If you like fun and easy-going exercise, but have yet to find your niche, then you should check out the disc golf course at the Estacada Timber Park.
If you’ve never played disc golf, it works like this: First you start on a kind of cement pad, which is where you “drive” the disc from. Now, a drive in disc golf is just like a drive in regular gold, except at Timber Park, you’re going to be expertly weaving your disc in and out of trees and gaps.
The objective of each hold is to eventually float your disc into the round basket in the least number of throws. Unlike golf though, you don’t have the carts to do the actual exercise for you, so at Timber Park, by the time you’re done, you’ve walked about 5,500 feet, depending on how many throws you toss at each hole.
The course’s terrain consists of small hills that provide a low impact muscle-building workout great for all types. You also get the pleasant Oregon scenery, including huge fir trees and large shrubs decorating the course that overlooks the historic PGE dam built in the early 20th century.
The course also offers bathroom facilities and a water faucet for those hot days. All for the very low price of free.
