Golf in Buchanan

Buchanan is a small Berrien County city near Niles in southwestern Michigan, a community in the St. Joseph River corridor that has combined manufacturing, agriculture, and the southwestern corner's proximity to the Chicago metropolitan market. Berrien County's southwestern communities near Buchanan and Niles have benefited from Chicago-area residents seeking Michigan retreats within a few hours' drive, and the combination of Chicago money and southwestern Michigan's natural assets—rivers, lakes, the lake-effect fruit-growing country—has supported resort and recreational development in communities that might not sustain it on the local market alone. Golf in the Buchanan area reflects this Chicago-commuting-distance economy.