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Boulder Creek, CA

YMCA Camp Campbell

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The Valkyrie Kid
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YMCA Camp Campbell Designers Failed The Test! 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 25, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

This YMCA camp looks awesome. Everywhere you look are cool and exciting adventures for all. The camp looks very upscale and modern like some big money has been invested here. There is this great looking swimming pool with lovely rock formations. Up where the disc golf course is, there is an awesome ropes course set about 20' up up the trees. There is an incredible building built on a hillside on giant pillars which looks lovely.

Unfortunately, the course designers totally and completely missed their target audience. Was this course designed for the 13 year old campers who throw 75' or macho counselors who can throw 300-400'. The holes are too long, too brushy, too frustrating, etc. Most campers would pack it in after taking a 9 on hole # 1 and run, not walk, to the inviting pool. I want to come to summer camp here.

The tees are barely marked with a front board. I found a couple by wandering around the area most likely to be a tee pad. The baskets are DGA models with a wooden # plate. There are a couple of much needed next tee arrows. Each hole is tight and technical with much risk of losing/hunting for your discs. # 3 looks a simple 250' downhill toss but the basket is completely hidden in the brush. Then # 4 plays up this narrow trail. # 5 plays up into the woods. # 6 has a nice wooden platform built for a pad but the visible basket is still in enough brush to make this a recreational hole and not a simple, little hole for camper kids. There is an arrow here but I couldn't determine whether it was a Mando arrow, a next tee arrow or one left over from the Indian wars of 1890? # 7 plays down a narrow path to a buried basket. # 8 starts heading back to the start. The basket is under ropes course. I couldn't locate any tee area for # 9 but the basket is set in a pretty little grove of trees.

Cons:

The course is much too difficult and technical for even, teen age campers. The baskets are in overgrown areas or completely hidden. No real tee pads. It's difficult to navigate. I don't like much about the design. It just wasn't a fun round.

Other Thoughts:

I think this large area under the raised building would've been a wonderful place for two or three holes. I think the designer should have placed a few holes under this building Including a hanging basket. It would be easy to hang one under here.

This is just another case where someone designed a course that would challenge him and his buddies with no thought to the campers who the case was actually be designed for. I can't imagine ANY camper ever returning to play this course a second time. And that probably is not a good thing.
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