Treasure Lake Golf Club

Treasure Lake is a large (9,000+ acre) gated, semi-private lake-and-golf community in the Allegheny Mountain foothills of Clearfield County, roughly 8 miles by road from DuBois, about 2 hours from Pittsburgh, and roughly 75 minutes from State College. The U.S. Census Bureau recognizes it as its own census-designated place, with a population of 5,460 at the 2020 census, inside Sandy Township. Governance runs through the Treasure Lake Property Owners Association (tlpoa.us), which manages roads, security, amenities, and community events for the community's roughly 2,400 homes, sold as a mix of homesites (from around $10,000 historically), single-family homes, condos, cottages, and cabins.

Golf is the community's central organized amenity: two 18-hole, par-72 courses -- Gold (6,284 yards from the tips) and Silver (6,747 yards, described as the more open, beginner-friendly of the two) -- both designed by architect Tom Palumbo and opened in 1983, each with its own pro shop and tavern. The Gold Course has been recognized among the best in Pennsylvania by Golf Digest. Beyond golf, Treasure Lake's amenity base is unusually broad for a golf-anchored community: three lakes, a marina with roughly 200 boat slips, two sandy beaches, two swimming pools, tennis courts, horse stables, and the Lakeview Lodge & Conference Center (home to several of the community's restaurants and taverns, including Pirate's Cove, Duffers' Tavern, and the 19th Hole Tavern).

The golf-to-homeownership relationship is real but only partially resolved by this research pass: the community's own website separately publishes 'Property Owner Golf Membership Rates' and 'Non-Property Owner Green Fees' pages, a genuine structural signal that property owners have access to a different (likely season-length, discounted) golf product than the general public -- but the exact eligibility rule could not be confirmed after real search effort (both pages exist but their content could not be directly fetched), so this platform records the precise mechanic as unresolved rather than assuming a specific answer in either direction.