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Depending on the topography of your property, soil type, and where you can discharge water without bothering somebody, you could simply bury a 4" plastic pipe and route the discharge wherever you like. If conditions are right, you might even be able to bury a perforated soil pipe that would dissapate the water underground and never see it again and forget about it.
Since where I live is not very rural and is an old developed residential area, as originally installed my sump pump used to empty down a buried soil pipe under the middle of my driveway and empty at the curb into the street and run down to the corner to the sewer inlet. After I had some minor construction, an overly large dump truck must have crushed that pipe just as it passed under the pavement before the curb. So next winter, when the pump turned on, the water oozed out the cracked pavement and created an ice hazard on the pavement where the neighbors walked. So rather than bear the cost of fixing it, I simply ...and in my township, illegally... rerouted the pump into the sewer line from my house so now I never see it anymore. I like it and most people who see it say they'll do the same since it's a neater installation overall.
My fantasy is to have my sump pump discharge into a man-made pond in my yard, maybe through a fountain or little waterfall for added aeration, and have some goldfish or koi in there to keep me entertained. Since the water table in my area is not far below the basement floor and my pump is almost four feet under my basement floor, as the ground water rises a little during extended rain/wet season, there is enough water rising that my sump pump runs a couple times an hour, so plenty of water for a pond or to water the lawn, or spray on my roof for evaporative cooling, or erect a sprinkler system and charge the kids to play in it.
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