Holland Heights

Herkimer sits in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York, where the landscape rolls between the Adirondacks to the north and the Catskills to the south. It's a region shaped by the old Erie Canal corridor — working-class, historically rich, and far removed from the resort-golf world. Golf here tends to be unpretentious and community-rooted, the kind of game played on layouts that have served the same families for generations.

Holland Heights fits that mold. The name suggests an elevated property, and the Mohawk Valley terrain would support that — hillside lies, shifts in elevation, and views across the valley floor are common features of courses built on the higher ground surrounding towns like Herkimer. An 18-hole layout in this context is likely a full, serious round rather than a resort diversion.

This is central New York golf in its most straightforward form: accessible, no-frills, and genuinely local. For a visitor passing through the valley, it's the kind of course that gives you the region far more honestly than any destination resort would.