Aspen Glen Club

Set thirty miles down valley from Aspen against the dramatic backdrop of Mt. Sopris, Aspen Glen Club is an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature course routed through a private gated community along the Roaring Fork River. Co-designed by Nicklaus and his son Jack II, the layout plays to a par 73 at 7,468 yards, incorporating the natural contours of the Colorado high country.

Aspen Glen Club in Carbondale, Colorado, occupies a spectacular natural setting in Colorado golf—a private residential community in the Roaring Fork Valley between Aspen and Glenwood Springs, where Jack Nicklaus and his son Jack Nicklaus II designed a course that follows the Roaring Fork River through a landscape of aspen groves, cottonwood corridors, and mountain vistas extending to Mount Sopris and the broader Elk Mountain range. The club was founded in 1997, with the back nine opening in July of that year. In September 1997, Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II played the inaugural 18-hole round, formally opening the completed layout.

The co-design between father and son reflected a working relationship that had produced several previous courses, with the elder Nicklaus providing the strategic vision and creative direction while his son managed the detailed site work and construction oversight. Eight of the course's 18 holes play along or across the Roaring Fork River, integrating the river's natural corridors as both visual anchors and strategic elements throughout the round. The course plays in the Roaring Fork Valley, with Mount Sopris, the distinctive 12,953-foot peak that dominates the valley's southern skyline, serving as a constant visual reference from multiple points on the course.

The surrounding aspen and cottonwood forest provides the autumn color spectacle that makes Roaring Fork Valley one of Colorado's most visually dramatic golf settings during the peak foliage weeks of late September and early October. The Aspen Glen residential community surrounds the course with single-family homesites designed within the mature landscape of the original ranch property. The community's location between Aspen—30 miles to the east—and Glenwood Springs gives residents access to both resort destinations while maintaining the semi-rural character of the Carbondale community itself.

The clubhouse was built in a mountain lodge style featuring rough-sawn timber and Colorado River Rock, consistent with the architectural vernacular of the Roaring Fork Valley. Today, Aspen Glen Club operates as a private residential golf community, its Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II course providing members with one of Colorado's finest mountain golf experiences within a Roaring Fork Valley setting that combines championship-quality golf with the broader recreational culture of one of America's most active outdoor communities.