WindRiver

The par-72, 18-hole WindRiver Championship Golf Course was designed by Bob Cupp (a Jack Nicklaus protege) along the shores of Tellico Lake with views of the Great Smoky Mountains foothills, and is recognized as Tennessee's first Audubon Signature course.

WindRiver layers two mandatory, non-golf costs onto every homeowner: a WindRiver Community Association annual assessment (reported ~$2,150/year, ~$179/month) and a mandatory WindRiver Club Social Membership (reported ~$330/month) -- together roughly $509/month before any golf. Championship Golf Membership itself is optional and priced separately; new construction also reportedly carries one-time closing costs including a 4% capital contribution and a mandatory club initiation fee, with a separate optional golf initiation on top, though exact current dollar figures for those initiation fees were not found this session. This is structurally similar to Rarity Bay's mandatory-social/optional-golf pattern, distinct from Tellico Village's no-initiation bundled-rights model and from Avalon's fully optional membership.

WindRiver homes run from custom estate homes (roughly 3,000-6,100 sq ft, starting in the upper $600,000s up to just under $3 million) to Highlands neighborhood homes starting around $1.09 million and golf cottages starting around $1.15 million; land-only homesites range from the mid-$200Ks to over $1 million depending on position. This makes WindRiver the highest average price point of the researched Tellico Lake-corridor communities. The community is gated.

Beyond golf, WindRiver's amenities include a private marina and harbor on Tellico Lake, fine dining, tennis, walking trails, and a community activity and fitness center.

WindRiver sits in Lenoir City, roughly 15 minutes from both West Knoxville and Maryville, and is geographically close to but a physically and administratively separate community from Tellico Village, on the same broader Tellico Lake.