Mount Hood Golf Club

It was built in the 1930s on donated land as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration and once consisted of a ski area.

The land that comprises Mount Hood was donated to the City of Melrose and developed as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration in the early 1930s.

[1] Slayton Tower was built to house a small Army outpost assigned to look out over the Atlantic Ocean for German U-boats during World War II.

The size of Mount Hood golf course was increased from nine to eighteen holes and today it offers challenge and variety unique in the Boston area.

In the midst of a wooded 300-acre (1.2 km2) park, 10 miles (16 km) from the Zakim Bridge it boasts views of nearby Boston, Revere Beach and the wilderness.

The Mount Hood Clubhouse (2008).
The footings of the old toboggan track are in the bottom right corner with the first hole fairway in the distance.