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Industry Hills Resort with Late-Night Golf Course Stories
1 Industry Hills Parkway, City of Industry, CA 91744
Research updated May 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Standard resort hotel rates plus paid golf at the Industry Hills Golf Club.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Hilltop resort campus, paved walkways, hilly golf terrain
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1979 · Industry Hills Resort Development · Eisenhower Golf Course
Industry Hills was developed as a planned recreation complex by the City of Industry in the late 1970s, anchored by two championship golf courses. The Eisenhower Course, designed by William F. Bell, opened in 1979, alongside a paired Zaharias Course. Both courses were named for figures the city wished to honor — President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias — and both were built into the rolling hills that rise above the San Gabriel Valley.
The Industry Hills Sheraton opened as the resort hotel attached to the complex, providing lodging, conference, and dining facilities for golfers and meeting groups. Pacific Coast Architecture Database materials catalog the resort under its original Sheraton branding. The hotel served as the area's principal full-service property through the late twentieth century.
In 2001 the property was rebranded as Pacific Palms Resort, today positioned as the only full-service luxury golf and conference resort in Los Angeles County. The Industry Hills Golf Club continues to operate both championship courses on the same hilltop site adjoining the hotel. The Shadowlands Haunted Places Index entry for the 'Sheraton Hotel' refers to this property under its earlier branding.
Sources
The Shadowlands entry for this property is built on accounts attributed to overnight security staff. Patrolling the resort grounds in the late hours, guards reportedly observed two shadowy figures moving across the fairways of the golf course. The figures were described as fast-moving and silent, vanishing before they could be intercepted.
A second cluster of accounts comes from the back perimeter of the resort, where a perimeter wall separates the apartment-style accommodations and golf grounds from forested hillside and open county land. Residents and guests in those rear-facing units reported unexplained sounds from beyond the wall — voices, movement, and what some described as the sound of running.
The stories sit in a category of California haunted-resort lore that gets very little corroboration. Web coverage of Pacific Palms Resort itself does not promote any haunted angle, and we found no investigation report, named witness, or follow-up reporting on the figures-on-the-fairway accounts. Anyone curious about the lore should not attempt to access the golf course at night; the resort is private property and overnight access is restricted to registered guests.
Stay at the hilltop resort that operated for years as the Industry Hills Sheraton before becoming Pacific Palms Resort in 2001. The property includes the Eisenhower Course (designed by William F. Bell, opened 1979) and the Zaharias Course at Industry Hills Golf Club, plus conference and dining facilities.
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