Golf in Methuen

Methuen is an Essex County city in the Merrimack River valley just south of the New Hampshire border, a post-industrial city with a large residential population and a strong working-class identity in the Merrimack Valley's northern tier. Hickory Hill Golf Course serves this community in the moderate terrain of the Spicket River watershed, in a city where the combination of the Lawrence metro's spillover, the Route 93 access, and the large residential population give golf a substantial urban market. One course serves one of the Merrimack Valley's larger cities, drawing from a broad catchment that includes Methuen, Lawrence, and the New Hampshire border communities in the densely populated northern Essex County corridor.