Country of Clubs Directory

Country Clubs in Vermont

Country of Clubs currently tracks 12 active Clubs across 9 cities in Vermont. Membership costs, access, golf and lifestyle details appear when they are supported by the directory evidence.

The documented Club timeline in Vermont includes early records such as Dorset Field Club (1886), Ekwanok Country Club (1899), and Rutland Country Club (1901). Across 10 Clubs with a usable founding year, the median documented founding year is 1948; these dates describe the current directory evidence rather than a complete history of golf in the state.

Active Clubs
12
Detailed profiles
9
Cities represented
9

Club profiles

Private1 coursePoolDining
Initiation
$9,500
Dues
$14,102 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$23,602Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $9,500 initiation (Full Membership, effective 2025) + $14,102 / year dues (Full Membership, effective 2025).

Waterbury Center, VT

Country Club of Vermont

Private1 courseDining
Initiation
$10,000
Dues
$9,500 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$19,500Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $10,000 initiation (Equity Membership, effective 2024) + $9,500 / year dues (Equity Membership, effective 2024).
Private1 courseFitnessDining
Initiation
$12,500
Dues
$7,500 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$10,000Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $5,000 initiation (Unspecified, effective 2026) + $5,000 / year dues (Unspecified, effective 2026). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.

Manchester, VT

Ekwanok Country Club

Private1 courseDining
Initiation
$50,000
Dues
$8,500 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$58,500Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $50,000 initiation (Unspecified) + $8,500 / year dues (Unspecified).
Private1 course
Initiation
$7,500
Dues
$562.50 / month
Documented minimum first-year cost$7,500Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $3,000 initiation (Full Golf, effective 2026) + $375 / month dues (Full Golf, effective 2026). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.

South Burlington, VT

Vermont National Country Club

Private1 course
Initiation
$40,000
Dues
$13,500 / year
Documented minimum first-year cost$42,000Published initiation plus annualized dues; other expenses may apply.Based on $30,000 initiation (Family Membership Estimate, effective 2023) + $12,000 / year dues (Family Membership Estimate, effective 2023). Uses the documented minimum initiation on file, not the estimate shown above.
Vermont Club statisticsOpen the price, access, lifestyle and historical report

State research snapshot

What the Club data shows in Vermont

This report turns the currently documented Club records into comparable state-level context while keeping missing information out of the calculations.

Access landscape

How Clubs in Vermont are accessed

Private membership is the largest documented access group in this sample, representing 80.0% of 10 Clubs with a known access type.

Private membership80.0%
8 Clubs in the state sample · 72.6% of the comparable nationwide sample
Resort10.0%
1 Club in the state sample · 1.3% of the comparable nationwide sample
Semi-private10.0%
1 Club in the state sample · 5.1% of the comparable nationwide sample

Club life

What stands out in Vermont Club life

Only meaningful, adequately sampled differences from the nationwide Club data appear as percentages. Positive-only amenity evidence is reported as a documented count, never treated as proof that other Clubs lack the feature.

Golf depth1.10

documented courses per Club across 10 records with a known course count

Multi-course Clubs10.0%

1 Club in the state sample compared with 11.1% nationwide

Documented lifestyle combinations

  • Golf, pool and diningDocumented at 3 Clubs
  • Golf, fitness and diningDocumented at 3 Clubs

Documented timeline

Club history represented in Vermont

Founding years are currently documented for 10 Club records. The earliest entries and distribution by era are shown below.

  1. Dorset Field Club1886
  2. Ekwanok Country Club1899
  3. Rutland Country Club1901
Before 192040.0%
4 Clubs
1920–194910.0%
1 Club
1950–197910.0%
1 Club
1980–199920.0%
2 Clubs
2000–present20.0%
2 Clubs

Documented culture

Recurring Club culture signals in Vermont

Culture labels appear only when supported by researched Club evidence and should not be read as a judgment of every Club in the state.

  • Golf-first100.0% of 10 researched records
  • Family-oriented50.0% of 10 researched records
  • Socially active50.0% of 10 researched records
  • Traditional40.0% of 10 researched records
  • Community-oriented40.0% of 10 researched records
  • Racquets-focused40.0% of 10 researched records