Alberta/British Columbia Golfers Guide Course Stories

The word “destination” can be defined in a couple of different ways, both of which apply to Crown Isle Resort and Golf Community. As “the place designated as the end of the journey,” Crown Isle certainly defines the phrase “off the beaten path.” But then there’s also a definition of destination as “the ultimate goal for which something is done.”

With British Columbia just named the #1 Golf Destination in North America for 2007 by the International Golf Tour Operators Association, Crown Isle’s platinum-rated course, an unparalleled resort, and a master-planned residential community truly might entice you to “come for a tee time and stay for a lifetime.”

Located on 831 acres in Courtenay in the heart of the gorgeous Comox Valley, about a 2-1/2 hour drive north of Victoria, Crown Isle Resort and Golf Community defines the word “pristine.” Yes, it is a little out of the way. But once there, you can leave your car for a golf cart and enjoy the getaway of a lifetime, a vacation you might want to consider permanent once you meet those who’ve settled in the golf resort community surrounding Crown Isle.

Don Seable says his family’s Riverside Golf Resort at Fairmont is just what he envisioned when he started sketching out the course on horseback 20 years ago, after his wife Carol had lured him from his home at the wide end of the Columbia River in Origon to meet her family at the headwaters.

He vowed then that guests would always be able to drink the water right out of the Columbia at its source, and they still can. He hoped he could keep the resort and the residential community surrounding it as environmentally friendly as it was personally friendly, and has succeeded on that dream as well.

Riverside Golf Resort celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2007 with the same stunning Kootenay Rockies backdrop and the climatological magic that allows skiing on the upper slopes of Fairmont’s ski hill on spring mornings, and golf at its marvelously manicured championship course in the afternoon.