White Birch is the oldest course in MO. This is a Steady Ed course that's been around for longer than I've been alive. Installed in 1979 it's been steadily plugging along all these years.

The course is 18 holes crammed into a front and a back nine on either side of the creek. No one would consider putting 18 holes into this amount of space in this day and age. That's kind of the beauty of this course. It gives you a look back into the past before we had all these warp speed discs and people just threw...you know...Frisbees.

The flow of the course is not too hard to follow for the most part. There's a couple wonky spots but it's in such a condensed area that it only takes a little bit of walking around to sort things out.

The baskets are ancient Machs. They've definitely seen better days but actually caught pretty decent, surprisingly. One basket and pin position per hole.

The tee pads are tiny little slabs of concrete. Concrete is better than natural pads I suppose. And there'e two tees per hole for some reason.

There's some nice elevation in play out there. Many scary greens with the creek or a drop off or both not too far behind the basket. There's trees in play on quite a few of the holes. Usually only one, maybe two, you need to avoid in the fairway. It's more around the baskets that they come into play with numerous baskets tucked into the woodline.

There are tee signs here that have a super basic hole layout. They have the hole # and distances from either tee too.

The course starts and ends by the parking lot. Course is permanent and free to play.

Many of the thing I listed as pros are also cons. The tees are concrete yes. However they're about 3'x5'. They're also completely eroded away around many of them. Pretty awful looking currently.

Like I said above, the baskets have seen better days. Those Mach's really last a long time, it's pretty impressive.

The tee signs are mostly useless. They're facing the wrong direction for one. When looking at them you need to imagine flipping the sign 180 degrees and laying it horizontally. When you do that they kind of make sense.

The rollaway potential here is nuts. I got greedy a few times running the basket. I didn't ace anything but I did spend a lot of time exploring the wildlife in the creek while looking for my disc. Seriously though, lost disc potential is extremely high here.

Erosion is running rampant out here. By far the worst erosion of any course I've ever seen. It looks like they're trying to address it in spots but it's almost too little, too late.

I was really looking forward to playing this course and it was quite a letdown if I'm being honest. It's cool for the nostalgia and has it's moments. Time has left this course behind, in more ways than one.

I can't really recommend this course to anyone. It's worth playing to say you did. But it's just not all that exciting and it's actually just kind of sad seeing the state that it's in now.

-Multiple tee-pads on each hole
-Concrete tee-pads
-Baskets are in solid shape and catch well
-The tee-signs that are still at the tee-pads are useful, with a layout of the hole and the distance of the hole.
-Some really tight wooded holes
-There is a solid mix of some more open holes and then some tighter wooded holes.
-Lots of baskets have drop-offs behind them, which adds to a little risk/reward to putting and makes some of the holes a little bit more challenging.
-There are a lot of ace runs on this course
-Good amount of elevation on this course, that is used fairly well.
-Pleasant park that made for a pleasant round.
-Hole 10 was my favorite hole on this course. It is the shortest hole on the course, but it plays straight uphill through a very tight wooded fairway. It was the hole I remember most from this course.

-All of the holes are really short on this course. I didn't need to use any drivers and I only used a mid-range once or twice.
-A lot of the tee-signs are missing
-The course can be a little hard to navigate. There are a lot of baskets in a small area and it can sometimes be a little hard to know, which basket you are actually throwing at.
-The course can start to feel repetitive after a while, especially on holes from 4 to 9. These holes basically feel like straight uphill or straight downhill.
-Lots of erosion. It can make some of the areas around the tee-pads dangerous, and also some of the slopes dangerous. They really need to do some work to help get rid of some of this erosion.
-Lots of crossing fairways and throwing near other baskets you just threw to. I would definitely keep an eye out for incoming discs if you are playing the course on a crowded day.
-Other than hole 10 none of the holes were very memorable.
-Not a very challenging course.
-Some thick rough that could be easy to lose a disc in.

This isn't a bad beginner course, but it is really starting to show it's age. This course really needs some work and maintenance. Due to the bad erosion, I would most definitely not play this course after the rain. Overall, this course is not worth going out of your way for, but it is good for players that don't throw very far and want to be able to reach some of the holes.

Short course for getting beginners started.

There are 2 sets of tees on most holes.

