Golf in Hazen

Hazen is the Mercer County seat in central North Dakota near the Knife River's confluence with the Missouri, a community with profound historical significance. The Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site preserves the earth lodge communities of the Mandan and Hidatsa peoples who maintained settled agricultural villages here for centuries before the Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered nearby in 1804. Hazen's modern economy combines the agricultural traditions of the Missouri Slope with energy sector employment from the coal gasification and power generation facilities of the Beulah energy complex. 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.