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Tumble Creek Club

Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington · Cle Elum / Suncadia golf market

Access
resident only
Holes
18
Architect(s)
Tom Doak
Gated
Yes

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Tumble Creek Club is the most exclusive golf address in the Suncadia Resort ecosystem: a secluded, gated private village reached by its own entrance off Bull Frog Road, built around an 18-hole course designed by Tom Doak -- one of only a small handful of Doak designs anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. The course opened in the mid-2000s and was built to a genuinely private, low-density standard, styled with the tilted greens and tight bunkering characteristic of Doak's work, routed through pine forest, river bluffs, and mountain meadows along the Cle Elum River corridor.

Access here is a clean, disciplined example of ownership-gated private golf: membership in Tumble Creek Club is explicitly restricted to people who already own property within the village, and even then, golf privileges require a separate purchase -- a Golf Membership deposit consistently confirmed at $60,000 across multiple sources tracing back to the club's own membership page, distinct from a lower-cost, non-golf 'Honolulu' social membership at $15,000. Tumble Creek members also receive access to Suncadia's two public-tier courses (Prospector and Rope Rider) and to The Great House, the village's private clubhouse, along with pools, fitness facilities, and private sections of trail and river frontage.

A material, very current development for anyone researching this club: in July 2026, Fort Worth-based Escalante Golf acquired Tumble Creek -- the golf course, clubhouse, and roughly 330 remaining undeveloped homesites -- from Suncadia in a transaction reported by multiple golf-industry trade outlets. Escalante's president stated the company is 'strongly committed to maintaining Tumble Creek as a world-class golf and residential community,' and existing members were confirmed to retain access to both Tumble Creek's own course and Suncadia's resort courses. This is Escalante's first Washington property and only its second West Coast club. Buyers should treat Tumble Creek today as a club under new, separate ownership from the broader Suncadia resort it sits within, and confirm current terms directly given how recent this change is.

Golf & Course

The Tumble Creek course is an 18-hole, Tom Doak-designed private layout that opened in the mid-2000s, widely described in golf-industry coverage as styled after the parkland tradition of the American East -- tilted greens, tight bunkering -- set across pine forest, river bluff, and open meadow terrain on the eastern slope of the Cascades. It is Doak's principal (and, per multiple sources checked this session, his only confirmed) design in Washington state.

Membership & Access

Does buying a home here include club membership?

Membership is tied to the property.

Golf access at Tumble Creek runs through two gates, not one: first, only Tumble Creek property owners are eligible to join at all; second, even an eligible owner must separately purchase a Golf Membership deposit (confirmed at $60,000) to unlock course privileges -- home purchase alone does not include golf. A lower-cost social-only membership exists for owners who want clubhouse/pool/fitness access without golf.

Living in Tumble Creek Club

Tumble Creek is a distinct, gated sub-village within the much larger Suncadia master-planned resort, with its own entrance and security separate from Suncadia's general resort neighborhoods. It is one of Suncadia's higher-end residential products, with homesites and custom/semi-custom homes generally priced from the high six figures into the low-to-mid seven figures.

Lifestyle & Amenities

Fitness centerPoolDiningPractice facility

The Great House (Tumble Creek's private clubhouse) hosts dining, social events, and year-round programming; members also get pools, fitness facilities, and private sections of trail and Cle Elum River frontage, plus the broader amenity base of Suncadia Resort itself.

Location & Surrounding Area

Within the Suncadia Resort footprint in unincorporated Kittitas County, near Cle Elum and Roslyn, roughly 80 miles / 90 minutes east of Seattle via I-90.

Costs & Fees

Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.

Golf membership initiation

Current

$60,000

Golf Membership deposit. A 2019-era Tumble Creek membership-plan PDF cited a lower $40,000 resident golf figure; treated here as historical/superseded, not current.

Initiation (range low)

Current

$60,000

Same as initiation_fee -- a single confirmed Golf Membership deposit tier.

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What Buyers Should Verify

  • Confirm current Golf Membership monthly/annual dues -- not found this session.
  • Confirm whether the July 2026 Escalante Golf acquisition changed membership pricing, categories, or the cross-access arrangement with Suncadia's Prospector/Rope Rider courses.
  • Confirm current membership waitlist status directly with the club.

Notable

  • Tumble Creek's course is a Tom Doak design -- one of only a handful of Doak courses in the Pacific Northwest.
  • Escalante Golf acquired Tumble Creek (course, clubhouse, and ~330 remaining homesites) from Suncadia in July 2026, its first Washington property.
  • Golf Membership is restricted to Tumble Creek property owners and carries a separate $60,000 deposit, confirmed via the club's own membership page.

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