Meadows-Ponderosa

Pagosa Springs sits in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, where the elevation runs above 7,000 feet and the surrounding national forest stretches in every direction. Golf here is a genuinely different sensory experience — thin air carries the ball noticeably farther, afternoon thunderstorms roll through with little warning in summer, and the Weminuche Wilderness forms a backdrop that few courses anywhere can match. The name itself tells you something: Meadows-Ponderosa suggests a layout that moves between open, grassy flats and corridors lined with the tall, vanilla-scented pines that define this part of the Southern Rockies.