Where to play in Idaho's mountain Shangri-La
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By Charlie Schroeder
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In recent years, new golf courses have sprung up in non-traditional
destinations. Consider Bandon Dunes in Oregon, which opened in 1999. It
(and its sister courses, Pacific Dunes and Bandon Trails) turned an
otherwise sleepy Oregon coastal town into a golfing mecca.
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By Charlie Schroeder, Photos Courtesy CDA Resort
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 In our modern times, unless your last name is Trump, Kaiser (Bandon
Dunes) or Kohler (Whistling Straits), chances are good that a new
course with killer views will, eventually, sprout homes alongside its
tightly mown fairways. After all, building golf courses ain’t cheap,
and many new public access layouts are conceived with real estate in
mind. Recently, however, that model has been changing.
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Great golf with an altitude
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By Staff
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 The mountain West, which incorporates the rugged terrain of the Rocky
Mountains in Colorado to the Sierra Nevadas of California, Utah and
upward to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is quite possibly the most diverse
outdoor playground in the United States. Literally every kind of
recreation is found here, ranging from winter skiing and white-water
rafting to horseback riding, hiking, fishing and, of course, golf. In
the last few years, the ski industry has taken advantage of what once
were strictly wintertime vacation havens that stood empty in the summer
months, and built golf courses to offset the busy snowy seasons. The
result of this infusion is a plethora of split-personality resort
destinations where thrill-seekers can ski in the winter and golf in the
summer, yet eat and sleep in the same place. |
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By Staff
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 The mountain West—a rugged region that stretches from the Colorado
Rockies to the Sierra Nevada of Northern California, Utah and into
Idaho—is unquestionably the most diverse terrain in the country. You
can do it all here when it comes to outdoor recreation: ski, hike,
swim, water sports, fishing—you name it. Within the last decade, golf
has surged in popularity, as many destinations have melded into hybrid
resorts that serve as ski havens in the winter and golf hot spots in
the summer. |
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