaint little city. Breathtaking views of Mt. Adams (WA), Mt. Hood (OR), as well as the massive Columbia River which splits the valley below, separating Northeast Oregon from Southeast Washington.

The park amenities include a large gazebo, which has a large fire pit and several tables, a large clean bathroom, water fountains, two baseball fields, tennis courts, volleyball court, Vietnam Memorial, jogging path, a really neat large wooden playground, and garbage cans spread throughout the course (which is regularly emptied by the onsite maintenance/ caretaker of the course). Because there is someone on site, the course maintenance is exceptional, with beautifully mowed grass fields, trimmed trees, and manicured bushes. Because there is no underbrush on the entire course, losing a disc is really not an issue.

Navigation is fairly simple for first timers thanks to the kiosk where you first park, as it has a large map of the course as well as printouts in which players can take with them. The kiosk also lists local events, and updates on the Hood River Disc Golf Club. The course plays all over the massive park, utilizing the gentle rolling hills, with the exception of hole #1 and 18 which use the larger dirt hill.

Baskets are all DISCatchers, with large # signs on top. They have inner chains which help add to their overall catching ability, holding in faster moving discs which give those accurate tee shots a better chance of staying in for that elusive ace! Many of the baskets also have arrows written on them in black Sharpie indicating where the next tee is located. Tee pads are all large and cement with metal numbers embedded in them, and are all level with the exception of tee pad #15.

The challenge is perfect for all levels at Tree Top DGC. They reward accuracy with birdies, but do require some distance with control as 16/18 holes range between 250-350 feet, with the exception of hole # 13 (135ft.) and #15 (170ft.), which are great ace run opportunities. The course design was fantastic! The designers utilized what they had, shaping fairways through the maze of trees, giving players multiple lines to choose from on every hole!

This course was so well done that it is difficult to come up with many flaws. However, without a course map, this course could get a little confusing since players must travel all around the park and sometimes it is not obvious where the next tee pad should be. Fortunately, the local disc golf club does an awesome job keeping maps available at the kiosk near tee pad #1.

Also, hole #13 is a bit of a filler hole, as it is a short ace run which is difficult to not birdie unless you overshoot it on to the road. However, it does have a fantastic view of Mt. Hood so it is worth the trip in to the corner of the park just to play it. Plus, many of the locals (I am told) throw from the other side of the park toward hole #13 basket which makes the hole much longer when no one is playing baseball.

Last, tee pad #15 seems to really be unlevel. It is located in a great spot, and the hole is a lot of fun, but it can be a bit dangerous. Hopefully it can eventually be redone or relocated, but for the time being it works just fine.

This has got to be one of the better courses in all of Eastern Oregon if not the best! There are not too many courses around this area so if traveling through, this course is a must! There are plenty of local breweries around in town, as well as some great restaurants, so it makes for a nice getaway as it is only a couple of hours from Portland. This course truly is something to remember!

One of the stranger names for a park I have ever encountered but it is another gem in the Oregon park system. You are on the top of the city of The Dalles and basically looking down on the hole town in fact the beautiful views of Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood will take your breathe away as well as the views of the Columbia river and surrounding canyons. The course is all mowed green grass that could be played shoes optional. This is a course with many tree obstacles on every fairway and there are several different routes to take on each hole; it reminds me of an upgraded Champoeg State Park with three extra holes, green grass and better scenery for free. The tee pads are all concrete and the baskets are all discatchers with added inner chains to make them catch better. The other brilliant move they made for the baskets was to make big metal yellow signs on the top of the baskets with the hole number on it that you can see from the pad, this is a huge help. Though there isn't a lot of elevation there are a couple of spots that are used very well in this manner; holes 1 and 18 come in to mind right off of the bat. There are plenty of other amenities including bathrooms, a large play area for the kids, benches, a jogging trail that's out of the way of the course, a baseball field, tennis courts and other things.

There isn't a lot of variety in terms of distances and it would be nice to see a couple of 400-500 foot holes played out in this beautiful park. Hole 13 is a short little open ace run that felt like a filler all though the view of Mt. Hood from this basket in incredible.

I haven't played many courses in Eastern Oregon so I can't say for sure but this might be on the top of the list. This will forever be a favorite of mine. This is the best courses around for some miles and being an excellent park to go hang out and do things at when it's nice outside I can imagine that play will be slowed down a bit do to other disc golfers and park users.

- Lots of tree trunks keep it interesting
- Mowed grass and no brush means zero chance of losing a disc
- Most holes have some (but not much) elevation change
- Big yellow signs on baskets make them easy to see
- Great views of Mt. Adams, Mt. Hood, and the Columbia Hills

- Somewhat monotonous
- Park is used by many people for many things other than disc golf
- Tricky to navigate your first time through

Sorosis Park is a mature, heavily-developed city park overlooking The Dalles and the surrounding hills. On a warm spring day, there were people all over the park: walkers, joggers, exercisers, picnickers, softball players, volleyball players, etc. The disc golf course is in the middle of all of this -- and next to a city street as well, so you must be VERY aware of who's around and how far you might possibly throw and/or shank your disc.

The disc golf course weaves its way under full-grown oak and pine trees, and most holes are fairly similar: you'll need to avoid several tree trunks and maybe some low-hanging pine branches to reach the basket, which is usually 280'-340' away and probably slightly uphill or downhill. It's too bad so many holes are so alike, but I suppose it's the nature of the land they had to work with. The good news is that all the tree trunks will force you to find a creative route or two. (If you're familiar with other Oregon disc golf courses, I'd say this course is similar to Champoeg, or #14 through #17 at Adair.)

After each hole, you may have to wander around a bit to find the next tee pad -- but as of 2010, there finally ARE concrete teepads, which is a big improvement over when I played this course in 2009. The baskets have big yellow signs with numbers on them, and that's helpful.

So, overall, a decent course, doing the best it can. If Sorosis had a little more variety or fewer pedestrians, I might give it 4 stars; the addition of concrete teepads bumps it up from a 3 to a 3.5 in my book.