Frisbee Golf at Edora Park

The Skinny:

Just off of Prospect Rd. and Riverside Ave. is Fort Collins' Edora Park. This cornicopia of activities has everything from tennis courts, baseball fields and horseshoe pits to a full concrete skatepark with an empty swimming pool as well as ice-skating, a real swimming pool, and the very feature of this entry - Frisbee Golf! The full 18 hole frisbee golf course at Edora Park gives any avid frolfer plenty of places to hone their skills while also creating a great enviroment for beginners to come out and try a new sport.

That's What's Up:

Every hole at Edora Park is marked with a wooden post and a concrete slab from which to throw your disc(pictured above). On some, though not all wooden posts, is a map which will have several different distances where the target is located. This gives you an idea where to look for the target since the park staff at Edora switches around the targets somewhat frequently and it also keeps the course fresh so you can do something different everytime you go. The distance to the target on each hole varies anywhere from under 100 feet to as much as 400 feet on some of the longest ones. There are no pars marked on any holes, so just do your best and try to beat that score from then on. You can get Frisbee Golf discs at most outdoor sporting goods store in Fort Collins like REI or the Wright Life. They range in price from as little as $3 for a used disc at the Wright Life to $25 for a new disc. If you wanna be the next Tiger Woods of Frisbee Golf, you can also get all different types of discs like putters, drivers and mid-range discs to help improve your game.

Directions:

To get there, head South from campus and turn onto Prospect Rd. heading East. Go about a mile and a half until you come to a light at Riverside Ave. Turn right and take your second right into the parking lot off of Riverside. The first hole is going to be in the field by the building on the right side of the parking lot. You can get directions for the course at the Edora Park website at http://fcgov.com/parks/disc-golf-map.php

Make sure when playing that you are courteous and respectful to the frolfers ahead of you. Play fair and as always Have Fun!