Golf in Garrison

Garrison is the McLean County seat on the shores of Lake Sakakawea, the immense Missouri River reservoir created by Garrison Dam's 1953 completion. The dam's construction flooded significant Three Affiliated Tribes homeland, and the reservoir's 178-mile length transformed this corner of North Dakota's landscape and economy. The lake's walleye fishing draws anglers from across the upper Midwest, and Garrison has built a tourism economy around the recreational opportunities the reservoir provides alongside the agricultural and energy sector activities of McLean County. 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.