Pros:
The campus of Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, MI is home to nine holes of disc golf.
This is a recreational level course, but I thought there were a nice mix of fairways here. #2 is a fun 285' hole playing near the college's small clock tower, through a field dotted with a few trees. #3 is a 163' ace run with only a power line pole in the way. #5 is a tightly wooded 154' fairway that requires a touch of anhyzer for RHBH throwers to reach the basket. #7 is a 332' throw that starts in a wide open field, but the basket is tucked into a wooded area to the left. This idea of tucking the baskets into tighter wooded areas is also used on several other holes, adding to the overall challenge of the course.
The tee pads are concrete. They appeared to be of varying age, but all in fine shape. Similarly, the baskets are mostly older DGAs but they still caught fine. The exception is #7's basket which was a new-looking red banded DISCatcher.
Cons:
This course plays around campus buildings and near/across walking paths, so there are a lot of potential safety hazards. There are some areas where people could even be sitting on benches in areas that are blind but in play off the tee (hole 2 near the clock tower comes to mind). Be sure to look for pedestrians before throwing, walking up when needed.
Navigation is very difficult here. There aren't any navigational aids, and as others have mentioned the course does not flow well. The walk from hole 2 to 3 is huge, and 3 to 4 is pretty lengthy as well (the course does at least loop back to hole 1 at the end). You'll need the course map uploaded here, or UDisc to navigate. If you use the map here, note that hole #3 has moved even further away from #2. It now plays on the opposite/east side of College Drive, off of the edge of the cropped map area past the "Pine" parking lot.
There are no tee signs, so you have to just locate the concrete pads on the ground (good luck if trying to bag this one in the winter!)
The course is short (only one hole is over 300'), more or less flat, and has no water hazards.
No extras are present (trash cans, kiosk, practice basket, porta potty, free lunch, etc.). I did see several different signs making it very clear that everyone is welcome at NMC, so maybe you would be able to stop into one of the buildings and use the bathroom if needed!
Other Thoughts:
To start at Hole #1, the best place to park is the "Chestnut" lot in front of East Hall. You need a parking permit to park in any of the college's parking lots before 6 PM on weekdays. Since that is also when the walking paths are most likely to be in use, I'd recommend only visiting this one on evenings after 6 PM or weekends.
I grew up in Traverse City and I think this was actually one of the first courses I ever played. I say "I think" because I only have vague memories of visiting back in the early 2010s or so, and I definitely was not tracking my rounds then. Today, I can say that this isn't anywhere close to even the best 9-holers that I have played - but even with all the walking between holes, it's still a fairly quick stop. Don't skip out on Hickory Hills to play here - but if it's a Saturday or Sunday or late in the evening and you have 30 minutes to kill, pull up your layout map and go for it.