Gold Mountain (Cascade)

Cascade opened in 1971, a quarter-century before Gold Mountain built the Olympic Course next door, and it plays like the calmer sibling—flatter ground, gentler punch-bowl greens, and a walk through Puget Sound woods instead of Olympic's championship stretch.

It's still a full par-72 test at up to 6,848 yards, just a friendlier one: the kind of round you play in the same trip as Olympic when you want the whole day of golf, not just the marquee course.

The wildflower green

A green tucked into the pines

One of several holes at Cascade that plays down into a wooded draw, framed by wildflowers along the cart path in season—less water in play than the Olympic, but no less scenic.