Golf in Forest

Forest is a Bedford County community that has become Lynchburg's principal suburban extension, attracting professional residential development in the Blue Ridge foothills south of the independent city. The community's concentration of professional households and the surrounding Bedford County landscape create the suburban character for three golf facilities — Colonial Hills, Ivy Hill, and Poplar Forest — that serve the greater Lynchburg metropolitan area's recreational golf market. Golf has served this Virginia community as a gathering place for the professional, agricultural, and working families who sustain the Commonwealth's civic life across the economic cycles that have alternately challenged and strengthened every corner of the state.