The Tailings

I love challenge, risk, and possibility for extreme disc golf - and this course is it. Sure, you'll encounter some bad rough, unforgiving areas off fairway, and generally rough edges - but that's what you get when you play a course up and down and around a STEEP ridge (the east edge course property line), full of old mining ponds and tailings piles, which slopes down to the beautiful Iron River (the west edge property line). The course design was meant to severely challenge a Blue level player ...
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I love challenge, risk, and possibility for extreme disc golf - and this course is it. Sure, you'll encounter some bad rough, unforgiving areas off fairway, and generally rough edges - but that's what you get when you play a course up and down and around a STEEP ridge (the east edge course property line), full of old mining ponds and tailings piles, which slopes down to the beautiful Iron River (the west edge property line). The course design was meant to severely challenge a Blue level player, and that it does. Essentially it is still a par 3 course, but this will push you to your limits in the fact that it challenges your accuracy and finesse just as much as power. My gripe is that the short tees are still not complete, because something easier is needed in a small community, newcomers will be horribly turned off after playing the Blue (long) tee beatdown. General maintenance is a bit tough with a small crew and rough terrain - spring and fall are the best times to play when grasses and brush are down.
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Pros: This course is scenic, fun, a challenge, has unique holes that will test your long and short game and you will want to play the course again. The map was good and any sign I looked at was good. Lots of elevation on this course! Cons: Rubber tee pads that are sometimes too short or more like if you overstep you will have a very bad time... for the rest of your life... There is lots of water, the river and quarry come into play on many holes, gl finding your disc. Some of the rough re ...
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Pros: This course is scenic, fun, a challenge, has unique holes that will test your long and short game and you will want to play the course again.

The map was good and any sign I looked at was good. Lots of elevation on this course!

Cons: Rubber tee pads that are sometimes too short or more like if you overstep you will have a very bad time... for the rest of your life... There is lots of water, the river and quarry come into play on many holes, gl finding your disc. Some of the rough requires climbing up and down steep slopes to get your disc, if you are prone to throwing in the rough then its going to be a painful round.

Other thoughts:
Playing doubles made the round more fun since it was my first time and I had a good deal of rough shots. A lot of the holes offer blind shots which I think are a lot of fun but also throw off disc selection and aim. Playing a course for the first time is usually more fun playing doubles or cali.

Make sure you get the course map. There is something similar to an RV park that has a Office and they had scorecards there with maps on them (yay maps!)

GOOD GOD THROW A BIG HEIZER ON 13!@!!

I know its tempting to try and park it, but that will get you in or past the river :(.

I guess highbridge or some other good courses in Wisconsin are nearby. Other than that, as I am from Michigan there is no other discgolf near this course, not until you get to the Mackinaw bridge 4½ hours away. Its a good 9 hours from Lansing.

This course is probably unplayable / under snow / your going to lose every disc you throw during a good portion of the winter months.

I'm not sure if I should con the rubber pads. It would be extremely hard for them to get all cement pads on this course. Although, the few short pads I chanced to step on were a joke. The Long pads were much better.
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