Valley Farms Park is located just north of Lansing, MI. The park, or at least the 9-hole DG course here, has at some point been renamed to "Ruthroff's Ridge Disc Golf Course".

The course plays through a DG-exclusive forested area tucked into the back of the park. All nine holes here are straight-ish and short, with the shortest at about 160' and the longest about 270' according to the hole info here. Some of them have some elevation change - there was at least one downhill throw, one uphill throw, and one throw over a valley.

The nine holes are also all tightly wooded. Very tightly wooded. The entire course, including the short walks between holes, gives the impression that someone cut a path through the woods and installed 9 baskets along it. Also, I swore the holes got narrower and narrower as the course went on. I felt like I was in the trash compactor scene from Star Wars, only I didn't have R2D2 to save me from the increasingly narrow tunnel shots. You'll need to hit the (mostly straight) lines accurately to get birdies or even pars.

The baskets were the yellow banded DISCatchers. Nice choice for this type of course and they were all in good shape.

No tee pads or tee signs. A few of the holes had a 4x4 post with the hole number routered in, but I think even most of these were missing. However, I always knew approximately where the tees were intended to be because there was a trash can at each one. Again, trash compactor.

The fairways are so tight that there is only one option to reach each basket. If you can't throw a disc 200'+ and perfectly straight, you will probably not score well here. And if you can do that, you will probably get bored quickly.

The rough on either side of the fairways is thick, and in some places also hilly with steep drop-offs. There is a serious chance of losing discs on every hole, and a possibility of getting injured while looking for discs if you aren't sure-footed.

The day I played this course, my friend and I met in the Lansing area for an afternoon of disc golf. After airing it out at Pine Hills Golf Course, we saw the short hole distances here on the course listing and decided to cap off the afternoon with an easy 9-hole round. Maybe even score under par. This was not the leisurely pitch-and-putt we were looking for. It was a challenging 9-hole round demanding pinpoint accuracy. I double bogied the first hole and never recovered, managing one birdie and an additional bogey after that to finish two over par.

I had a decent time playing this course, but I'm not really sure what DG'er would thoroughly enjoy a round here. Beginners and those with accuracy issues will spend most of their time digging through the brush for their discs. Pros will get bored by the lack of variety and distance. I guess the course might be best for novice to intermediate players who wish to work on accurate short drives, approaches, and putts. That includes me, but since I live an hour away I imagine I will personally fulfill that need somewhere else.