Golf in Stanley

Stanley is the Mountrail County seat in the western North Dakota oil country, a community transformed by the Bakken formation's development from a small agricultural center to a hub of the energy economy. The surrounding Mountrail County landscape of oil infrastructure, wheat fields, and prairie creates the mixed agricultural-industrial character of the Bakken era, and Stanley has accommodated the rapid population growth and infrastructure demands that oil development brings. The prairie rose wildflower for which the golf course is named blooms across the roadsides and pastures of a landscape that oil development has profoundly changed. North Dakota's outdoor recreational culture — hunting, fishing, and golf — creates a year-round sports calendar where each season's activity is valued for its own pleasures by a population accustomed to the rhythms of the northern Great Plains.