Edora Park

On a beautiful fall day we headed hear to play their disc golf course. They could use a better map at the start line. We took a photo of it with our phone and other players helped guide us.
It was a good tough course. I’m sure it’s nicer in the spring and summer.

Great park with variety for each hole. Water features included. Though a lot of walking is included… it was a great day for the Shamrocked tournament and thankfully the winds didn’t kick in til the last few holes for our group.

Edora Park is definitely one of the more quirky parks of Fort Collins. Sometimes there are a bunch of really odd characters hanging around in and around it. Like they may have come from the nearby detention center. That is besides the point too. There are also great quirks to it too. Like seeing that all Latino baseball team playing out in the field. Men really ARE great in uniform! Sometimes I wish my birthday (which is today, February 19^th) would be in the summer so I can treat myself to this kind of visual gift. Heck I do it anyway. It is ok to look as long as you don’t touch-​mutal agreement I have reached with my partner. He was looking too! The Spring Creek Bike Trail goes through this park as well. Definitely a nice little stop to make while biking through… or a nice detour… or distraction that is from your bike ride! Ahem!

It’s a great course with varied terrain. Water can come into play on five of the 18 holes. Other holes vary from being long drive holes to skilled holes with obstacles. There are elevation changes that come in to play on some of the holes.
The only concern that I have about this place is that it can get to be a little crowded in evenings and on weekends. During that time its best just to take it easy and pair up with group of people playing.

So this was mine and my girlfriend’s first experience at the famous Edora Park Disc Golf Course. Simply put, we were super excited to give it a whip.
The first site of the course is heaven for disc golf. Numerous chained baskets in open grass meadows. How could it be bad.
Whelp it was bad. The mass hoards of people make Johnny Roberts Memorial Disc Golf Course (normally the heaviest volume course on an average day in Denver Area) look desolate. Having been in tournaments and simply super heavy traffic days in the past I didn’t let it get to me. What I did was the outright rude and often dangerous behavior of my fellow golfers. I mean I almost was scalped because the guys behind us just thought they could throw whenever met their fancy. GGGRRR. We had a talk… that’s for sure.
Having only gotten to play 14 of the 18 holes due to traffic jams and people throwing the disc maybe 10 – 15 feet at a time, I wasn’t very pleased with this course.
I will have to make a trip again to give it a second chance, but from what I’ve seen so far this isn’t a friendly course.
PS Disc Golf is supposed to be a friendly, at-​leisure sport.