--Very well maintained.

--DD Veterans are as new

--Free to play

--Great lookout over Lake Elysian from 12-14

--100% guaranteed deer sighting

--Rather limited elevation change is used to maximum potential throughout. #14 calls for an amazing shot that you've probably never practiced--straight up a 40' hill, about 25 percent grade, through a line of guardians WITHOUT carrying straight through into a fenced deer pen.

Seriously multi-purpose park, playing along active roadways. I wouldn't touch this place with a 5 meter disk retriever on a warm summer's day, let alone a weekend.

Flow is pretty wonky, starting with 4 --> 5, and generally encompassing the back nine. Long walks that make no sense and probably weren't necessary from a design standpoint.

This is a good park course. If I lived next door to it, I would tell Lou Gehrig that he was not, in fact, the luckiest person alive. I thoroughly enjoyed my round here. If you find it empty-ish and off season, I doubt you would disagree. Like many MN park courses, it is short, technical and laid out in a multi-use park, in this case on a lake whose shoreline will teem with visitors all summer long.

Starting with two flat, mostly open holes, it starts to play subtly with elevation on #4, and builds on that until it reaches a climax on 14, which is straight uphill, through a line of trees, turning hard left short of a deer park, and finishing on a grassy plateau nestled along a semicircle of woods. Up to this point, one would have noticed a certain lack of flow from basket to next tee, but the next 3 holes defenestrate any pretense of feng shui before gently setting you down on a flat, straight 18th.

Moral of the story? You're going to walk a lot further than the 4450 feet of this otherwise short par 57. If that's ok with you, you'll probably have a great time, and wouldn't be wrong to go around again, although it would only be fair to point out how close you are to two other very interesting alternatives, Maiden Shade and Waseca Couty Courthouse Park.