Golf in Unionville

Unionville in Butler County occupies the western shore of Lake Arthur, the centerpiece of Moraine State Park — a reservoir created in 1969 by damming Muddy Creek to transform a strip-mined and acid-drained landscape into one of western Pennsylvania's most visited recreation areas. The ecological recovery of the lake and its surroundings is one of the region's environmental success stories. Moraine State Park draws boaters, swimmers, and hikers in large numbers, and the golf courses that cluster around the lake benefit from that recreational infrastructure and the open land the park preserved. Butler County north of Pittsburgh has developed more slowly than the North Hills of Allegheny County, maintaining a rural scale punctuated by small communities and working farms. Golfers here get something genuinely different from the suburban Pittsburgh experience: wooded corridors, lake views, and a recreational atmosphere that the park's presence amplifies through the season.