Golf in Cando

Cando is the Towner County seat in the northeastern North Dakota lake country, a community whose optimistic name reportedly derives from an early settler's written declaration that the area 'can do' for agriculture. The surrounding lake district is part of the Prairie Pothole Region, one of the most important waterfowl nesting areas in the world, and the community's recreational culture combines golf with the hunting and fishing traditions that draw visitors to the northeastern North Dakota lakes each summer and fall. The surrounding prairie landscape and the vast sky that defines life on the northern Great Plains create the distinctive context for golf in North Dakota, where natural scale and the open horizon give outdoor recreation a character unlike the compressed courses of more densely populated states.