Telluride Golf Club

The seventy-par, eighteen-hole Telluride Golf Course, surrounded by fourteen-thousand-foot-high mountains, is itself perched at 9,300 feet, so balls travel up to 15 percent farther than at sea level. Open from late May to early October, it is both a private club and a public course, with a pro shop and clubhouse located in the Peaks Resort. PGA instructors are available for private lessons.