Great Shopping and expensive apartments, if you're into that. Not much else to say in this field.

After much development between 2019-2021, most of this is now the extended outdoor Arsenal Mall, and a set of high-rent apartment buildings.

The only baskets I could find were wedged in between buildings and parking garages, and a busy four-lane surface road (N. Beacon St.), which boasts a precipitous slope ending in a 10-foot tall iron fence, protecting you from retrieving your mis-thrown disc. Pine needles abound.

Seconding the review saying it's good for close-range practice but not much else. I tried long-range practice on an adjacent 100x100-yard square of empty lawn next to a parking garage, and got a disc stuck 40 feet up in a pine tree. (I lost a second disc trying to retrieve the first. Thankfully a local resident called me a few days later, once a storm had blown them back onto the field.)

Come to think of it, I didn't even see any tee pads! I did find four very legit baskets, and none of them were playable because you'd be likely to break a windshield or whack a pedestrian. It was only laughable because I live so close by and never knew there was a course there in the first place.

I would love to see this course revived someplace else but closeby. As it is now, it's historical in nature. Maybe archaeologists will find the missing baskets thousands of years from now.

~ Good for 100-footer and putting practice if you live nearby.
~ The baskets are legit.
~ Free to play, tons of parking.

~ Not a course, just 5 random baskets.
~ One basket is surrounded by industrial debris
~ One basket is next to a steep slope that rolls down to a highway.
~ One basket has a nice clear 200-foot field... but there's also a preschool playground that you can easily go into. Better make sure it's empty.

It's just 5 random baskets where there really shouldn't be any. "Course" is a very generous term here. If you live within a mile or two and you're bored it can be worth coming just to practice. But please leave the drivers at home and realize that if there's any people around you should really just stick to putting practice.

-Close to Boston
-You could use some of the baskets for putting practice, but watch out for the walking paths nearby
-Fairly creative use of space, based on the pictures of what it used to look like posted on this website

-All the tees are gone, so you just kind of have to guess
-Holes 1, 4, and 9 have no basket
-Holes 2 and 6, which could loosely be described as playable, use the same basket surrounded by industrial waste
-Hole 3 has a tree directly in the way
-Hole 5 plays around a playground, which should be needless to say

The "course" is pretty much just a couple of baskets they forget to remove when taking away the other 3, and especially dangerous if there's any foot traffic nearby or if there are children in the playground

Arsenal is the only opportunity for discing within walking distance of the Cambridge area. It's also easily enough accessible from a larger portion of the city via a combination of public transit and walking.

The area seems very well kept; grass was cut and there was little threat of schule. The baskets were in good shape. There are enough trees and even a bit of elevation to create some adequate safari holes.

Regardless of what this course used to be, it's hard to consider it presently as such. There are no tee signs or apparent tee boxes, and only five baskets remain from what I could see. Two of these are ~40 feet apart, one sits at a very awkward junction between a walking path, some hedgerows, and a parking lot, and two sit along a hillside that is only one griplock or rookie mistake away from a major road. Pedestrian traffic seems common, and a children's playground forms a major obstacle near the closely-situated pair of baskets. It was unused the day I was there, but in times of use it rules out playing 2/5 of the remaining baskets for anyone with even a flicker of good sense.

The feel of the course is as though the ample buildings and parking lots around it sprung up subsequent to its creation, eliminating holes and making still-present baskets basically obsolete. From prior reviews it seems as though the course was built around such structures from the get-go; this layout was done in such a way so as to eliminate even casual play and conflict with parking and pedestrians. With several baskets removed and any signs of a formal layout gone, the course doesn't feel like one at all. In a just world the remaining baskets would find a better home within the area, where they could be put to use.

A 0 rating seems harsh, but this course feels so far below even the 0.5s I've given out that I feel justified. It's not a course. You can practice putting and throw around a bit, but that tires quickly given the constraints of what's available. It's nice to be able to bag a course in the Boston area, but that's the extent of what you'll get here.

Close to Boston
High quality baskets
Plenty of parking
Free

Dangerous!!
No signs/pads
Only 5 baskets
Multi Use space on a corporate campus
Many holes play on top of each other

I played this course the first week it went in back in 2014, and it has declined even since. At the start, it would have been rated ~1.5 and now I give it .5

As others have said, this course is very poorly designed for DG. What it is though, is a great pitch and putt safari practice area. For everything but drivers, you can test the majority of your game while reducing the risk. I don't "play" this course anymore, but I do practice here as you can make up plenty of short looks that don't risk damage.

See my course conditions for more info.

By far the closest course to Boston
Nice baskets (DGA Mach V)
Pretty signs

Dangerous, ill-considered, amateurish layout. A poor representation of the sport.
Holes 1-2 are the best holes on the course but have an inexplicably long walk between holes.
Holes 3-4 play towards and then over a heavily used playground. Didn't even take a disc out of my bag.
Holes 5-6 play towards buildings and parked cars less than 15 feet from the basket or fairways. Didn't try playing.
Holes 7-8 play towards and then alongside a busy two lane state highway with limited pedestrian access. Again, no way I was going to throw.
Hole 9 was buried under a two story pile of snow (not a typo) and was unplayable when I visited.

This course is a tragedy waiting to happen. Its run by an HMO but obviously zero thought was put into basic insurance liability concerns. Its possible that playing with an ultimate lid could be doable but throwing any weighted golf discs (even without a beveled edge) would be reckless endangerment.

This is now the closest course to Boston.

The baskets are legit, double-chained.

That's about it for the pros.

The course is not safe. I can deal with walking paths intersecting with fairways; that happens. But when you have two holes playing next to a daycare outdoor play area, that's not smart. The "mando" sign isn't going to keep a newbie from griplocking a drive into the playground. In fact, one of those holes (5?) appears to have been removed or stolen. Then there are the holes playing next to North Beacon St. Those moving cars are not a problem as long as you can throw with no turnover or fade. So yeah. If moving cars aren't your kind of target, don't worry. There are several holes next to parking lots to give you stationary objects as well. And then there are the buildings several feet from baskets and fairways.

The tee signs don't always help you figure out which way the fairway is going. This shouldn't be hard when the holes are typically under 300 feet (or 100 yards, as they signs say). The fairways play back on each other, so if there were more than a few people playing, you'd be throwing at each other.

There are no tee pads.

I felt really uncomfortable throwing a lot of these holes, particularly around the daycare. I urge the designers to rethink this course. I'm dying to have more courses within the 128 loop, but this isn't the way to do it. There is a wooded area behind hole 3 that might be suited for some good holes. It's more fun to avoid trees than kids, cars, and windows.

- Only course within 40 minutes drive of Boston!!
- High quality signs
- New baskets
- Parking availability
- Well maintained fairways

- Short, most holes <200 ft.
- Hazards include in-use parking lots, buildings, and a playground
- No tee-pads
- Signs do little to indicate direction of play
- For a short course, possibly tough on beginners (errant throw could strike a pedestrian, a child on the playground, or fly onto N. Beacon st.)

This course is really a 1.5 (passable) but gains an extra half star for being so close to Boston.