Featured Stop: Coeur d’Alene

We opted for budget lakeside resort living last week. This week, something more luxurious.

If you know Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene, you likely know it by its floating-green 14th, a par 3 that sits somewhere out there between a 9 iron and a 4 iron depending on the round, because some innovative cabling under the green means it can actually change positions from one day to the next. You take a small ferry to the green.

It’s not the only way the resort incorporates the lake into the golfing experience. For one, you’ll take a 7-minute lake shuttle to the first tee. For two, the range is set up over water, with floating golf balls. And on the course, there are views from almost every hole, with several greens tucked into peninsulas butting up against the lake.

The course is pristinely conditioned, a Scott Miller design that got some rankings love previously, but fell out of Golf Digest‘s top 100 publics as of 2018.

Away from the course, there are lake cruises and cycling experiences and parasailing to get into, plus a spa that has been noted among the best in the U.S. All in all, it feels like a good trip to bring along a significant other, whether they’re interested in hitting the links or not.

It’ll cost you somewhere between around $300 a night for a two-person room, or up to around $950 for the full-experience golf package, including golf for two, use of a deluxe golf cart, forecaddie, practice tee access (which includes a pre-round massage(!)), and lakeside accommodations. There are also some larger suites on the water for bigger groups.

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