Three nights, three courses, and the full range of Northern Idaho golf from the floating green to Jack Nicklaus on Lake Pend Oreille.
3 Days
Bucket List Trip
$2500–$3500/person
3
Moderate
The three courses that define Northern Idaho golf, in one trip. Each occupies a different lake, a different landscape, and a different architectural sensibility, and together they cover the range from resort spectacle to tribal-land immersion to Jack Nicklaus design on one of the most scenic inland bodies of water in the West. The routing moves from the southern shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene to the rolling meadows of the Coeur d'Alene tribal reservation to the shores of Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint, with accommodations split between two properties to minimise driving on course days.
Coeur d'Alene, Northern Idaho, Idaho
Trip at a Glance
Fly into Spokane International Airport and drive 70 minutes southeast to the Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel in Worley, which puts you directly at Circling Raven Golf Club. The afternoon tee time reveals Gene Bates's 620-acre design at its most expansive: rolling meadows, ponderosa pine corridors, and a 7,189-yard routing that uses the tribal landscape with a confidence most public courses cannot match.
Check out of the Casino Resort and drive 30 minutes north to The Coeur d'Alene Resort. Check in, settle, and head to The Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course for a late-morning tee time.
Morning departure for the 55-minute drive north on US-95 to Sandpoint and The Idaho Club. The drive follows the eastern shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene before turning north through the valley, and the scenery improves steadily as the road approaches Lake Pend Oreille.
Check out of The Coeur d'Alene Resort and drive 45 minutes west to Spokane International Airport for the return flight.
Trip Logistics
Plan the Practicalities
The two-base approach, starting at the Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel in Worley for Day 1 and moving to The Coeur d'Alene Resort for Days 2 and 3, eliminates the 30-minute drive between Coeur d'Alene and Circling Raven on the first golf day. A single base at The Coeur d'Alene Resort works but adds 60 minutes of round-trip driving on Day 1. A rental car is necessary throughout. The drive to Sandpoint on Day 3 is the longest transit day, and building it as a half-day excursion rather than a rushed morning round prevents the trip from becoming a logistics exercise.
The three courses across three days cover the floating green spectacle, the most complete test of golf in the region, and a Jack Nicklaus design in a setting few of his courses can match. That is a sequence worth travelling to a corner of Idaho most golfers have never considered.
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