Mom says that this course has been in Grand Lake for a really long time. But if you Google minigolf in Grand Lake, this doesn’t come up! You can find it on Google if you already know the name of the course, but just by Googling minigolf in Grand Lake, just the course in Winter Park comes up (along with the 2 courses in Estes Park). She says that’s a real shame because this is a great course. If you know the name of the course, you can find someone’s blog who mentions it, but this course has NO web-presence of its own! You just have to know that it’s there!
This is a course where all the holes have names. I love that. And it is a course that won a “Mechanix Illustrated” award in 1977. Mechanix Illustrated was a magazine that was published from 1928 to 2001. See, they say so in their sign.
This golf course has a “wild west” theme, and contains a shooting gallery! The course, basically, takes up three store fronts on the block - it’s really small. Two of the store fronts are golf, and the third is the shooting gallery. Which, we didn’t see anyone using.
Hey, I love that sign for the pricing for “children shorter than the counter”. And I love that the sign is low, too.
They have really impressive course records. But, the holes are relatively short, and it’s a felt course, so it’s not so hard to get a good score.
They had a good selection of balls - but too many yellow ones!
Oooooh, they’ve got my favorite kind of putters.
This is an old course, you could tell, because the minute we stepped on the course, hole #3 broke down and the lady behind the counter had to come out and do some quick repairs with a can of WD-40 and a screw-driver.
Look!!! A 5 stroke limit!!!
This course has beach umbrellas sprinkled around the course, which was nice, because we played right after lunch, and the sun was very strong. Also, we were playing behind some really slow people, so we had to wait a lot.
This hole had a wrecking ball dipping in and out of the hole, meaning that you had to time your shot.
Look!! There aren’t any SIDES to this hole!! Man!!!
Apparently this course is fun.
HA!!!!!
Another Farmville hole. The barn door swings open and shut.
This is hole number 3 - the policeman rotates clockwise, only he got stuck so he was blocking forward progress. That's why the lady had to fix him.
"Here the fun never sets." That seems to be their slogan.
This is the strangest hole I’ve ever seen! You had to tee up your ball on that little piece of felt on the wood thing, and then putt through Big Bertha. And, this photo also shows how they’ve used space efficiently - Big Bertha goes OVER the next hole!
This hole also had something I’d never seen: you take a one-stroke penalty if you hit the chimes!
Was this plant meant to be part of this hole?
Look at this goofy castle!! It looks like someone’s FACE!!!
This spider lowered down and covered the hole.
I got a hole-in-one on this hole, because it reminded me of the Indianapolis Colts, and you should always get a hole-in-one on the hole of your favorite team!
SHEESH!!!
This is apparently the NBC hole.
HA!!! You know, if I owned this course I might try re-painting that sign.
You were supposed to hit your ball hard enough that you get into the gutter, and then you’d roll down by the hole. See, you have to putt off a cliff.
I wonder how many children hit the ball so hard that it bounces back and knocks them over???
This hole had you putt into a mixing bowl! Seriously, it was the largest hole I’ve ever seen! Once you got into the mixing bowl, you’d come out by the actual hole on the green.
This was the smallest “ant-hill” I’ve ever seen!
And it’s way larger than a regulation-sized hole!!
Here the rocket goes up and down.
This one had a monkey going up and down over the hole, but there are hills on both sides of the monkey, which made the hole really challenging.
The first and only water hole - although there wasn’t any water, only paint. There may have been water in there at some point, but there wasn’t any when we were there.
East 18:
Par: 44
Aaron: 47
Barb: 42
There was also a second half to this course, the "West 18," but it was largely the same as the East 18. It had some unique holes, but the highlight was definitely the second hole. I took a video of it that you can watch by clicking the link below.
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West 18:
Par: 44
Aaron: 47
Barb: 47
Difficulty (1-6 putts, 6 putts being the most difficult): 3 putts
Rating (1-10 balls, 10 being the most wondrous): 8 balls. This course had extremely fast greens. It’s possible that they weren’t felt, they were just really smashed down astro-turf.
Coming soon: The End of the Tour - for this year!!
