Golf in Three Rivers

Three Rivers is a community name associated with the Sunriver Resort area in Deschutes County, reflecting the geographic reality of the Deschutes and Little Deschutes rivers that converge near the resort's southern extent. Crosswater Golf Course occupies this river-corridor terrain, using the waterways and ponderosa pine forest as the primary design elements. The name captures something essential about this part of the Central Oregon plateau — water is the defining element in a landscape that is otherwise defined by aridity, and where rivers go, green corridors follow. The resort's position here, at the edge of the Newberry Volcano's shadow, connects golf to a volcanic landscape of considerable geological drama.