My husband and I stopped at Nicholas Sheran Park to play a round of disc golf on a recent stopover in Lethbridge. This park is beautiful, with extensive trails, a large water feature in the middle, and clean modern public washrooms. There are also multiple playground areas that looked fairly new, and had many kids enjoying playing on them. The park is located in the west end of the city and was very easy to find with Google directions.
The reviews of the disc golf course here were really good online, but we were pretty disappointed with the set up. The city provides maps online (which is better than most other cities), but once we were on the ground, we found the maps weren't to scale. The signs for the start of the hole were very far from the tees, up to 30-40 feet in some cases. Each hole has three start tees, marked with colored plastic discs in the grass. Some of these discs were missing and were so far from the hole markers that we spent forever wandering around trying to find them. Without cement pads we were really just guessing. The holes are very long, which is great if you're working on your throwing game, but because we could never find the tee, we often had to find the basket and work backwards. Also, and this is a small quibble, the baskets were painted green, which made spotting them in the grass and trees more difficult (perhaps this was intentional to minimize visual disruptions from other places in the park). The first 10 holes are lined up pretty good, but then for some reason it's a 10 minute hike to hole 11, across the park, and at this point we gave up and stopped playing. It would have been nicer if the tees were planned closer to the ends of the previous holes.
Overall if I lived in Lethbridge I would 100% use this park for other recreation, but without a local to help us walk through the tee locations, it was frustrating and tiring to try and play through. read more