Eagle County Getaways & Eagle Ranch Golf Club

Since it opened in 2001, Eagle Ranch Golf Club & Resort has offered a great balance between mountain golf’s challenges and the welcoming experience of a friendly resort course. The Arnold Palmer-designed Colorado mountain golf course avoids some of the elevation chicanery of other mountain courses; their world is flat.

Like a lot of the region’s courses, Eagle Ranch Golf Club & Resort offers opportunities at either end of a day of adventure in the mountains. Teeing off early, of course, brings the cool of the morning. But tee fees go down many days after 3 p.m. and during July the sun sets so late that leaves more than enough time to get in 18 holes.

And new this year is an updated clubhouse and patio, designed specifically to help visitors enjoy the early evening as the sun sets in the west. “We have the best view in town,” said Jeff Boyer, Eagle Ranch’s general manager. Our Colorado mountain golf course is among many seeking to de-mystify the game for some of its newer players. A new set of forward tee boxes – not just tee markers plunked down in the middle of the fairway – are creating a course that plays at around 5,000 yards. This is in sync with a major USGA initiative that is encouraging more players to play forward, giving them a chance at a much more pleasant experience.

“I’ve been wanting to do it forever,” Boyer said. Our Colorado mountain golf course is the centerpiece for the master-planned community that surrounds it, just south of the town of Eagle. The entire valley that Eagle and the community nestled in also provides a short commute to Vail, Beaver Creek and any of the Vail Valley sources of summer activities, from mountain biking and hiking to luxe spa treatments and cool evening concerts.

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THINGS TO DO

Every Thursday night from late June to the middle of August The Town of Eagle ShowDown concert series, presented by Alpine Bank, offers free concerts. Bring a picnic basket, blanket or chairs, and beer or wine. Concerts begin at 6:30 p.m. There are awesome activities along the Eagle River. The Yoga at the River series goes on all summer, and Tube-a-Palooza on Aug. 4.

GO FISH

Fly fishing along the Eagle River brings anglers from around the world. Eagle Rivers Outfitters offers packages from half-day to full-day floats that supply all the technical gear and help anglers reach corners of the river inaccessible any other way.

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