Golf in Hutchinson

Hutchinson's place on any Kansas golf map is singular, because Hutchinson is home to Prairie Dunes — consistently ranked among the fifty greatest golf courses in the United States, a Perry Maxwell masterpiece from 1937 that plays through the sandhills north of the Arkansas River with a naturalness and strategic brilliance that few courses anywhere can match. Beyond Prairie Dunes, Hutchinson is the Reno County seat, a city of roughly 40,000 whose economy has been shaped by salt mining, grain storage, and the underground Strataca salt mine museum. The Kansas State Fair draws hundreds of thousands annually. Carey Park Golf Course in adjacent South Hutchinson complements Prairie Dunes with a more accessible community option.