About Quail West
Quail West is a gated community of 499 residential parcels in Naples, built around two 18-hole championship golf courses (36 holes; Arthur Hills, opened 1996).
Amenities — club amenities owned/operated by Quail West Golf & Country Club (equity membership); the foundation governs the community — include two 18-hole championship golf courses (36 holes; Arthur Hills, opened 1996), a roughly 100,000 sq ft clubhouse, a two-story fitness and wellness center, dining, 24-hour guard-gated entry, single-family and luxury estate homes.
On paper, the community sits in evacuation zone E.
Quail West is a luxury estate community at the top end of the Naples–Bonita golf market, and the single most important thing for a buyer to understand is that its club is an equity club. Membership at Quail West Golf and Country Club carries an ownership stake and is a substantial cost in its own right, entirely separate from buying the home — this is not a place to price by the house alone. What the membership buys is genuinely large-scale: two 18-hole Arthur Hills championship courses (opened 1996), a clubhouse of roughly 100,000 square feet, and a two-story fitness and wellness center, all behind a 24-hour guard-gated entrance. The housing is exclusively single-family and estate homes on generous lots — there are no condos or attached product here — which is part of why the Collier PUD boundary counts only about 500 parcels: this is a low-density, big-lot community by design.
Governance is member- and resident-controlled. The Quail West Foundation, Inc., a Florida non-profit filed in 1991, runs the community from the clubhouse address with a member-director board and amended its articles as recently as February 2025, so this is a mature, turned-over community rather than a developer-run one (Stock Development is the current developer completing remaining estate homesites).
On the records, county data places Quail West in evacuation Zone E — a lower-exposure inland band — in the North Collier fire district, with a flood profile leaning to the X500 band and Tuesday solid-waste collection. For the right buyer, Quail West's appeal is space, privacy and a serious golf club; the essential due diligence is the equity membership itself — what tier, what the buy-in and dues are, and what is required versus optional — because at Quail West the club is as much of the purchase as the house.A few practical notes: electricity is Florida Power & Light, and the community sits near the Collier/Lee line in North Naples, convenient to both Naples and Bonita Springs. The equity-club structure is the defining financial fact: unlike a bundled or non-equity community, membership here is an ownership interest with its own buy-in, dues and, potentially, resale dynamics — so a buyer should treat the club membership as a second, parallel purchase and get clear on its full economics before committing to the home. Confirm current dues, membership terms, amenity access and any rules directly with the association and club; this page is an independent, records-based starting point and is not affiliated with the community, its club or any developer.
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