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 (at least two holes had a drawing of the hole map and distance marked on the wooden pole that formerly held the tee sign). The flow of the course was easy to follow and I played it without a course map or the use of an app.

Good use of elevation changes and a variety of shot shapes required to score well. Most of the holes are fairly short, but require precise lines to be hit from the tee. There are a couple of longer holes that require wise placement of a drive and a good approach to get at 3 (at least for those without significant power). This is fun forest golf.

The course plays into the woods on hole one from an open tee area to a basket surrounded by trees and then stays in the woods for the duration of the course. Greenery abounds and the trees and ferns create a peaceful setting and a fun place to be for a hike with disc tossing as part of the experience.

The forest is dense and there is significant undergrowth. Also, there are several blind tee shots. This creates a perfect combination for lost discs. I suggest brightly-colored discs and using a spotter, if possible.

I played in June at dusk and the bugs were definitely a problem. It was like Coachella for Mosquitoes out there. They were super pumped to be in attendance and my blood was being super pumped by them. The time of year and time of day certainly might make a difference, but I suggest bringing bug spray.

Some of the walks between holes and also some fairways present challenging slopes to navigate. The course is definitely not cart friendly and won't be enjoyed by anyone who has trouble finding footing on hills. At the time I played, it was also very muddy, which magnified these problems. Keep this in mind when deciding who will play and what to bring.

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

I liked this course a lot. The experience of being in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, looking out over the Columbia River, and throwing some challenging lines through the trees was good for me. But that's a kind of golf that I like and it isn't for everyone. If you choose to play here, orange discs, pink discs, and Deet will be your best friends that day!

-Nice use of trees for interesting holes
-Pretty setting

-Bugs and elevation changes can be hard to navigate for some players
-No signage
-Deep rough

Overall I would not come out to this course, specifically. It was nice to play both East and West, I enjoyed the tree coverage on the East side more

Rooster Rock East is a fun crazy course that plays in the Columbia River George. This course terrain's itself through the woods with some holes you would not believe are holes. Amazing views on the first hole of the east side. This is one of the nine hole course's at rooster rock. Although this course is not one of my favorites it is one I thought was insane. Hole 1 is a fun little shot right into the woods. Hole 2 reminds me of the Canyon course at Horning's Hideout. This hole is in the woods and so do the rest of the holes. The pictures look a little old or they were just taken in the winter. Nice variety of shots through out the course with some ace opps.

This course is insane. Ace it or loose it is a term I would describe it. One of my favorite hole is Hole 4. Basically a jump put but not much to it but the elevation change. The pictures don't show how overgrown it is because now it is like a mess. My brother actually found a disc while he was looking for his on a cliff. Just about every hole is blind. Some of the holes you have to walk the whole hole just to see where the basket is. Hole 7 is a canyon hole. Forecady is recommended now that the course is overgrown.

Some of the Holes here are massive. Hole 8 traverses its way through a walking trail. I had to walk the whole hole just to see where the basket was tucked around in a little corner. Impossible to be a par 3 unless you are a magician.

Hole 9 is a straight away shot that play's through the woods on the side of a cliff. Not a actual cliff but a very steep hill. The pictures were taken in the winter because all the blackberry's were destroyed by the cold weather. In the summer I'm sure they will grown back. Mach 5 baskets as well as concrete tee pads get the job done. I want them to put in tee sign's especially on hole 8 which traverses its way through a walking trail.

This course is overgrown. blackberry bushes upon blackberry bushes. I definitely would recommend the other side to any person that is new. That is because you are almost sure to loose a disc if you play in the summer.

Some holes need to be rerouted especially number 8. Various pin locations's on that hole but just as it looks in the pictures that hole is crazy in the summer. All the holes on this course except number 1 are easily to loose a disc. To have someone spot your disc makes it so much more enjoyable.

On hole 4 this hole plays's super downhill just as downhill as it looks. Putter is really the play on this hole. Anything above that is gone.

Rooster Rock East has some potential but a ton of clearing needs to be done. I would like to see them either reroute this course or to clear a bunch of junk it. I would like to play the west course again if I had to play on this property but that is my preference.

Course needs some work though. Although this course is in a great setting i would like to see them add more or change it up a bit. If I would describe how this course is I would say INSANE.

The east side is hard to put in words! it starts with a pretty fun par 4 that is open most the way then tucks around 100 feet into a tight wooded window. This is the most open part as the rest of the course all plays in the woods Oregon golf at its finest. It has some very fun holes that are memorable and signature type holes. Holes 3-6 our all well done holes. It will have you throw every kind of shot from overhand to forehand and backhand. Even the short 100 and something foot holes our fun because if you miss your line recovery might be tough. Navigation is easy to follow as courses flow is pretty simple to understand. Tee pads and baskets were in decent shape.

