Golf in Pike Creek

Pike Creek is a suburban community in New Castle County west of Wilmington, a residential area that grew rapidly in the decades after World War II as the Wilmington professional class sought communities with more space and lower density than the city itself. Delcastle Golf Course, operated by New Castle County, provides accessible golf for the Pike Creek Valley and the surrounding suburban communities, serving a residential population that relies on county-operated recreational facilities in a suburban landscape dominated by private residential development. The creek-fed valleys and woodlands of western New Castle County give the Pike Creek area a landscape character that distinguishes it from the more uniformly developed communities closer to Wilmington's urban core.