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Woodland Park sits at roughly 8,500 feet in the Pikes Peak corridor, and Shining Mountain Golf Club earns its name from the surroundings: the Front Range rises dramatically in every direction, and the course plays through the kind of high-country terrain — ponderosa pine, granite outcroppings, shifting mountain light — that makes even a routine round feel like something more. At this elevation, the air is noticeably thin, and every club goes farther than it would at sea level, which tends to flatter mid-handicappers and disorient anyone who hasn't played altitude golf before.
The layout is a par 70, which signals a design shaped more by the land's demands than by any ambition to stretch yardage. Mountain courses at this elevation often trade length for character, routing through natural contours where a poorly placed tee shot can find pine forest or rocky ground in a hurry.
Woodland Park draws a local Colorado Springs-area following, and the short drive up Highway 24 from the Springs means it functions as a genuine mountain escape without requiring a full destination trip. Summer and early fall are the window — the season is short this high up, and that scarcity is part of the appeal.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black · men | 6,465 | 70.6 | 140 | 70 |
| Blue · men | 6,214 | 69.8 | 133 | 70 |
| White · men | 5,809 | 68.2 | 129 | 70 |
| White · women | 5,809 | 73.1 | 147 | 70 |
| Gold · men | 4,750 | 63.5 | 113 | 70 |
| Gold · women | 4,750 | 67 | 134 | 70 |
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