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Badgerman
Silver level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience: 20.6 years 550 played 62 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Central Park 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 13, 2020 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

+ 9 baskets + practice basket
+ Nice map at start
+ Large concrete tees surrounded by asphalt
+ Well maintained grounds
+ Great use of elevation on 7 and 8. 8 is a top of the world shot about 300 feet to the basket in an empty field. If it's not busy, I usually empty my bag here
+ Mostly avoids activities

Cons:

- No tee signs
- First 6 holes feel repetitive. Open flat shots with scattered trees. The only difference with a lot of these is the length of the holes
- Ground gets very soggy on 6 and 7
- 7 throws across the walking path.
- Threat of street on 3, 4, 5
- 85th Ave is a very busy street and this course is not too far from the police station and fire dept. Traffic and sirens can be distracting
- This park has a lot of forest, but it's not utilized at all
-Not much litter this time, but usually I'm able to fill a small bag with all the wrappers and stuff I pick up.

Other Thoughts:

This is the closest course to my parent's house, so I've probably played it 100+ times over the years and every time I'm left just a little disappointed in it. This is the oldest course in Brooklyn Park.
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Styleboy4lyfe
Experience: 18 played 3 reviews
4.50 star(s)

Personal Favorite Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 24, 2019 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Good amount of treesVariety of holesGood length for a 9 hole courseFriendly for beginner/intermediate playersThere is a clubhouse on sit with food, drinks and discs

Cons:

Often busy and park goers are not aware on disc golf area

Other Thoughts:

This is my go to course. It has a good amount of challenge and still is good for beginners.
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Flanakookn
Experience: 7.7 years 17 played 11 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Watch out for the park goers 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 4, 2017 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Layout flows very nice and the holes are different and challenging to play.

Tees and Baskets in good shape.

Park is well maintained

Cons:

There are a few times the parks walking path comes into play. Lots of older folks walking their dogs or people jogging with the earbuds in.....

Watch out...these things are mandos to avoid.
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THUGNIFICENT763
Experience: 22.1 years 97 played 6 reviews
3.00 star(s)

great course for teaching others 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 9, 2014 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

-If you are trying to teach somebody new, or trying to learn a new mold, this is the place I would suggest.
-This course runs in a clockwise fashion, so navigation is a non-factor.
-The clubhouse for the adjacent golf course has discs for sale if aforementioned new player decides they want to purchase their first disc (marked-up prices, but hey, supply and demand economics...).

Cons:

-Course runs parallel to some roads, so hyzer slicers get punished (could be a pro if you're sadistic/dislike the people you play with)
-Watch out for disc thieves! I personally had my teeshot, a DGA SP Hurricane, stolen on hole 7, which is a blind shot. I advise using a spotter system.
-Hole 9 is sometimes a shooting gallery consisting of oblivious small children.

Other Thoughts:

This is the course I played my first round at, way back in 2002 (when it ran counter-clockwise, way better course back then IMO) so it will forever hold a place in my heart. Aceable holes include 1, 3, 6, 8, and 9 (I speak from experience), but I did witness a guy ace hole 7 with an annybombed G* Destroyer (amazing) so I guess you can add 7 to the list.
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Aim For The Chains
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 15.8 years 134 played 24 reviews
2.50 star(s)

9er worth the timer 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 17, 2013 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

-nice cement teepads with very large asphalt surrounds (previously marked for each hole but currently worn off)
-easy flow/navigation with a good mix of holes for what land is available from longer wooded shots to shorter open approaches
-hole 8 is a fun wide open 400'~ downhill shot worthy of a few drives for the "chubby" ace run :)
-beginner friendly while still enough to the course to make it fun for more advanced players specially trying to hit 2's or the possible ace runs on 1,3,6,8,9
-ample parking within multi-use park offering playground and other activities as well as pavilion/shelter for parties
-solid baskets with well groomed landscape and mature trees scattered throughout
-marked off practice basket area
-wood chips around baskets

Cons:

-worn hole markings with no signs other than hole 1 which you could miss all together the first time being there are 2 parking lots and the disc golf starts within the shared golf course parking lot next door. (Park there if you don't want to walk to hole one or park in the main area and walk south to the tee past the first basket.)
-can have heavy pedestrian traffic and walkers along sidewalk that surrounds park
-first few holes run along busy roads but not really issue unless you threw some horrible hyzer slices
-can get flooded in some spots and baskets 7/8 can be removed or not playable in winter due to sledding from hill.