Some of the distances seemed off from what was listed... now the course itself hole 8 is a nightmare and if you go off the left side you're going to be looking for awhile. A couple of the holes have a straight throw and hope type feeling. Spotters are for sure recommended on most the holes the rough is pretty rough.

All in all I like this style of disc golf, but a couple more lines our really needed on this course. It could use some work for sure and even player trafficking knocking down some of the rough. It's really closer to a 2.75 rating for me but with more play and upkeep it would be a solid 3! When paired with the west course it can be a fun day of golf and 18 holes. 5$ for parking

-Rooster Rock East is the crazier of the two 9-hole layouts at Rooster Rock State Park. The West Nine may be Mild, but the East Nine is certainly Wild! It plays through a very thick woods.

-Every hole stands out on this course, some in a good way, some not. Several of the lines you must hit are head-scratchers, but you'll for sure remember every hole.

-A spectacular view of the Columbia River and beyond from the first tee box.

-Concrete tee pads, Mach 5 baskets, and a sign with a map near the first hole.

-Best Holes:
#1 is a long anhyzer or roller shot through the field and finishing in the woods. Every hole after this plays entirely in the woods.
#4 is unlike any other hole I've seen. It's 200 ft, but plays about 50 feet over and 150 feet directly down a very steep hill. It requires a type of shot rarely needed: a pitch with an understable putter that stays flat and falls vertically toward the pin.
#7 is a straightaway, 200 ft shot over a small valley, an excellent opportunity to run an ace.

-The undergrowth is thick, and gets thicker as the course wears on. The first three holes have reasonable fairways, holes 4-7 have heavier rough, and holes 8 and 9 have very heavy rough and steep hillsides to boot. It's not uncommon to spend 5 minutes searching for a disc that appeared to be headed in the proper direction.

-After the first hole, there is almost no opportunity to throw a driver.

Worst Holes:
#6 is a 340 ft par 4 with three sharp turns. In the short position, it is an ok hole. The long position, on the other hand, requires another 200 feet down a 5 foot chute with a 90 degree turn and thick brush on either side.
#8 and #9 both feature extremely steep drop offs on the left side. Even decent shots can easily kick, slide, and tumble downward.

-This course is for a very specific type of player, and as a result there is a wide array of opinions on it. Ratings range from 1.0 to 4.0.

-The West course takes about 45 minutes to play. This course takes about 45 minutes to play as well, if you don't count time spent searching for discs.

-The West nine, being more exposed, is best played in the summer. This course, however, is MUCH better to play in the winter months, when it has significantly less undergrowth.

-To locate the first tee, after passing the tollbooth, make a right and continue all of the way down to the end of the parking lots. On a warm day, dozens of people will be parked here to visit the clothing-optional beach.

-The first time playing the course, the thrill of hitting these tight-woods lines outweighs the annoyance of crashing through bramble to find your discs. A second time through, however, probably isn't worth it.

+Technical course

-Too many trees??
-Swallows discs
-Lots of undergrowth/bushy/thorns
-Odd layout
-Basket was missing on hole 7

This course is good for losing discs and cursing to the disc golf gods, "WHY?!!!"

The course is laid out on a hilly hiking spot that feels better suited for dirt bikes than disc golf.

I've played this course twice and, man, have I tried to like it. Not worth it. Hit up the West course instead. Or, better yet, go to Dabney just down the road.

This course makes a perfect counterpoint to the wide open West course. It is built along trails and requires pinpoint accuracy.

New signage makes the course easy to follow and also pushes the par to 4 on a few of the difficult holes.

All types of throws required to complete the course, tomahawks, thumbers, and sidearms included. The series of four birdie holes, 4,5,6,7, makes for some great moods before and after the challenge of 3 and 8.

Hole four is an awesome 200fter at about 100ft downhill, and is always exciting.

This course is mostly in the forest and can provide some relief from the Oregon rain. It is also very playable even in the high gorge winds.

There is poisonous bushes all over, so wear pants. Some of the holes are blind (5, 9) while others are along a steep left side ravine (8, 9), so a spotter can help prevent lost discs. Did I say Lost discs? Yep, all the time in the deep unseen rough.

I play here about once a week. The high risk reward on the narrow forested holes allows for constantly varying scorecards and makes for great games of skins where everyone wins.

