Golf in Council Bluffs

Council Bluffs is a Pottawattamie County city across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska, forming a bi-state metropolitan area. The city's name reflects the Lewis and Clark Expedition's council with the Otoe and Missouri tribes here in 1804, and Lincoln's selection of Council Bluffs as the transcontinental railroad's eastern terminus created a historic transportation gateway. Multiple golf courses serve the Council Bluffs community in the Missouri River bluffs landscape. The surrounding landscape of corn and soybean fields, the grain elevators that mark the horizon, and the seasonal rhythms of planting and harvest create the Iowa agricultural context that gives the local golf community its distinctive Midwest character.