River Road Sports Complex plays on a large plot of meadow and forest near a muddy brown, slow-moving river that never really comes into play. Maybe it's a large creek that feeds into another larger local river? I'm not sure to be honest. You see it a couple of times on later holes but it never feels like a real part of the course.

The course is one that's basically carved out of brushland. There's nothing particularly remarkable about the land itself so the creators attempted to make the course interesting by cutting the fairways out with smart design. They did a solid job of it - the fairways bend back and forth, islands of brush have been left to serve as obstacles, and the distance varies enough to establish a comfortable rhythm of pacing that keeps you engaged.

Long and shorts present. Most pads are cement but we ended up throwing off of a couple of natural pads (I think - maybe there was carpet or something covered by sediment). Baskets were fine.

The designers seem to have a mind for "up-and-over" type shots. Spiced in here and there are holes where you more or less have no choice but to throw OVER trees and brush. Perhaps the trails were once intended to be wider tunnels that would serve as an alternative, but when I played the precision required would be on par with playing beer pong over the length of a gymnasium floor instead of a table. I don't often see these up-and-over holes and I kind of like them as an occasional treat.

The course plays like a nature preserve. Once you're away from the sports fields you end up with an isolated nature walk. It's pretty enough, quiet, and pleasant.

There's at least one covered kiosk that had hanging trash bags in the middle of the course. Nice spot to take a break.

Parking is ample, though I would be concerned if there were some sort of sporting event going on in the park. Everything looks nice and well maintained. They had mowed fairly recently when we played.

Free to play, easy to get to, easy to find your way around more or less. Not sure if there are restrooms - I don't recall seeing them but I wouldn't be surprised if they are there.

The designers probably did the best they could with the land they had. Unfortunately, the land just isn't all that interesting. It's flat as a board without any particularly interesting features - maybe a seasonal stream that's overgrown?

While the fairways are great, the rough is the nasty kind. It's difficult to move through, difficult to search, and punishing to throw a disc into. While I was praising the use of up-and-over holes, if you fall short there's not much in the way of paths cut for disc retrieval. There's a number of blind shots that exacerbate the problem of possibly losing a disc. It's a course you'll appreciate a spotter for, even from the shorts.

There looked to be a tree down in front of hole 23 I believe. Pretty sure it's recent given how green the leaves were, but maybe it's a bush that's growing oddly. I thought it made the hole more interesting as you needed to get around it.

The parking lot runs along the access road. When you finish 24 you'll have a bit of a walk if you parked near 1. It's not ridiculous, but we noticed it on our return.

River Road is a solid vanilla ice cream course. If I lived in the area, I'd play it all the time and be happy with it. It's well thought out and implemented. There's nothing about it to leave a bad taste in your mouth. It's a perfectly competent execution of a disc golf course.

It's also not particularly special or eye-catching. It's not really a course I'd go out of my way to play or carve out some time on a vacation to visit. If I was in the area and had the morning to play? Sure, why not? If I had enough time to go to some of the other courses in the area (understanding that means maybe 30 minutes of driving) I'd be hard pressed to say this is the one I'd want to spend time at.

Great place to practice distance drives.
Course is well taken care of.
Presents many different challenges that make the game more fun mostly woods and fields.
The set up is well designed, however the baskets are slightly hidden.
Not very busy

A lot of bushes, I would recommend a bright colored disc like Blue, Pink, Red, nothing Green or Yellow, at least in Spring or Summer. I lost my Valkyrie here!

Not really a beginner course, however some holes make for a perfect place to practice distance and putting.

the course is fairly well laid out with almost every type of hole represented. there is a river that runs along the course but there are really only two holes where risk of disc loss would be a worry. although the signs at each tee box have been vandalized the course layout is fairly easy to follow. as long as you can stay on the fairways you will have a wonderful time. tee boxes vary from nice cement pads, suitable rubber mats, to poor gravel (watch your footing). i do like this course but you need to pay attention to your throws or you will spend a lot of time searching for discs.

as mentioned before the signs indicating the throw path and distance from tee box to basket have been vandalized. many of the red tee boxes are still loose gravel so if you throw from the amateur tees watch your footing.

the worst part of this course is the vegetation. once your off the fairway you are in very thick brush. VERY thick brush.

in most instances you have plenty of fairway to work with. but a bad shot here is hard to recover from.

this is a local course for me so i play it very regularly. other than the overly cruel vegetation it is a fun course. lots of opportunities for any type of throw.

there are soccer feilds and a small boat launch on site. plenty of parking and port-a-johns.

Edit: i just learned that this course is groomed for winter play, that's a bonus for you winter players.

Challenging course. Tees and baskets well marked, as well as yardage markers in the fairways.

after the first hole, the grass grows high around narrow mowed fairways. finding errant discs becomes a chore, be sure to use 'spotters', especially on blind holes.

To be completely fair, we only played the front 9 on this course, late in the day after playing two other courses, in our first year of disc golfing. We got frustrated spending most of our time searching for discs in the grass and gave up as the sun was setting. We probably need to come up and give it another test drive.