123 Route 94, Vernon, New Jersey 07462, US
(973) 827-2000
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About Mountain Creek Resort

Mountain Creek Resort is a four-season destination in Vernon, N.J., just an hour outside of New York City. It features a waterpark; the 27-hole Great Gorge course, which was purchased in 2018; the Treescape Aerial Adventure Park, home to zip-lining, climbing obstacles and rope walks; and a Bike Park of 52 trails that is loaded with jumps and 1,000 feet of vertical drop. The course was part of the old Playboy Club in the 1970s and 1980s, attracting famous names such as Dean Martin and Bob Hope for a game. It’s a beautiful property with wonderful mountain views and elevation changes. Guests can stay in the Appalachian hotel or enjoy more space and privacy in a one- to three-bedroom townhome rental at Black Creek Sanctuary. Both accommodations offer outdoor pool and hot tub facilities. 

Facts

Price Range$$$
Property Class★★★★
Acres532
Year Opened1965
Number of Units100-300

Amenities & Services

RestaurantsCasual, Bar
Room TypesRoom, Suite
Fitness CenterYes
Practice FacilityYes
Banquet SpaceYes

Rules

Is the resort pet friendly?No
Is resort stay required for a tee time?No

Golf courses at Mountain Creek Resort

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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

Pretty course that needs some TLC

I haven't played this course is over 10 years. Tee boxes should be moved more often to prevent golfers looking for a divot free area to tee off. The starter was not friendly and actually yelled at me and my playing partner on 2 separate occasions. The course is picturesque on a larger scale, with a few minor changes, It has so much potential to be among one of the best, I would suggest the staff to play the course on a day off and think of what a golfer who is playing for the 1st time would think of every aspect of their experience.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 09/27/2022

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to review and leave your feedback on your recent round with us. It is always our utmost goal to provide our golfers with a fun and enjoyable time and we apologize if we missed the mark. Please feel free to reach out to our staff in the pro shop with any additional concerns. Thanks for choosing Great Gorge Golf Club.

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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Best value around

You’d be hard pressed to find better pricing in the area.

Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Layout Fair
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
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Commented on 09/27/2022

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to review and leave your feedback on your recent round with us. It is always our utmost goal to provide our golfers with a fun and enjoyable time and we apologize if we missed the mark. Please feel free to reach out to our staff in the pro shop with any additional concerns. Thanks for choosing Great Gorge Golf Club.

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Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Previously Played

Course went downhill yet their prices skyrocketed

Played here for a few years and it was always a challenging course worth the greens fees, but this year it looks like hey jacked up the greens fees to nearly 100$! I should have know this was going ti be bad when I went to their range where they are now charging 5$ for a bucket of balls they find on their course and mats that have stayed outside in the elements for the past 5 years. You have to hit around the artificial grass freyed and peeling off the rubber mat. On the course: Their tee boxes were dry and destroyed by other golfers. Clearly they are not being maintained. The fairways are all full of little divots (natural and golfer made). Be careful or you will trip and break your ankle. Sand traps are full of gravel and rock that splash up onto the greens on your bunker shot. The greens themselves were also atrocious. I’ve seen better greens at Public muni courses where you pay half the cost. Nobody fixes their divots and the greens were dry and fast. Depressions likely due to drainage and sinkage in the ground all over the place leading to wildly difficult reads. Cart paths look like they haven’t been paved since the 90s. Despite all these terrible conditions of the course the starter had the audacity to tell us it was 90 degree cart path only and came charging up to us as we started the back 9 for the day to make sure we went to the correct course of the 3 they have. Meanwhile they couldn’t get their act together to get us a cart until 5 minutes before our tee time.

So disappointed that I had to pay 30% more than last year to play at a course that they clearly aren’t maintaining. Don’t play this course, instead go play any of the Crystal Springs courses that are nearby. You’ll actually get your money’s worth.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
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Commented on 09/27/2022

Hello, SugarLove. Thank you for taking the time to review and leave your feedback on your recent round with us. It is always our utmost goal to provide our golfers with a fun and enjoyable time and we apologize if we missed the mark. Please feel free to reach out to our staff in the pro shop with any additional concerns. Thanks for choosing Great Gorge Golf Club.