Hole one has a short position in a dark spots forward in the woods, and a loooong position downhill across the field then 100 ft with a dogleg right into the woods. Hole 6 has a long position that is first around a bend, then down a rough narrow corridor to a hidden basket. Hole 8 has a hard to reach short position along the trail, and a looooong position another 200ft deeper into the forest.

This is the other 9 hole course in Rooster Rock State park and they couldn't be more different! This nine also has a sign at the beginning showing the whole 9 but that is only sign. Pads are well done and course is fairly well worn in so not too hard to follow.
Variety of shots are needed and there are quite a few elevation changes with a couple shots across a ravine. Blind shots with lots of vegetation add to challenge.

Vegetation on blind shots ups chance of losing disc higher than I like. Fortunately my wife was along and played spotter for me. I wouldn't play this course without one.
Elevation change, while cool, here it means you are going up and down very steep dirt/clay paths w/o steps of any kind. It was raining when we were out and more dangerous than I would have liked.
Know what poison oak looks like, the odds of ending up in some are fairly high.

While this was a neat course, especially when contrasted with west course, for price of entry there are other courses close that give a similar experience but better done.
Rating is with caveat that this is a very tough hilly wooded course. Player beware.

Challenging and technical. Hole 4 has been reviewed but my two cents worth is- this hole is too fun. Hole 3 very long and tight. Eight holes have their own challenge, Number 1 is pretty straight forward.

It is winter so some baskets have been moved (well I'm guessing it is because of winter.) My map helped except for where Hole 1's basket was and how to get to Hole 2's pad after that it was okay. Huge tree blocking the path to Hole 4's basket...it makes it tough for older players...crawling is not my thing.

I liked playing this end after I had played the west end. Night and day different courses. Would I play this one twice and say that is my 18? No...I liked the two together. Hole 4 was fun! Steep path down to it and then a very large tree to crawl or climb over.

Technical and challenging.

This is a nice hike that would be worth checking out even if there wasn't a course on it.

Hole 4. The tee is on a cliff the basket is at the bottom. Very interesting to throw.

Unforgiving. If you mess up a throw your disc is going to be in some thick rough.

Even though they aren't super far you can't see the baskets from most of the tees.

Get your fairway drivers out. You won't be ripping it off the tee at any point. If you want to rip it you can head over to the other 9 which is open and basically the polar opposite of this 9 making for an interesting overall 18.

Use a spotter if possible.

A typical hiking path based course layout with very tight lines from tee to basket. A fun quick hike by itself, it has well maintained trails with cement tees. Heavily wooded paths and low ceilings, plus the sometimes major elevation changes define this style of trail based course. The underbrush on the hills can also eat up discs that miss the fairway by as little as a foot. Technical lines force different throwing styles. Highly enjoyable for the finesse player with occasional need for a spotter and those who like beautiful hikes and views of the Columbia River gorge.

Requires tight controlled shots in heavily wooded trails and thick underbrush that can eat up stray discs. Spotter recommended.

When combined with the beginner friendly and mostly wide open west course, this makes for a quick and beautiful 18 holes. The technical challenges may be too intimidating for new players.

This course has a lot to offer. It is set in some awesome woods, lots of trees and elevation. The holes all have their own unique feel, which makes it hard to get bored here. Hole one is the only hole to let rip, try to get to the large path at the far end of the tree line for a good approach. Hole 4 I would say is the signiture hole, about a 175 ft horizontal, but about 120 vertical drop! Challenges even the best of players on most holes. You will be forced to throw shots you may have never tried before, or give you lines that are way out of your.comfort zone. It is nice and secluded, so dont worry about big waits, and the difficulty will definately keep the rif raf away.

This course can be brutal. Miss throw by even a foot and you could be completely out of play for an approach, or lost in the dense brush. I would reccomend a spotter if you have a few people with you. As most of the tee shots are blind, I found myself having to hike up the fairway to find out where I was going, which is a pain, but with noone rushing behind you its not bad since most pins are visable from 50 feet past the tee.

If you are in the mood for a challenging 9 holes this is the ticket. Low ceiling shots, teeshots over hills and tight lines and fairways abound. The course seems to be wearing itself into the landscape, in a year or so I could see the fairways opening up a little and the course being much more forgiving.

* Good cement tees.
* Great baskets
* Easy to navigate
* immaculate bathrooms on site
* never gets that crowded
* Benches and some trash cans
* no wind, exept hole 1.
* lots of trees and elevation
* Fun obsticles (downed tree on hole 5, bombs away on hole 4, drive over a chasm on hole 7.
* hole 4,5,6,7 are all pretty easy to birdie, for making up strokes on 1,3,8, which are pretty easy to double bogey.

