Golf in Ahtanum

Ahtanum is a Yakima County community in the Ahtanum Valley west of Yakima, where the Yakima Valley's agricultural character extends into the foothills of the Cascades' rain shadow eastern slopes. The Ahtanum Creek's valley and the surrounding orchards and agricultural land create the central Washington agricultural landscape. The golf course serves the Ahtanum area's agricultural and residential community in the Yakima County valley setting, where the Cascades' eastern foothills and the valley floor's irrigated farms define the landscape. Washington's extraordinary geographic diversity — the rain-soaked western slopes, the Puget Sound waterways, the Cascade Range's volcanic peaks, and the sun-baked eastern plateau — creates community characters as varied as the landscape, and local golf reflects each region's specific natural and economic identity.