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Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

SLOW..SLOW..SLOW

I played the Rail/Lake combo with a reserved tee time at 12:20. I arrived early and was permitted to start earlier than my tee time. When I made the reservation, I purposely picked the time because there were several empty tee times both prior and after mine. Needless to say, by time I got to the 6th hole on the front nine, there was a threesome ahead of me. This group did NOT play “ready golf” but played like they were on Tour and often playing more than one ball per golfer. By the time I got to the 8th hole on the back nine, the wait was the worst I have experienced. There was a twosome on the 9th tee, a foursome on the 8th green, a threesome on the 8th tee, my group, a threesome hitting the 7th green and another group in the 7th fairway. At no point was a ranger spotted to address the slow play. By time I finished, five hours went by. SLOW play kills a round and I will not be back.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
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Commented on 09/23/2022

Hi, thanks for sharing your feedback. We’re sorry your experience didn’t match your expectations. It was an uncommon instance and we’ll do better in the future.

Please feel free to reach out to us with any further comments, concerns, or suggestions you wish to share. We would love to make things right if you give us another chance.

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Reviews 5
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Love this course

I love that can play 2 of us

Beautiful course too

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 24
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 102
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 20
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Rainy Day but course played well

Scattered rain all morning but the course held up well. Only negatives were the tee boxes and the bunkers. I know we are later in the season but the Tee boxes had a lot of divots, holes, and just needed to be maintained. Started teeing 2 yards behind the markers. Bunkers need to be maintained a bit more. Well at least players need to do their part after playing from it.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

GREAT GORGE REVIEW

Course has so much potential. T-boxes, rough, and sand traps all need work and TLC. Greens were nice and super fast...almost too fast. Cart paths in terrible condition as is parking lot. I thought it was a bit pricey for what you got. This should be about a $50 course vice a $90. But layout is great and fun. Could really be a top course with right care and vision.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 09/08/2022

Thank you for leaving us a review. We are sorry to hear your experience was anything short of 5 stars, but we hope you will give us another try in the future. Thank you for choosing Great Gorge Golf Club - Lake/Quarry Course.

Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great day

Course was in good shape with some challenging holes. Views were an added bonus as is Hef’s Hut for a cold beverage after the round.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great price

Fast greens challenging blind shots from elevated tees course a must play

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 12
Skill Intermediate
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Recommend playing

Looking forward to going back and play this again

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 53
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played

It’s been awhile…

I haven’t played Great Gorge in over 10 years. Played Rail/Quarry today and a lot has changed. First, the fairways and weren’t uniformly in great shape. Tee boxes and greens were in pretty good shape. Second, they removed the gps system from the golf carts. Not knocking the course, but I remember it being pristine back in the day.. It was def worth the $46 hot deal though.

Views are amazing and greens can be tricky if you’re not paying attention. Can be challenging enough for low handicappers and enjoyable for high handicappers depending on what set of tees you hit from.

All in all, we’ll worth the fee, but def wouldn’t travel from Staten Island again. It’s not the course I remember.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
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Commented on 09/23/2022

Hi DadJokes,

Let us first say that we are so glad to hear you enjoyed your visit. We work hard to create an enjoyable experience so you can focus on enjoying yourself and let us do the rest. We also want to thank you for your honest and constructive criticism of the course.

We are going to escalate your review to our team in charge and do everything we can to improve before your next game.

Thank you for visiting and playing at Great Gorge Golf Club. We hope to see you again soon!

Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Previously Played

Unfriendly female staff

This course is designed to be quite difficult and many challenges await. However, the unkindness of the staff rather than the course made it quite unpleasant during the game, and I vowed not to come back to this golf course again because of the steps.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Good
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Commented on 08/30/2022

Hi, We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. We are sorry to hear your customer service experience was not up to par. Please reach out to our management team at (973) 846-8692, and thanks for visiting Great Gorge Golf Club - Lake/Quarry Course. We hope you'll give us another try in the future.

Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
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