Golf in Arlington

Arlington is a small community on the south bank of the Columbia River in Gilliam County, where the river cuts through the high desert plateau of north-central Oregon. The Columbia's presence is defining here — a vast waterway that turns what would otherwise be semi-arid scrubland into a corridor of wind, agriculture, and the remarkable Gorge scenery that extends west toward Hood River and Portland. This stretch of the Columbia is known for its wind, which has made the area a kiteboarding and wind sports destination as much as a golf one. The agricultural economy here runs to wheat. Arlington's Columbia River location provides a dramatic backdrop for recreation, and the course here offers one of the more scenically distinctive rounds in this sparsely populated stretch of the Oregon high desert.