Backyard putting greens in Berthoud.

This green near Berthoud curves behind a stone seat wall with built-in lights, next to a boulder fire pit on the stamped-concrete patio. Blue flags mark the cups along its length, a block retaining wall holds the far side, and river rock and plantings fill the beds around it, with the mountains beyond.

Section 1.40 lists fire pits, outdoor kitchens, patios and beach alongside the greens. Each of those back yards is reviewed case by case for landscape quality and for a compatible view from the main clubhouse.

Every Peninsula owner also sets sandstone boulders at each lot corner and carries them along the whole eastern property line, except where a beach is approved, so a green on one of those lots is laid out against a boulder edge.

Section 4.4 says xeriscape is allowed within Heron Lakes, including non-irrigated artificial turf, and that the rest of the landscape standards still apply, down to the number of required plantings.

All landscaping needs the Architectural Control Committee’s written approval of a professionally designed plan, drawn at 1 inch to 10 feet with grading and swales shown. Landscape contractors may not start without the builder’s certificate of drainage and topographical accuracy.

Mounds and berms can be no steeper than 3 to 1 and may not impede drainage, and mounds that look dumped in place are strictly prohibited. That is the envelope for any break shaped into a green.

TPC Colorado’s practice facility covers over 18 acres. Its range runs over 350 yards with a sand-capped tee, an artificial turf tee and a fairway bunker, and two short-game complexes hold two putting greens, two chipping greens and two practice bunkers, one of them stacked sod.

Members can use it full-time. A guest gets it only before play, with a designated starting time.

Berthoud’s Landscape Design Guidelines, updated June 30, 2026 by Ordinance 1383, say artificial turf should only be used in private backyards or for sports fields. The line covers new projects in the Suburban and Old Town Residential districts, and a backyard green fits inside it.

The development code asks for a landscape plan with every land development application except a building permit for a single-family home, and the municipal code has no artificial-turf provision of its own. A front-yard green depends on whether the house counts as a new project under the guidelines; ask Berthoud Planning.