Disc golf only area of the park

The creek makes a nice risk reward type shot on most holes and requires accuracy.

the 2 sets of tees dont add much change to the course. most barley add any distance to the holes, and some of the "pro" tees almost seem easier and the concrete pads are tiny

the creek that runs through most of the course has "dangerous" drop offs into that can be risky to climb up and down to retrieve an errant throw.

most of the signs are missing

Several baskets are close to each other, and other tees, so dont be surprised to have discs flying at you.

Any rain or snow makes this course a muddy swampy mess

Several holes force a righty to throw a turnover or a forehand, which is a nice change of pace

hole 10 sticks out in my head. It is almost straight up hill but really short

Nothing super exciting here, but it is the oldest course in Missouri, so if you are in the area play it for that reason but there are other better courses near by.

The course has nice concrete tee pads (2 pads on most holes). There are many nice big mature trees that make the course much more difficult since it is so short. It is really nice having the office up the hill that sells some really nice plastic (at very reasonable prices). Did well with the small amount of land that they had to work with.

This course was way too close together...all the holes are right on top of each other. I went out and it was not terribly crowded but was constantly having to keep an eye out for incoming discs. The signage on many of the holes were destroyed. The course had some terrible erosion issues which makes many of the greens unplayable. The guy I was playing with put about 4 or 5 right up by the basket...they then caught an edge and rolled on the dirt (no grass around most baskets) down off some pretty steep drop offs into creeks. The course was also littered with all kinds of trash.

This course really only has enough land there to make a 9 hole course...and I think it would make a nice 9 holer that you could even make some longer holes on. It was an interesting look into what our disc golf roots look like...having said that...I really can't say that I will be going back to play here anytime soon.

-two sets of concrete pads
-some nice elevation and decent risk/ reward with steep drop offs to the creek on many holes.
-A lot of safety mandos here because there are a lot of fairways close to each other. These mandos generally make the holes a bit more challenging. Like hole 2 is probably only 180 ft away if you throw straight at it, but there is a rhbh hyzer mando off the pad which adds to the hole.
-A lot of work has been done here to help maintain the natural beauty of the course. A lot of bank stabilization, erosion control by pins and tee pads. These all make this a special place because they are trying to maintain the land in it's 1979 glory.

-This course is super crowded younger folks, so be careful of people throwing in on you, people stealing your plastic etc.
-Although a lot of the aforementioned erosion control has helped, there is still a need for more land conservation as there are large gullies on some of the fairways.
-Obviously this course is super short, which I'm not really holding against it as it was a different game when the course was made, so if you bring a putter only, you will have a great time with a little bit of challenge.

-This course would be great and a lot of fun for superclass, so bring out the zephyrs and throw some old school disc

Easy Course. Not far from my home (apologies for irrelevance.) Wooded Area. Good practice for mid range and putt shots/aces.

So so so so so short. I started on the wrong hole and threw to the wrong tee which was about 100ft. I knew the course was short but i could not believe that. So some others started playing and i followed em'. Still ungodly short.
Friendly locals. Maybe there was a course map somewhere, maybe not, but I was very lost.

A group of park maintenance workers doing absolutely nothing making more money than I am were all just chillin' at hole 9 or 10 or something. Very distracting and awkward.

The course was designed by Ed Headrick in 1979 and has not been significantly altered since. It is a good time capsule of the original disc golf courses. It also has one of the best mix of hyzer-anhyzer shots of any course I've played. There have been recent efforts to use more aggressive landscaping to control the erosion problems that plague the property, and these upgrades have been a welcome addition.

It was designed for Midnight Flyers, so it has been obsolete since 1983! The holes are short and shorter. A lot of the trees that made up the challenge of the original course are gone. The course has a terrible erosion problem, so playing after rain is an adventure. The tees are too short to take a run-up on, but the holes are so short that it does not really matter. The course is usually packed with people, and the holes are really close together. You have to be ready to duck!

There sometimes is an attendant at the skate park who collects a $1.00 fee to play. When there is no attendant, the local skate punks will often pretend to be the attendant and try to scam you out of a buck.

At one point the parks department made the curious decision to put some plastic flower garden border-type rings around the baskets. Originally they were filled with mulch, but they were never dug into the ground. The ones that remain no longer contain mulch and just sort or sit around the basket, looking odd and trashy. They do make a nice disc stop for your upshot.

Like a lot of old courses, if you stick to throwing putters you can have a good time. Just don't expect a great challenge.