The incredibly unique landscape and moderate climate in the Grand Valley provide a variety of outdoor activities in this "oasis in the desert." One of golf's leading publications was certainly impressed by the course's unique setting:<br><br>"Positioned beneath the slopes of jagged buttes south of Grand Junction, Colorado, in the shadow of the towering pink and red sandstone face of the Colorado National Monument, Redlands Mesa is like playing golf along the bottom of the Grand Canyon, with a couple of sojourns to the Garden of the Gods thrown in." --Golf Digest