The Equinox Golf Resort & Spa

The Equinox is one of New England's most storied resort addresses: a hotel on this Manchester Village site since 1769, expanded and reinvented many times, and since the 1980s the centerpiece of a resort campus that spans roughly 1,300 acres at the base of Mount Equinox. Its golf course was built in 1926 by Walter Travis -- one of the era's most important amateur champions and course architects -- specifically to relieve overflow play from the adjacent, older Ekwanok Country Club, and was given a full restoration by Rees Jones, Inc. in 1991-92 during the resort's Gleneagles/Guinness ownership era. Today the resort is Troon-managed and operates the course as a resort amenity open to hotel guests and paid seasonal members alike.

What separates The Equinox from Manchester's other prestigious golf address, Ekwanok Country Club, for a residential buyer is Equinox on the Battenkill: a condominium community built beginning in 1983 immediately adjacent to the resort and golf course, within walking distance of both the course and historic Manchester Village, with several units reporting views over the golf course greens. This is a real, physically integrated residential product tied to the resort's identity and branding -- not a generic nearby subdivision -- even though golf club membership itself remains a separate purchase from the home.