The Raven Golf Club at Three Peaks

The Raven at Three Peaks is by far my favorite course. You will not find any better course conditions and views from every hole on this course. The layout is challenging but fair, and regardless of how you play, you are never disappointed. The staff is great and friendly, the club house and the food is great. Just seeing the holes as you drive up the road to the club house makes you want to just jump out and start playing. If you have never played this course it has to be on your list as a must do, no question!!

My group of mostly out-of-state players thoroughly enjoyed playing 36 holes here last July. They seemed to enjoy playing the second round from the White tees after getting beat up from the Silver Tees on the back nine in our first round.

The fairways and greens were in fine shape other than a few boggy spots on some fairways. The Raven's biggest challenge seems to be keeping the cart paths from sliding down the mountainsides....a problem common to Summit County including I-70.

The unique features of The Raven are generally wide and lush fairways, large and fine greens that are very challenging to read and great elevation changes.

Bring your camera for great Rocky Mountain scenery combined with a fair amount of local wildlife including fox, deer, an occasional moose and ospreys that for years have had their huge nest on a post overlooking the 3rd fairway. You may see an osprey snatch a large trout from ponds of The Raven or the neighboring ponds and fly it back to its tall nest on the pole.

The Raven staff will welcome you to a great day of golf and send you off on what begins as a rather tame front nine. But as you climb from the Blue River valley uphill to the par 3 8th hole (appropriately named Buena Vista) you'll be ready for 2 very exciting downhillers. The 8th hole measures 184 yds from the Raven (tips) tees and 134 yds from the forward tees. A Texan with a good game should probably hit about 3 clubs less than he'd hit this distance in Texas due to the approximate 150 ft. drop from tee to green and the thin, light air at almost 9,000' above sea level. Of course this depends on the wind that day. Just don't miss left or long!

Then #9 is a breathtaking par 4 with a launch pad tee box that must sit 300 feet or more above the green on this par 4 monster. Drive your tee shot straight out into the Rocky Mountain air and watch it drop hopefully to the center of the lush, downsloping fairway. Then hit your long iron to the left front of the right sloping green, earn your birdie or par and head happily past the beautiful Raven clubhouse and patio to the even more challenging back nine.

The Raven's back nine has two very tough par 3s (#12 and 14) and five fun but challenging par 4s. But it's the two par 5s that really define the back nine here. #11 (properly named Waterloo) is a super risk/reward hole. Your tee shot hopefully will land just short of the large trout filled pond straight off the tee. A well-struck 200+ yard, high risk second shot over the pond puts you in great position for a birdie or eagle. But the more prudent shot tends to be playing the hole as a double dogleg and hit a mid to long iron left of the pond in preparation for lofting a high, soft iron to a green that can be tough to hold.

My favorite hole is The Raven's signature #16. It's a long downhill, dogleg right par 5. Measuring 601 yards from the tips and 489 yards from the forward tees this hole welcomes a long, left center tee shot followed by an equally long and well aimed second shot near or on a well- bunkered, roller coaster green. From #16 you begin a long, uphill climb through two tough par 4s and finish at a high point on the course.

After your final putt on #18 you'll drive a long, steep, downhill cart path with lots of switchbacks before returning to the clubhouse for a great lunch, dinner and/or drinks on the normally sunny patio. You've earned a beverage of choice following your Rocky Mountain high golf experience at The Raven at Three Peaks.

Have played this course several times and I can't wait to play it again. Great friendly staff, beautiful scenery and a fun course layout. If you have to complain about the pace of play, then stay home! Your in some of the best views the Colorado Rockies has to offer. Relax and take it all in. 5hrs on this track is the norm.

I was luck enough to play this Course in the late fall. The changing of the leaves made a great Course even more enjoyabale. In my opinion this course is what Mtn Golf is all about! The Front 9 is much tamer then the the back 9. There are plenty of Biridie opportunities on the Front. The back 9 is a different story. When you get to #10 you see immediately that it's time to really focus and hold on for a fun and difficult ride. I really enjoyed this course and it was more then worth the drive. I plan on returning to play this course as soon as the summer arrives!

We had a beautiful reprieve from mold man winter today...65 degrees , no wind...beautiful! Course is on borrowed time right now (usually pretty cold by now) and greens were sanded but the course still played beautifully...do not miss a chance to play here!

I couldn't find anything wrong with this course even if i tried. Superb! Granted, I went during off season when affordable.

Staff was fantastic. Course Layout made each and every hole exciting!

There are multiple holes with extreme elevation changes.

Bunkers were soft and plentiful.

I want to go back again and again. You have to try this course!

Beautiful course!

Way too much information from the starter. Not happy with his intervention of which tees to play either.

Main complaint: the play was so slow! Over 5 hours. We saw the ranger once, - and only on the back nine. Would have been wise for the starter to advise the max score and pick-up, and the refreshment cart? First time by, she didn't stop. Second time we had to flag her down. Then not again. Simply not good for an extrembly slow playing, hot day, mountain course.

great scenery and lay-out. Very helpful staff. very good conditioning and greens are quick and true. Pace of play painfully slow.

We enjoyed playing this course. Being from Florida the elevation were very captivating for us. I would recommend this course to anyone reveling to the area.

