The Quarry Golf Club sits in Edmonton's river valley system, where designer Les Furber routed two distinct eighteen-hole courses—Ironstone and Slate—through terrain shaped by both natural topography and former industrial use. Furber, a prominent Western Canadian architect, worked with land that includes remnants of quarry operations, incorporating elevation changes and exposed rock faces into the playing corridors. The Slate course occupies the more dramatic portion of the property, with several holes playing along or across quarried areas that create steep drops and natural amphitheater settings. The routing takes advantage of the river valley's mature tree cover and rolling ground, with fairways that bend around wooded areas and greens positioned on plateaus or in natural bowls. Holes frequently require carries over rough terrain or approach shots to elevated surfaces backed by rock walls. The design emphasizes shot placement over length, as the varied elevation and confined corridors reward accuracy more than distance. The Quarry opened in the late 1990s and serves as a public facility within Edmonton's municipal golf system, making Furber's design accessible to a broad range of players. The combination of industrial history and natural river valley landscape gives the courses a distinctive character among prairie golf venues, where flat farmland typically dominates. Both courses share practice facilities and a clubhouse positioned between the two routings.