Golf in Rocky Ford

Rocky Ford is an Otero County agricultural community in the lower Arkansas River valley famous throughout Colorado for the Rocky Ford cantaloupe, the sweet melon variety grown in the distinctive clay soils of the Arkansas Valley irrigation district that has made this small town a touchstone of Colorado agricultural heritage. Rocky Ford Golf Course provides the community with nine-hole recreational golf that serves the farming families and small-business community of one of the state's most agriculturally distinctive localities. The town's agricultural heritage and the annual cantaloupe harvest festival reflect the cultural significance of the irrigation agriculture that has sustained the Arkansas Valley communities for over a century, making Rocky Ford a symbol of Colorado's agricultural history.