Golf in Silver Lake

Silver Lake is a small community in the Oregon outback of Lake County, one of the state's most geographically isolated settlements in the Christmas Valley basin — a flat, open expanse of high desert surrounded by ancient volcanic terrain including Fort Rock and the Crack in the Ground lava tube system. Christmas Valley Golf Course serves this remote community, providing recreational golf in circumstances that are genuinely unusual — an isolated green oasis in a landscape of sagebrush, playa, and juniper. Lake County's population is among the lowest in Oregon, and communities like Silver Lake exist on the edge of what can be sustained in such geographic isolation.