Sugarbush Golf Club

The Mad River Valley's rolling terrain serves up one of Vermont's most underrated mountain layouts, where elevation changes of 200 feet create natural amphitheaters around greens that seem carved from the hillsides themselves. Robert Trent Jones designed these fairways to follow the land's contours rather than fight them, resulting in approach shots that demand precise club selection as you navigate from ridgeline tees down to valley floors. When the maples explode in October, this becomes the kind of place that reminds you why golf and New England were meant for each other.