Colonial Country Club

Colonial Country Club's golf course came back into play in January 2026, nine months into a renovation, with every green rebuilt and twenty bunkers gone. The clubhouse beside it had its own rebuild, finished in March 2021, and folding glass walls let the Sunset Grille bar and the dining areas open onto the course or close up. Weekends belong to the pool deck. A DJ plays, chefs work the grills and the drinks are on special.

All of it sits inside the gate. The courts, the two pools, the fitness and community center and a preserve crossed by a boardwalk lie among streets the club says were laid out for walkers and bikes. It's all east of Interstate 75 in Fort Myers, and there's one way in: Colonial Country Club Boulevard, which leaves Colonial Boulevard heading south and passes through a gate. The club dates itself to 2002. Edison Mall is about 13 minutes away by car. The airport is about 18.

What changed on the course in the renovation?

Nearly every surface you play. The 18 holes are a Gordon Lewis design, and Lewis himself returned to lead the work, which began in April 2025 after members voted for it. The greens were rebuilt in TifEagle Bermudagrass and reshaped to take more pin positions. Tees, fairways and rough were regrassed in Bimini Bermudagrass. Twenty bunkers came out, and a new 650-foot bulkhead rings the 18th green.

Practice got more room too. Three practice greens were rebuilt along with the eighteen on the course, and the renovation added a practice putting green of about 6,000 square feet and a new chipping green. The cart barn reopened in 2026 with a new fleet of carts, double the bag storage and a club-fitting room.

What is there to do besides golf?

Racquets run out of a full-service Tennis Shop: eight Har-Tru courts for tennis, and eight more set up for pickleball. Two bocce courts and horseshoe pits fill out the list.

Two pools, each with its own Jacuzzi, share a large sun deck and a poolside snack bar. The deck was remodeled in 2026, which is when the weekend DJ and the chef-attended grills arrived. The club also runs aquatics programming.

Indoors, the fitness and community center holds a gym, an aerobics room, private massage rooms, a meeting room, a book-exchange library and a business center. Its 2026 refresh brought more meeting space, new gym equipment, a better sound system, and complimentary coffee and fruit every day. The club also lists a spa among its facilities. Out past the buildings, the boardwalk crosses a preserve the club put at about 160 acres in 2023.

What is in the clubhouse?

Dining rooms, a ballroom and space for events. The building first opened in 2004. The 2021 rebuild added about 1,800 square feet of indoor dining and 1,500 square feet of outdoor dining that looks out over the fairways, and the new Sunset Grille bar opens straight into the Ballroom.

Beyond the dining rooms, there are breakout rooms and a media room inside, and an open-air patio, added in 2015, used for club events, weddings and casual meals. The rebuild came out of three years of planning, resident surveys and town-hall meetings.

How far is Colonial from shopping, the airport and the beach?

The nearest Publix, on Dani Drive, is about 3 miles from the Colonial Boulevard entrance, roughly 7 minutes in light traffic, and Edison Mall on Cleveland Avenue is about 6.5 miles, around 13 minutes. Bell Tower Shops is about 9.4 miles and Gulf Coast Town Center about 10 miles south, each around 18 minutes without traffic. The terminal at Southwest Florida International Airport takes the same 18 minutes, over about 10.5 miles.

Gulf Coast Medical Center, a Lee Health hospital, is 8 road miles off, a 15-minute drive in free-flowing traffic. The Edison and Ford Winter Estates on McGregor Boulevard are about 8.3 miles, around 16 minutes.

For the Gulf, head west. Lynn Hall Memorial Park on Fort Myers Beach is 18.7 road miles, about 33 minutes outside rush hours. Causeway Islands Park, on the Sanibel Causeway, is about 19.7 miles, around 34 minutes. Expect each of those drives to take longer in winter, when season traffic builds.

What kinds of homes are there, and what do they sell for?

Three kinds: detached single-family houses, attached villas and duplexes, and low-rise condominiums. Homes date from 2003 onward, with two or three bedrooms apiece and from about 1,100 to about 3,000 square feet. Condominiums sit in the lower part of the price range, villas in the middle and detached houses in the upper part, though the smaller houses and the villas overlap.

• Condominiums sold from the $150,000s to around $400,000
• Attached villas and duplexes sold from the $310,000s to around $500,000
• Detached houses sold from the $310,000s to around $800,000

What club membership comes with a home here?

Only the club can say, and its answer applies to one home at a time. The club sums the place up in one sentence: "Colonial Country Club is a full-service club and gated bundled community in Southwest Florida." The word "bundled" comes from the club. Before you sign anything, get the club to confirm what membership the house or condominium you want includes.

Troon Privé handles management. A board runs the club, and its president speaks for it. Members voted for the course renovation before a shovel went in.

For association fees, plan on around $1,400 a month. The figure is set toward the high end on purpose, and many owners pay less than that, so it works as a cautious budget, not as the usual bill.

Every facility the club describes is on the grounds, inside that gate. Colonial doesn't include a beach club or a marina, and nothing across Treeline Avenue, along its east side, is part of it.