* No Tee signs
* Almost every hole is a blind tee shot.
* The only holes to bomb it on are 1,3,8. The rest are very short. 3,8 require pinpiont accuracy off the tee.
* Hole 8,9 don't throw to the left, there is a steep cliff with 6 foot tall stinging nettles.
* hole 8 should be par 4.
* Stinging nettles and underbrush, (throw low, and spot your discs.)
* $5 to park, but I recommend getting a year pass for $30, you can play at all of oregons state parks including, Rooster, Dabney, Milo, Dexter, and more.

The Number one reason why I spend so much time here is the seclusion. I like taking my time and kicking a couple back while I throw. If you wanna avoid the large groups with no etiquette, and play a rather challenging but rewarding course, this is it.

Hole number five is fun.
Tee pads are concrete.
Baskets are in good shape.
Navigation is simple.
Two courses on site.
Elevation comes in to play.

Even in winter/early spring there is so much under brush and so little fairway that hunting for discs is almost on a throw by throw basis. There are a couple of baskets placed on the side of cliffs and the basket as well as the cliffs can't be seen from the tee box so you have no idea of this when you throw your tee shot, in fact every hole on the course with the exception of hole four is a blind pin.

I'm usually not one who whines about too much luck but there are not many holes to this course that are skilled throws. You can make a perfect shot and hit the fairway (a two foot wide walking path) and watch the disc skip three feet into the bushes and either be looking for it for fifteen minutes or be behind a tree or whatever but you will be in a bush and praying for a three. I'm alright with bad throws getting punished but I'm NOT alright with good throws being punished for no reason.

I say avoid this place like the plague and just play Rooster Rock West a couple of times.

*Trees, I love me some trees, and there's some good ones.
*Elevation, ups, downs, ups and downs.....
*Easy navigation
*Seclusion
*# 4 is a great Top of the World putter shot, i'm not a huge fan of walking uphill, but I get a smile on my face ever time i'm on the walk out (or walk up...) from 3 to 4...
*This course MAKES you hit lines, and slaps you around if you miss...

* # 3.... Some people think the idea of hitting a six-foot window is fun, I'm not one of them. Oh, and if you do hit the window (emphasis on IF), the fun has just begun, you get to deal with a low, narrow tunnel to a protected pin.... Just take your four or five and walk up the hill...
*Seclusion.... I know I listed this as a Pro, but for some reason, I get a real weird feeling if I'm playing hear alone, like I'm constantly looking over my shoulder. Maybe its the fact that its so close to the highway or so close to the nude beach (both seem to be magnets for sketchy characters...)
* Holes 5 and 6 are WAY too short, 6 especially, I think its 120'....
*Lots of stinging nettles and other "mean" plants off the fairway, and believe me, more likely than not, you WILL end up there....

This course is such a torrid affair for me. Love, hate, love, hate, throughout the round. It is definitely unique, and there are some real gems in there (#4, #7, #8) but # 3 is so ridiculous, and 6 is pretty lame. Coupled with the fact that the rough is so ROUGH, this course usually leaves me feeling angry.

To get to the course, just turn right after the pay station. Park at the end of that road. The first tee is right off the southeast corner of that lot. The first hole goes across the field, and into the trees. From there, the flow is pretty intuitive. Just keep in mind that after #3, you walk up the hill.....

- Challenging with high risk/reward shots
- Great flow and easy to play without a map
- Amazing use of elevation
- Unique hole design with lots of variety and no boring holes
- Great cement pads
- Great Mach 5 baskets
- Benches at every hole
- Beautiful scenery
- Very secluded and not windy in the trees

- Can be frustrating in the rough
- Errant shots can result in lost plastic

I have always considered this course to be very unique and remains one of my favorites. I can understand why people don't like it because of the challenge and frustration but I say go play it again. There is nothing like pulling off that lazer drive down the hallway on hole 3 or floating one down under the basket on hole 4. Team this course up with the west nine and Dabney and you got yourself a great day of disc golf in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge.

Favorite hole: #8 - A 395' side-hill hole with a deep dip in the middle and trees on both sides. Don't go right up the hill but really don't go left into the ravine. This fairway requires a nice finesse shot, preferably a clean left to right landing at the top of the ridge. The only hole with a more treacherous ravine of the course is hole 9.

The course was fairly navigable without a map. The flow through the woods is kind of fun. The fourth hole is is a great shot straight down off a small cliff. Do you throw a thumber straight down? Risk a lofting forehand? Kind of cool.

