Guide to ArrowCreek Gated Community & Golf Lifestyle
By Jackie Ginley
Updated August 29, 2026
ArrowCreek is a luxury golf course community in the foothills of Southwest Reno, Nevada. It features two signature 18-hole golf courses designed by Arnold Palmer and Fuzzy Zoeller, plus all the amenities of country club living, including swimming pools, tennis courts, a state-of-the-art fitness center and an extensive trail network for jogging, cycling and walking.
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Golf at ArrowCreek
With more than 300 days of sun per year, Reno offers ideal weather for golf, and ArrowCreek is designed around that passion. The community surrounds the golf courses, and the centerpiece is a stunning new clubhouse with a restaurant, bar and banquet space. You don't have to live in ArrowCreek to join the Golf Club, and you often see homeowners from Lake Tahoe joining here because the temperate Spring and Fall weather offer a longer playing season.
As the Golf Club has become more popular, its open-door policy has occasionally led to announcements that membership was at or near capacity, or even wait lists. Unlike some clubs that sell "equity" memberships, ArrowCreek's outside golf memberships are not recallable. So an application to join from an ArrowCreek homeowner cannot "bump" a public member.
ArrowCreek Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What are the Golf Fees at ArrowCreek?
The Club at ArrowCreek offers several options for memberships, with initiation fees in the range of $25,000 to $50,000. It's a "non-equity" private club, which means your initiation fees cannot be recouped if you decide to leave. The price range for initiation fees is broad, as are annual dues, because ArrowCreek offers several tiers of golf memberships. The top tier provides full privileges to Unlimited play on both 18-hole championship courses (The Legend Course designed by Arnold Palmer and The Challenge Course designed by Fuzzy Zoeller and John Harbottle). If you're under 40, ArrowCreek also offers discounts for full membership, as well as entry -level pricing for those aged 30 to 40. Shoot me your email below for a full package with explanations of pricing and policies.
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Q: Can members of the public play golf at ArrowCreek? Or do I have to be a homeowner to join?
No. ArrowCreek is a private course, but membership is not restricted to those who own homes behind the gates. That policy served the Club well over the past decade, but it sometimes leads a waitlist for new memberships. The Club does not publicly publish its cap, so there's no way of knowing what "nearing capacity" means. But membership does seem to fluctuate between nearing capacity, and at capacity with a brief waitlist.
The flip side of that policy is that homeowners are not automatically entitled to apply for a Golf Membership. If the Club is at capacity, they wait in line.
Q: Are the pools and tennis courts reserved for homeowners and included in the HOA fee?
No. Mostly. As with golf, the swimming pools, tennis courts, and other resort-style amenities that accompany them require a Sport Membership (the exception being the family swimming complex below the main clubhouse that in past years served as the primary swimming pools for all of Arrowcreek. That facility, which includes a family pool, lap pool, adult pool and year-round hot tub, is available to homeowners as part of their HOA dues.)
Like golf, the "sport" memberships are also open to the public, resulting in more frequent "wait lists" to join, even for homeowners. The price of initiation has fluctuated with demand, ranging from $3,000 to $7,500. (Shoot me your email on the form above, and I'll send you current pricing)
Q: If capacity limits are a concern, why doesn't ArrowCreek limit its Club Memberships to homeowners?
Good question. More than a decade ago, with home sales at ArrowCreek on wobby knees in the wake of the last great Recession, the Club had fallen on hard times. Membership was way down, and it was struggling to survive. I was just starting real estate in Reno at that time, and I remember well the efforts the Club made to entice new membership, including an Ambassador program in which a Club member would offer to play nine rounds with a prospective member to give hem a feel for the courses.
A group of club members banded together, and purchased the Club. They dug the Club out of debt, and hired Arnold Palmer Golf Management to take over the courses. In the years that followed, one newer member of the Club who had moved down from Incline Village bought out all the other members, and he and his wife invested $20 million of their own money into a massive renovation and expansion of the facilities - $65 million later, you have a Club experience that's close to what you might expect at a hotel in Vegas.
The Club is in a position today that no one could have imagined 12 years ago. While a policy change is never impossible, it would have to phased-in and carefully implemented to ensure commitments are kept to those who joined the Club before it became the raging success it is today.
Q: Does it snow in ArrowCreek?
Sometimes. The elevation of Arrow Creek ranges from 5,060 feet to just over 6,000 feet for homes higher up in the foothills with amazing city skyline views. You won't get enough snow to require an annual plow service for your driveway, but there might be the occasional storm that dumps enough snow for you to keep a shovel on hand. Unlike Tahoe, which sits above 6,200 feet, snow melts fairly quickly at this elevation in Reno.
