Ravens Ridge is a fun nine-hole course. You can squeeze in a quick round here, or you can find yourself (like I did) stopping mid-round to soak in the amazing scenery just a throw away.
- Ravens has some fun and challenging holes. Test your skills on a tight, downhill throw (#4), a heavily-wooded mid-range hole (#5), a wonderfully challenging & the course's namesake hole #6, or a fun risk-reward closing hole (#9). These holes stood out for me, whereas some of the others were more of the filler variety.
- Course puts all the emphasis on accuracy. This course plays exclusively in the woods. If you can't hit your lines, an otherwise seemingly easy course will prove frustratingly difficult. Hit your lines, and you'll see plenty of putts for birdie throughout your round.
- For such a short course - average hole length is 193 feet - this course does offer a fair amount of challenge. Some of the fairways are on the narrow side; however, with the holes being playable with a mid-range or putter, I feel they were appropriate. If they were any wider, this course would lose most of the challenge and turn into a simple birdie-fest.
- Good risk/reward course, again due to the fairways and number of trees. Take a downhill hole, such as the short hole - #4 (154 feet) or #7 (194 feet). You can get aggressive and make a run at the baskets. You hit your line and you're looking at an ace run or birdie. You're slightly off-line, and you're taking your chances with which way a disc will bounce off a tree. I saw one fortunate bounce and one bad-luck bounce off the trees here, resulting in a two-shot swing.
- Let's be honest, the appeal of this course has nothing to do with these nine holes. If it weren't for being part of Adventures on the Ridge and just as important, having the amazing view of the New River Gorge and its bridge, this course would be an afterthought. Take both of those things out of the equation, and I doubt many people would drive this far out of the way to play here. That said, the facilities here are top-notch. The scenery of the Gorge; however, are even better.

Nothing major wrong with the Ridge. For such a small plot of land, they pack in as much punch as could realistically be expected. That said, here were the couple of things to point out.
- It took a little bit of time to actually find the course once my buddy and I got to Adventures. There's signage for everything else at the property (restaurants, cabins, specific adventures, etc.), but nothing for disc golf. It took several minutes to track someone down who actually knew where the course was. Once we got there, the signage to the course was pretty poor.
- The course is either confused as a walking trail, or it intermingles with a trail. I say that because during my round, the only people I ran into were people walking their dogs on the course. I bring it up more as a word of caution than as a point of contention.
- There was too much clutter on the holes. I get the designers were trying to be creative by having various objects on holes to add to feel. On several holes, there was way too much of it, to the point, it felt like it was trashy. Speaking of trash, for being in such an amazing part of nature, I was disappointed by the amount of trash (bottles, beer cans) on the course. I'd expect sportspeople, even disc golfers, to respect the land. Also, I hope people don't try to chuck discs off the overlook.

Ravens Ridge was a nice nine-hole course. It was slightly above average in my book, but nowhere close to its current 3+ rating on the site.
- I wasn't a big fan of the hole nicknames. Each hole had a nickname, all of which were bird related. I get giving the toughest and best hole the Ravens Ridge signature title, but when you're giving a hole name 'Rockin' Robin', the creativity is running dry.
- This course could be good for a quick round. I spent more time at the overlook between holes #2 & 3 than I did actually playing. That said, not that it was difficult to find, but I was a little surprised the gorge overlook didn't have better signage. There's only one trail leading to the overlook, but, I could see somebody being totally clueless about that view and totally missing out on it.
- This course is best played by leaving the bag in the car and just carrying a couple discs. I carried three with me, and that was even one too many. Two mid-range discs were all I needed.
- Decent course overall. If it weren't for the view of New River Gorge or its proximity to Wonderland, I'd never had made the trip here. If you don't care about the other stuff, you will find comparable nine-holers all over the place, so you can save yourself a trip.