Stowe Country Club

Stowe Country Club has a genuinely different character from Spruce Peak's Stowe Mountain Club, despite now sharing an owner (Mt. Mansfield Company) and, as of 2025-2026, a unified club membership. Founded in 1950 by a group of local business owners (including Chuck Savage and Ken Hoyt) as a summer counterpart to the town's winter ski economy, the club sits on a former dairy farm at 744 Cape Cod Road in the heart of Stowe village -- a genuinely different, more in-town location than Spruce Peak's slopeside resort setting a few miles up Mountain Road.

The club broke ground on a multi-year renovation in May 2024, redesigning the course with architect Beau Welling (previewing a renovated front nine in summer 2025, with the full 18-hole course debuting summer 2026). This research found a material, previously-undocumented shift: for the first time since the club opened in 1950, the redesigned course is no longer bookable by the general public -- access now runs through membership (in the affiliated Club at Spruce Peak), invitation, discretionary guest approval, or a qualifying resort stay, per both the resort's own marketing (sprucepeak.com) and independent local reporting (Compass Vermont). More than 200 new members reportedly joined across Stowe Country Club and The Club at Spruce Peak since the transformation was announced -- a real, verifiable barrier-to-entry shift that materially updates this club's older public-course reputation.

Separately and importantly, Stowe Country Club LLC's own proposed 73-unit residential subdivision on adjacent Cape Cod Road land -- a mix of single-family lots and condominiums that would have been this club's own dedicated residential community -- remains legally unresolved. The Town of Stowe's Development Review Board denied the preliminary subdivision/PUD application on March 4, 2025 over concerns that reportedly included water/sewer capacity; the club appealed to the Vermont Superior Court's Environmental Division, and neighbors (including the Stoweflake Townhouse Condominium Owners' Association) filed a cross-appeal. This research, using a fresh, differently-worded search from the brief's March 2025 snapshot, found the case (Docket 25-ENV-00021, Judge Timothy B. Tomasi presiding) still active with no final ruling as of September 2026. This qualification record does NOT rely on that unresolved development as its residential-relevance basis; instead, it relies on the now-verified, real membership barrier plus Stowe Country Club's confirmed role as the second course within Spruce Peak residence owners' Club membership.