RISING FAWN, Georgia – A Lookout Mountain golf course community that struggled over much of the past two decades is getting a new name and look and the complex will soon add a nearly $8 million clubhouse on the bluff with a new restaurant, pro shop and other amenities.
The Course at McLemore, formerly Canyon Ridge golf course, is opening this weekend after an upgrade of all 18 golf holes. The 18th hole, perched along the eastern bluff of Lookout Mountain overlooking the McLemore Cove and Pigeon Mountain, was relocated to make room for the new 10,000-square-foot clubhouse scheduled to open next spring.
“It’s been a long, long time in coming, but we couldn’t be more excited about these plans,” said Duane Horton, president of Scenic Land Co., whose company took over the former Canyon Ridge development two years ago.
Horton said the clubhouse is the first of several new projects planned for nearly 800 acres he controls atop Lookout Mountain in Walker County.
“We’re the only property owners on Lookout Mountain that own from one brow to the other on top of the mountain,” he said.