Ranch Hills Golf Club

Par 68 layouts often get dismissed as "just executive courses," but Ranch Hills earns a second look. Sitting in Mulino — a small rural community in Clackamas County, roughly 25 miles south of Portland — the course occupies the kind of quiet, agricultural countryside that defines the northern Willamette Valley: open meadows, scattered timber, and the unhurried pace of a community well outside the metro orbit.

Oregon's golf culture punches well above its weight, with the state home to serious destination tracks along the coast and in the high desert. But courses like Ranch Hills serve a different, equally vital purpose — accessible, walkable, and built for golfers who want to play without the ceremony. A par 68 typically leans on shorter par 4s and a handful of par 3s, rewarding precision and course management over raw distance, which makes it a sharper test than yardage alone might suggest.

For golfers based in the southern Portland suburbs or passing through Clackamas County, Ranch Hills offers a practical, unpretentious round in genuinely pleasant Oregon country.