Golf in Winsted

Winsted is the commercial center of the northern Litchfield Hills, a Winchester borough where the Still River and Mad River valleys provided the waterpower that drove nineteenth-century manufacturing. The remnants of that economy are visible in factory buildings and the working-class residential neighborhoods that line the valley floors, giving Winsted a different texture from the more affluent residential communities of the Litchfield Hills to the south. Green Woods Country Club occupies terrain in the wooded hills above the industrial valleys, serving a membership that draws from Winsted and the surrounding rural towns of northwest Litchfield County that lack their own golf infrastructure. The club's upland position in the Green Woods provides a natural landscape setting that contrasts with the valley-floor industrial character below.