Golf in Johnson City

Johnson City is the largest city in Washington County and the commercial and educational center of the Tri-Cities metropolitan area, sharing that designation in a three-city constellation with Kingsport and Bristol. East Tennessee State University and the Quillen College of Medicine give Johnson City a significant academic and healthcare identity, and the Ballad Health system's major facilities here make it a regional medical hub for a multi-county area extending into southwestern Virginia and southeastern Kentucky. The city sits in the Watauga River basin at the junction of the Appalachian highlands, surrounded by the Blue Ridge and the Unaka Mountains. Tweetsie Trail, running northeast toward Elizabethton, is part of the outdoor recreation infrastructure that has grown around Johnson City in recent years. Golf in the Johnson City area spans a range of terrain from valley floor to ridge settings, serving a metropolitan population of roughly 500,000 in the broader Tri-Cities region.