-Meadow Ridge is the longest and most challenging of the three tracks at Horning's Hideout. The course traverses two meadows, thick woods, and steep hillsides. It is a serene setting with amazing views, huge trees, and the sounds of nature and chains.

-Each hole has two baskets. A traditional Horning's basket is typically in a reasonable position but still demands an excellent shot. Playing the Discatcher baskets makes this a true Pro-level course, adding 80-100 feet onto most holes.

-The course design is relentless. Baskets are perched on steep hillsides and adjacent to large trees. The course is also extremely hilly and the majority of holes play blind. You mustn't let your guard down. Most every hole on the course can hit you up for a double bogey before you know it.

-Huge concrete tee pads, trash cans, and portable restrooms keep the course clean and safe.

-Excellent John Houck tee signs are large and colorful. Many of the signs suggest multiple routes, but often there is only one reasonable route.

-Best holes
Hole 12 is a gorgeous downhill woods hyzer shot, approximately 400 feet, with the basket in a dangerous position on the left side hill.
Hole 14 is a phenomenal par 4 with a long, downhill drive to a field followed by a hyzer to a basket on the hillside. This is one of the only holes that feels like a "must birdie" on the long basket.
Hole 16 is the longest hole on the course at 930 feet with a mandatory and 120 degree turn at approximately 750' before finishing downhill in a beautiful green in a wooded canyon. The mandatory is borderline silly, but I like this hole as it requires 3 well-executed yet doable shots.

-In my opinion, holes 4-9 are not the best and brightest part of the course. They play through the back woods section and need some clean up of blackberries and other thick bushes. Hole 6 especially is absurdly uphill, with a grade of +53 feet over 280 feet of distance. Hole 7 is also very challenging, a 430 feet right-to-left turning hole through tight woods with heavy rough and steep hillsides on the right and behind the basket. A par 3 on this hole is very hard earned and a 4 is certainly nothing to hang your head about.

-I was underwhelmed by Hole #8, the course's signature hole, a 400 foot sharply downhill woods tunnel shot. It certainly is thrilling to pure the line on this hole, but connect with an early tree and you will be searching for your disc in thick rough on an extremely steep hillside.

-The short basket is visible from the tee on only 6-7 holes, and the long basket on only 3-4 holes. A property so hilly and idiosyncratic is naturally not going to lend itself to a straightforward course, but several holes here could be much improved by moving the basket 30 or 40 feet into view.

-A par 3 in which a fantastic drive reaches 30 or so feet from the basket is a good Pro-level hole in my opinion. A hole in which the best possible drive is 50-60 feet away, however, is not reasonable and a handful of holes fit this description on the course. It's frustrating when the short basket is a quality hole but the long one must be played drive, chip, putt.

-This is such a magnificent property, but I was less than blown away by the layout. So many of the holes could be improved with small adjustments: moving a basket, removing a tree, thinning a problematic patch of rough, etc.

-$5 per person day-use fee. Quite a bargain, for the quality of the golf on private property.

-It's hard to emphasize the sheer difficulty of this course. It's like Shinnecock Hills in ball golf. It doesn't look too bad in photos, but the course is likely to hit you up for a high score. It's not a place for beginners, older players, young kids, or anyone out of shape. I'd estimate a score of Even par would be rated approximately 985 (on the long baskets). Fortunately, there are two much friendlier courses on-site.

Very well laid out, lots of challenging holes. Being a pro course, they had to have a par 5 on it. Hole 16 delivers. 930 ft!
This course has a lot of really scenic views and is a real blast to play.

This course is really hard to find when walking in from the parking area. I was told, "Go down behind the bathrooms and walk up the road a little bit." Turns out, that's not enough info to find it. I wandered around the fish pond and met a fellow who was working the turf for erosion control, and he got me to where I need to be. Turns out it was Bob Horning, who is a really nice guy. They need to put some signs up showing how to get to this course.

If you are planning to play 54 holes at this group of courses, play this course second and finish with the Canyon. This course is a solid hike and will wear you out a little.

This is a tough course but it is well designed. There is a way (or two) to get to the basket from every tee, but not an easy way.

There's a lot of variation. All of the holes are interesting and require a little thinking.

Tee pads, signs, baskets are all excellent. I actually like these baskets better than any others I've played both because the yellow stands out and for the nice bell sound they can make.

Roll aways! The hills are so steep putters will roll to the bottom of them if you overshoot the basket and a lot of the baskets are in front of steep downhills. On a hot or wet day chasing a disc down a hill then playing back up gets old fast.

Hole #6. I'm really not a fan of throwing up steep hills, but it's part of the game.

This is among the must play courses in Oregon.

With nice onsite camping and 3 x 18 courses Horning's is not to be missed.

The wonderful aspects of this course has to do with the variety of the holes along with the challenges that comes with it.

You truly will want to dig deep in your disc golf bag for discs that may work best for a particular shot you are facing. Unlike many courses you may have played at, many of the shots you will have to make will force you to use different throwing techniques, different standing positions (or kneeling for that matter), and you will also have to think a bit more about your strategies.

The navigation from hole to the next hole was sketchy on few occasions, but it's nothing to seriously gripe about.

I found some of the paths I was required to walk to between holes somewhat tedious. You'll need to be careful about walking downhill on some of the steep hills. (such as on hole #8!) I imagine when it's dry and dusty, erosion will be an issue because many of those paths (downhill or uphills) would benefit from having some homemade "stairs" (for lack of better word) being built.

I think it would be very beneficial if the course had additional shorter tee pads for each hole to make the course a bit easier for some people who wanted to experience Meadow Ridge but did not have the arms to throw far. (especially on the 16th hole!)

I found this course to be an very interesting experience, as I don't think I ever remember playing at a course that had so many elevation changes.

While I am not a seasoned pro, I have enough experience that I can enjoy this course. I just find this course a bit too tough to enjoy if I had brought friends who may not be serious disc golfers.

I would want to play at some other classic courses before even considering giving this course a score higher than 4. Based on my own playing experiences, I would rate this to be excellent, because it's truly an original course with abundant challenges for the best players while still enjoyable for people like myself.

Elevation, Great Tee Pads, Great signage, Utilizes all your throws; Tough baskets (and unique) you better hit those chains; must be accurate or you will pay.

Need a spotter on several holes which can be tough when you all want to stay at the tee; Basket areas on many holes positioned on the edges of drop-offs which force you to play short of baskets.

This was my first time out to this course and you can not help but smile the entire way around! Best to play with someone who has played before (none of us had) and that makes it very difficult to select drivers and know where to aim and or how much to rip it or place your throws. On several holes, i threw way too far on blind doglegs, thinking "if I would have know I would have never thrown like that" But, next time, wow, it is going to be great!!!

This is one of my most favorite courses. Extraordinarily challenging, many wooded holes, many blind holes, lots of area, lots of difficult terrain makes this more of a serious woodland hike than a simple disc golf session. 18 holes, one of which is 925 ft from tee to pin, makes it a nice, long course. Good signage and concrete tees on every hole.

The pars ratings on some of the holes are a bit ridiculous. The trees can be a bit frustrating when you're chopping them down with your disc on every single drive. It's a bit of a drive to get out there, but worth it.

Love this course! I love to head out to Horning's and play a round on the Canyon course to warm up, and then switch up to Meadow Ridge. By the end of the day, I've gotten one hell of a workout in. Makes for a good fun way to do cardio.