Riverview Golf Course

Sterling sits at the edge of the High Plains in northeastern Colorado, where the South Platte River cuts through an otherwise wide-open landscape of wheat fields and prairie sky. It's a part of the state that most golfers drive through on I-76 without stopping — which means Riverview, as the name suggests, almost certainly takes advantage of one of the more distinctive natural features in the region: the river corridor and its cottonwood-lined terrain.

A municipal course serving a small agricultural city of roughly 14,000 people, Riverview fills the role that local golf plays so well in rural America — a genuinely affordable, community-anchored place where the same faces show up on weekend mornings year after year. These courses rarely chase prestige, but they often deliver something more honest: unpretentious golf on land that actually belongs to the town.

The par-71 layout suggests at least a couple of par-5s are offset by extra par-3s, which typically produces a more varied, less formulaic rhythm around the course than a standard par-72 offers.