Formerly Pronghorn Resort, a 152-room property on 640 juniper-forest acres on Bend's north side, with a Jack Nicklaus Signature course, a Tom Fazio Championship course, a full-service spa, and a 2019 Juniper Lodge that reset the resort's hardware and ambitions.
"The cleanest 36 holes of resort golf in Central Oregon, framed by 640 acres of juniper forest, anchored by a 2019 lodge that quietly reset the property's hardware. The new Juniper Preserve name has not yet fully arrived; the operational standard has."
Pronghorn Resort opened in 2004 with a 640-acre site sixteen miles north of downtown Bend, anchored by two championship courses, a Jack Nicklaus Signature layout and a Tom Fazio Championship course, both of which routinely rate among the top three resort courses in the Pacific Northwest. The property changed ownership in 2022 and rebranded as Juniper Preserve, a name still working its way into the booking channels. The Auberge Resorts management era ended with the rebrand; the new operator has preserved the resort's bones and added a quieter, more nature-aligned operating identity that suits the high desert juniper setting better than the previous corporate gloss.
The 152-room inventory splits across three categories. The 104-room Juniper Lodge, opened in 2019, holds the property's main accommodations: King and Double Queen rooms in 400 to 540 square feet, plus 48 one- and two-bedroom suites with kitchens. The lodge architecture is regional contemporary, board-and-batten cedar, river-rock accents, a copper-clad porte cochere, and one of the cleanest contemporary lobbies in Central Oregon. The Trailside Villas and resort residences add freestanding accommodations across the property for groups of six to twelve who want full-kitchen privacy. All rooms include wet bars, air conditioning, free WiFi, in-room safes and the brand's white-and-cedar bedding hardware.
Golf is the operational headline. The Nicklaus course, opened 2004, plays through native rock outcroppings and a 65-foot natural lava cave on the seventh hole, the most-photographed feature on the property. The Fazio course, opened 2007, runs slightly faster and tighter through the juniper forest. Greens fees are competitive for the region, the practice facility is full-service, and the new operator has resurfaced the cart paths and rebunkered the Nicklaus front nine in the 2023 to 2024 off-season. There are also tennis courts, a fitness center, an outdoor pool with a juniper-rim deck, and direct trail access to the surrounding BLM land for trail running and mountain biking.
The Juniper Spa runs a small but properly programmed treatment menu with regional botanical preparations, an outdoor whirlpool, a steam room, and a separate movement studio for yoga and Pilates. The food programme runs from Trailhead Cafe for casual all-day service through the Cigar Lounge and Sage Restaurant for the property's main dinner service, with a smoked trout and a high-desert lamb that hold the menu's anchor positions. Service is consistent and lightly informal, the staff retention has stabilised since the rebrand, and the property's quietest period (late autumn and early spring) delivers the best room rates and the most uncrowded golf in the Central Oregon resort segment.
For families travelling with older children who actually play golf, the property delivers the best junior-golf clinic week in Central Oregon, with morning instruction on the Nicklaus driving range, supervised on-course play in the afternoon, and a pool-deck dinner in the evening. The two-bedroom Lodge suite with kitchen is the unit; book five nights in late June or late August outside the school-break peak for the cleanest value.
The Juniper Preserve rebrand has leaned into a quiet wellness identity that suits the juniper setting. Morning yoga at the spa pavilion, an afternoon Fazio walk for cardio rather than score, the spa for ninety minutes, and the property's nightly fire-pit lineup for the social hour. The juniper forest is a meaningful change of nervous system for any city booking, particularly in May and September when the air is clear and the light is long.
The lodge meeting rooms, the proximity to Redmond Airport (twelve minutes), and the predictable corporate-rate programme make this the most practical golf-retreat base for corporate trips in Central Oregon. Two days, both courses, the spa, a dinner private dining room for ten in the Cigar Lounge; that is the structure of the booking. The WiFi tested adequate for video calls in all 104 lodge rooms during 2025 site visits.
65600 Pronghorn Club Drive
Bend, OR 97701
United States
Sixteen miles north of downtown Bend; twelve minutes from Redmond Airport (RDM)
152 rooms (Juniper Lodge 104; Trailside Villas, residences)
Lodge Doubles from $279/night
One-bedroom suite from $419/night
Two-bedroom suite from $589/night
Peak summer to $920/night
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Opened 2004 (Pronghorn); 2019 Juniper Lodge; 2022 Juniper Preserve rebrand
Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course (resurfaced 2024)
Tom Fazio Championship golf course
Juniper Spa with steam room and outdoor whirlpool
Outdoor pool, tennis, fitness studio
Sage Restaurant; Trailhead Cafe; Cigar Lounge
Free complimentary WiFi
From $279/night. The new operator's rate calendar runs softer than the Pronghorn era; September and early October weekdays still deliver under-$300 lodge availability on either course's main season.
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