This is a solid 21 hole course in a beautifully kept city park. The terrain is typical manicured park with hundreds of mature, trimmed-up trees and a completely clear understory. However, the trees are not trimmed up as high as in most parks, so the ceiling is somewhat low and often comes into play. The only brush on the entire course is along the small creek on Hole 21.

The course featured gently rolling hills that resulted in uphill or downhill elements on nearly every hole. Many holes (including the first three) were uphill with quite a low ceiling, requiring low line drives to reach the basket.

The course lacks defined fairways. What you generally see are a hundred trees between you and the basket, with any number of gaps to use in your attempt to get there. This gives numerous options from dead straight to wider paths on either side. Much of the challenge on the course was trying to figure out which (if any) of the many available lines offered an advantage.

The initial half of the course was wooded and tight, with the back half opening up more and more. By the 18th hole trees were less daunting, and Holes 20 and 21 were downright open! Overall some good variety, but not until the end of the round.

Most holes offered two baskets, which are both permanently in place. The short basket is the classic DISCatcher with yellow band. The alt pins are a different basket (Mach V?) that are powdercoated an unusual lime green color. They showed up great. In many cases the distance to the long pin wasn't greatly increased, but it was always offset to bring even more trees into play near the basket.

Good concrete tees, and decent signage along with benchs and trash cans make the course infrastructure very good.

This course has a lot of repetitive holes early, consisting of 250' - 350' shots through evenly spaced trees with a low ceiling. While it gives plenty of opportunities to work out various lines, there isn't much variety.

Most of the wooded holes lacked any specific line, which I suppose could be a pro or a con. The trees are so evenly and, is some cases, tightly spaced that the difference between a great shot and a bad kick was only inches. There is definitely an element of luck on many holes as you neared the basket, as you were simply hoping to hit gap after gap between the teepad and the pin.

The course is very compact in some areas, with multiple baskets near each other. The weekday morning I played there was one other player and even then we had to stay aware of each other and occasionally wait a bit to throw.

I imagine that this is a course that could grow on you, as multiple rounds would begin to reveal lines that aren't obvious the first couple of rounds.

I don't think that I'd want to play on a busy weekend, as the proximity of the holes to one another would certainly create some issues.

This place is worth playing. If you can throw through gaps and not try to birdie all of them then scores can be lower than my Halloween round today. While staying at the Nutt it is a half hour away and worth the trip. Poke and pray but on the gentle side. I remember thinking this the most tech course for having almost zero rough. Tee signs are all there and it is very clean. Skatepark and pool on site at rec center. Bag hangers galore. Can play this course with a driver mid and putter. Fun 21 holes.

The lanes through the small diameter timber are sometimes only a few feet and require lots of flip hyzer work and the dangers of bouncing discs into roads and other park traffic can be elevated with a busy park. Rollers work wonders/disaster here. Small property was definitely used to full potential without gutting trees out to make wider fairways.

Hole 21 is a good open bomber with a creek just short of 400 feet. Easily reachable from elevated tee box. Crown jewels are actually both post hole 18. 20 is great example of cool but dangerous. You throw down a walking path over a bridge. So cool when nobody is in the park could be a hazard with some traffic like a quarter of these holes. I enjoyed my morning round thoroughly this Halloween and can say it is the first VA course I have played. I can assure you it will not be my last. 3 disc rating for cleanliness and tee signs and good discatchers. Course itself is a longer dinker with potential.

Very well maintained. The grass is short and there is very little underbrush. I didn't see any trash. Signage was good.
Great for practicing your midrange game. There are an abundance of trees, so I was required to be a lot more creative than usual. I threw forehand rollers, skip hyzers, a scoober, and a grenade spike in my two rounds. I also had to throw several anhyzer putts to work around trees. It's great practice in hitting your intended line and keeping the disc low. Due to all the tree hits, it's good for breaking in discs.
The course was nice and empty when I played.

There are a ton of planted homogenous trees on most holes. If you can't hit your lines, you're going to get frustrated fast.
Your DX type discs will emerge two levels more understable.
If you like throwing distance drivers, you won't get your fix here.
Some holes play across others. Wasn't an issue with the vacancy when I played. Some tees require backtracking from the previous basket - just pay attention where the signs mark the next tee.
There are good views but most of the time you're in the woods.

