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2025 Closing Dates

When do golf courses in Invermere, Radium Hot Springs, Windermere, and Fairmont Hot Springs close for the 2025 season? The Columbia Valley Golf Trail is known for its long playing season, often stretching well into the fall. It’s the perfect time to enjoy crisp days, quieter fairways, and stunning mountain scenery before courses close for […]

Welcome to The Warm Side of the Rockies (Bring Your Sticks)

Near the end of the spectacular, three hour drive from Calgary to Radium Hot Springs, the highway meanders along a spirited mountain stream and cuts through a narrow, cliff-walled canyon. When you drive through and get to the other side, to the quaint and charming townsite, something changes. You’re in the Columbia Valley. The grass […]

2025 Opening Dates

When do golf courses open in Radium Hot Springs, Invermere and Fairmont Hot Springs? Get your clubs ready, it’s almost time to golf in Radium Hot Springs, Invermere, Windermere, and Fairmont Hot Springs along the Columbia Valley Golf Trail. Golf season is nearly here! Mark your calendars with the opening dates of the courses and […]

2024 Closing Dates

When do golf courses in Invermere, Radium Hot Springs, Windermere, and Fairmont Hot Springs close for the season in 2024? Golfers will be thrilled to play in the beautiful long season of the courses along the Columbia Valley Golf Trail stretching into the fall. Take advantage of fall golf by heading out for a few […]

One of British Columbia’s Best Golf Destinations: The Columbia Valley Golf Trail

Written by Andrew Penner What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of British Columbia’s Columbia Valley? Beautiful wetlands? Soaring Purcell peaks? Pretty mountain towns? Hot springs? World-class hiking and mountain biking? They all work, of course! But there’s another one that sometimes sneaks under the radar. Great golf.  Unquestionably, when Canada’s […]

2024 Opening Dates

Get your clubs ready, it’s almost time to golf in Radium Hot Springs, Invermere, Windermere, and Fairmont Hot Springs along the Columbia Valley Golf Trail. Golf season is nearly here! Mark your calendars with the opening dates of the courses and start booking your tee times. Of course, all opening dates are weather dependent and […]

2023 Closing Dates

When do golf courses in Invermere, Radium Hot Springs, Windermere, and Fairmont Hot Springs close for the season in 2023? Golfers will be thrilled to play in the beautiful long season of the courses along the Columbia Valley Golf Trail stretching into the fall. Take advantage of fall golf by heading out for a few […]

Most Photographed Holes on the Columbia Valley Golf Trail

I’m standing on the precarious 17th tee at the Radium Springs golf course as soft golden light paints the scene. Guarded by bunkers and a few towering pines – and situated just over the ball-hungry ravine! – the par-3 17th hole at the Radium Springs course is one of the most picturesque holes in Western […]

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