Dedicated Disc Golf area
Decent flow for the most part
Good use of the elevation
Uses every tree out there

Lack of tree's
Lack of decent tee boxes
Lack of signage
The Brush

Located next to the Dog Park you have an 18 hole course located in a flood control area.

1st off, this is not a manicured park, there is no grass here. If it were not for the natural brush, this would just be a sand pit.

There are some old DGA tee signs, but most are in bad shape if they are even there. Using a map is a must.

No cement tee pads, most are just carpet. Because this is in an old flood control area, there is some elevation and it is used. The first few holes are on top of the hill, then you have a hold throwing up a stepped wash. You do have some shots off the top of the dam. The worst holes are 10 and 11, these holes throw across the worst of the desert brush and are long holes. Holes. Hole 11 even throw over the dam making it even tougher.

Hole 14 is too close to the road. The wind picked up as I was playing and I turned two shots in a row into oncoming traffic.

But you do have a couple more in the "bowl" and finish up near tee one.

This is not a course you want to wear shorts on, you will scratch up your lets. The wind really picked up as I was finishing and the resulting sand storm was not fun to say the least.

Would I play here again? No, not a fan of rough courses like this, I would rather pay and play the city's municipal course next door. But this course isn't horrible, it's just a typical Desert course, it was much better than I was expecting after reading the other reviews.

It's a course. So if even one person picks up the sport by this dreadful place being close to them then thats a good thing.

This place is unlike any other course I have played. They call it a park but it's more like a scrap piece of land that somebody decided to put some baskets on. Like 2 trees on the whole course, Hot, Sandy, Trashed out, Rattlesnake heaven.

My friends and I were working in ABQ for a few months and played all courses in the area. this one was so bad we quit after hole 15 as we were sick of searching for discs amongst the sage brush and deep sand. Bigtime erosion problems. not a fun course at all. If Obama was into disc golf, he would close Guantanamo and just send them all to Ladera.

Play Roosevelt instead

Good basket placements and the designers really made most of a less than ideal park.

It is good to have a course on the Westside.

There are a couple holes that are just unreasonably long. I understand that some like that, I am just not one of them.

Pay attention to where your throw lands, I have spent hours searching for errant drives.

Although this course generally calls for long drives, there are a few ace-able holes. I have one ace there this year and several that nearly stuck.

Good for the long-distance driving. Sand makes for a "good second shot" day. Great for people looking to work on their approach.

Course is poorly marked. Tee signs face one direction, tee pad another, no arrows to offer direction; not all tees are flagged, and none have any sort of reflective or brightly colored tape to offer guidance. Distances on tee markers are not accurate. Mandatory listings on tee markers are not always clear (e.g., "mando right" on an open hole with a pin to the left begs explanation - mandatory right around what?). Area is open to off-road vehicles, which are loud and obnoxious. Not a whole lot of trash cans on the course, so there's lots of garbage on the course. Boring design and lack of trees & vegetation (save for sage brush) make for little more than an hour of free-flinging your discs in the dust.

As much as I did not like this course, i liked this course. It was in my back yard so i played it 2-3 times a week.

They have 18 baskets...

Tee box signs missing, horrible placement of baskets, unsafe terain for walking, have to have a spotter to watch throws to preevnt losing any disc's.

It's a horrible course I will never return to play. One time was one time too many for me.

Ladera is across the street from a ball golf course and next to a dog park. Some might call it desert like but to me it just seemed like a big ole vacant lot. There were a few trees, a little elevation to contend with but mostly a lot of sage brush, rock and sand. Not a real impressive landscape for a course. The designers did a pretty good job dealing with what they had. They incorporated a few mandos to create interest. # 1 gives you the option of throwing over a rail fence or playing around it. # 4 had you throwing through a double mando, I think between two light poles. It was kind of an interesting hole. The course provides enough of a challenge with it's length, steady winds, and thick undergrowth.

It's just not a very pretty area. Because it's just this open off-road area that seemingly gets used for ATV's, motorcycles and whatever else, there's some garbage lying around. And even without the garbage, it's just a big dusty, sandy, hot, shadeless, semi arid desert. I asked five locals if I could tag along with them. I'm glad I did. Navigation would have been really difficult by myself.

I wouldn't see myself coming back here and playing much. It's just wasn't an physically enjoyable place in which to play. The course itself wasn't so dreadful. I'm guess I'm spoiled by playing in the NW woods and on green grass. If I lived in Albuquerque, all my disc golf time and energy would be spent over at Roosevelt and with the occasional trip up to Santa Fe to play Arroyo.

Very few things are positive about this course. It does offer a slight variety of shots, but without many natural obstacles, most of these are created by arbitrary mandatory shots (two around 1" metal poles that are not flagged). Some long distance driving opportunities are available.

Course is poorly marked. Tee signs face one direction, tee pad another, no arrows to offer direction; not all tees are flagged, and none have any sort of reflective or brightly colored tape to offer guidance. Distances on tee markers are not accurate. Mandatory listings on tee markers are not always clear (e.g., "mando right" on an open hole with a pin to the left begs explanation - mandatory right around what?). Area is open to off-road vehicles, which are loud and obnoxious. Not a whole lot of trash cans on the course, so there's lots of garbage on the course. Boring design and lack of trees & vegetation (save for sage brush) make for little more than an hour of free-flinging your discs in the dust.

Toss some man-made obstacles out there for mandatory shots - at least it will add some character to the course. Awful to play on even a mildly windy day.

Good for the long-distance driving. Sand makes for a "good second shot" day. Great for people looking to work on their approach.

Nothing to really obstruct your shot. Rock is about the only thing aside from dirt to stop your disc. The dirt does play havoc with your throws for sure.

Bring some boots if you plan on playing.

-Long
-Has some signs and is navigable eventually
-Elevation changes from man made berms
-OB and mandos to add challenge

-Little to no trees
-Dusty dry desert land

Just a big ol' open bowl of dust surrounded by a rock berm with a few trees, OB and mandos. Long and not very interesting.