Dahlonega · North Georgia

Achasta — A Private Mountain Community on the Chestatee | Dahlonega, GA

Eighteen Jack Nicklaus signature holes. Seven hundred fifty acres in the Blue Ridge foothills. One hour north of Atlanta.

Search Achasta homes at Gold Peach Realty See the community

Speak with a local agent · (770) 283-1223

Est. on the Chestatee River 750 acres · one hour north of Atlanta

Approach · the gates of Achasta

Aerial drone view of the Chestatee River winding through the Achasta golf course in Dahlonega Georgia, with a pedestrian footbridge crossing the river and estate homes nestled in hardwood canopy — *Drone* The river, the footbridge, the back nine.

The place

Across the river, the course.

Seven hundred and fifty acres in the Blue Ridge foothills, an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus signature golf course, the Chestatee River running through, and a clubhouse that actually gets used.

Achasta is a private, gated North Georgia community on a Jack Nicklaus signature course — the kind of place where neighbors stop on the cart path and where a Friday evening on the firepit patio runs into a Saturday tee time. The Chestatee River runs through the property; fairways cross the river by footbridge.

Jack Nicklaus signature holes: 18
amenities inside the gates: 12
acres of hardwood & pine: 750
north of Atlanta: 1hr

II.

Discovery · a walk through Achasta

A walk through

Inside the gates.

i. · Approach

The gatehouse.

Stone and timber. Shake roof. A porte-cochère for the gate keeper. The primary entrance off Long Branch Road opens onto a manicured median planted with red-leaf shrubs. Whatever your week was, the gates close behind you here.
ii. · The river

The Chestatee crossing.

The river runs the property north to south. Fairways cross it by pedestrian footbridge on the back nine. From a drone the routing reads like a map — hardwoods, fairway, river, fairway, hardwoods. Estate homes tuck into the canopy on the high side.
iii. · The firepit

The unofficial living room.

Eight cedar Adirondacks arranged around a stone gas firepit on the stamped-concrete patio outside the clubhouse. After a round in October, after dinner in March — this is where the cart-path conversation turns into the long version.
iv. · The course

The putting green.

The practice green sits at the front of the clubhouse, a short walk from the bag drop.

The estate behind it — gabled stone and shake, multiple dormers — is one of the homes that gives the view from the practice green a different rhythm than the view from any other club in North Georgia.
v. · The entry

The community pond.

A tall white spray fountain at the entrance pond, hardwoods all the way around. A driftwood log laid on the bank as a garden feature. The first thing you pass through the gate — setting the tempo before you ever see the course.

III.

Belonging · the clubhouse

Interior of the Achasta clubhouse great room — vaulted ceiling with exposed dark timber trusses, floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace with antique clock, leather club chairs, and a bear-portrait painting on the wall

The clubhouse

A clubhouse you’d actually use.

Vaulted ceilings. Stone fireplace. A full-service dining room and bar that members run into all week — not just Saturdays. The pro shop has been quietly stocking the Titleist racks since before half of Dahlonega knew where Achasta was.

It’s where the cart-path conversation becomes the dinner conversation becomes the Sunday morning conversation.

Full-service dining room
Members’ bar with weekly programming
Pro shop · Titleist · custom fittings
Locker rooms with lounge
Private event rooms
Cart staging at the back nine
Practice range and putting green
Walk-in from the firepit patio

IV.

Amenities · twelve in, one gatehouse

The amenities

Twelve amenities.
One gatehouse.

Inside the gates you don’t drive somewhere to use the amenities — you live among them. The clubhouse hosts a full dining program. The firepit patio doubles as the community living room. The river park, the practice range, and the cart paths thread the rest of it together.

Top-down aerial view of the Achasta swimming pool with two hard tennis courts and six pickleball courts in two rows — The racquet clubPool · tennis · six pickleball.

Front entrance of the Achasta clubhouse with copper-toned gable porte-cochère, topiary, and a paved circular drive — The clubhouseCopper-roofed entrance.

Four Achasta-branded blue pickleball courts seen at ground level with mature hardwood canopy behind — PickleballBranded, lit, full.

The firepitCedar Adirondacks · stone gas firepit.

Two hard tennis courts at Achasta with light poles, with the clubhouse and tree-covered hill in the background — TennisTwo lit hard courts.

Achasta community swimming pool with lap lanes, dark lounge chairs along the deck, pool house at left, and an evergreen privacy hedge behind — The poolLap lanes and a long deck.

Living · the course, every day

The course

Jack Nicklaus
signature.

Eighteen holes by Jack Nicklaus. The only signature Nicklaus course in the North Georgia mountains, with the Chestatee River crossing the fairways. A short cart ride from the front door of half the homes in the community.

It’s the kind of routing where you can play it a hundred times and the river still surprises you.

Four golf carts traveling along a paved cart path that crosses a fairway at Achasta with a hardwood ridge across the horizon — Cart path · summer

VI.

Beyond · the gold-rush town, ten minutes out

Outside the gates

Ten minutes from the
gold-rush town.

Dahlonega — Georgia’s first gold-rush town, the Dahlonega AVA wine country, and Amicalola Falls within a short drive of the Achasta gates. Atlanta one hour south.