Q: How much is the HOA at ArrowCreek?
The HOA dues at ArrowCreek range from $382 to $392 per month (and slightly higher for homes that are within gated enclaves behind he main gate).
Q: What does the ArrowCreek HOA cover?
The HOA fees cover:
- 24-hour guard-gated security and controlled access.
- The Residents' Center amenities, which include three swimming pools, a year-round hot tub, tennis and pickleball courts, and a full fitness room.
- Common area maintenance, including snow removal on private roads and landscaping for over 500 acres of open space.
- Trail maintenance for the community's 30+ miles of walking and biking paths.
Q: How's the Real Estate Market in ArrowCreek?
Thanks to the variety of homes for sale in ArrowCreek, you have sort of a bi-furcated market. Custom homes on the ridge lines in the upper regions of the community have been selling for upwards of $4 million. But it's still possible to find less custom inventory on smaller lots closer to the entrance at (or under) $1 million.
The Recession spurred by the sub-prime mortgage crisis hit Reno and ArrowCreek prices hard (click here for a more in-depth article I wrote on that subject early in 2020). With a heavy reliance on the gaming industry for jobs in early 2000, many in Reno lost their homes to foreclosure or short-sales during the Recession. What followed, was almost a total remaking of Northern Nevada's economy spurred by several key events:
- The development of the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC), and the 2014 announcement that Tesla would build its Gigafactory there
- The visionary and business-friendly management of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) in attracting manufacturing and key "gray collar" employers to the region. The public/private partnership has since rebranded to Northern NV Now.
- The opening of the USA Parkway, which connects I-80 just east of Reno to Highway 50 in Carson City with a road running straight through TRIC.
Within a few years, you had more jobs than you could fill just east of Reno, some of them high-paying executive or management positions, along with an easy way to get to work if you happened to live in any of South Reno's gated golf course communities. ArrowCreek was well positioned to take advantage of the new influx of money, and from 2020 to 2025 demanded surged, with median home prices doubling during that period.
ArrowCreek's Architectural Style
ArrowCreek is a community of homes with several distinct architectural styles ranging from contemporary homes with open floor plans and sweeping city skyline views, to Craftsman-style bungalows with mountain views of the Eastern Sierra. Almost all homes here feature exterior stucco finishes, which hold up well to the all-day sun and dry high mountain climate of Reno. Homes built during the early stages of ArrowCreek's development have a distinct Greco Roman style employing columns, ornate wrought-iron detailing, and the extensive use of marble or other highly polished stone. Over the past two decades, that style has given way to more austere modern designs in which coffee-colored finish materials blend with stainless steel and cool color palettes for a clean interior look. Many of the homes in ArrowCreek are custom builds, some by owners aiming for their dream home, and others by spec builders. With tightly controlled architectural standards, even the spec builds in ArowCreek are beautifully designed with high-end finishes.
Kids' life at ArrowCreek
ArrowCreek is a friendly place where neighbors tend to know one another, and social events bring people together around shared hobbies, or for a leisurely lunch at the clubhouse after a morning of golf. Many residents are young families, and there are year-round structured activities for children, ranging from summer camps to golf, swimming and tennis instruction. The public school school just outside ArrowCreek's main gate, Hunsberger Elementary, is one of the top-ranked schools in Nevada. Sage Ridge, a private school nearby, offers a college prep curriculum for grades 4 - 12. Also close by is Bishop Manogue High School, one of the best college preparatory high schools in the region.
24-hour security
The community is gated, and the main entrance is staffed full-time by security personnel, who notify residents when guests arrive to visit them. While this area of South Reno is not a high crime area, some residents like the privacy the gate affords. It has the effect of keeping out unnecessary traffic, which is nice in a Country Club like ArrowCreek, where golf carts are as common as joggers.
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Convenient Location
Map of ArrowCreek
ArrowCreek is just minutes from some of Reno's best dining & shopping, 
including the Apple store, Dillard's, and specialty shops like Orvis, but close enough to the mountains to offer superior skiing and hiking at Mt. Rose. Lake Tahoe, and its year-round activities, is only 25 minutes away.
ArrowCreek is welcoming to new members. If you are thinking about a home in Reno, we can arrange for a tour that includes the opportunity to experience the amenities and even enjoy a few rounds of golf with a member.
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