Wintergreen Resort

Devils Knob (Ellis Maples, 18 holes) is the mountain-top course, sited above 3,800 feet and marketed as the highest-elevation golf course in Virginia -- narrow mountain fairways, fast greens, and sweeping Blue Ridge views, but a short season (typically spring through fall) and access limited to Wintergreen Club members and resort lodging guests. Stoney Creek (Rees Jones with Keith Evans, 27 holes across the Tuckahoe, Monocan, and Shamokin nines) sits in the Rockfish River valley and plays year-round; Rees Jones himself called it 'one of the great settings in mountain golf,' and it has been recognized among Golf Digest's ranked U.S. resort courses. Together the two facilities give Wintergreen 45 holes across genuinely different terrain and access models within the same resort.

Access at Wintergreen splits cleanly by course. Stoney Creek is public: no membership of any kind is required, and tee times are bookable by anyone (including through third-party platforms like GolfNow), year-round. Devils Knob is restricted to Wintergreen Club members and resort lodging guests -- it is not open public play, and it is seasonal (2026 reopening scheduled April 18). Wintergreen Club membership itself is the real access mechanism for Devils Knob and the resort's broader social/recreational amenities: a non-equity membership carrying a real initiation fee (~$15,000 standard tier) and annual dues (~$3,300), with lower-cost tiers for members under 40. Critically, this membership is not restricted to, or automatically granted by, property ownership -- since a 2013 change in resort policy, membership has been sold to non-property-owners on the same basis as owners. Separately, the Wintergreen Golf Group (BOGGS), a volunteer club/association for golfers at the resort, requires being either a Wintergreen property owner or a Wintergreen Resort member to join -- but this is a distinct, lower-cost ($25/year reported) volunteer social organization, not the golf-course access mechanism itself, and should not be confused with Wintergreen Club membership.

Wintergreen's residential community is genuinely large and structurally split in two. Wintergreen Mountain covers the peaks and ridges around the ski area and Devils Knob, with over 1,100 condominium and townhouse units ranging from studios to large multi-bedroom units with ski-slope, golf-course, or mountain views. Stoney Creek, roughly 3,000 acres in the valley below, holds just under 600 predominantly single-family homes, townhomes, and homesites on larger lots, oriented more toward full-time and long-term residential living than short-stay vacation use. Both neighborhoods fall under the umbrella Wintergreen Property Owners Association, which levies a single mandatory annual assessment on every property owner (2025 rate: $2,170/yr for improved property, $1,512/yr reported for unimproved lots) regardless of neighborhood -- but Wintergreen Mountain and Stoney Creek each also maintain their own all-volunteer associations (the Wintergreen Mountain Association and the Wintergreen Valley Association, respectively), which this pass did not fully confirm charge separate dues on top of the WPOA assessment.

Beyond golf and skiing (nearly 30 trails historically, making Wintergreen Virginia's largest ski area), the resort carries a full four-season amenity set: 16 clay and 3 indoor DecoTurf tennis courts, three swimming areas (indoor pool, outdoor pool, and a swim beach at Lake Monocan), an 11-treatment-room spa, a fitness center with a therapeutic soak pool and steam rooms, and roughly 30 miles of marked hiking trails with guided hikes offered weekly.

Wintergreen sits in northern Nelson County on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains, adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway, roughly 40 minutes south of Charlottesville and a considerably longer drive from the core Shenandoah Valley towns (Harrisonburg, Staunton, Winchester). The resort has a single road serving as its sole entrance and exit, with a gatehouse at the entrance -- a genuine access-controlled community, though a second emergency-only connection to the Blue Ridge Parkway has been the subject of a long-running, still-unresolved local and congressional access debate.