Good use of guardian trees and ponds.

Once the ponds freeze over, you can just walk out and grab your "wet" discs.

Plays in about 45 minutes if you're game for a quick round.

The DG course is open when the ball golf course is closed, i.e. winter--conditions can be harsh in MN.

No next hole signage, but you're going to use UDisc anyway

All holes are pretty short

The Brookview Winter Blue and Red Courses get set up in November, and taken down around mid to late March. Gotta Go Gotta Throw apparently manages the layouts, which change from year to year. This is a review of the Red (short) Course for the 2023-4 season.

The Red course consists of holes ranging from 150-300 ft, all par threes. The baskets are Mach III's, and the tee pads mostly rubber mats, with a couple of turf mats thrown in as well if I recall correctly. There was very little snow on the ground, and footing was more than adequate.

The Red Course is somewhat less hilly than the Blue and also more open, but makes extensive use of lateral and crossing ponds. By mid-December, it should be safe enough to walk out after a disc on the ice, but temps climbed up above freezing today. Nevertheless I managed to recover a beloved Tursas from a pond today through the combination of a 16' disc retriever and an inadvisable stroll out about 30' from shore. It probably wasn't the smartest thing I've done this week, but all turned out well in the end.

With a 230 ft average hole length, I wouldn't say that this course is especially challenging, but with the winds up over largely open terrain, parking the disc can be a challenge. There were enough guardian trees to force certain approach angles on multiple holes as well.

In addition to the two courses, there is a full service Bar and Grill type restaurant on the premises. It remains open all winter, and one could easily stop for a drink or a bite to eat between rounds as an opportunity to warm up a little.

I like what they are doing here. Many MN courses have taken their baskets down for the winter. Brookfield fights that trend, with 2 eighteen hole offerings on a site with enviable facilities for a DG course. Give it a try.

2 different course options - outer course plays a little more difficult and longer walking/more hills. Both courses are good options. Good variety of distances and up/down angles.

Tee pads can get a little sloppy from the snow melt. Can be a little difficult deciphering the two courses from each other

Visited on 3/14 - pins are pulled and the regular golfers are out. I'm assuming it's closed for the season.

-Course was redisgned this year, and the new layout is much improved. Flows much more naturally as a disc golf course.
-Varied hole lengths, with some short holes, medium length holes, and holes your can crush on and still not get there
-Varying course conditions demand you account for them and adjust your shots accordingly. A shot that is parked one day might skip 70 feet past the basket another day. Some may think this is not a "pro", but I like that you might have to play completely different round to round, keeps things fresh.
-Good variety of right turning, left turning, and straight shots
-No losing your discs in the ponds! They are frozen. This is minnesota
-The teepads are (mostly) great when they are cleared off, the rubber provides a lot of grip.
-Navigation was easy, as you can see all the trampled snow from everyone walking to the next hole.
-Lots of birdie ops IF YOU EXECUTE, but generally not overly punishing if you don't
-Location is great. There is a shortage of convenient 18 hole courses on this side of town, especially in winter since Bryant Lake closes for the season. Very easy to get to if you want to play a full 18 hole course.
-Assuming it hasn't snowed within about a week, enough people play it that if you stay on the fairway, your disc usually wont go missing, as much of the snow gets trampled down
-The people that play in winter are not usually casual players. You generally don't get stuck behind chuckers that don't know to let faster players play through.
-Although there are no trash cans (see cons), course has generally been very clean, haven't seen much trash on the course at all
-Great use of the natural features of the par 3 golf course, including pin location, avoiding having too many point and shoot wide open holes with nothing in the way.
-Sometimes the course plays easy, sometimes good scores are HARD, due to any missed putts sliding 50 feet on ice. I like that.

-Biggest issue with this course is DRAINAGE. There are a LOT of places on this course where water settles, then freezes into a giant sheet of ice that will never give you good footing.
-When the course was redesigned, these drainage issues were not fully taken into account. Some teepads are literally under inches of ice, totally unusable. As such, sometimes I have had to either throw off to the side on something vaguely grippy, or change the "teebox" to a completely different area that is not the official start of the hole. On one hole, players have stoped out an area in the cattails of a pond as the teebox will not be usable at all this season.
-Many of the ponds were originally surrounded with very thick trees and brush. This year, all of that was cleared out, turning some technical shots and interesting greens into wide open holes that IMO are much less fun. I liked having to take a technical downhill anny shot instead of a pretty standard hyzer shot sometimes. After talking to some of the people involved in designing the course, this was done by the golf course without telling or consulting the disc golf course designers, can't fault them for that really.
-Not all teepads are flat. Especially on one hole that comes to mind, that is at the top of a hill. No part of this teepad is flat, both the front and back of this teepad are sloped in opposite directions.
-No trash cans anywhere on the course, so you need to pack out everything you bring. I generally have not found this to be THAT much of an issue, players have done a good job of keeping the course clean.
-Sometimes things can get out of hand due to icy greens, big numbers can happen FAST. Don't know if I really consider this a con though. Make your putts.

All in all, I like Brookview, it is my go to winter course, as BRP is kinda far and Bryant is closed all winter. It feels like the course was specifically designed for playing in winter, which, i suppose, it was! You really do have to be careful due to near constant icy conditions, it is very easy to slip and fall. There are issues, some of which can be resolved. You can't really fix the drainage, its just the way the land is. You CAN, however, put the teepads in a place where they won't be covered with a couple inches of ice for the whole winter. This is the first year of the redisign, so I expect a few teething issues until they figure everything out. Worth your time to check it out and play some winter disc golf!

Close-in and convenient for everyone in the Twin Cities; indoor bathrooms, and food and drink available; golf course grass is easier to play on than the mud of most other winter courses; interesting greens; OB areas that seem like they could be avoided, but aren't always; water and hills.
Oh, and it's free.

Teeing areas can get sloppy.

What a nice gift to the disc golf community! Another course to fill in when some of the other courses have closed for the winter.
It's not too long, so everyone can play here, but it has a couple of places where long arms can show off.
The targets are placed in areas where you have to think about how, or even whether, you should approach them. Then, you might need to pull out a trick shot for your putt.
Short tees on some holes could serve as DZs. If you can't throw across the lakes, opt to go to the short tee and throw your third shot.
Bring the map. The paths to the next tee are not worn in enough to be easy to follow.
You might want to bring a bathtub mat, chunk of carpet, or welcome mat to use on the tees.