Challis Golf Course

Challis Golf Course is a public course in Challis, ID, established 1994.

Challis Golf Course is positioned in the remote Salmon River Valley at the confluence of the Salmon and Challis drainages in Custer County. At roughly 5,000 feet elevation, the course operates on a high-desert valley floor surrounded by the Salmon-Challis National Forest and the Lost River Range rising dramatically to the southwest. This is genuine backcountry golf—isolated, scenic, and patronized primarily by locals and the fly-fishing and big-game hunting crowd that ventures deep into central Idaho's river corridors. The Salmon River here runs clear over its gravel beds, a legendary wild steelhead and salmon fishery, giving Challis a natural identity that draws far more anglers than golfers.