Overall, good for practicing the midrange game and challenging your creativity.
Definitely worth a play if you're in Harrisonburg. I'll definitely play here again. If you have time or are going to be driving East on I-64, Walnut Creek Park outside of Charlottesville is a spectacular course and would recommend that over this course if you could only play one.
If you're stuck on the I-81 corridor, I actually think the Staunton course (20 miles south) is more fun.

Nice concrete tees(holes 19-21 are carpet), nice tee signs, bag hooks, and Discatcher baskets with 2 pin locations. Great slope of elevation to play over and is designed into the course nicely. Small creek comes into play on 20 and 21. Kiosk by hole 1, navigation is fairly easy without a map. Very well maintained and clean course, no underbrush to lose a disc in. Great for beginners and more experienced players. Nice pavilions, bathrooms and pool.

Not much to complain about. The close proximity of holes to each other and some other areas of the park create some safety issues. The repetitiveness of the low ceiling cedar shots. No indication of pin location.

Westover is a quick and fun stopover off I-81 in Harrisonburg/JMU. The GPS coordinates took me to the back of the park by hole 15 so I started there. The course is obviously loved by the maintenance crew and local players.

This course will really test your vertical control as well as the horizontal playing through all the cedar trees, but more so tests your vertical control because you can miss your horizontal line and get lucky on most holes, but too high and you will get knocked down trees and too low in you are hitting the ground. The elevation slope combined with the low ceiling is often the change of the challenge of your line, so you have to hit your 20 degree uphill line or downhill line on holes. You would think the roller would be a prevalent shot here, but the ceiling is often too low off the tee. Once you get to the back 9-21 things open up a little bit and the last few holes have a couple intermediate level more open par 4s. There are a few ace runs as the course is relatively on the short side. The back half were my favorite on the course. There is not much that will really wow you here, but if you are looking for a nice fun quick course to stop and play on I-81 this is an excellent choice.

This course is located in an immaculately maintained city park. Just imagine park grass and LOTS of skinny trees on a hill that slopes from one side of the park to the other. You play mostly heavily treed fairways for 18 holes, then play 3 holes on (relatively) flat ground with far less trees so you can finally unwind once you are warmed up. The land is well utilized, using the hilly terrain - the only thing missing would be a hole that goes cross-slope. Finesse is required on all holes, even the longer ones. This is a great place to bring beginners, as poor shots are not punished severely (recovery is usually from mowed grass- there is very little "rough")

The amenities are great - it has mowed grass, and very little underbrush - really no chance to lose a disc here. The tee pads are very grippy, and the signs are excellent, and help you find your way.

Hole #21 really sticks in my head as unique and fun. You tee from an elevated position across a grassy field with an OB fence on the right. There are no obstacles until the last 100' (or so) where there is a hallway of large trees with the pin at the end. A creek is about 15-20' behind the pin. You can throw a flick to the left of the hallway of trees to sneak around or a backhand hyzer over the OB to the right (hoping the tree branches don't catch you and drop you OB). Or you can go straight down the pipe. I like holes that give you choices!

Safety factor - somewhat dangerous - many of the holes are crammed way too close to one another, such that there are too many opportunities for players to get hit with stray shots. Holes that collide are in the zone of #8-14. The worst offender is hole #10 that goes directIy over the tee of #11 - waaaaat? I would recommend they shave a few holes to alleviate this (there are 21 now, so there's certainly room to breathe.)

As another reviewer said, the course starts with 3 uphill holes which is a bit repetitive, and not the most enjoyable way to start a round. All courses need uphill shots, but many find them to be the least fun to play.

There are 2 poke & hope holes (7 & 10) that have no really legit lines off the tee. Being 10 goes over another 10, this could really be eliminated.

I found playing here enjoyable. I think the thing to take it to the next level would be to improve to safety factor by eliminating/changing a few holes in the middle. Less is more, in my humble opinion. Even if it means less than 18 holes.

Be aware that the tee to hole #12 is at 7:00 from pin #11. I got confused by seeing the tee for hole #13 straight ahead, which seemed obvious to be the next tee.

First thing that I enjoyed about this course is the nice grass and park feel. There are no bushes, no brush, and no thorns. It's all trees that have no limbs below ~6 1/2 feet.

