Roy G. Guerrero Disc Golf Course

This free 18-hole course sits in Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Metropolitan Park, in the Montopolis neighborhood east of downtown Austin near the Colorado River. Its official name is the Raul Alvarez Disc Golf Course: a 2018 Austin Parks and Recreation Board presentation records that the department committed in 2006 to naming a future course for retiring Council Member Raul Alvarez, that the course was built in the southwest portion of the park in 2011, and that staff recommended it carry his name. The city's course listing gives an opening year of 2012. Wikipedia's catalogue of John Houck's original designs includes the Raul Alvarez course, with the caveat that layouts on that list have sometimes been modified later by other designers.

The ground here has been worked hard: the city describes the park as former ranch and dairy pastureland that was later used as a landfill and then an illegal dumping site, with Ecology Action now replanting native trees and grasses across it. The course plays to a par of 62 over roughly 7,776 feet on flat terrain, and the surrounding land is largely wooded — around a fifth of it open — so the difficulty comes from long, tree-lined corridors rather than from elevation. Parking, restrooms, drinking water, picnic areas, trails and a dog park are in the surrounding park. Newer players may prefer Little G, the 9-hole course the city opened in the same park in 2024.