Garland Lodge & Golf Resort

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What it feels like to stay here

Deep in the pine country near Lewiston in northern Michigan, Garland fans four full-length golf courses — Fountains, Reflections, Monarch, and Swampfire — around a single resort core. Monarch, the resort's longest layout, is often called the "King of Michigan Golf," while Swampfire brings water into play on 16 of its 18 holes amid trees, bunkers, and natural terrain. Reflections, the shortest of the four, winds among pine forests, lakes, streams, and wildflowers and demands accuracy off the tee, and the newer Sawyer is a 10-hole reversible par-3 short course. With more than 350 beds on property, the lodging roster runs from spacious hotel rooms to one- and two-bedroom villas, three- and four-bedroom villas, and on-course condominiums and golf cottages. The Golf Cottages hold four beds along with a kitchen and a dining and living area, and they sit directly on the Fountains course. French Villas step up to six beds and a full kitchen, while the three-bedroom villas carry four to five beds. Rooms in Garland Lodge itself are rustic and elegant with one or two beds, and they occupy the same building as the resort's restaurants. That puts Antlers Bar & Grill, open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, close at hand, along with the Tamarack Dining Room during prime golf season, the umbrella-shaded Tiki Bar, and the Halfway House for brats and sandwiches mid-round. When the snow arrives, the property turns to its Nordic Center, sleigh rides, and Trout Camp, with separate winter hours and winter accommodations. Standard rooms include a refrigerator, coffee maker, hair dryer, iron and ironing board, and an alarm clock, and the front desk at 989-786-2211 answers questions about anything else. Reserving through Garland's own lodging reservations channel keeps the booking on the property itself, where the courses, dining rooms, cottages, and villas all answer to the same operator.

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