Other Thoughts:

Nice "centrally" located family park with multi-uses and a solid disc course course for testing out your new disc or practicing different shots/consistency and putting on the practice basket. You could really improve your game playing here a lot and making a routine out of some holes/lines/angles due to really no punishing landings but for sure ideal lines to the basket/landing areas and a good chance to shape some lines as well as throw rollers being an all grass park. One of the better 9 hole courses in the area surrounded by them. this and eagles edge make for a good combo to work on your shots and discs.
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rarintal
Experience: 14.1 years 82 played 7 reviews
2.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 17, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

some long holes, and throwing from the top of the hill was fun.

Cons:

everything is wide open except the second hole. and even that isn't that tight...

Other Thoughts:

seems like they could have designed it better. but then again it is a city park with not that much trees
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jcovlin
Experience: 4 played 2 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Home Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 11, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Good place to get your feet wet if it is your first time playing. You have to try to lose a disc, unless your throw drops the disc in the back of a moving pick-up.

Cons:

Can get crowded at times with other players as well as patrons. Maybe throwing your disc in the street can be a problem as well.

Other Thoughts:

On hole 7 up and over the hill is what i've found works for me. On hole 8 try to stay low coming off the hill.
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Deadbishop
Experience: 28 years 6 played 5 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Good solid course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 2, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Love the practice putting hole with the distance markers! Convenient parking, your game starts and ends near the lot.

Hole #8 is definitely the signature hole. Practice getting your Ace here!

Cons:

Pretty vanilla course, no surprises here. I wouldn't play this course day in and day out, but it's nice variety if you regularly tour the city courses.

Other Thoughts:

I remember the original course layout, and thought it had some better technical lanes before the current layout.
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Kevin.Russell
Experience: 24.3 years 121 played 3 reviews
3.50 star(s)

TMDGA 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Oct 11, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Nice flow to the course. Great layout for how big the park is. Some decent elevation, nice variety of easy/tough shots. Can play a round fairly quick. Usually not very busy.

Cons:

Fairly short, pretty easy if you play it a handful of times. A lot of activities in park area (grilling, playground, baseball, etc.)

Other Thoughts:

Nice easy short course to play if your in the area!!
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itzbrian17
Experience: 12.7 years 21 played 8 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Good for quick rounds 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Feb 12, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Like the way how it's easy to find the tee's. About 5/9 holes have ace potential. This course is great for beginners like me because it's not very challenging.Well maintained course and not a lot of trash on the ground. Very nice putting practice basket that go from 2-40ft in 2ft intervals around it.

Cons:

If you're a skilled player you may find this course bland and boring. Busy street on hole 1 should'nt be a problem but I've seen people nearly hit cars. Hole 7 is taken out for the winter (one of the more challenging holes). You have to watch out for people on several holes, it seems like some people are very unaware of the course. This course can get busy and you might have to wait ( i would know cause I live 3 miles away) Last week (FEB 19) we went to play here because there was no snow and there was 3 groups waiting to play ( and thats only winter ).

Other Thoughts:

If you are around Brooklyn Park and looking for a quick round i would definitely recommend this course but if you had time to spare then just drive the extra 10mins to elm creek
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Ricky1962
Experience: 12.6 years 23 played 8 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Winter Rules at Central Park 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 11, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Well maintained;
Nice tees;
Nice putting practice hole with distance stones up to 40';
Easy access to the park;
Course starts and ends next to the golf course parking lot;
Plenty of tree hazards, but without much risk of losing a disc;
Holes are well marked;
Holes 4 and 5 are nice back-to-back par 4;
Hole 8 tees off a hill to the basket 400' below - ace-able (maybe someday).

Cons:

Hole 7 is at the bottom of a sled hill, so has been removed for the Winter sledders.

Other Thoughts:

I skip hole #7 (the basket is missing anyways), and play the practice putting basket as hole #10. I've measured using my GPS 307' from the ballpark dugout to the basket (call it a par 3).
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nickc
Experience: 12.9 years 8 played 3 reviews
2.50 star(s)

good beginner course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 24, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

Very wide open space, great for beginners learning to throw with more control. Great for anyone practicing roller shots, or basically anything you're not use to.

