Burnaby Mountain is a spectacular venue for a course. It's close by, only 15 minutes from Robert Burnaby.
You won't mind standing there waiting for your partners to throw with views like this:
or this:
Sat Apr 17th 2010 - a light rain kept the pedestrians away for the day. Over a dozen players showed up for 3 rounds of the 13 hole course. This was a scaled back version of the possible courses that can be set up. The Friday afternoon before the park was packed with sunbathers, families playing badminton and 3 hang gliders.
How it looked Friday afternoon, though there's only 1 hang glider in the picture:
This is a map of a natural objects course I've used:
The first hole tees from Lovers Lane of the rose garden (so you can check the view towards Port Moody)
with the target being a 20X30 ft mosaic
There's an over 200 meter downhill shot to a telephone pole.
When there's no pedestrians, a 340' shot from the "Edge of a Continent" bench near the Tancho crane eco-sculpture through the base of the sculpture pointing to our sister city, Kushiro, Japan