Golf in Albany

Albany occupies a strategic position in the Willamette Valley where the Calapooia River joins the Willamette, giving the city both a river character and a flat-to-gently-rolling agricultural setting. Linn County's seat has maintained a working-class identity through its timber and steel industries while sitting within reach of Corvallis's university culture and the broader valley's wine country. Historic Victorian homes fill the older neighborhoods, a reminder of the city's prosperity in the late nineteenth century. Golf in Albany benefits from the valley's extended dry season, and the surrounding farmland gives courses here an open, unhurried feel that is distinctly different from the forested terrain north of Salem.