River Hills Golf Club

Detroit Lakes sits at the heart of Minnesota's lake country, where the glacial landscape rolls and pockets into hundreds of lakes within a short drive. It's a natural setting for golf — the terrain here was shaped by ice age deposits that left behind the kind of undulating, wooded land that rewards thoughtful course design rather than brute length. Summer brings long northern days with generous light, and the birch and pine that frame this part of Minnesota give courses in the region a distinct character that separates them from the flat agricultural corridors further south.

River Hills Golf Club takes its name from the terrain that defines it — the hills and the water that glacial geography delivers in abundance around Detroit Lakes. A course called River Hills in this landscape is almost certainly working with natural elevation change and water features that aren't manufactured, but rather inherited from the land itself.

Detroit Lakes is a genuine recreation destination for the upper Midwest, drawing visitors from Fargo and the Twin Cities alike. A round here puts you in that unhurried lake-country rhythm — the kind of golf that earns its place in a summer week alongside a boat and a good fish fry.