In a beautiful park by the Columbia River with nice views and good amenities for pre or post round or for other travelers who may be along on the trip.

Serviceable DGA baskets, concrete tee pads, and signs intact on most holes. The flow of the course was easy to follow and I played it without a course map or the use of an app.

In contrast to the other course within this park, this course plays as more typical "park style," with most of the tee shots being rather open, with key trees to be avoided in the fairways and on approaches. Good variety of distances among the holes. Some interesting hilltop pin placements.

There are subtle elevation changes on the property and these are used effectively in the design of several holes. Hole 9's basket is close to hole 1's tee, so the course makes a nice loop back to near where you park.

The signage on the course is lacking, but I found it easy to follow. Some "next tee" signs would alleviate a little bit of indecision on the middle holes.

The course was not mowed well and was a bit boggy in places. Both of those things may simply be due to the recent weather or might be frequent problems. I can't say.

Most of the holes seemed to be most friendly for RHBH lines from the tee pad. There are a lot of fun shots, but this is typical park golf. A good place to work on the basics of the game, but nothing special.

$5 daily parking fee or Oregon State Parks pass required. One other 9-hole course in the same park.

I saw some players parking near hole 2's tee, which is close to the restrooms, and finishing on hole 1. Hole 1 is the longest and most open hole on the course, so I like it as a starting hole, to warm up with a driver shot and an approach shot, more than as a finishing hole.

I talked with another player on the course who told me he lives in East Portland and this is now his favorite place to play now because, in contrast to other area courses, it is rarely crowded and it is easy to get to from where he lives.

There is a stark contrast between the two courses in this park. The other one is tight and hilly and this one is mostly open and mostly flat. They are definitely two distinct courses that are far apart in the park and far apart in style. I would recommend playing them both, if you visit.

Tee signs on most the holes
Baskets our in good condition
Good mix of long and short holes
For being 9 holes you get the chance to throw your big boy drivers
Navigation is fairly simple.
Beautiful background views, and very beautiful area.

The par 4s should honestly be par 3s. There's 3 of them, and they're all way to easy to be par 4s. I think only one of them is over 400, and they all have wide open lines for the eagle.
The course itself is pretty wide open with few scattered trees. Not much variety or elevation change.

The east side is completely opposite of the west and when paired together can be a fun variety of 18 holes. $5 for parking covers both courses

Rooster Rock West has some nice scenic beauty, paired with a simple, but reasonably challenging layout. The course has a nice variety of distance, with a few very approachable shorter par threes, coupled with (relative to the size and general quality of the course) a few pretty long par threes. While most of the holes are pretty straightforward Oregon tunnel-through-the-trees holes, holes 2, 3, and 6 provide for some really fun lines, with hole 6 in particular providing a really nerve-wracking over-the-water shot that is the highlight of the course. While the course does lack signage, it does at least follow a logical order with short walkouts and easy access to the massive parking lot. The tees and baskets are top notch and are generally in very good condition.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, this course compliments its sister course - Rooster Rock East, extremely well. Either course on its own would be a pretty skimpy destination from Portland (course is a good 30+ minute drive from town) but together they form an 18 hole track well worth visiting (though I would push any out-of-towners to one of the PDX metro areas better quality courses). My advice to a local coming to check out the course would be to play Rooster West first as a warmup, then play one or two loops around the much more difficult (but also more fun) Rooster East course.

Lack of signage (printing out, or having the course map - available under the Links tab - is recommended)
The final few holes are largely uninspired design-wise
Other than hole 6, a fair number of the holes are too straight-forward.

Make sure to have access to the course map. Start at this course, then drive back to the East course which is almost a mile away at the other end of the park.

For folks interested in it, the Park has one of Oregon's two sanctioned nude beaches.

This is a fairly well done 9 hole course in Rooster Rock State park. There is a sign near hole 1 showing entire course and it was fairly easy to follow. There is a variety of shots but it is all pretty flat and fairly open. There is nice use of river and trees to supply some challenge but even with that it is a pretty easy course.

No signs on course after opening sign, took some looking to make sure on track. A stop above pitch and putt but a short one. Pleasant but not overly challenging course. If by itself not worth the $5 to get in the park.

The contrast between the 2 courses is amazing. Hard to imagine 2 more different courses. Beware going from this to east course, much different!

As a beginner, this course was fun. The first 4 play along the road to the boat ramp and the last 5 play back along the first 4. The course is simple with concrete tee boxes facing the baskets. Not a lot of challenges if I was consistent with my throws but since I am not there were plenty of trees along the course to throw behind. There is really only one spot, #6, where there is a risk of losing a disc.

