Custom homes within Central Oregon's private golf and wellness resort — a thousand-year-old juniper forest of championship fairways, Cascade views, and quiet, elevated high-desert living near Bend.
Explore Central Oregon's premier luxury communities through the eyes of a builder who has spent more than 25 years designing and constructing custom homes throughout the region.
Juniper Preserve is Central Oregon's rare thing: a true resort you can call home, where the golf, the spa, and the desert quiet are all just outside the door.
Set on roughly 640 acres of ancient juniper forest northeast of Bend, Juniper Preserve began life as Pronghorn — a name still carried by its celebrated golf club. Its 2022 rebrand did more than change a sign; it reframed the place around wellness and belonging, pairing two championship courses with a full-service spa, pools, and a lodge, and surrounding it all with more than twenty thousand acres of protected federal land. The result is a private resort that feels less like a development and more like a sanctuary.
Sunrise Construction builds custom homes inside those gates, and we know the setting from the inside out. Our home in Pronghorn Estates earned Best of Show at the 2021 COBA Tour of Homes — along with five more awards — and was featured in Western Home Journal. We have since built additional homes within Juniper Preserve, and have two more under construction today. We build your ideas, not a stock plan, with our owner, Chris, personally involved from the first sketch to the final walk-through, working alongside your architect and designer.
What draws people here is the combination you cannot easily assemble anywhere else: Jack Nicklaus and Tom Fazio golf, a wellness culture built around the spa and the trails, thousand-year-old junipers for privacy, and long, open views to the Cascades — all twenty minutes from downtown Bend. It is refined, expansive, and genuinely peaceful. See how we build →
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People choose Juniper Preserve when they want resort life without the compromise of a hotel room — a home of their own inside one of the best-regarded golf and wellness resorts in the West. The appeal is not any single amenity but the way they layer: championship golf in the morning, the spa or the pool in the afternoon, dinner at Iris, and a quiet evening under a genuinely dark high-desert sky.
The setting is a large part of it. Ancient junipers give the community a texture and privacy that newer developments simply do not have, while the high-desert openness delivers the long Cascade views that define Central Oregon. Homesites are framed by fairways, native desert, or protected open space, and the twenty thousand acres of federal land at the community's back mean much of that horizon will never be built on.
For many owners, the wellness identity is what sets Juniper Preserve apart from a traditional golf community. The rebrand from Pronghorn leaned into spa, fitness, pools, and an unhurried pace — a place designed to help you slow down. A home here is built for that rhythm: durable and low-maintenance for easy lock-and-leave travel, yet ready to fill with family and guests when you want it to.
And then there is the location. Juniper Preserve feels worlds away, yet downtown Bend, the Old Mill District, Mt. Bachelor, and the Redmond airport are all a short drive off. You get the seclusion of the high desert without giving up the culture, dining, and recreation that make Bend one of the most sought-after places in the country to live.
The most satisfying homes here are not the largest. They are the ones sited to catch the light and the mountains, grounded in honest desert materials, and open enough to blur the line between the home and the landscape it sits in.
Set in the junipers northeast of Bend, off Powell Butte Highway — about twenty minutes from downtown, with Redmond and its airport to the north and Mt. Bachelor on the southwest horizon.
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Understanding the community is just as important as understanding the home you will build within it. These official Juniper Preserve resources are the best place to explore its golf, wellness, dining, amenities, and current real estate.
Real estate, community maps, golf, and amenities are maintained by Juniper Preserve, not Sunrise. The official resources below open the source directly. (Image: a Sunrise-built home within the community.)
At Juniper Preserve, the difference between a good home and a great one often comes down to the lot. Whether you are drawn to golf frontage, a wide desert view, or the seclusion of a homesite tucked into the junipers, Sunrise is glad to walk a property with you and your Realtor before you buy — while there is still time to shape the decision.
Every homesite carries trade-offs worth understanding early. A fairway lot brings a beautiful foreground but also play and sightlines to plan around; a view lot rewards careful orientation to the Cascades and the sunset; a private lot trades the long view for quiet and shade. Reading these opportunities before purchase is where a builder's eye pays for itself.
How the home meets a fairway or frames the mountains — foreground, orientation, and the outdoor rooms that make the most of each.
Placing glass and shade for desert sun, keeping junipers for privacy, and siting the terraces where you will actually gather.
Anticipating future construction on nearby lots, protecting your sightlines and theirs, and the architectural potential of the parcel.
We orient the home to the sun, the prevailing wind, and the best view corridors — grounding it on the terrain so it frames the Cascades and the fairways rather than fighting the grade.
Covered outdoor rooms, shade and glass placed for desert sun, honest materials of stone, timber, steel, and glass, and water-wise landscaping that belongs in the junipers.
The resort's guidelines protect golf frontage, view corridors, and shared character. We design to the Architectural Review Committee's expectations from the start, so approvals move smoothly.
Sunrise Construction has built inside these gates. Our home in Pronghorn Estates — now Juniper Preserve — earned Best of Show at the 2021 COBA Tour of Homes along with five more awards, and was featured in Western Home Journal. That project gave us direct, hands-on knowledge of the resort's setting, its design review, and the craft it takes to build a home worthy of the place. It is not our only work here: we have since completed additional homes within the community and have two more under construction now, which keeps our understanding of how Juniper Preserve builds current rather than historical.
The endorsement we value most comes from the homeowners, architects, and designers who send the next family our way. Across more than 25 years in Central Oregon, our reputation has been built one relationship at a time — because every project is a chance to earn lasting trust, not simply finish another house.
