The Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park's 24-room rustic wood and stone lodge sits on a high cliff overlooking Pennyrile Lake. There are also 13 cottages and camping sites (some made for horses). Visitors can enjoy the great outdoors by birding, boating (rental pedal boats, row boats, canoes, kayaks and trolling motors are available), fishing,…
The Wilderness Club unfurls across 550 acres near the Kootenai National Forest. The resort community is stocked with a Nick Faldo-designed golf course, a 21-acre lake for fishing and recreation, a spa, Horse Park, Water Park and Sports Park. The luxury accommodations of cabins, cottages and suites provide comfortable outdoor/indoor living. The…
The Forest Hills Resort offers 280 RV and mobile home sites and hopes to expand to eventually offer more than 550. It is not open for public camping, only to members of organizations such as Coast to Coast, RPI or AOR. Guests rent the RV spaces seasonally (May to October) or buy a park model that looks like a small home. The resort is home to the…
At 29,800 acres, the Fall Creek Falls State Park ambles across the eastern top of the rugged Cumberland Plateau as one of the state's largest state parks. Its terrain is blessed with gorges, waterfalls, streams and forests. The Fall Creek Falls, at 256 feet, is one of the highest waterfalls in the eastern United States. Others include Piney Falls,…
The Penn National Golf Club & Inn resides in the bucolic central Pennsylvania countryside in the heart of Amish country. The Inn features a manor house and six modern lodge buildings housing 52 guest rooms located off the 8th fairway. The Founders Grille Restaurant & Black Oak Bar are at the clubhouse. Overnight guests have access to the club's…
Valhalla Resort Hotel is a small hotel in North Georgia's mountain town of Helen, which was modeled after a Bavarian village. This resort is home to an 18-hole, 6,500-yard golf course, Innsbruck Golf Club, opened in 1987 with affordable green fees. This all-suite hotel has 25 units ranging in size with larger villas that can sleep up to 8 guests.…
Forest Greens Golf Club in Triangle, Va., may seem like a private club, but in reality, it's a daily-fee track with perks like on-course beverage services and a large practice area. It's a fair course, without a whole lot of tricky drama or hidden treachery. With big, welcoming fairways and huge, modestly fast greens, this is a golf course you can enjoy again and again.
When you're playing a municipal golf course in a state, city, county or metropark chain of parks, you're almost always guaranteed a round of golf in a natural setting with no homes and little traffic.
Canada's most prolific Golden Era architect, Stanley Thompson, also known as the "Toronto Terror" for his larger-than-life persona, designed one of his best at Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course in Alberta. The course is cut out of the Canadian Rockies' largest national park, full of mountain scenery, pine forests and an abundance of elk, bears and coyotes.
Now that the Lake AuSable Lodge has opened on site, you can add northern Michigan's Forest Dunes G.C. to the short, elite list of quintessential "golf destinations." Kiel Christianson has more from Roscommon.
Northern Michigan includes as many notable golf plays as any destination in the world. And many of golf's biggest names have unveiled designs here. The region provides a setting ideal for beautiful, dramatic golf designs, thanks to lots of cheap land, rolling terrain, dense forests and sometimes even hilly courses built adjacent to ski slopes. Brandon Tucker offers your blueprint to Northern Michigan courses designed by the biggest names in the business.
As golf courses across Canada officially begin opening for the 2015 golf season, we're announcing the top courses in Ontario as rated by golfers on Golf Advisor.
While golfers flock to Florida for sun-splashed fairways, most tourists and family members who don't play golf are attracted by the state's world-class theme parks. Fortunately for the dedicated golfer, there is a lengthy menu of excellent golf courses to play just minutes from Florida's most popular theme parks. Ed Schmidt has more.
You'll definitely find diversity when you play one of the eight Georgia State Parks golf courses. Whether you prefer your golf in the mountains, the lake or near a swamp, they've got you covered.
Several states have invested in including golf alongside other recreation for residents and visitors. The result is some of the best-value golf in the country.
The Show Me State features plenty of great golf, from Branson and the Ozarks to metro St. Louis and Kansas City. View the top-rated courses in Missouri for 2016.
We looked at your ratings and reviews in the state of Oklahoma in 2017 to determine which courses received the best ratings. Here is the annual top ten determined by golfers like you.
Three hours south of Atlanta, Georgia's personality transforms into a different world.There's none of the hustle and bustle of Atlanta, one of the nation's hippest cities. None of the commercialism, either. And thankfully, none of the gridlock that makes Atlanta traffic legendary.
Andersons Creek Golf Club in Cavendish has one of Prince Edward Island's more interesting pieces of land for golf, even if the first impression might not show it. The first few holes play on mostly open, flat land. Then, the third hole heads into a forested ridge line, where the bulk of the course's holes lay. Playing up and down through mature forest, the golf course winds along Andersons Creek, requiring shots played over water four times.
From Vancouver Island to Newfoundland, Canada's scenery is spectacular. And, thankfully, if you're into golf, that jaw-dropping scenery is on display on many of the Great White North's most notable courses.
Perched on the edge of the Yellowstone National Park ecosystem, The Club at Spanish Peaks in Big Sky, Montana, located less than an hour from Bozeman, is a true escape from the everyday hustle and bustle of life. The 7,200-yard, par-72 golf course, which opened in 2007, is private but offers resort packages to the public. Mike Bailey shows us more in this photo gallery.
With apologies to Colorado, Lake Tahoe stakes a strong claim as America's best mountain golf destination in summer. Here's a photo gallery of some of the best 18-hole golf courses around Lake Tahoe.
A five-minute boat ride across the Lake of Bays gets the blood flowing for what lies ahead at Bigwin Island Golf Club on the isolated 700-acre island in Muskoka cottage country two hours north of Toronto. Course designer Doug Carrick transformed an abandoned Stanley Thompson course in 2001 into a stunningly scenic private playground that is only open to the public in spring and fall.
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