Mountain Air Country Club
Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina · Asheville / Hendersonville golf market
- Access
- membership optional
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Scott Pool
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Mountain Air is a private mountaintop community in Yancey County, roughly 30 minutes north of Asheville, distinguished by a genuinely unusual amenity: its golf course shares the summit with a private airstrip, and golfers on certain holes wait for planes to land or cross the runway. Club membership is offered to property owners but is explicitly not mandatory, and a National Membership option exists for golfers who do not own property at Mountain Air.
Golf & Course
The course was designed by Scott Pool and opened in 1990, sitting above 4,500 feet in elevation. Its defining characteristic is the shared mountaintop airstrip -- a rare, well-documented novelty among US golf-residential communities.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Property owners at Mountain Air are not required to join the club -- membership is explicitly optional. Non-owners can access the club via a National Membership if they live outside a 15-mile radius of the community, reportedly priced around $5,000 initiation and roughly $1,920/quarter in dues; short-term Preview Memberships (two- and three-month trials) are also offered.
Living in Mountain Air Country Club
Mountain Air combines a residential real-estate community, a private airstrip, and a golf/country club on one mountaintop -- an unusual three-way integration not found at other clubs researched in this market.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located above Burnsville in Yancey County, roughly 30 minutes north of Asheville.
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
Historical$5,000
This figure is specifically the National Membership tier (for non-owners living outside a 15-mile radius), not a general/property-owner tier initiation fee -- no general-tier figure was found.
Annual dues
Historical$7,680
Derived from reported $1,920/quarter National Membership dues x 4; National tier only, not necessarily representative of property-owner tiers.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current property-owner-tier initiation fee and dues -- only the National (non-owner) tier's figures were found this session.
- Confirm whether the club operates year-round or closes seasonally given the 4,500+ ft elevation -- not found this session.
- Confirm gated/access-control status of the community directly.
Notable
- The golf course shares its 4,500+ ft mountaintop with a private airstrip; golfers may need to wait for aircraft to land or cross the runway between holes.
- Club membership is explicitly optional for property owners -- an unusual structure compared to most bundled mountain golf communities in this market.
- A National Membership exists specifically for non-owners living outside a 15-mile radius of the community.
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