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Las Vegas, NV

Red Ridge

2.675(based on 29 reviews)
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wellsbranch250
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 10.3 years 658 played 637 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Flat And Vanilla, But With Fantastic Backdrop Views.

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Dec 12, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

(2.016 Rating) A lightly wooded park style nine with some good length.
- BACK DROP - The towering La Madre mountains rise up more than 5000 feet in elevation gain not far from the base of here. They take up the entire northwest backdrop despite being some 13 miles aways. Yes, there are some red tipped peaks along this ridge. I thought the best view was from basket (1) looking towards basket (9), but the feature is basically present the whole time when facing West and North.
- CHAINS AND TEES - 24 chain DISCatchers that somehow haven't rusted yet. Perhaps that's a southwest thing with low humidity. All the baskets were in great shape. The tees are all level, concrete and measure 6 by 12.
- SKILL LEVEL FRIENDLY - Due to the nice length and forgiving gameplay, I could see some local MA1s, 2s, 3s and 4s all playing here from time to time. Even beginners won't be overwhelmed. Players that like woods play probably won't like this one so much though.
- QUICK PLAY - I logically started on (2) as its nearest the parking lot and I logged 28 minutes. Basket (1) is the closest basket to the parking lot.
- NAVIGATION - The hole to hole transitions seemed logical and easy. It seemed very doable without a map despite me not seeing the course map or any other navigational cues. Apparently, the course map is posted on the restroom building.

Cons:

Treesus stopped visiting Vegas years ago.
- HOLE VARIETY - I found the gameplay here to be rather blah. I'm not saying it ever was, but it sort-of looks like a ball golf conversion course, and I have yet to ever favorite one of them. As others have noted, and I agree, making the rocks OB would likely spice up a round. Anyways, there is decent hole distance variation here, from the high 200s to the high 500s. There are some no doubt par 4s, which is nice as well. After that, it's just bland flat disc golf. No thank you.
- TEE SIGNAGE - All but one tee sign was bleached beyond readability. They need to be completely redone. It was crazy to read that they were still good from a couple years ago. Perhaps the UV lining all failed at the same time.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - Although the backdrop is rather incredible, the course itself is dull. Wide and near featureless fairways through-out. Sure there are nice landscaped rock beds with small trees lining 8 of the 9 fairways. They just rarely impact the play to inject intrigue. I scored this aspect roughly 40 percentile. The park was very well maintained and it still seemed to be a decent atmosphere.
- TERRAIN - The adjacent rock beds suck on the ankles. Stay on the fairway where it's a breeze to walk.
- TIME WAITING - A well-used sidewalk comes into play 4 times and I waited on all 4 of these holes. A minor issue overall to me, but not ideal.

Other Thoughts:

Red Ridge, despite its nice park setting, did not win my heart. I felt like I was mindlessly trying to chuck it as far as I could without worry. Note I did not play the rocks as OB. Anyways, a reasonable 2.0 level course to me. For those that like woods golf, me, there is zero reason to come here. Unless they are a course bagger, also me, 😊. It didn't really closely remind me of any course I've played. Perhaps a little like Suncoast Golf Center near Sarasota Florida.
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sillybizz
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience: 22.3 years 426 played 412 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Vegas

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 21, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

Red Ridge is a nice looking course with very green grass in a public park that is used by many users for different activities. The course has many of the amenities that are nice to have like detailed tee signs, concrete tee pads, good looking baskets, and very easy to navigate. The course is a collection of longer more open throws for you types who like 360 drives and have faster, stronger quick twitch muscles than an ant hill has ants.

Cons:

Personally I don't enjoy my disc golf course to look like a ball golf course; the challenges of ball golf are different than the challenges of disc golf. Ball golf has open fairways and in my opinion disc golf should have many more trees than this course has. I appreciate that the fairways are defined and I think the rock beds should be played as out of bounds though the tee signs didn't indicate that's how it's done here, sad. We played it as OB and found that the course is much more challenging and interesting when you have to worry about where you're going to land instead of just chunking the disc down there as far as possible on a wide open 450+ foot hole.

Being that I don't live in the desert among lizard people I decided we should play this course early in the morning when it was still 90F and found the course flooded with water and got sprayed by the sprinkler system. There is no shade here so running through the sprinkler felt good but getting my feet wet was annoying. I get it you have water or this green grass will die out here but I can't imagine playing this course any other time than in the early morning hours or late after noon when that giant yellow ball of UV ray is at a low point in the sky.