Not beginner friendly at all (my friends brought me here two years ago for my second or third round ever, not cool!). Some of the holes have tunnel or window shots that really aren't reasonable. Can you throw 300 feet through a 5-foot gap with no fade at all? If not, there are a couple holes that may be more annoying than fun, especially when you are trying to throw an escape shot from 25 feet off the fairway. Signs would be helpful; I had to walk down the paths to see where the basket was before teeing off. Also, Rooster Rock feels a bit like a rest area, and there was some rest area creepiness there. Definitely some clientele in the parking lot that didn't seem to be up to any good, and I was leery of leaving my car unattended.

The fun factor here varies by the hole. I like wooded, technical courses a lot, even when I'm not that great at them. Holes 4 and 5 are pretty fun, and a few others were cool. But if there is a gap you wouldn't want to try to ride your bike through, it's probably not a "fair" fairway. Unlike Rooster Rock West, this course is worth going out of your way for, but expect a high level of randomness to come into play.

- Good flow
- Challenging holes
- Nice setting & interesting terrain
- Fun short holes in the middle
- Less wind than other Gorge courses
- Makes a nice 18 when combined with Rooster Rock West

- A couple of potentially frustrating long holes, especially for beginners
- Stinging nettles, and lots of them
- Disc-eating ravines

I think Rooster East gets a bad rap. It's true that #3 and #8 can seem downright sadistic; #3 requires you to hit a 6-foot gap, #8 is bordered by a bramble-filled ravine, and it's very rare to get a 3 on either of them. But #4 through #7 are all birdieable short holes that can be a lot of fun -- especially #4, which is the steepest downhill hole I've seen anywhere.

The key to enjoying this course is to pick the right time of year. There's never any poison oak, but from late March through early summer, it's chock full of stinging nettles. (Long pants help some, but they've gotten me even through my thin convertible pants.) There's a bit of a break in July and August, then they fire up again in September and October. Only November through mid-March are truly safe. Also, the ravine below #8 is full of blackberries -- they're deadly all year, but in the summer and fall it's pretty hard to find anything that gets deflected down there. And that's not to mention all the generic non-toxic underbrush on every hole that won't hurt you but will hide your disc. Spotters are recommended.

The good news is that the wind isn't nearly as much of a factor as at the west course, because the forest here is so dense.

This is one of most uniquely, designed courses I've played. With that said, I agree with most of what all previous reviewers had to say about it. Start with the risk/reward factor. Playing by myself, I passed over #'s 3, 8 & 9 simply because I didn't want to chance the risk of losing a disc or spending a large amount of time searching over the endless banks. On the other hand, # 4 is a classic hole, 201' almost straight downhill. I really enjoyed the five holes I played. All were short technical throws. The teepads are great. I had no troubling navigating the course by myself.

The nettles were about five feet tall, they were ugly! # 3, is a 287' ridiculously tight fairway all the way to the hole with ugly rough on a steep drop off on the left side. # 2 is 254' luckout throw through the trees. I got a 2 but could have just as easily gotten a 4. gwillim sums these holes up pretty well with one word, unrealistic! # 8 is a 334' foot hole with a deep, dark rough on the left all the way down just waiting to gobble up your disc.

Rooster Rock East reminds me a lot of Dabney. A fairly good shot could hit a tree, carom left never to be seen again. I'm not a huge fan of disc eating courses and this is one of the most discyist eating courses I've seen. It should come with a warning label, "WARNING-PLAYING THIS COURSE CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR DISCS." And to once again agree with the renowed reviewer, gwillim, this is not a course I would choose to compete in a tournament on.

Challenging course with a good variety of shots needed.
A straight down hole (#4) that is very unique.
Well maintained tees and holes.
Not too hard to navigate with the maps found at the course.
Along with Rosster Rock West (only 30 seconds away) they make a good 18 hole course.
Good practice for your technical game.

Decent chance of a lost disc during a round.
Excessive brush and nettles at times.
No real opportunity to air out drives.
There's a decent amount of luck involved in the forest.

There tends to be a lot of debate about this course, I like it better than Rooster Rock West, which I find a bit bland, if you can simply except that you're not going to shoot well, that 4 can be a very good score on a hole that's under 300 feet and that luck comes into play, then you can enjoy this course. I think that if there wasn't a 9 hole course on the other end of the park it wouldn't be as good a trip but with the two contrasting 9's that I think really compliment each other it makes it a good day trip and a solid 18 holes of golf.