Gozzer Ranch Golf & Lake Club

Gozzer Ranch Golf & Lake Club is a private, gated community built by Discovery Land Company on 700 acres of former ranchland overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene in Harrison, Idaho -- named for the Gozzer ranching family that once owned much of the land. The centerpiece is an 18-hole Tom Fazio championship course that opened in 2007, plays to 7,317 yards, and has been ranked among America's Greatest Golf Courses (a 2013 Golf Digest recognition) and named Golf Digest's Best New Private Course of 2008; it is generally regarded as Idaho's best-ranked course. The residential program is built directly into the club: 267 custom homesites (three-quarters of an acre to more than four acres), plus 34 detached cabins, 28 homestead cottage homes and 28 waterfront condominium lodge homes, alongside a Lake Club with two full-service marinas, a children's camp (Coulter Camp and the Red Barn), and a general store.

Gozzer Ranch does not publish its membership terms, initiation fee, or annual dues, and this research did not find an official fee schedule from the club or from Discovery Land Company. Golf-media estimates that circulate for the initiation fee (commonly cited in the $500,000-$1,000,000 range) are not corroborated by any first-party source and are not treated as fact here -- buyers should request a current, written fee schedule directly from club sales rather than rely on secondary estimates. Multiple secondary real-estate and club-directory sources describe property ownership as effectively carrying membership at Gozzer Ranch, consistent with Discovery Land Company's typical community model elsewhere in the country, but this research did not find the club's own statement confirming that structure, so it is recorded here as unresolved rather than assumed.

Notably, Frank Suryan -- the developer who later built CDA National Reserve a short drive away -- was previously a Gozzer Ranch member and has been quoted saying even Gozzer felt too crowded for his taste, which led him to acquire and redevelop the nearby defunct course instead. That history makes Gozzer Ranch and CDA National Reserve a natural, well-documented comparison for buyers evaluating North Idaho's two most prominent private lake clubs.