Roy View Golf Course

Lake City sits in the heart of northeastern South Dakota's glacial lake country, a landscape of rolling prairie interrupted by dozens of clear, wind-swept lakes carved out by ice age glaciers. The Coteau des Prairies plateau defines this corner of the state — big sky, wide horizons, and a quiet that's harder and harder to find.

With a par of 64, Roy View is a shorter layout that rewards accuracy and shot-making over raw distance. Courses like this tend to be the backbone of rural golf culture in the Great Plains — approachable enough to bring beginners along, but with enough variety in short-game demands to keep experienced players honest. The name suggests elevated terrain with views across the surrounding countryside, which in this part of South Dakota means sweeping prairie vistas and likely a lake or two in the sightlines.

This is community golf in its most genuine form — the kind of place where locals have tee times locked in for decades and visitors are welcomed into the rhythm without fanfare.