Golf in Gladwin

Gladwin is the county seat of Gladwin County in the mid-Michigan pine and hardwood country north of the Saginaw Bay area, a small city on the Cedar River whose position in the transition zone between agricultural and resort Michigan gives it the character of a gateway community to the northern lake country. Gladwin County's mix of lakes, rivers, and the second-growth forest that has reclaimed the land logged in the nineteenth century provides the natural foundation for an outdoor recreation economy that has supplanted the timber industry. Multiple golf courses serve the Gladwin area's combination of county-seat residents and the recreational visitors drawn to the lake and river character of the surrounding terrain.