Unlike many golf courses that alter the landscape to suit their needs, Cateechee altered only the thinly snaking fairway. Native oaks, maples, hickory, pines and elm trees remain, along with native grasses and wildflowers that create a riotous color resembling an impressionist painting in spring and summer. The few areas that are disturbed at Cateechee are replanted with native grasses and trees. Conservation is evident elsewhere at Cateechee. Its maintenance building runs on solar power and uses low-wattage light bulbs.
Clever recycling lends creativity to the scene.
Up a hill, a few hundred feet away, along the boundary of the course at the fifth hole, is one of many refreshment stands dotting the course. Built of left-over clubhouse material, it mimics the clubhouse form. The miniature replica, with its gray planking and sloping roof, encloses a water bottle. The form is mimicked again in bat and owl nesting boxes in the valleys and woods between holes. The miniaturized clubhouses are examples of the detail that went into creating Cateechee.