Audubon Country Club

Audubon Country Club is about 400 homes in North Naples, on more than 700 acres west of US 41, with the entrance at 625 Audubon Blvd. The club's own description of it is "a private, gated residential golf community", and the roads inside really are private. They belong to the community or to one of its neighborhood associations, not to Collier County. Picture the shape of the place before you drive it. A public county road, Vanderbilt Drive, runs between the two halves, roughly 270 acres to the east of it and 475 to the west. Houses and golf holes sit on both sides.

The clubhouse is a building site. It's being rebuilt in two phases, the work runs to the end of December 2027, and the grand opening is set for early 2028. Anyone walking the property is not looking at the clubhouse they would own.

What is happening to the clubhouse?

Phase 1 of construction runs April 2026 to December 2026, and Phase 2 takes it through to December 2027. Club events and facilities keep going in between, "though some may follow a modified schedule". What comes out at the far end is a new gathering bar, a coffee bar and a wine room. The golf pro shop moves and gets bigger, the Grille Room is fully renovated, and the ballroom is enlarged. New outdoor dining and a 5,000 square foot operations wing come with it.

The finishes are the least of it. How the rebuild is being paid for is the question to put to the club, along with whether that has already been decided. A project this size gets funded by somebody, and if you close partway through, you're one of the people funding it.

What kind of homes are at Audubon Country Club?

Detached single-family houses make up nine of every ten homes here, running from about 2200 to about 6450 square feet and carrying 3 to 5 bedrooms. The other tenth is a single neighborhood, Montclair at Audubon: 36 condominium units in six buildings, and the only attached homes in the community.

The earliest houses date from 1989, and most of the community was built through the 1990s and 2000s. A handful of lots have never been built on, and houses have been completed here since 2020, some of them replacing an older house on the same ground.

What have homes sold for?

Two markets sit inside the one name, and a single span would describe neither of them properly:

• Single-family houses. Sold from the $910,000s to around $6.5 million.
• Montclair condominium units. Sold from the $840,000s, with around $1.7 million the ceiling for those 36 units.

Which side of Vanderbilt Drive a house sits on shows up in the price as well. The western half sells higher.

What about the condominium buildings?

All six of Montclair's buildings have been through the structural inspections Florida requires of condominium buildings of their age, and all six are finished. The next round is not due until 2034. If you're buying one of those 36 units, that is the answer you want. The inspection that can trigger a large assessment sits behind these buildings rather than ahead of them.

What is the golf like?

The course is an 18-hole Joe Lee design with five sets of tees. There's a ceiling on how many people play it. The club's own line on that: "With golf memberships limited to a maximum of 340, booking a tee time or finding a compatible foursome is easy". Read 340 as the cap it is, not as a count of memberships that exist or are available. Owners are allowed a golf cart of their own, and may drive it to the club for golf or social functions.

The club also applied for and holds an environmental certification on the course, as a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary under the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses. That has nothing to do with how the community got its name.

What else is on the property?

Racquet sports here are seven Har-Tru tennis courts and two pickleball courts. The rest is a fitness center, a pool, and facilities for croquet and bocce. A walking trail leads back from the houses to a boardwalk and a kayak launch on the backwaters. The club's phrase for that one: "exploring the backwaters has never been so effortless".

More than 700 acres, and most of it is water and preserve rather than houses, which is why the place feels as open as it does. The club's own account of the property reads: "Twenty eight lakes are interspersed throughout the property and more than half of the acreage is dedicated to preserve areas".