Golf in Hayden Lake

Hayden Lake is a Kootenai County community east of Coeur d'Alene, situated around the glacial lake that gives the town its name in the Selkirk foothills. The lake's residential shores—developed with private homes over more than a century—support a community distinct from Coeur d'Alene's resort-hotel character, one defined more by permanent residents and second-home families than by nightly resort guests. Two established clubs, Avondale and Hayden Lake Country Club, have served the community's golf tradition through multiple generations of Panhandle residents who chose Hayden Lake specifically for its combination of forest-and-water setting and comparative quiet relative to the larger city nearby.