Golf in Lake Darby

Lake Darby is a Franklin County community in the Big Darby Creek watershed west of Columbus, where one of Ohio's most ecologically significant streams—designated a State Scenic River for its exceptional biological diversity—creates a conservation-oriented landscape in the otherwise rapidly developing western Columbus metropolitan fringe. The Big Darby's rare fish and mussel species require the watershed management that restricts development along the most sensitive reaches, and Lake Darby's community benefits from the natural character preserved by those protections. Thorn Apple Country Club and other facilities in the Lake Darby area serve a western Franklin County market that values both the natural character of the Big Darby corridor and convenient access to Columbus's full range of urban amenity.