The first 4 play great for a RHBH as the road and parking lot are on the right. However, the next 5 present a challenge to both left and right handed players.

Map at #1. This was awesome. I suggest you take a photo of the map with your phone. This will help a lot.

Again, as a beginner, I don't throw 400'+. My throws are probably closer to 300' at best. I was able to throw a Valkyrie (my only driver) off the tee box so this course was perfect. It let me air out a lot of drives.

$5 entrance fee. This didn't bother me much because we ran to Benson afterwards but for some reason this could be a deterrent. I will be back after I buy the season pass.

Galvanized baskets. If these had bright coloring on them it would have made them easily visible from the tee box.

Maps at each tee box. Until now the tee box markers didn't bother me. However, I found it frustrating that we didn't know how each hole played out. These holes are longer than I usually play and it was hard to find the baskets at the tee box. There were a few times that we couldn't see the baskets and had to walk the fairway to find them. If this was a busy day we would have held up any group behind us.

Conditions: It was a partly sunny Sun with not a lot of people. There was no wind and the fairway path was mowed.

If you are a beginner and planning to hit the east and west, I suggest you play the west twice. I got three two into the east and realize it was beyond my ability. The east did look fun but I hit 5 trees on #1 and 5 on #2.

You could also play this and jump to Benson. I suggest Benson if you are a beginner only.

I have only played 4 courses and since I gave Woodland Comm. Church a 3, I have to give this a 2.5.

Bathrooms, plenty of parking. Great place for a new thrower (if it's not windy). Hole 4 has a great placement for the basket. Hole 6 plays around the end of a body of water and with a few small tree patches makes it the most fun hole on the west course.

Signs are not the best, so download a map from this site it will help EXcept number 9 which was moved at least 90 degrees to the right from where the map had the basket. If it's windy you need to go play Dabney unless you want the wind challenge. In the winter the park is a mess...after the wind storms it had down branches everywhere...but it is winter.

This course the west end of Rooster Park is a good warm up for the east end course. They are totally different and that makes for a fun 18. It would be nice if the Parks Dept. cleaned up the wind mess at least every couple of weeks in the winter.
One more thought...this course in the summer could be very crowded making it harder to play with people everywhere!

Fairly open. Good practice course. Great place to try new discs.

There are some trees to help make it interesting.

Great tees and baskets

Nice mowed fairway. No rough.

Great place to take beginners.

Easy to navigate once you find the first tee.

Boring. There are some trees, but it feels like a small step up from playing in a field.

This course is the exact opposite of the other course. It makes for an interesting 18.

No matter what you like Rooster is worth checking out because there are two very different 9s.

Scenic Beauty - There is a lot to look at that makes this place pleasing to play. There is the wonderful mountains with their beautiful waterfalls flowing down right in view of the course as well as the Columbia River if you look North. There is also a little lake I guess you could call it that has a boat ramp and leads into the river.

The Course - The course has a lot of different holes lengths and different kind of challenges. Some of the holes get technical with tree obstacles, hole two comes to mind where it looks like there is no line to the basket and when you get there you realize it's bigger than you thought, a great vision obstacle. Some holes like four, five and six have the basket placed near the little lake with the boat launch near the basket so an errant throw can make you go swimming.

The main con that I found was finding hole number one and then after that navigation got a lot better though I would say bringing a map helped me out quite a bit and I recommend that you do the same. It plays right next to the freeway and there is a great deal of noise coming from that which can be distracting especially with all of the visual beauty. Those are the only the only cons that come to mind, this is a solid all around disc golf course.

This is my favorite by far of the two courses on site. The west course is everything I like about disc golf and the east course I wouldn't even play again. This area is prime for a disc golfing course bagger trip like the one I made just make sure you check out Dabney State Park right up the road.

This course plays from the middle of the park to the far west end. It's flat and the water comes into play on # 5 & 6. It's a pretty state park on the mighty Columbia River with some awesome views. There's a map at the first hole. It's easy to follow with 5 holes down and four coming back. Just a nice relaxing throw, not a particularily easy course though. There are benches to sit on. Nice concrete teepads.

# 6 basket sits down maybe 25' from the end of a spit/slough ( I don't know what the hell the proper term is for this chunk of water here ?) It was muddy on July 6, what would it be like in winter? I'd move the basket to a spot a little less flood prone.

Play here for your casual, relaxing round, then drive to the other end for your challenging, disc hunting experience. The two combined compliment each other rather nicely.

Nice distance practice course.

Most pins are hidden by one small tree making it a simple course for the most part.

The view of the gorge up above is awesome all the time, including the waterfall.