No tight fairways, nothing all too technical. It's an all right course for a quick 9 hole round.

There's only one place you might lose a disc.

There's a practice basket for putting, or "secret" basket 10.

Cons:

Most shots are pretty straight.

Not a lot of difficulty. More advanced players will find this course boring.

Not many elevation changes. There's two shots based around a hill.

Nothing technical. The most technical shot really needed here would be a turnover driver.

The park is surrounded by busy roads.

Other Thoughts:

Central park is a fine course, it's surrounded by some pretty busy streets, so a bad shot could make your disc end up right in the street, as I almost experienced today. Great for beginners, advanced players will find it to be nothing special whatsoever. Some great opportunities for big drives, but this whole course could easily be played with a midrange and a putter.
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The Valkyrie Kid
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 45.9 years 1563 played 1507 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Vanilla Rec Course But It's Enjoyable! 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 21, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

Central Park has a great course sign and a really nice practice basket with distance blocks every two feet. This is a relatively flat park except for the one sledding hill. There are scattered trees which provide the only obstacles. There are nice big trapazoid teepads with the hole # painted on them. The baskets are Mach III's in good condition. The park is clean and mostly litter/grafitti free EXCEPT for the parking lot near the golf course. Disc golfers are leaving a lot of their garbage behind here. Take it home or at least, carry it over and dispose of it. It makes us all look bad!

I thought the first seven holes were a little bland, basically just kinda long through the scattered trees. They are great for practicing your rollers though. Not much in the way of creativity. # 8 is the signature hole here. You tee off from the top of the sledding hill down 400' to an open basket and judging by all the signatures on the basket, there have been quite a few that have struck home. Sign your disc guys, not the basket! The course is long enough that the birdies are earned but open enough that it's hard to bogey any of them.

Cons:

Lack of imagination with the design or maybe I should say, a lack of interesting terrain in which the designers had to work with. Either way, a less than awe-inspiring course.
You probably could add in the other park patrons but hey, it's their park too.

Other Thoughts:

Yeah, Yawn, OK. I would quickly grow tired of playing this course but luckily you folks in the Twin Cities are blessed with a plethora (25 cent word) of nice courses so you can mix and match as the mood strikes. Consider yourselves very lucky indeed. Very few place in the country have this many courses/variety within such close proximity. Too bad you're covered in ice and snow half the year!
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Spiky
Experience: 35.8 years 109 played 9 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Nice for parents 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 3, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Some enjoyable holes, a couple long enough to make a 3 a decent score for most. Wind at your back on the middle third can play tricks on you just when you want to air it out for a 450' hole, it's usually steady. (yes, I'm calling wind a pro)

Very nice practice basket with concrete distance markers.

Good concrete tees on all holes.

Cons:

Nothing special here. Trees are too few to affect much. Straight shots, mostly. No tournaments are coming here. No real elevation change, you do throw down a hill once.

The last hole plays right into a bench that always seems to have someone sitting on it, and walkways. I'm just waiting to overthrow a drive and take grandma's head clean off.

#1 looks like it is set up to be a dogleg mando to the right following a row of bushes/small trees, but there are no signs, so you can just throw straight across the angle. Maybe just call it a mando to make it more interesting.

Other Thoughts:

Nice park, now that they finally finished remodelling the whole thing. The 9 holes circle around the playground, so you can drop kids of many ages and still watch them while you play. Nice playground that kids seem to love. Good for parents that want to play a round without hassle.
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mstephens627
Experience: 14.8 years 23 played 9 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Good place to learn 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 13, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Practice basket near parking lot with marked incremental distances

Well maintained course includes wood chip greens and regularly mowed fairways

Course flows clockwise

Many open holes to let it rip and practice shots without worry of losing a disc

Concrete tee pads with marked hole # and distance (some are wearing off or illegible)

Aside from the predominantly flat course, there are a couple of more interesting holes. Hole 7 has one throwing around or over the crest of a hill toward a blind target and hole 8 shoots off the top of the hill. Hole 8 is labeled 400', but plays horizontally more like 310'.

Of the times I have played at Central it hasn't been too busy, but enough players to keep a steady flow.

Cons:

Hole 9 can be hazardous to children playing nearby as there is a bike path running parallel. The park building on the right is something to try and stay clear of as errant shots could hit someone by surprise if your disc wraps around the building on the fade.

