Golf in Houghton Lake

Houghton Lake is a small Roscommon County community on the lake of the same name—the largest inland lake in Michigan—whose summer resort and fishing economy has made it one of the most recognizable inland lake destinations in the Lower Peninsula. The lake's size, the surrounding cottages and resorts, and the snowmobile and outdoor recreation economy that extends the seasonal business into winter have given Houghton Lake the character of a year-round resort community with a distinctive working-class recreational identity that differs from the more upscale Traverse City or Petoskey markets. Multiple golf courses serve the Houghton Lake area's year-round and seasonal residential market.