Discovery Land's plateau flagship, a Fazio course at 4,000 feet paired with a private club on the highest major lake in the East.
Discovery Land's plateau flagship, a Fazio course at 4,000 feet paired with a private club on the highest major lake in the East.
Mountaintop, between Highlands and Cashiers at four thousand feet, is the most complete amenity ecosystem on the plateau, run by Discovery Land Company. A Tom Fazio course, a fifty-six-thousand-square-foot lodge clubhouse, a spa, and a manned gatehouse sit alongside a Lake Club on Lake Glenville, the highest major lake east of the Rockies, with boats, paddleboards, and a waterfront pavilion. Golf and lake in one membership is the rare double here.
Homes run from about $1M to $5M, with lots from the mid-six figures. It carries the steepest combined initiation and dues of these five, and early 2026 brought modest price softening across the Cashiers submarket. For a family that wants a compound-grade property with the deepest amenity bench and the coolest summers on the plateau, the Discovery Land brand delivers.
Fazio blasted this one out of rock. The lake club softens the landing.
The Fazio par 70, carved from granite with holes crossing the Hurricane Creek gorge. Take the forced carries seriously and the views casually.
Mountaintop's private Lake Club on Lake Glenville: boats, a beach, and supper as the light goes long on the water.
The Cashiers crossroads for the farmers market and the village green; Highlands' Main Street is twenty minutes for the fuller shop.
Canyon Kitchen at Lonesome Valley, refined Appalachian cooking beneath thousand-foot canyon walls, in season May through October. The plateau's singular dinner.
Whiteside Mountain sits between the towns: hike the rim loop early, brunch at Mountain Fresh in Highlands after.
Inventory inside these gates moves quietly, and the best of it often trades before it is broadly marketed. Ask us what is available in Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club this week, including what has not hit the portals.
Before you tour a single home, an Advisory Conversation tells you whether Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club actually fits the life you are trying to build, and what the move is worth under the new Carolina tax math.