Silverado Country Club

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The Silverado Country Club is a tennis, golf and spa resort located in the Napa Valley. The resort is managed by Xanterra Parks and Resorts Company. The original 18 hole golf course at Silverado opened in the year 1955. In 1966, Robert Trent Jones, Jr. re-designed the original course and added a second course. The courses have played host to several PGA Tour events including the Kaiser International Open Invitational from 1968 through 1976 and the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic from 1977 through 1980 as well as the Champions Tour event The Transamerica from 1989 through 2002.

1 Natural features
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Natural features

Milliken Creek, a tributary to the Napa River.^[1] flows through the Silverado Country Club. There are approximately 7300 acres planted to vineyards in this watershed including the drainage area of Milliken Reservoir.^[2] Milliken Creek rises on the western slopes of the east side of the Napa Valley before flowing through the Silverado Country Club property. Much of this area had once been part of the Mexican land grant called Rancho Yajome, which had been granted to the Mexican General Mariano G. Vallejo. Most of this watershed was wilderness area to at least 1869, and thereafter the lower watershed was begun to be developed as pasture and grazing agricultural uses. In an 1989 stream survey conducted for the Silverado country Club by Earth Metrics Inc, the steelhead fishery was found to be robust up to and including the Silverado Country Club.^[3]

[edit] See also

Atlas Peak

[edit] References

^ Napa Quadrangle, 7.5 Minute Series, U.S. Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington DC
^ Napa Valley vineyard areas by watershed
^ Earth Metrics Inc., "Phase One Environmental Site Assessment, Silverado Country Club, Napa County, Ca", May, 1989