One O Eight Golf Resort

The name alone signals something worth investigating: One O Eight Golf Resort takes its identity from Highway 108, the route that winds through British Columbia's South Cariboo region — a high plateau country of ponderosa pine, grassland meadows, and lakes that stretches between the Coast Mountains and the Rockies. This is a part of BC that most golfers fly over on their way somewhere else, which means those who find it tend to feel like they've discovered something real.

The South Cariboo sits at elevation, which means the air is thinner, the ball flies longer, and the season — while shorter than the coast — arrives with genuine summer warmth and nearly endless evening light. Golf in this part of the province has a frontier quality to it: uncrowded, unhurried, and framed by landscapes that have no interest in performing for anyone.

As a resort course, One O Eight is built around the idea of the golf trip rather than the membership round — a destination that rewards the drive up Highway 108 rather than punishing you for making it.