There is a practice basket at the entrance of the park, very close to the first tee pad. There is also a bulletin board that has a giant map of the course, score cards, and flyers about events and such.

The tees are concrete and level.

There are pavilions all around the course that have benches incase you get tired.

There are uphill, downhill, and flat holes, 90% of which have low ceilings (~10 feet or less) which requires power, precision, and control.

There is a shopping center near by (less than half a mile) that you can purchase drinks at if you forgot to bring them.

The bulletin board had score cards, but it did not have pencils or pens.

It is easy to get confused on the course because it is so cramped (I'll get to that) so print a map. It will come in handy...

A few holes (I think it was 14-17) have very wet mud and puddles from rain that happened a week ago. This is the type of mud you step in and slip/slide, not the type that makes you feel "stuck."

There are many playgrounds and pavilions scattered throughout the park. Children are running around and parents aren't always watching. Don't be surprised if someone is between you and the hole...

Joggers/walkers are in the way. One guy single handedly made us wait for a total accrued time of about 10 minutes. He tried to jog past the holes we were on, he was actually quite respectful, but he was always in the way because of the next course flaw..

The holes play over on themselves worse then I have ever seen. My brother and I were caught between one guy who was ahead of us (he was two holes ahead and still in danger of getting hit/our disc getting in his way) and a group behind us. The course is far too cramped to enjoy on a busy evening, I'm sure... This was almost a problem on a Monday evening.

The signage is also a con because it lists the distance and Hole number. There is no par, no overhead view/idea of where you are going, nothing.

Some people may not like the noise of the park. There is a skate park and water slide/pool area directly beside some of the latter holes. There is a fence separating the course from the pool, but with how windy it was, my disc almost got taken over the fence.

UPDATE: I added .5 back and deleted my bad experiences with a group of locals. Every course has their bad batch after much thought, I cannot take away from the course as a whole because of one event.

If you can throw powerfully and straight, uphill with a low ceiling this is a birdie run waiting to happen. Many holes are ace runs, actually. If you cannot get the balance between low, accurate, and powerful, this course might get a little irritating. I won't say frustrating because no matter what you do you are never in any real trouble, there is always at least one line to get you to the hole, and with the majority of the holes being 200-350 you aren't very far off usually.

All in all if you take away the social aspect of the park this is a 3.5 course. But adding in the almost inevitable joggers and children coupled with poor signage and it should be a 3.

On a side note, they were putting in 3 more holes (one of which cannot be played if there are children on the church playground right beside the hole -- there is a sign that says this).
These three holes are almost wide open and look nice, but one of them (20) finishes with the basket ~5 feet from the road and the tee is beside the basket throwing almost directly to the tee pad before (more of the course playing on top of itself).

Very challenging.
Not only did you have to hit the gaps, but you had to also throw up and down the hill while hitting the gaps.
Tee boxes seemed new and the course was very clean.
If you like your disc to skip (I know I do), BOY, you can get some serious skips out there.
Two pin placements is awesome. At the time of my round, all pins were set to long.

The signs that were posted were from the tournament they had just finished playing. Otherwise, there were no signs at the tees.
The course folds back on itself (example: a stray throw on hole 2 could land near or on hole 3 tee box). If you've got players that aren't as skilled, it might cause some problems.

Wish I would have known there was a tournament here yesterday, I would have played in it. It seems as though the course is going through some changes and improvements, all for the better.

Nice layout. Easy walk through the park. Good practice course. Makes you keep your drives low low.

Not much variety. Mast everything through trees. All the holes started to look alike after the first few.

Fresh concrete teepads make this course so much more enjoyable than previously. If you've played here before and didn't enjoy your time due to the terrible teepads I strongly suggest you come back and play again. There are no luck based holes despite having quite a few trees (which is to say there is always a desireable path and you are never forced to just throw until you hit a tree). With limited space the course designers managed to fit 18 holes and a practice basket in a tight space without any fairways crossing (though there remains the potential to get hit as some teeboxes are next to fairways). There are a few alternate pin positions which give the course some additional replay value for locals and tournaments.

There is nothing visually appealing from hole to hole with maybe two exceptions. The course favors righthand backhand play which is just to say that variety is somewhat limited...the same left fading shot shape will be favorable on the majority of holes. (There are multiple routes available on most holes, but the route with the largest margin for error usually favors RHBH play.)