Most holes are generally long and open with a scattering of mature trees, which can make the course uninteresting for those looking for more tight, wooded shots.

Other Thoughts:

On the whole Central has a good basic,beginner-friendly, well-kept course, and I would recommend stopping by if you are in the area.

If you happen to get your disc caught up in a tree use a rock from one of the parking lot drainage culverts by hole 2 to get it down.
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Daveman3000
Experience: 20 years 20 played 4 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 26, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

Clean course with no bugs, nice and open with some trees. love the sledhill hole. Was a longer course then I thought it would be.

Cons:

pretty easy course, no real changes from hole to hole. Really not all that much to complain about though.
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chad-o
Experience: 14.6 years 7 played 7 reviews
3.50 star(s)

good ol fun 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 24, 2010 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

long, mid and shorts are all present. Good for fun or for practice. They have a tee pad ontop of a sledinghill where its a nice throw down. They also have a putting basket that has blocks making distance from 2 - 40 ft away from basket it is very cool.

Cons:

kind of in a busy area in public park so you have kite flyers walkers, kids and bikers all who know the course is there but dont pay attention.

Other Thoughts:

good course easy to get three or more rounds in.
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smyith
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 22.5 years 211 played 68 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Great course to sneak in after work 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 30, 2009 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

- If you dont have much time to play and you want to squeeze in a quick 10.
- Good mix of shots for the limited space.
- Long (400+) and short holes
- A few holes play through mature trees.
- Nice large consistent cement tee pads
- Wind can be a factor
- A large playground for the other family members
- Other park goers seem to actually know whats going on and are courteous
- Nice tee signs
- Practice basket with distance from pin markings spiraling out.
- Very well maintained

Cons:

- Flat
- Gets old quick
- Alot of chucker population
- They have several events over the year and holes 7,8, & 9 are essentially unplayable. If you're not a local/townie you won't know about it.

Other Thoughts:

I lived close by for a short while and would come here to get field practice and putting practice.
Hole 10 is from the dirt patch by the baseball benches to the practice basket.

Favorite Hole #5 - A 398' shot underneath large mature trees. No real optimal line to the basket withot working the disc hard. Essentially there is 3 main lines to take for RHBH. 1 is a roller. 2 is straight shot with a hard hook to the basket. 3 is a gentle turnover shot. The basket is protected by a tree in front of it and some pines that act as backstop behind it.
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CReb
Experience: 14.8 years 6 played 5 reviews
3.50 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Aug 19, 2010 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Nice mach3's for baskets, well maintained, even in EARLY early spring, decent distance for most holes. Awesome target practice / putting green.
I love how maintained they keep it.
Friendly locals (being a townie helps)
Very little grafitti
Nice neighborhood
For me it is 2 blocks away, so location is a pro for me.
Love the tees with distances on them
Easy to see pin locations.

Cons:

Lack of signage actually on the course (despite easy to see pins and distances on tees people complain and ask where to throw.)
Lots and lots of kids, everywhere, particularly the last 3 holes (playing on the hill, playground, etc.) some of the "gangstas" will touch or throw discs, beware of this. If you see kids on the hill, throw and follow your disc quickly, I can't count how many times I have seen people pick up discs. One time the cops were called due to a confrontation over a touched disc, no one wants that.

Other Thoughts:

If you have your number on your disc and it is lost, you will get it back. I am 2 for 2 on having lost discs returned.
Love this course, I am there at least 3 days a week.
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deadbody
Experience: 20.1 years 152 played 66 reviews
2.50 star(s)

not a bad place 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 18, 2010 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Good 9 hole layout, wraps around the park, most holes are about 400 feet, well maintained, wood chips around all the baskets, cement tees and nice baskets, each tee give you the hold number and distance. Great little practice basket set up, with blocks buried to give you distances to work on putting, made for a great game after a round to just relax with a friend.

Cons:

Nothing really special, no major obstacles, there are trees, but not many, if you can throw a straight shot you're golden here as there is a straight path to all the holes. The teeboxes are aimed a bit off line on some of the holes, just feels a bit off that way.

Other Thoughts:

Good multiuse park, last time there had a lot of kids running around, was just completely redone within the last couple years, and the layout is nice, not a bad experience, and on a side of town that doesn't have much in the way of courses. Not worth a special trip, but if you are in the area it isn't a bad course to play.
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