El Valle Escondido Golf Course is a 9-hole semi-private course in Taos, New Mexico.

It plays 2,787 yards from the White tees, slope 117 (checked 2026-08-15).

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holes

par

2,787

yards (tips)

117

slope (white)

The shape of the round · White teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 9 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

access: semi-private
address: Rova Drive, Taos, NM
phone: 778-856-6529
website: course site →
elevation: 8,513 ft derived
opened: 1955
on site: lessons

36.36619, -105.38052 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around El Valle Escondido Golf Course. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it, and the frame follows the course's location rather than a surveyed property line.

Aerial imagery of the area around El Valle Escondido Golf Course, NAIP 2022. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it. The map itself needs JavaScript.

Aerial imagery only, nothing traced over it yet · USDA NAIP 2022-06-13

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 2 tee sets par, yardage, slope — the full table


White	M	36	2787	117
Red	F	36	2331	109

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
Par	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	4	5	36
White	369	156	303	426	178	350	251	276	478	2,787
Red	267	150	287	335	142	293	202	237	418	2,331
Handicap	5	15	7	11	13	3	9	17	1

The Studio

The Studio can't plan El Valle Escondido Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

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Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to El Valle Escondido Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

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Also bookable nearby: Taos Country Club (15 mi) · Pendaries Golf Country Club (38 mi) · Black Mesa Golf Club (47 mi) · Boulder at Towa Golf Resort (49 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In New Mexico	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	2,787 yds	82nd of 87	=10,983rd of 12,025	=1,916th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =6,281st of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,465th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 117	=49th of 60	=7,075th of 8,710	=1,100th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =3,732nd of 4,936 courses you can book · =449th of 972 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	456 yds between tees	78th of 84	=10,311th of 11,523	=1,736th of 1,970 semi-private courses · =5,791st of 6,653 courses you can book · =975th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1955	15th of 72	=2,520th of 9,368	=406th of 1,516 semi-private courses · =1,119th of 5,526 courses you can book · =531st of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	8,513 ft derived	2nd of 88	17th of 12,437	3rd of 2,089 semi-private courses · 11th of 7,274 courses you can book · 7th of 1,830 9-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress1 of 6 built

1 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 2 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
Course map, not built yet.We don't have a map of this course yet.
Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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