Sunriver Resort
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Sunriver Resort is a luxury resort and residential community in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The resort is located 15 miles south of Bend, Oregon and 180 miles south of Portland in Sunriver, Oregon. Sunriver Resort is managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts.
[edit] History
The land on which Sunriver Resort was built used to be a lake bed, which dried out and became a meadow. The meadow was a meeting place for Native Americans living in the area and was later adopted by settlers, trappers, and explorers, including Kit Carson and John Fremont, who led expeditions along the Deschutes River in the 1800s.[citation needed] In 1943, the meadow was claimed as a training ground for the U.S. Army and was established as Camp Abbott. In 1965, Donald V. McCallum, a Portland attorney and John D. Gray, founder of Omar Industries, bought the land and planned to build a luxury resort on it. Their idea was to create a resort and residential community with a focus on maintaining the integrity of the environment, including creating a finite number of home sites.[citation needed] Sunriver Realty sold the first home site at Sunriver on June 28, 1968. The resort that McCallum and Gray established was bought in 1993 by its present owners, Sunriver Resort Limited Partnership, who began an extensive capital improvement program.
[edit] The Resort
Sunriver Resort offers a variety of accommodations, including luxury guest rooms and suites, as well as 400 fully furnished luxury vacation rental properties. It has five dining areas located throughout the property, three tennis facilities, family recreation, and is home to the Sage Springs Club and Spa. Sunriver Resort is home to the largest resort conference center in the Northwest.[citation needed] The resort has over 44,600 square feet of flexible meeting and banquet space.
The resort is also home to three famous golf courses. The Crosswater golf course, named one of "America's 100 Greatest Courses" by Golf Digest, will be the host of the 2007 - 2010 JELD-WEN Tradition major championships. The Meadows golf course was designed by acclaimed architect John Fought and the Woodlands golf course was designed by the renowned architect Robert Trent Jones Jr.
