Covered Bridges is a forested course that plays short holes mainly towards and on hillsides with flatground bookenders. Average length is 228ft but a number of the forested technicals are in the mid to upper 100s with a few open grass distance holes raising the length number.

The terrain is highly enjoyable but rocky in parts and a bit of a hike up or along hillsides. Definitely not a place to enjoy during bad weather. A very compact Camp Sankanac with a small mix of Bootlegger's Cave perhaps, in Community Park form less than 1/3 the walk.

Despite the small distances, the challenges weren't meager. The forested straight tunnel #5, the short but steep upshot past a huge boulder on #6, #11 60 ft wide fairway bordered by cliff sides, or #12's short but supersteep downhill gap to wide-open 140' all combine to make this course much more fun and memorable than the average community DG park.

I had a blast here and am really envious of anyone that gets to call a park of this variety their home course.

Tee size was never a problem and navigation wasn't a breeze but still okay. Don't recall next basket signs. Despite crossing a bridge first thing to enter the park, water does not come into play at all on the course except on overshots at basket #16.

Covered Bridge's big downside is that it plays into itself quite a bit. Especially after #7. A fair amount of backtracking and fairways right next to each other. Baskets 8&10 and tee9 all congregate in front left of #11's tee-off. #13 & 14 are side by side teeing off against each other, with #14's basket quite close to 13's tee. #15 & 17 are side by side as well. I was relieved to be wearing glasses already, otherwise I might have fetched my safety sunglasses if enough groups were around.

And the course is probably pretty busy. First time I came, I skipped over to another local course cause the parking lot was completely jampacked and everyone was playing. This time it during the rain remnants of Hurricane Ian, and I still stumbled onto three different player groups.

Last complaint, mostly for first timers, this course signs aren't always reality, which is problematic because despite the short distances involved, this course has its baskets hidden from the tee a lot. More than any other course I encountered.

#4 sign had nothing to do with actual basket placement. It showed a 150'ish basket way to the right up on the steep hillside, it actually is an 200'ish basket just past #5 tee, almost straight on but with a hump in the middle. Similarly, #6 upwards boulder shot is signed as if the basket was mere feet after the crest of the boulder and base remnants indicate this was once so. However, it has since been moved at least twenty-five feet back and way to the right. #13's (right after the big downhill putt) basket was located markedly to the left than signed as well. I didn't bother reading every sign, so there could be more.

As an aside, there are other hints to the course being edited after the fact. Sometimes the tees are angled strangely, such as #1, angled way to the right of it's open flatground basket - as if demanding the player make a extreme hyzer for some reason. Presumably, a basket was straight on, near the swamp, and too many lost a disc or two in that. Not a big deal, but noticeable.

Out of OOOOO discs or XXXXX strikes:

Terrain: OOOOo - Phenonemal terrain and doubly so for a community course.
Execution: OOOO - Excellent. They extracted the best holes they could here and it makes for interesting play.
Upkeep: OOO. Good. There terrain is fine but some signs definitely need updating and possibly some tees reangled.
Difficulty: OOO - Intermediate. Distances are short but unusual shots or need for precise trajectories in the treed parts.
Fun Factor: OOOOo - Other than distance, this is probably the most State Park DG-like course I encountered in a community park. Great variety in compact form.
Crowded: XXXX. Yeah, along with the good comes the crowd. I have every reason to believe this place is heavily trafficked.
Overall: OOOO - I wish this was my home course to play short, quick rounds on.


Course almost loops. First two holes are open. Second plays slightly uphill into basket on hillside. #3, 4, 5 also play along same hillside. #6 shoots over it. Then is some field play. #7 is a fade towards hidden basket. Backtrack. #8, 9, 10 are longer back and forths on downsloping field up against another hillside. #11 plays on top of ridgeline. #12 is a steep gapped downhill putt to open. Cross little bridge. #13 & 14 are lightly treed short back and forths. #15-16-17 are heavily treed, bring you to the creek and back again. Backtrack to #13 tee and recross bridge. #18 is a trek to the fields and open with basket inside forest's edge.

Well maintained
Great course design

Sometimes crowded

This is my favorite local course. A lot of diversity and great use of the area that is allotted. I would highly recommend playing here. Its a great place to take new players.

This course was a lot of fun! There were so many shots that I have never taken before, which makes you think "how do I do this and what disc should I use". I really enjoyed 6 you could either go over, left or right around a huge bolder. As well as 12 its just down hill and if throw it over you will go into a riven.

I really did not like 16, directrly left of the fairway is a hidden river with a very small chance of getting your disc back. And if I was not with a person that had played this course before, who warned me about the water. I would have never known it dropped off that fast and it was that close! It is really hidden so watch out!

This course was a high risk / high reward kind of course which I really enjoy. There were a bunch of throws where you could go for it all which is risky or go safe. Overall this was a great course that takes a couple times through to fully understand what the best shot is for each hole! I cant wait to go back again.

This has been the course where i've introduced a lot of people to the sport! It's shorter than most of the oers in the area, so it's nice to start out on or work on your short game.

It's also a great course for a little friendly competition, and (other than South Mountain in Bethlehem), levels off the playing field for both bigger arms and those who can't throw quite as far.

Overall excellent course wit a lot of varying shots.

I love this course. Although I play most of it without even using a driver, it provides a great challenge and fun competition between friends who all throw very different distances.