Maplewood Golf Club

Maplewood Golf Club in Bethlehem is the oldest golf course in northern New Hampshire, an original 9-hole layout from 1904 that Donald Ross expanded to 18 holes in 1914. That puts Maplewood firmly in the Ross early-career era (pre-Seminole, pre-Pinehurst #2 revisions), and the course still wears its 1914 architectural DNA: small greens, classic bunker shaping, and elevation changes that play through White Mountains foothill terrain at the northern edge of New Hampshire's golf geography. Maplewood's calling card among New England Ross aficionados is the rare par-6 16th hole, a genuinely unusual par-6 feature that stretches over 650 yards and forces a three-shot strategic reckoning even for long hitters. That hole alone puts Maplewood on the hit-list for architecture-focused golf trippers working the Ross circuit through New England. The course is marketed as the 'Jewel of the White Mountains', an earned label given the mountain-framed views and the Ross pedigree. For the Bethlehem / Franconia / northern NH trip visitor, Maplewood is the signature round, paired naturally with Mount Washington Hotel's PGA course for a two-round White Mountains Donald Ross package.