Wisp Resort

Lodestone plays to 7,507 yards from the back tees across rugged mountain terrain with bentgrass fairways and undulating greens, and its design pedigree (former U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin working with Todd Schoeder) plus its Golfweek public-course rankings give it real standing in the Mid-Atlantic public-golf conversation. Fantasy Valley, at 6,687 yards and originally designed by Dominic Palombo Jr. in 1980 (renovated by Todd Schroeder in 2008), is the older, base-of-the-mountain companion course and is comparatively modest in reputation.

Both courses are public and daily-fee -- buying a home anywhere near Wisp, including in Biltmore at Lodestone, does not include or require any golf membership. The resort's optional membership tiers (Single/Family/Junior) are sold separately from real estate and are not tied to any specific property.

Biltmore at Lodestone is a gated, mountaintop community of building lots and homes sited within roughly half a mile of the Lodestone course, with some lots (e.g., along Blue Mountain View) directly bordering the cart path between holes 5 and 6. It is a genuine purpose-built, golf-adjacent gated development rather than a loosely golf-branded subdivision, though it is legally and operationally separate from the golf course itself.

McHenry sits on Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, in Maryland's far-western panhandle -- a genuine mountain/lake resort market distinct from the rest of the state, built around skiing, boating, and golf as complementary four-season draws.