We believe every homeowner should be free to choose the builder who fits their vision. When people choose Sunrise, we treat it as a privilege — and we build like it, from the first conversation through the years of care that follow.
Every homesite tells a different story. Our 2021 Best of Show home is shown here; we have since completed additional residences in the community and have two more under construction now. Some of that work is still awaiting photography or kept private at our owners' request — we feature each home as it becomes available.
Our record in the community starts with a home that was recognized across nearly every category it was judged in — Best of Show, Best Architectural Design, Best Feature, Best Value, Best Master Suite, and Best Landscaping at the 2021 COBA Tour of Homes, and a feature in Western Home Journal. It is the kind of result that comes from a builder, architect, designer, and owner working in real partnership on a demanding site.
That was our first home here, but not our last. We have since built additional residences within Juniper Preserve and have two more under construction today. Because many resort owners value their privacy — and because some of the homes are still awaiting photography — not all of our work here is pictured yet; we add each one as it becomes available. The deeper record, as always, is the experience itself.
Central Oregon is widely known for its abundant sunshine, low humidity, cool evenings, and four distinct seasons — Bend is often described as seeing roughly 300 days of sunshine a year. In the high desert at Juniper Preserve, that means bright, dry summers, golden autumns in the junipers, crisp winters with mountain snow on the horizon, and long, clear evenings under some of the darkest skies in the region. It is a climate built for golf, wellness, and time outdoors. Visit Central Oregon ↗
As removed as Juniper Preserve feels, the best of Central Oregon is a short drive away — mountains and rivers to the west, Bend's culture and dining to the south, and the high desert's icons all around.
Ski and ride Mt. Bachelor, chase alpine lakes along the Cascade Lakes Highway, hike to Tumalo Falls, and float or fish the Deschutes — the mountain side of Central Oregon, minutes past the gate.
Mt. Bachelor Visit ↗ Cascade Lakes & Tumalo Falls Visit ↗ Deschutes River & trails Visit ↗Downtown Bend's restaurants, coffee roasters, and celebrated breweries, the riverfront shopping and concerts of the Old Mill District, and the wildlife and art of the High Desert Museum.
Downtown Bend & the Ale Trail Visit ↗ Old Mill District Visit ↗ High Desert Museum Visit ↗World-class climbing and hiking at Smith Rock State Park, the singletrack of the Phil's Trail network, and the open high-desert country the community is named for.
Smith Rock State Park Visit ↗ Phil's Trail & mountain biking Visit ↗ High-desert recreation Visit ↗Local recommendations are shared as a courtesy; hours, access, and details are maintained by each organization.
Yes. Homeowners at Juniper Preserve choose the builder that fits their project, provided the home meets the community's architectural guidelines and is approved through its design review. Because resort homesites here involve golf frontage, protected view corridors, and a demanding high-desert climate, building with a builder experienced in the community helps the process move smoothly.
Yes — and not just once. Our Pronghorn Estates home earned Best of Show at the 2021 COBA Tour of Homes, along with five additional awards and a feature in Western Home Journal. We have since completed additional homes within the community and currently have two more under construction, so our familiarity with Juniper Preserve's setting, standards, and design review is both deep and current.
Earlier than most people expect. Bringing us in before the plans are finalized lets us help evaluate the homesite — sun and wind exposure, view corridors, golf frontage, privacy, and how the home should sit on the terrain — while coordinating with your architect and designer, keeping real construction costs in view, and preparing for the community's design review.
No. Some clients already have an architect, interior designer, or completed plans, while others are starting from the very beginning. Sunrise is flexible enough to meet you wherever you are in the process.
If you're assembling your team, we'll recommend architects whose design philosophy, communication style, and personality are the right fit for your project—not simply the same architect for every home. We believe the relationship between homeowner and architect is just as important as the plans themselves.
One of Sunrise Construction's unique advantages is our in-house interior design team through Sunrise Interiors. Because interior design and construction work together from the beginning, selections, lighting, cabinetry, finishes, budgets, and construction details are coordinated early, creating a smoother building experience and a more cohesive home.
That's perfectly fine. We regularly build homes designed by architects selected by our clients and are equally comfortable joining projects that already have completed construction documents.
Our role is to become a collaborative member of your team—working closely with your architect, interior designer, engineers, consultants, and trades to help move the project from drawings to a beautifully built home.
Whether your plans are just beginning or already permit-ready, Sunrise adapts to your process rather than asking you to adapt to ours.
Every project is different, but a luxury custom home takes real planning before construction begins. Site evaluation, design, engineering, the community's design review, permitting, and selections all shape the schedule. We set realistic timelines early so expectations stay clear from the beginning.
Resort communities like Juniper Preserve carry design guidelines that protect golf frontage, view corridors, and the shared character of the place. Siting the home to preserve neighbors' views, planning water-wise high-desert landscaping, and coordinating construction windows all matter here. We design with the Architectural Review Committee's expectations in mind from the start so approvals move smoothly.
Elevated high-desert and mountain-modern homes tend to belong here — grounded palettes of stone, timber, steel, and glass, with covered outdoor rooms and broad view corridors. The most successful homes respond to the terrain, frame the Cascade and golf views, and handle desert sun, wind, and four full seasons with ease.
Sunrise builds throughout the region. Explore more guides in the series, with additional communities on the way.
Whether you're still searching for the right homesite or already own one, early collaboration leads to better homes, smoother approvals, and decisions that pay dividends throughout the entire building process.
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