Golf in Shelton

Shelton is a mid-sized Connecticut city in New Haven County positioned along the west bank of the Housatonic River across from Derby, where factory buildings along the waterfront preserve the memory of a significant manufacturing economy built on the river's industrial potential. The city's residential neighborhoods climb the hillsides above the river valley, giving Highland Golf Club a topographic advantage and views that the industrial riverside cannot provide. Shelton's post-industrial character includes a substantial commercial corridor and residential neighborhoods that developed with the twentieth-century manufacturing employment; the golf facilities serve a community that has transitioned from industrial to mixed-use character while maintaining the working-class and middle-class residential identity that the Housatonic Valley historically supported.