Golf in Danville

Danville is Vermilion County's largest city and the easternmost significant urban center in Illinois before the state line meets Indiana. The city's history runs through coal mining, manufacturing, and a vaudeville heritage — Bobby Short, Dick Van Dyke, and Gene Hackman all have Danville connections. Harrison Park Golf Course and Turtle Run Golf Course together give the city a pair of recreational options suited to a working-class population that has navigated decades of economic transition following the decline of the area's industrial base. The Vermilion River corridor that runs through and near Danville introduces natural scenery into a landscape otherwise defined by the flat prairie farmland of the Indiana border region.