Hide-A-Way Hills
Sugar Grove, Fairfield County, Ohio · Hocking Hills golf market
- Access
- mandatory
- Holes
- 9
- Gated
- Yes
- Golf access
- Bundled
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Hide-A-Way Hills is a gated, member-owned lake and recreation community established in 1961 in Fairfield/Hocking County, roughly 20 minutes outside Lancaster and about 50 minutes from Columbus. Spanning approximately 1,650-1,730 wooded acres with multiple private lakes, it was designed from the outset as a retreat offering both year-round residences and vacation homes behind a 24-hour-secured gate. What makes it a genuine qualifying case under this build's barrier-to-entry standard is not its golf course -- a modest nine-hole layout -- but the recorded legal structure of the community itself: the original deed restrictions state plainly that every owner of a lot in the subdivision is entitled to, and bound by, membership in the Hide-A-Way Hills Club, funded through required assessments. That makes club membership a genuine, contractually mandatory feature of property ownership here, in contrast to every other community in this batch, where golf-club membership is confirmed to be a separate, optional purchase. Buyers should come to Hide-A-Way Hills expecting a recreation-first, lake-and-lodge lifestyle community with golf as one amenity among many, not a golf-first development.
Golf & Course
The community's nine-hole course, established alongside the community in 1961, plays to 2,392 yards at a par of 35. Community descriptions characterize it as a gentle, beginner-friendly layout rather than a championship test, useful for a quick casual round or practice rather than a serious golf draw in its own right. No architect of record was found in sources reviewed this session.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Membership in the Hide-A-Way Hills Club is not optional and not separately marketed the way it is at TPC River's Bend or Country Club of the North -- it is a legal incident of lot ownership per the community's own recorded deed restrictions, conditioned on paying the Club's required assessments and following its rules. There is no waitlist mechanic reported; membership follows automatically and immediately from purchasing a lot.
Living in Hide-A-Way Hills
The 1961-established community was designed as a gated retreat combining permanent residences and vacation homes across roughly 1,650-1,730 acres of wooded, hilly terrain with several private lakes. It is governed by a nine-member Board of Trustees as a nonprofit club with an estimated 1,500 members, some full-time and some seasonal, and the club itself maintains the community's internal roads in addition to its recreational facilities.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Beyond golf, the club's amenities include multiple private lakes with a beach for boating, fishing, and swimming, a pool, tennis and pickleball courts, horse stables and a barn, a community garden, ATV trails, a shooting range, a chapel, and a lodge with a restaurant -- the community's marketing and member-facing materials foreground this broader lake-and-outdoor-recreation identity well ahead of golf specifically.
Location & Surrounding Area
Hide-A-Way Hills sits near Sugar Grove in Fairfield/Hocking County, in the Hocking Hills region of southeastern Ohio, roughly 20 minutes from Lancaster (the Fairfield County seat) and about 50 minutes from Columbus -- a rural, wooded, lake-district setting distinct from every other suburban master-planned community in this batch.
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$7,026
A third-party real-estate blog cited a 'new member fee' of $7,026 attached to a specific property listing rather than the club's own published, current fee schedule; treat as an illustrative, not confirmed-current, figure and verify directly with the club.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current monthly/annual club assessment amounts directly with the Hide-A-Way Hills Club office -- a specific one-time 'new member fee' of $7,026 was found attached to one real-estate listing, but no current, club-published fee schedule was located.
- Confirm any resale, transfer, or rental restrictions on membership directly with the club given its mandatory, deed-tied structure.
- If golf specifically is a buyer's priority, independently confirm the course's condition and playability -- sources describe it as a modest, beginner-oriented nine-hole layout rather than a serious golf draw.
Notable
- Established in 1961 as a gated retreat community combining permanent residences and seasonal/vacation homes.
- Recorded deed restrictions confirm club membership is automatically included with, and conditioned on, lot ownership -- a true mandatory-bundling case, unlike every other qualifying community in this batch.
- The nine-hole golf course is one of several recreational amenities alongside multiple private lakes, a beach, stables, a shooting range, and a lodge/restaurant -- golf is secondary to the community's lake-and-recreation identity.
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