Country Club of the Rockies
Edwards, Eagle County, Colorado · Vail Valley golf market
- Access
- equity
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Jack Nicklaus
- Gated
- Yes
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Country Club of the Rockies was conceived in 1980 alongside the Arrowhead at Vail gated community by local developer Jen Wright, with the Jack Nicklaus Signature course opening in 1984-85. It is a links-style design with rolling terrain, four holes along or across the Eagle River, and water in play on eleven of eighteen holes -- at 7,400 yards from the back tees but playing shorter than that number suggests thanks to Arrowhead's roughly 7,200-foot elevation. The club is member-owned, with a reported waitlist of six to seven years and roughly 350 members, making it one of the more genuinely hard-to-access private clubs in the Vail Valley -- a meaningfully different access pattern from Cordillera's larger, Troon-managed, more publicly-open-to-membership model, or Red Sky's invitation-only-but-operator-run model.
Golf & Course
Jack Nicklaus Signature design, opened 1984-85, links-style routing with significant water in play (eleven of eighteen holes) and four holes along or across the Eagle River; plays to roughly 7,400 yards from the tips at about 7,200 feet elevation.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Membership is required for regular play and is member-owned (an equity-style structure); the club reports a six-to-seven year waitlist and approximately 350 members. Buying a home in Arrowhead at Vail does not itself grant membership -- membership is a separate application/waitlist process.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located within the gated Arrowhead at Vail residential community in Edwards, Eagle County.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Golf membership initiation
Current$150,000
Reported as having increased from $95,000 (pre-renovation) to $150,000 currently; sourced via a directory aggregating the club's own published figures, not a direct read of the club's rate sheet -- confirm directly with the club.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$150,001
Aggregator bucket ($150,001 or more).
Annual dues
Historical$15,000
Reported via aggregator as '$15,001 or more' (bucket, not an exact figure) -- treat as approximate.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee and dues directly with the club -- figures here come from a directory secondary source, not the club's own rate sheet.
- Confirm current membership waitlist length (reported 6-7 years, unclear as of what date).
- Confirm whether membership is technically structured as equity or non-equity -- 'member-owned' language strongly implies equity but this was not directly confirmed against the club's governing documents.
Notable
- Conceived alongside the Arrowhead at Vail community in 1980; course opened 1984-85.
- Jack Nicklaus Signature design -- not Greg Norman, correcting an earlier brief's shorthand for a different Vail Valley club.
- Reported 6-7 year membership waitlist, ~350 members.
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