Other Thoughts:
A park nine with several wooded holes. It's got two tee positions, good DisCatcher baskets and a local following. But the park doesn't appear to do anything other than mow, and some of the holes have changed for the worse as trees and bushes have grown over the years.
The non-wooded holes (1-2, 6-9) play along narrow grass fairways that are fair. They require accuracy, but the punishment for being offline is pretty brutal: very thick and tall rough, lots of prickers, no clear lines to the basket. For a mild nine in a park, the penalty for missing your shot is pretty extreme
The wooded holes are a different story: 5 and 7 are very short (7 is almost a straight jump putt, and 5 is a crazy hard turning right dogleg down a steep slope - also a putter shot). Hole #6 is a gem: straight, almost 300' along a river bed with a creek crossing, and plenty of trees guarding the green. The only drawback is that the natural tees are in the old riverbed, and footing is very rocky (especially the White tee) - you can't run up, and have to throw 250' from a standstill
Tees have never been more than natural, with small markers embedded at ground level. Many are missing, but the signage is located at the back (Blue) position. Some of the signs are gone, leaving only the posts.
Holes 8 and 9 were always blind teeshots, but returning recently for the first time in more than three years, I was struck by how much less playable they've become due to growing trees and encroaching rough.
When I first played Chimney Rock in 2018 and 2019, it was fair, fun and a great place for "advanced beginners." Short, but more challenging than wide open parks like nearby Harry Dunham, a good stepping stone to longer, narrower and wooded courses. It still is - but the lack of park maintenance hurts. It looks to me like a situation where the park management just tolerates having a sport that it doesn't really understand (not uncommon in northern New Jersey).You can't blame the enthusiastic local supporters when the park won't help out