Hunters Ridge Golf & Country Club

On a Tuesday in season, Hunters Ridge holds Ladies Day on its course, sets out the mahjong tables and opens canasta to anyone who wants a seat. That evening brings the first of the week's two casual dinners, with a take-out line. Wednesday hands the fairways to Men's Day and the afternoon to the needlework and crafts circle. Thursday brings Ladies Day, mahjong and the second dinner back.

One association owns all of it, from the clubhouse to the roads, lakes and preserves. The 275 acres are mostly fairway, lake and woodland, with ponds members may fish and community roads open to walkers and cyclists. It sits behind gates in Bonita Springs, in Lee County, about 1.3 miles east of I-75 on Bonita Beach Road SE.

How does the golf week run?

Around organized play: Ladies Day twice a week, Men's Day once, couples' events, and named tournaments from the Bloody Mary Open in January, through Member-Member and Member-Guest weeks in February and March, to the Hunters Ridge Open in April. Summer brings reciprocal golf at other clubs' courses. Golf members book tee times online and have priority starting times.

Gordon Lewis designed the course, a par-72 eighteen with six tee options. Water is marked on many holes, and staked wetland preserves along the fairways are no-entry. Practice means a driving range, chipping and putting greens and three simulator studios, with lessons from PGA professionals. Golf members pay no green fees and nothing for range balls.

What is there besides golf?

Courts, mostly: four for tennis and eight for pickleball, all lit, plus four for bocce and one for croquet. Players reserve courts in the TeamReach app. The 5,000-square-foot activity center sits beside a 2,500-square-foot pool with lap lanes, a sun deck and a spa, open sunrise to sunset with no lifeguard, and The Ridge pool bar sells drinks and grab-and-go food. A full-time instructor runs fitness classes, and the fitness room opens 24 hours. The club's October 2026 newsletter reported a new community center and an updated fitness center opened that year, and a pool project finished over the summer.

The 13,500-square-foot clubhouse holds a main dining room, the Grill Room with tables outside, a patio bar, a card and game room and the pro shop, with every outlet open daily in season. Its calendar runs October through May: Party on the Patio, trivia, bingo and NFL Sundays as regulars, with Oktoberfest, a tree and menorah lighting at the pool, a Valentine's dinner dance, the annual car show in February and live bands through the winter.

How far is it to the beach, Naples and the airport?

By car from the main entrance, without traffic, a Publix at Bonita Grande Drive is 2 minutes away. Bonita Beach Park on Hickory Boulevard and NCH North Naples Hospital are each about 13 minutes, Coconut Point and Mercato about 16. Southwest Florida International Airport is 22 minutes, and Fifth Avenue South in Naples 27. Security staff keep the main gate 24 hours a day. A second, residents' gate onto Bonita Grande Drive closes from 10 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.

What kinds of homes are there, and what have they sold for?

Detached single-family houses, villas that share a wall, and coach homes held as condominiums in three small associations: Grand Pines, Pheasant Hollow and Lynx Pass. Houses run from about 1,600 to about 2,950 square feet with 2 to 4 bedrooms; villas and coach homes from about 1,100 to about 2,000, with 2 or 3. Homes here date from 1988 on, and the coach homes, from 2000, are the newest. Sales between April 2025 and October 2026:

• Single-family houses sold from about $320,000 to about $775,000
• Villas sold from about $270,000 to around $480,000
• Coach homes sold from about $330,000 to around $415,000, across seven sales

Does every home at Hunters Ridge come with golf?

No. Joining the club is compulsory, but golf isn't. Every home carries one of three memberships, Golf, Social or Charter, and the declaration makes it run with the title, so a buyer inherits whichever kind the seller's home has. Buy a Social home and you hold a Social membership.

A Social membership opens the clubhouse and dining, the activity center, pool and courts. It leaves out the course, the range and the simulators, apart from one booked round a month, paid by the round. Charter memberships were issued only to those who owned here in November 1991, and a Charter home lets its owner pick golf or social afresh each calendar year.

Adding golf to a Social home carried an initiation of about $50,000 in 2026. A Golf or Charter home pays no upgrade. Golf is also capped: the declaration allows no more than 420 golf memberships, and a Social member moves up only while the count sits below that cap. To play here, ask the membership office whether one is open, and treat the membership on the house as part of what you're buying.

What does a home here cost to run each year?

The association's 2026 schedule puts club dues at about $4,800 a year for Social, which every home pays, or about $10,500 for Golf, which already includes the social share and sales tax. A quarterly maintenance fee, set by home type, comes on top. It covers fiber internet and television everywhere, and for villas and coach homes it also pays for exterior insurance, painting, roofs and lawn care.

Added up for 2026, before special assessments and the food minimum, budget about $7,900 a year for a house with a Social membership and about $13,600 with Golf. For a villa or coach home, budget about $13,100 with Social and up to about $20,500 with Golf.

Each home also owes the club about $1,250 a year in food and drink, with any unspent balance billed at year end. Two special assessments in 2026 reach some addresses and not others, so ask which apply to a given house. At closing, the buyer pays a capital assessment of about $3,000 plus a transfer fee, and the association warns that its rates can change.

Can you rent out a home at Hunters Ridge?

Yes, on the declaration's terms. A lease runs from 30 consecutive days to one year, renewable once, and at most three lets a year, whole home only. The board approves every tenant before move-in and interviews those on annual leases.

Renting costs the owner the club. While a home is let, its owners give up everything but the restaurant, and the tenant of a Social home gets no golf.