Early morning around 7am and there were countless walkers, joggers, dog walkers using the paths and disc golf fairways at their leisure or peril if I was a bit meaner - DUCK OR BLEED!

There's just not enough variety here to satiate the hungry for improvement or to break up the monotony of throwing a RHBH hyzer or straight shot into an open fairway or over a small tree and into an open fairway. With the holes being long enough to feel repetitive right away and not show itself to you over time.

Other Thoughts:

I'll be honest I didn't have much fun here as it's not my type of course. That said it fits the need of having disc golf in the area and many people will enjoy this style of course. I think shorter holes would be better than the par 4's they have to break up the throwing as far as you can in the open thing so they can appeal to locals and beginners because honestly people who can throw 400+ feet aren't going to play this course more than once for course bagging purposes.
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TheGrim
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 13.6 years 75 played 45 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Red Ridge 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 27, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

This course has great tee pads, signage and baskets. The dedicated course is unique and offers some long distance right and left hand turns. The challenge of this course is keeping it in-bounds. (Though the rocks aren't technically OB)

I loved the view of Vegas from the course. It's a nice neighborhood in a clean and easy to find location.

Cons:

The rocks are disc manglers. I made the tragic mistake of throwing a brand new disc and it completely munched the edge of it. If it weren't for the lava rocks of death the course probably would have scored a 3.5-4.

The course turns in on it's self again and again, so you have the potential of throwing at people coming the opposite direction.

The grass is super short and spongy so your disc skips and rolls around like no other course I've ever played.

I'm not sure if the local kennel uses the course to walk their dogs or not, but there is dog crap ALL OVER the course so watch your step.

Other Thoughts:

I really thought this course would be a lot of fun, but after playing it once nobody in my group has any interest in returning. Although you should of course avoid throwing OB the consequences of doing so on this course far outweigh the benefits of the course.

Add to that the constant need to watch your step constantly from the dog crap made it annoying to say the least.

I personally thought the grass was neat, and if it weren't surrounded by the rocks of death I'd have put that as a pro.
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Hector Chain
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 15.9 years 222 played 191 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Perfect desert fairways 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Dec 16, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

The layout here is one of the more unique ones you'll find in the desert. The park is filled with curvy strips of landscaped areas filled with small trees, desert plants, and red rocks. The result is that all of the fairways really look like fairways, like someone created the park around a disc golf course (not sure if that was really the case). The holes here are on the long side, but you can't simply air out all your drives. If you're playing the landscaped islands as OB (the signs don't declare them as OB), you'll lose strokes to the OB. If not, you're still going to end up underneath some scraggly trees that will leave you with some bad upshots.

Navigation here was simple. There is a course map, but you won't need it after you find the first hole (the 2nd tee pad is closer to parking lot). All the holes have concrete tees and bright yellow Discatchers. The tee signs are the best in Vegas, giving a nice color bird's eye view of the hole.

There is a good mix of left- and right-curving fairways.

The fairways are grass. It's pretty lush because they over-water here.

Cons:

The holes are a little too long. Only one hole is under 300. I'd like to see one or two more under 300. If you're playing with OB, then a short hole can still be a good risk/reward shot if it's located near the OB, but it also gives a good deuce-or-die hole even if you're ignoring OB.

Due to over-watering, the grass was sopping wet when I played. Hole 5 had a big puddle a few feet from the basket. There really shouldn't be water hazards in the desert!

Although multiple tees wouldn't be practical here, multiple pin positions would be nice.

Because the trees aren't very tall, there is always a big hyzer route available. So while you still need to be able to play it accurately, this course won't really force you to throw any anhyzers.

Dog owners don't heed the signs instructing them to clean up after their dogs. I couldn't believe how much dog crap there was.

Other Thoughts:

This is definitely the most fun out of the Vegas/Henderson courses with 9 (or fewer) holes. I really enjoyed my two rounds here.

How interesting you find the course will depend on how you treat OB. I don't usually pay attention to OB, honestly, but I did for my second round here. When you do, you realize how well the holes are designed. There are safe landing areas, but if you're going for the birdie, you really have to be confident you're going to land in the grass. By the way, the pictures for this course make it look a lot longer (and the fairways a lot wider) than they really are.

With the nearby mountains and the nice landscaping, this might be the most scenic course in Vegas.
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