Pennsylvania Golf Communities

Toftrees Golf Resort

Toftrees Golf Resort offers a vibrant lifestyle in the award-winning university town of State College, PA. The celebrated Toftrees resort amenities—including its highly rated championship golf course—are surrounded by townhouses, single-family homes and apartments in the safe, secure environment where Penn State students and faculty live, work and play.

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Treasure Lake

Treasure Lake is a gated, semi-private community covering 9,000-plus acres in the Allegheny Mountain foothills of north-central Pennsylvania. It is just two hours from Pittsburgh and an hour and 15 minutes from State College. Admired for its natural woodland beauty, this rural enclave has excellent amenities for land and water recreation, plus a full calendar of activities for all ages.

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In a roomful of Pennsylvanians, you could easily find people who live in five or six different regional sectors of the eastern United States. They could be residents of the East Coast, the Great Lakes or the Appalachian mountains, to name just a few, and they would all be Pennsylvanians.

Driving east to west in Pennsylvania you will find that you cover more miles than you would on a trip across Utah or Arizona. To appreciate the Keystone State’s diverse geography, you could simply study the paths cut by its five major rivers:

Delaware River
Susquehanna River
Monongahela River
Allegheny River
Ohio River

Cultural Diversity, Icons of Golf

Look at the state through a cultural lens and you’ll once again find plenty of diversity.

Within the state’s borders there are golf landmarks in every direction. Pennsylvania’s two leading cities, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, each has a constellation of classic championship courses to match that of any city in the country. All are revered names in the annals of championship golf:

Oakmont
Merion
Aronimink
Laurel Valley
Fox Chapel
Gulph Mills
Saucon Valley
Philadelphia Cricket Club

Pennsylvania Golf & Retirement Living

Of course, the discerning golfer who is looking for Pennsylvania golf communities for a vacation or retirement home is sure to be looking beyond the big urban centers toward more serene destinations.

In Pennsylvania, that would mean places like Bucks County, the Poconos, Cumberland County or the wide open spaces in and around massive Allegheny National Forest.

There is also excellent retirement living opportunities in the famed Pennsylvania Dutch region, where the Amish, the Mennonites, and more than a dozen other sects have their communities.

The famed university town of State College, with its Happy Valley ambience and towering achievements in education and NCAA sports, is another option that’s proved popular with retirees.

As for the number of Pennsylvania golf communities, it’s more a case of high quality than high quantity. With the vast selection of warmer-clime golf property in the Southeast and Florida, developers in Pennsylvania and the other northern-tier states have to produce a first-class product in order to compete.

No Tax on Retirement Benefits

The financial and lifestyle experts at Kiplinger has sound praise for Pennsylvania as a place to spend one’s retirement years—and retirement budget.

The state does not tax retirement benefits and those who do have taxable income will find its flat tax of 3.07 percent to be lower than comparable levels in states that also impose an income tax.

Meanwhile, the median property tax bill in Pennsylvania is a bit burdensome at $3,000-plus, but that is still a lower property tax than in five of the other U.S. states that don’t take a cut of your retirement benefits.

It all adds up to a relatively tax-friendly environment for seniors.