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Bag-Tag matches held every Thursday evenings @ 5:15, `Smack Talk' Fridays: early round @3:00 regular round @ 5:00, & Saturday's @ 10am with a 2nd round following if there is interest. Women-only rounds played Wednesday evenings @ 530pm.
August 7 - Junior Jam(am)/Ace Race(pm)
Kallans' Memorial - 2nd/3rd weekend in Oct
5 Feb 2011 - Crawdad Chiller IV 'Ice Bowl'
16/17 July 2011 - Crawdad Cooker IV - PDGA B tier event
6 Aug 2011 - Jr Jam (am)/Ace Race (pm)
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This site was set up to support Disc Golf in the greater Harrisburg, PA, area. The Creekside Disc Golf Course is located in East Pennsboro Township, off Erford Road at Ridley Park. It has the distinction of being the 1st Disc Golf Course in Cumberland County registered with the Professional Disc Golf Association. While it is the home course of the Creekside Crawdads, anyone can play there; in fact, many people do enjoy disc golfing at Creekside.
The course is a narrow and tight, emphasizing controlled throws. There are 18 DisCatcher Pro baskets with concrete tees. Each tee area has hand-painted signage for suggested flight path, distance to basket, and par. 13 of the holes have multiple pin positions; 6 holes(4,6, 8, 9, 10, & 18) have longer tee positions, as well. There are also shortened tees (natural turf with a kick-board) for the smaller arms & serve as our tees for the one-&-done Ace Race held annually in August.
It is a great beginner and recreational course because of its openness yet there are enough obstacles to challenge more advanced players.
Beware the 'mighty' Conodoguinet Creek that is a natural boundary(OB). The backyards of the residents who live along the park offer the opposite boundary. A scorecard box is located on hole 1's tee signpost. There is a "recovered disc box" on the fence around hole 9's basket and every effort is made to return them to their owners(name with phone, email, etc. is very helpful to this end.)
The distances vary from 3629' from the Junior/Ace Race tees to 6142' in the long positions. A nice mix of shots for every throwing style can be either developed or practiced as is evidenced by hole 1 straight-on to Monster Alley's 'woodsy' feel, hyzer(7), anhyzer(13), roller(17), elevated tee(16), etc.
Ridley Park is on 16 acres along the Conodoguinet Creek. The amenities include an updated playground, a walking path, a pavilion w/ 3 charcoal grills, volleyball court, baseball field, & basketball court. All of which are included in the design of the course to be played away from so as to not interfere with non-throwers using the park.