We played The Raven at 3 Peaks on a gorgeous day and I had very positive memories of the last time we played there. From the start, things seemed different. The driving range (already a poor facility since you can't hit much more than a 200 year shot) was soaked in the teeing area to the point where a taking a divot was a frightening endeavor. There had not been any significant rain for several days so this was due to irrigation. When we commented about this to the staff after coming back to the clubhouse we were told "at least the sun's shining!". We then went for a quick bite in the grill before teeing off. We had 45 minutes to spare before our time and mentioned that to the server who took our order. 35 minutes later we were gulping down our food in order to head to the tee in time. Once we teed off the pace of play was very slow - over 2 1/2 hours for the front nine. In addition, the wet range seemed to have spilled over onto the course as numerous areas were too muddy for carts, and casual water was evident on a number of fairways. The worst of it was the 7th fairway where a number of areas were virtual quagmires. I will say the greens were firm and in great shape, but the tees looked like little maintenance had been done and most people paid no attention to divots. The corker to the front nine occurred when we hit the clubhouse and commented to the staff that pace of play was very slow. Rather than apologize for this, two of the young guys out front argued with us and told us 5+ hours was "normal for mountain golf". It certainly wasn't normal the day before when we played the River course at Keystone in less than 4 1/2 hours. We were basically told we were wrong in our opinion of the slow play. Imagine that - a course making excuses for poor on course supervision. Too bad about all of this - I really like the layout and the views are spectacular. We used our VIP Passbooks (which I am guessing many people do) so it was a good rate for a great course with second rate conditions and even worse service.

This is true mountain golf with dramatic elevation changes and awesome vistas. A real Gem. Because of it's difficulty and long rides between tees, be prepared for a 5 hour round. But who cares? It's beautiful.

My only critique is the staff. We played on a 'hot deal'. We arrived early to warm up and noticed there was no one on the tee for an hour and asked if we could go off early. "you have a hot deal tee time and you can't go early" was the curt response. We reminded of this 3 times by the rather surly staff as they treated us like lower class citizens. Yes, I have a hot deal, that doesn't make me a bum. Yes, I can pay full freight, but why should I? If you don't want hot deal players, don't offer them

Defiantly was a really cool course and the scenery was awesome. The cart guy was friendly, quickly gave me some good tips for the course, and set up my cart. The guy in the clubhouse was somewhat clueless, I stood at the counter looking at him for 2 minutes as he was messing around with the computer and didn't say a word to me. No water or beverage cart on the course.

Course was in fairly good condition. Fun elevation changes. The greens and pin placements were tough, hard to read at times. Overall a good experience but compared to a lot of the resorts in Arizona, it seemed like they were lacking that high class resort feel.

My wife and I were celebrating out anniversary in Breckenridge and this course with the hot deal was about 118 for the both of us. Thats far better than the surrounding courses that would have been over $200 for the both of us. So we get to the course and the staff is absolutely excellent, they pointed us in the right direction, answered all of our questions, overall they were fantastic. The practice area is very good with practice bunkers for both fairway bunkers and green bunkers, the range is a little short, only 260 I would say, so my driver was going out on every shot. Well went up to start our round and before we started a marshall was up on #1 waiting for us. He explained the front nine and gave us great instructions for the course before we hit. This was only the second time my wife has golfed but the front tees at this course basically start on the fairway so that really helped her stay up and have a good time. So what was wrong with this front nine? Well we started at 3:30 and did not finish the front nine till 6:30.... 3 hours for nine holes. After the first hole we were waiting on every shot and then some. It just took forever. After the front nine we headed to the back and showed up with two groups of four waiting on #10. So I headed back to the clubhouse and asked if I could finish the back nine the next morning. The staff yet again was awesome. He completely apologized and told me I could be the first one out the start the back. So the next day my wife and I started at 8:09 (45 degrees which I loved) and proceeded to play nine holes completely by ourselves and finish in under 1:30. It was amazing. So overall I loved everything about this course except the pace of play on the first day. Will I come back? Yes, but I would make sure that I was the first to tee-off.

I only have one thing to say: 3 hours for 9 holes. And the staff shrugged shoulders and said "it's a busy day".

Had booked 18 but didn't have 3 more hours so didn't complete round.

It's a shame because it's otherwise a demanding and very scenic course.

But other than charity scrambles I have never played a slower 9 in my life.

Got there an hour before the tee time and had to wait 30 minutes to get a cart. The practice facility is inaccessible without a cart so we had to wait by the pro shop. We ended up teeing off 15 minutes late. Once on the course pace was brutal. We didn't see a ranger until the 12th hole. Drinking water is limited on the course. After finishing in 5 hours and 15 minutes staff was extremely rude and asked us what we expected from a Saturday round. They told us 5 hours plus is the standard for the Raven. If you can put up with an outrageously long round the corse is okay with a few tricked up holes.

Stopped playing after 13 holes took over 4 hours.Staff felt it was just busy and they could do nothing about slow play.

Really nice course overall. Back nine is much tougher than the front. Forced carries on the back nine place a premium on driving and solid approaches. Several bunkers had rocks everywhere in them, which keeps me from a five star rating.

Staff was very friendly.

I do hope to play again when back in town.