There is no perfect place to park. The distance between the first tee-pad and the last basket is fairly long. The layout of the course is somewhat confusing...I highly suggest printing off a map or joining up with a local. Basically if you're not sure where the next tee is try backtracking and you'll likely find your way. A few simple signs could easily alleviate this while giving the course a more professional feeling.

The first three holes, while different, feel very similar which seems like a boring way to start the round (uphill, low ceiling). While many of the holes are unique in layout they don't feel that way since you'll likely find great success throwing the same few discs on the same line just uphill or downhill.

This isn't a course I would typically take a beginner or casual player to in order to have fun due to low ceilings and somewhat repetitive feel (though with few alternatives in the immediate area I've done so many times).

The new teepads have greatly improved this course in my eyes. I had formerly rated it as a 2.0 due to the awful teepads. With the new concrete pads people can throw with confidence and not have to worry about twisting their ankle on a root or slipping in the mud. For those who have played the course prior to the new tees...come back and try again. The new tees have lowered my average round here by 7 strokes (yes, the tees were that bad before).

I beleive there are plans to add an additional 3 holes, so that's something to check back for in the future.

-Easy walk through Westover
-Usually not crowded so play is quick and smooth
-Shouldn't loose any discs here
-Locals are friendly
-Bathrooms in park building
-Free!

-Tee boxes can get beat up
-Baskets are rarely moved so playing can get repetitive.

A nice course in Harrisonburg. Great for all skill levels. Somewhat easy, but lots of trees to make long shots challenging for seasoned players.

Nice layout, support facilities (bathrooms, etc), hard to lose discs

Unmarked, serious trees, long walk from #18 back to car (if you park near #1), a scorecard with map would be useful.

This is a pretty nice course. It's pretty wooded, but not thick trees. Just enough trees to make it a pretty serious challenge. The only tee I couldn't find was #2, otherwise the holes were fairly straightforward. Good elevation changes. Only one hole bordered on woods, so the chances of losing a disc on an errant throw are slim. All in all, it was a fun course, and I will be back to play again.Hole distances can be found here at: http://www.ci.harrisonburg.va...ex.php?id=748

Beautiful setting, easy walking, virtually no risk of losing plastic. The designers definitely did the best with what they had.

I love the challenge that Westover presents, even though it is a relatively short course. There is a low ceiling on 85% of the holes, combined with tight alley shots on many drives. There are also quite a few elevation changes thrown in to the mix.
If I was closer to this course I would probably play it more often.

Setting, amenities

Westover Park is an interesting park course. The course has two distinctive features; the first is the generally low canopy, mostly due to the cedar trees, and the second is the fact that the course plays alongside a hill for many of its holes, which makes for some interesting uphill challenges and risky putts. Plus some of the mountain views are nice.

I had heard that control was key aspect to playing Westover, but I didn't grasp to what extent. Yes, a roller is handy in negotiating the course's many low, somewhat tight fairways, but can you throw a roller 300 feet uphill? The first three holes are uphill, and the fairways are representative of the whole course; low and hard on errors. But unlike a true woods course, the trees are not thick at all, as the whole course plays in a classic park environment. So nothing super tight or unreasonable, and no risk of losing a disc because there is no undergrowth, just short grass. Westover is not particularly long, but some of the holes do stretch out beyond strict pitch and putt, and while trees figure on most holes, some holes are more open than others. And the course is not entirely straighforward - the ability to both control your shots and get them to hook or fade is required at times. As the course moves downhill and off the incline on the back nine, it opens up and lengthens a bit. Design-wise, Westover is excellent in that it gets the most out of the land available - 21 solid holes playing throughout a really nice disc golf landscape with even the occasional mountain view.

The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia is a truly beautiful place, and Harrisonburg is the classic college and market town amidst the many oft-visited national parks and forests of the Valley. With Sherando Park in the northern part of the Valley, Westover in the central Valley, and Montgomery Hall in Staunton, disc golfers now have ample reason to veer from the beaten tourist paths and throw a round on some classic Virginia courses. None of these three courses will disappoint.

Favorite Hole - #10 - a low downhill shot through the trees.