Ford's Colony Country Club

All three Ford's Colony courses -- Blackheath, Blue Heron, and Marsh Hawk -- were designed by Dan Maples and weave through the 3,200-acre community, giving the club 54 holes in total, a larger single-club footprint than any other Williamsburg-area anchor researched in this batch except Kingsmill (also 54 holes across three courses).

Membership at Ford's Colony Country Club is semi-private and optional for homeowners: it requires an initiation fee plus ongoing dues, with membership categories refreshed for 2026 (Premier and other tiers, per the club's own site), but a specialist local real-estate source states plainly that -- unlike Governor's Land at Two Rivers, the one Williamsburg gated community that mandates club membership -- Ford's Colony does not require homeowners to join. This session could not confirm a precise current initiation-fee/dues figure from the club's own 2025-2026 rate materials within its search budget.

Ford's Colony spans 3,200 gated acres in James City County with roughly 2,850+ homes and about 5,700 residents -- a scale comparable to Kingsmill on the James but built as a purely residential community rather than a resort/residential hybrid.

Beyond golf, the community offers swimming pools, tennis and pickleball courts, a playground, stocked fishing ponds, a 200-acre wildlife preserve with a nature trail and birdwatching tower, and more than 60 resident clubs and activities organized through the country club.

Ford's Colony sits in James City County a short drive from historic Williamsburg, in the same general submarket as Governor's Land at Two Rivers and Colonial Heritage.