Located in Erie, Colorado, about 30-45 minutes outside Denver, This open prairie course plays in some moderately tall grass, gentle elevation, and occasionally full irrigation creek.

This course is beautifully open, with the main challenges being the terrain and the distances. There are a few trees in the park, however they are only incorporated into the course by being placed next to some of the baskets. The one exception is hole 13, in which you must throw around a tree to get to the basket 175' away.

Spacing is very well thought out, as I could often see other holes and other players in the course, but never ran into any of them. I first got out there and thought "wow what a crowded day to play" and then never saw another group. I appreciate that kind of layout, because it makes you feel like part of a disc golf community but you're round isn't bothered.

This main attraction of this course is people who would like to work on their distance, and distance accuracy. There are only a few holes that push the 350-400+ range, but the challenge is hitting the circle while going uphill, downhill, a slope, and not landing in the nearby creek on a few holes. For players with big distance, there aren't that many challenges. For the average player (I think about 2/3rs of all players drive under 350', according to infinitedisc's surveys?) this is great. For the roughly 10% of players throwing over 400', a great chance to work on target practice from [your] medium distance.

For myself, the biggest con here is the lack of shot-shaping obstacles. The name of the game on this course is distance control and hitting your targeted landing zone. I would love a little more forced intentionality with having to hit an alley, avoid an obstacle, just something to zhuzh it up a little bit.

The actual biggest con might be the other side effect of very few trees- very little shade. Prepare to be in the sun for your entire round. Put on sunscreen, bring water if it's the summer.

The irrigation creek comes into play very quickly on a few holes, as many baskets are placed near it. However, the creek is empty a lot of the time, so sometimes it doesn't. But when it is, it can be 8ft across and 6ft deep in places. Not the biggest con, but the inconsistency of one of the courses main hazards (and a usually fair and attractive one) is a little frustrating.

Holes 14-16 are pretty identical, and 17 is not much different. After a long hot round, it seems kind of lazy designing to just give you three holes in a row that are nearly indistinguishable, when there is a definite way to avoid that situation.

I played this course when it first opened, before it was put on DGCR, and then again years later. I enjoyed both rounds, but honestly kind of forgot I had played it before. It was only my round partner, who played with me both times, reminded me that we had played it last time I was in Colorado. So, I didn't put "forgettable" on the list of cons, but it is what really keeps me from rating this course any higher. There wasn't anything which really stood out to me, good or bad. Nothing that makes me not want to play again, and nothing that I feel drawn to return to. While I have no regrets about playing this course, it is likely in another 4 years, I will not remember a single hole.

- Beautiful views almost the entire time. Highly recommend playing at dusk
- Fun challenge in topology, lots of ups and downs.
- Maps, baskets, tee boxes, directions, etc all in excellent shape

- Holes are all fairly similar except a few standouts. More trees would add a lot of interest to the various shots.
- Better paths/grass clearing is needed! Lots of tall grass right now.

It's worth playing this course if just for the views honestly.

- Clear maps and layout
- Nice concrete tees with hole maps
- Nice baskets and a practice basket
- Decent variety of holes and shots

- When we played, the grass was VERY tall (knee tall or more on some holes). Spent quite awhile looking for discs in the grass
- The irrigation ditch was pretty full and flowing. We lost one disk in it (or the grass around it, which was very tall).

Overall a nice course. If the grass had been shorter we would have had a much better time.

My three pros:

- Very nice rec level course with large concrete tees, very nice signs, discgolfpark baskets, a practice basket, large course map at the start, designated parking area and even an electronic sun-burn-o-meter that informed me I had 15 minutes before I'd get a sunburn. The course seemed pretty well established with visible walking trails between each hole.

- Nice mix of holes make good use of the park elevation change and brings water/ vegetation into play on most holes. The water i mention comes in the form of a long irrigation canal that runs through the course and can completely change experience should the ditch be dry or full. On my round it was full and swift and murky. This canal is within circle 1 of at least half the holes as the baskets are almost all placed as close to it as possible. Considering there are few trees to deal with the creek and fear of disc loss gives the course its primary challenge. If the ditch dries out - the challenge dries out with it.

- Quick and easy to follow, only one other person playing on the nice afternoon I stopped by. The walking paths around the park are out of the way and dont seem to interfere with the course.

My three cons:

- I have mixed feelings about the canal. With the canal the course plays like a 3.5, without the canal its more like a 2.5. While it added to the challenge and made the holes much more taxing, it seemed a bit overkill. I played pretty safely and still had a couple of close calls, someone playing aggressively would certainly struggle to stay away from the water. I learned quickly when I approached what I thought was a good drive on #1 to realize the canal just behind the basket that I could have easily reached with a bad skip. When the ditch dries out the fear of disc loss goes away and suddenly the aggressive play is not so scary.

- This course could use a set of long tees or longer basket positions. Many holes felt pretty short and the property is pretty huge.

- The holes get a bit repetitive towards the end with each hole a similar length with the creek just left of the basket. These holes all melted together in my mind.

I liked this course and was happy to have stopped by although the course is a bit of a drive from most nearby towns. I found the course very enjoyable although I might have felt different if I had lost a disc or two to the canal. Overall the course is very similar to the other courses in the Denver area with minimal trees to deal with and dry scrubby vegetation. This was the first course (or park) I had been to with a sunburn meter installed at parking area and a big sign at 'The Turn' to tell you fun facts about Eerie's Banana shortage.