Granite Ridge is one of the five courses on site at Highbridge Hills in northern Wisconsin.

This was the third HH course I played (after Woodland Greens and Blueberry Hill), and the great course design was starting to become a common theme. This course has a nice mix of wooded and open holes, and several with multiple apparent lines to the basket. Overall I believe this course is a little more open than Blueberry Hill, but every hole still has at least a few obstacles between tee and basket and there are still plenty of tighter, fairly technical fairways.

The layout as a whole plays down a large hillside and then back up. The elevation changes are utilized well throughout. Water hazards are also sprinkled in around the course. There is a large pond behind hole 6's basket, and on the left side of hole 7's fairway. Several other holes had areas that were pretty much dried up when I visited in late September, but likely are wet at other times of year.

A couple of holes that stood out to me:
- Hole 6 is a downhill dogleg right in the woods, with the pond behind the basket as mentioned. Pretty hole.
- Hole 13 plays across what is likely 2 creeks in the spring, although again they were dried up when I visited.

There are two baskets per hole, all in good shape. The short baskets are DGAs, and the longs are red Chainstar Pros with a sponsor band (Northern Lights DG).

The main tee pads for each hole are concrete. They were definitely on the older side, but still in fine shape. Some holes also had short tee pads, and these were a mix of concrete and rubber. I don't think the short pads were there on every hole, although it's possible I missed some of them. I only had time to play one round, and played from the main tees to the short DGA baskets. This layout was plenty challenging for me, and the main tee to long basket layout is probably enough to keep any level of disc golfer interested. Regardless of layout, this course plays longer than the adjacent Blueberry Hill.

Trash cans and benches are located near some of the tees.

The tee signs at the main tees are just tiny blue posts with a hole number. The short tees that I saw had a tiny white post with the hole number. A few tees also had signs from an old layout, but these were barely legible. I used the map several times to figure out which way fairways turned - but even the map seemed misleading on a couple of occasions. Hopefully nice tee signs are a planned future improvement!

A complete set of concrete pads (two per hole) would be another great upgrade, as then this course would have four playable layouts of varying difficulty just like the Blueberry Hill course.

Navigational signage is nailed to trees in some places, but overall this course is a little more difficult to navigate than Blueberry Hill. More arrows would be nice.

The following notes apply to all HH courses:
- Large dirt parking lot at the top of a hill, which itself offers views better than you'd find on most courses.
- Multiple porta potties.
- Multiple practice baskets scattered around.
- Kiosk info at pay station including large map of all 5 courses.
- Signage says pro shop and food are sometimes available, but I got the vibe those were holdovers from previous ownership. Maybe they are open for special events.
- Onsite camping available.
- Pay to play: $20/day or $10/round or other options that I won't go into here (check course website for latest info). Can pay with cash, check, or Venmo. Signage at the entrance to the course says to display a receipt on your car but you don't get a receipt from the pay station - this was a bit confusing. I paid via Venmo, had fine cell phone service throughout the complex, and was one of the only people there throughout my visit so I figured I would be contacted if there were any issues.

This course is a great complement to the Blueberry Hill course. It has similar elevation challenges and great views, but is longer and a little more open.

Similar to what I said in my Blueberry review, this is an amazing course that UP Mountain Man and others are doing incredible work to maintain - but I feel that at ~4.55 average, it is overrated in its current 2022 state. Besides the baskets, the course infrastructure here is just not at the level of a very top tier course. I think this one also sits near 4.25 level today (where I said Blueberry is), but I'm rounding down this time due to slightly worse course infrastructure and my belief that not every hole here had a second short tee. It could absolutely be a top tier course again in the future if it is dialed in a little more.

In the meantime, I still highly recommend a trip to HH - and if you have a bigger arm, Granite Ridge just might be your favorite course on site!

This is another of the excellent courses on the Highbridge grounds. Granite ridge offers a more wooded section at the beginning with it opening up more in the middle to end. There are large, level and grippy tee pads on all holes. All holes have a solid map with a basic hole layout, hole #, various pin locations and distances and pars for the various pin locations. These serve their purpose just fine. Once again like all the courses at Highbridge, they use the available land in about the best way possible. There are drastic elevation changes here as well. There are numerous uphill and downhill bombs to be had here. The baskets are all standard mach 3's that are in good condition and catch very nicely. There's a very drastic variation in distances here. The shortest is 245 feet on hole 13 all the way up to a possible 805 feet on hole 3 with a great mix in between. There are also water hazards on 4 of the 18 holes here. Again a great job using the available land. There are also multiple pin locations on almost all the holes, with most offering very different looking shots. Like all the other Highbridge courses you're going to need every type of shot here. All the holes have a fair line to the pin. With that being said though, you'll have to deal with the wind on most of the holes. This is probably the biggest challenge on this course. That or the distance. Or the elevation. Basically just an all around tough course. The course starts to the north of the pro shop near the woodland greens course. Navigation is pretty easy. They offer scorecards with a good map on the back of them in the pro shop. You won't need it for the most part but it wouldn't hurt to grab one just in case. One confusing area is at the top of the hill by holes 9, 12 and 15 I believe. But with a little bit of walking around you'll sort it out. Another thing to remember is to bring plenty of fluids to drink. You'll need them playing this and/or any of the other courses on site. They have many homemade benches and trash cans located throughout the course too which you'll most likely need at some point. Another cool little touch is that they have the Blueridge and granberry courses. These basically just kind of combine different sections of Granite Ridge and Blueberry Hill to make a different way to play the two. Just another nice little touch by John, the super awesome, friendly owner of Highbridge. Also along with the Gold course you can rent golf carts to use on the course. Just another nice Highbridge touch.

The bugs can get pretty bad on this or any of the Highbridge courses. This isn't really a con but you'll definitely want to bring bug spray as you would any other course in northern Wisconsin. Other than that I don't have much else.

This is just one of the 6 up and running courses at the Beautiful Highbridge Hills sports complex. I highly recommend visiting here for any serious disc golfers out there. Theres a reason these courses are rated among the best. That's because they are.

Elevation and length. You can let it rip, really rip here because you have both the distance, elevation, and wide open spaces on this course. This one uses the wide open former golf course the most of all HHSC courses. So, get out your super S-curve hyzer flip discs and bombs away. The elevation is used in a great way here, especially when you hike back up to the same mound to tee from a common area on multiple occasions.

Not as many woods. Granite is more open than Blueberry and Gold. And it is vastly more open than Bear or Woodland. The long former golf holes along the road are pretty lackluster and boring in my mind. Water is minimal here and not as well used as Blueberry or Gold.

The only thing this course lacks in is comparison to its companion courses. Blueberry and Gold (and hopefully soon an 18 hole Bear) just offer more wooded holes, so by my preference, Granite is slightly too open compared to the others. It does have a few nicely designed wooded holes, some huge distance, and great elevation, probably the most at Highbridge (and most seem to play downhill even though you start and end at the top!). I willrate this a 4 in comparison to the other courses, but in it's own right it is also a 5. I just don't like it as much as the other 5s. The entire HHSC experince, playing all courses multiple times, camping onsite, and amazing terrain/land is what makes this a 5 disc destination.

This course along with parts of the other courses were originally going to be ball golf courses. Therefore you have a beautiful open layout with some great landscaping. Long sloping holes make for some long par putts. Well maintained as are all the courses here at Highbridge thanks to John. This course takes you to some amazing views of the hilly country side.

I can't say anything negative about any of these courses here.

This place deserves attention. You must plan to spend at least two full days here to take in all this beauty. Wonderful