Turf Valley Resort

Turf Valley began as a country club in 1958 and has since become a full resort -- two renovated 18-hole golf courses (the Original Course and the Hialeah Course), a hotel, spa, and conference center on roughly 1,000 acres in Ellicott City, Howard County. Golf access runs on a private-membership-plus-resort-guest model: the resort's own site markets a 'Private Golf Membership' program alongside hotel-guest and getaway-package access, rather than pure daily-fee public play.

The resort property has become the organizing feature for a genuine cluster of residential development. On-site, Villas at Turf Valley and Mt. Villa Apartments offer golf-course-view rental living. Just beyond the resort's own grounds, purpose-built for-sale communities -- Fairways at Turf Valley (NVHomes/Keelty townhomes marketed for their golf-course views and walkable access to Turf Valley Resort's dining, spa, and Town Square) and Turf Valley Overlook -- were developed specifically around the resort's setting. None of this housing includes or requires golf membership; access to Turf Valley's private membership or resort golf remains a separate purchase, making this a residential-integration case (genuine, purpose-built community development organized around the golf/resort setting) rather than a bundled-golf one.