Golf in Welches

Welches is a Mount Hood foothills community in Clackamas County along the Sandy River corridor, part of the resort and residential development that has grown at the gateway to Mount Hood. The Resort at the Mountain and The Courses at Welches anchor the golf and lodging infrastructure for visitors using this corridor to access Timberline Lodge, the ski areas, and the broader Mount Hood National Forest. The Sandy River here is swift and cold, descending from the glaciers of the mountain with characteristic force. The surrounding old-growth and second-growth Douglas fir forest gives the valley an enclosed, cathedral quality that distinguishes mountain-foothills golf from the open valley courses to the west.