The facility and the people.
Course has been broken in for a long time and is well maintained.
Excellent Tee pads, brooms, benches and trash cans.
Signage at all holes.
For an average length course, it has a decent variety of shots and a good use of elevation, with both up and downhill throws and one up and over a ridge and another over a small ravine. Many holes offer multiple routes. Number 17 is a plain nasty tunnel shot, but the only one that is really hard to birdie if your arm is up to 18.
Several Ace runs if you go for that.
Realistic par. 58 with 2 of the 4's pretty easy birdies and 2 that aren't so easy.
One of the best pro shops around. Good selection and fair prices. Reasonable green fees. Food and flush toilet. Nice patio with picnic tables. Community bug spray. Toss in a dollar and never get eaten alive.
They work hard at returning lost discs.
Regular tournaments year round, including charitable.

A few holes are plain, pretty simple, or single route.
Too many Ace runs for some.
Mostly short holes. Only a few full drives, depending on your arm.
Potential of mixing up the 2 courses where the Grizzly is nearby.
Can be a little soupy if you play all seasons. Hardly unique.
Next Tee signs aren't always obvious.

I've played the BB about 30 times over the past 4-5 years. I was a complete beginner when I started. I've been pretty active, playing around 50 rounds per year for the past 6 years on over 50 different courses. I'm a RHBH dominant player with a weak forehand and my best on the BB is a 51. WV is as good a choice for an introduction to DG as you could ask for. Great people, scenic well kept courses, well stocked pro shop and more than half decent snacks. The Black Bear is a very pretty beginner to intermediate level course with a very cool signature hole, the 18th, with its downhill crush. Hole 1 is one of my personal favorite openers. The first Tee overlooks a pond and a stone wall barrier that bisects the fairway. It is slightly elevated and requires a tricky little thread the needle shot beneath and between the trees. Hole 2 is up hill and the basket is perched on top of a granite outcropping. 3rd is the first of the 2 open downhill bomber holes, reachable for big arms and a tough 2 for most. 4 is the first par 4, winding down a narrow dirt road through the woods. Best to stay on the fairway here. Here the course homogenizes a little. 5 and 6 are basic straight shots, Ace runs for certain, 7 is a short, sharp anhyzer, 8-10 also straight to mild hyzers, 11 a tough par 3 anny, 12 a sharp uphill hyzer, and 13 a downhill anny. Next comes 2 par 4's, 14 is the previously mentioned up and over, a very fun hole, and on 15 a downhill Flex is required here. Spare the fade if you can. 16 is over the little ravine and 1 of the 3 obvious Ace holes. 17 is tough as I mentioned and 18 takes you out of the woods to the 2nd open downhill smash. The view is pretty sweet from the top of the hill.

pro shop is great, coarse is fun and aceable on many holes, its wooded but controlable, play w a roy if u can, its very hard to lose discs here, last hole is long and down hill a very nice last horrah

very easy, plays very quickly for a long ride for me

place is nicer every year, lots of events