Blue Heron Hills Golf Club

Overview: Macedon’s Blue Heron Hills Golf Club offers a parkland course of 18 holes, east of Rochester. Pete Craig and Richard Bator shaped the layout across a rolling setting where tree-lined holes, water and changing ground create a varied round. At par 71 and 6,759 yards from the championship tees, it has enough length for accomplished players while retaining the visual variety that makes the course appealing in the Rochester market. The property’s current public operation also gives golfers a full-scale alternative to the region’s older city and country-club layouts.

History: The course was built as a private club and opened in 1987. Its ownership and operating model later changed, and a 2015 reopening report described the facility as operating under new ownership and open to the public. The current course history presents Blue Heron as a course shaped by multiple generations of golf stewardship rather than as a new-build resort. That continuity, together with the Craig and Bator design, gives the Macedon property a clear local identity.

Did You Know? Blue Heron Hills was built with no parallel fairways, according to the report on its reopening. That routing choice helps each hole feel more separated from the next and strengthens the sense of playing through a wooded landscape rather than along a repeated corridor.