A pancake-flat course that could use a facelift and more obstacles.

I will have a lot of bad things to say about this course later on. However, I will note that at first I thought it was pretty cool to be in a historic park. Apparently it hosted Worlds at some point in the distant past. It's a fairly pleasant environment as the land is dedicated to park use. The grass is thick throughout and parts have a nice low canopy of trees. The place is infested with loud birds, which is a pro for me.

The main 18 course was straightforward to navigate. Without hills, it's also easy to walk and you'd be hard pressed to lose a disc except near a couple of fenced in powerline towers. I was the only disc golfer on a Monday during the day.

The gameplay here is acceptable. Predominantly the course is open holes in the 300' range. Trees should be easy to avoid, but a couple of holes have some extra challenge, whether proximity to parking lot, one guardian tree, or a low ceiling.

There are at least 27 holes here so plenty of options to prolong the round. I think there was also an alternate 9-hole course worked in to the middle of the front 18 that would offer more possibilities - I didn't hang around long enough to find out.

I have a whole laundry list. The course just seemed to drag on compared to every other course I played on this trip to LA.

The amenities are inconsistent and generally lacking. The front 9 had minimal tee signs, but none after that. Most holes had small concrete tees, but a few only had rubber pads and quite a few pads had the wrong numbers, presumably from previous iterations of the course. There were at least two kinds of baskets in play but neither was very good. Minimal maps and navigation guidance.

Roads and parking lots are at risk frequently, and I skipped one hole entirely due to the hazard. I also found the parking lot a bit seedy on a Monday. There were a lot of people parked there that weren't anywhere to be found on the course.

Maintenance was okay but not great. Grass was on the long side throughout so you won't get any skip action.

I can think of only two holes with 1' or more of elevation change. Most holes don't really have obstacles either to speak of, so it becomes very monotonous.

This was also a hot and sunny course to play. Sections don't have any tree cover. Combined with the monotony, this really creates the opposite of a compelling experience.

Whittier Narrows was an interesting historic look at disc golf, but time has not treated it well. Or perhaps it was always a drab, slightly questionable piece of flat park land. Anyway, it has an acceptable number of okay holes and very few holes make me angry - just none get me excited. Overall it's Reasonable, but not anywhere I'd return to unless I lived nearby.

~Similar Courses: Carver Recreation Center (Chattanooga, TN); Chattahoochee Pointe Park (Suwanee, GA); North Midway Park (Broomfield, CO).