Entrada at Snow Canyon sits at the mouth of Snow Canyon, four miles north of Ivins, where the Navajo and Kayenta sandstone walls open up onto the desert flats that run toward Tuacahn. The course is one of the only Johnny Miller signature designs in Utah — Miller, the 1973 U.S. Open champion who became a course architect after his playing career — and it has stayed in the same private-club configuration since opening in 1996.
Johnny Miller's Signature Course in the Lava and Sandstone
Miller routed the eighteen with Fred Bliss across 710 acres of high desert. The land is varied in the way Snow Canyon itself is varied — black lava beds, red sandstone walls, rolling dunes, dry arroyos. The course incorporates all of it. Several holes play across or alongside lava flows; several others tee off from sandstone-framed pads with the canyon entrance behind them. From the championship tees the course stretches to 7,280 yards at par 72, and Golf Digest has rated it as the #2 course in Utah behind the post-2022 emergence of Black Desert.
A Members-and-Guests Club Run by Troon
Entrada operates as a private country club managed by Troon, the international golf-management firm. Access is restricted to members of the club and to guests staying at the Inn at Entrada — the lodging component built into the development. The model is similar to the Bandon Dunes / resort-private hybrid: outside players can play the course if they book the lodging package, but there is no daily-fee public access.
The Original Resort-Tier Course in Washington County
When Entrada opened in 1996, it was the first course in Washington County aimed at the destination-golf clientele rather than the local-and-snowbird municipal market. Sand Hollow Championship would not arrive for another twelve years; Black Desert would not arrive for another twenty-six. For most of two decades, Entrada was the answer to "where's the best course in southwest Utah" — and it remains in the conversation alongside the newer public-access resort courses.
The Inn at Entrada handles the lodging side. The clubhouse handles dining, golf operations, and the social calendar. The Snow Canyon backdrop is the visual anchor — the same Navajo cliffs that frame the state park sit directly behind the back nine. For visitors with the budget and the lodging window, Entrada is the private-club round in a Washington County card that is otherwise public-access from end to end.