Mountain View is pure Northeast Kingdom summer: a hillside nine looking down on Caspian Lake, with roots in a tomato-can pasture course from 1898. Deep porches, tennis, picnics and a community feel make it as much a gathering place as a golf club.
Golf in Greensboro began in 1898, when three men, encouraged by a Mrs. McKenzie, laid out three holes in a pasture between the Town Hall and Caspian Lake. A year later the course had grown to five holes, each cut with a tomato can. Arthur Wheeler and friends then laid out a new course on Tolman farm land, the club's present site, a former cow pasture strewn with rocks, moss and shrubs that served as natural hazards. By 1903 the club had 26 members, and a small clubhouse went up in 1906 on a $50 budget. Early matches meant walking to Greensboro Bend and riding the train to play St. Johnsbury, with later contests against Barre and Montpelier. Tennis arrived in 1908 and grew alongside golf. The club built a new cedar-clapboard clubhouse in 2005, and today its hillside nine plays to par 35 above Caspian Lake.