Golf in Dayton

Dayton is one of Nevada's oldest communities, a Lyon County town in the Carson Valley with roots in the silver rush era of the 1850s. The town sits east of Carson City along US 50, where the valley floor opens up between the Pine Nut Mountains and the Virginia Range. Dayton Valley Golf Course — an Arnold Palmer design stretching to par 72 — provides the area's primary golf destination and anchors recreational activity in a community that otherwise occupies a quiet stretch between Carson City and Fernley. The Carson River runs through the valley, and the open agricultural landscape gives the golf course a spacious, uncluttered feel characteristic of rural Nevada's best layouts.