This course sits on a college campus, but is not at all difficult to find. The road splits just in front of what appears to be the main building. Visitors bear left to park. The rightward branch runs along the first fairway.

The course is well laid out, taking advantage of rolling hills and mature trees. The views are well above average. Elevation is a factor on about 75% of the holes and trees frame the rest. My Apple watch thought that I had climbed 30 flights of stairs by the end of the round. 2 holes cross a pond, but on #18 this is by passable via the short tee. We found the fairways to be well maintained and without outcroppings or dead spots.

Even on a beautiful summer weekend, we did not find the course to be congested. Players helped each other out with lost discs and directions.

Hole #8 is basically unplayable, at least to a newcomer. Neither tee provides a view of the basket and the short tee pad is completely blocked in front by overgrown vegetation. While the tee pads are solid concrete, there were several tees with a bit of step off on the front. Be careful on those follow throughs.

Amenities are sparse. No portable toilet.

It's a bit of a drive if your starting point is Minneapolis/St Paul.

No maps or signage to the next tee. Baskets were older, but adequate.

I am new to the sport, with only about 15 rounds under my belt on 6 courses. Crown College is the best I have played so far, and I hope to get to a chance to return soon.

While tall grass roughs line many holes, it was a non-issue when we spotted for each other. A solo player might have a different experience. We found that brightly colored discs tend to show up very well in the prairie grass--which wasn't nearly as tall as we were led to believe--but it can get substantially more difficult if you get into lower lying marsh grass.

I hope that the college will maintain and upgrade this course, attending to some of the potential issues, none of which were so severe as to spoil a very pleasant round.

A challenging mix of wooded and wide open holes. Fairly long holes with a few birdie ops tossed in. Very quiet, rural atmosphere and have rarely seen others on the course.

Wind can make you curse (just not out loud) having driven so far to play so poorly. If you stray from the fairway, the weeds can be torture in the summer. Less problematic in the winter but it's not hard to lose a disc if there is white on the ground. Duh.

A great option for one willing to head to the exurbs to play a well-designed layout.

Beautiful terrain with big hills to shape your shots around. The course has a great flow and offers big open shots that test your accuracy combined with power to reach the basket! Generally maintained well with consistent mowing of the fairways. Crown College shows they care about their course through the generous effort they put forth to keep it in good shape! Trash cans and signage throughout the course helps with the overall look!

Great course for experienced disc golfers to go and air their shots out!

Early in the spring or following major rainfall a couple holes can be soft and mushy with a bit of water pooling up. Errant shots can turn into lost discs very quickly. Later in the summer the grass outside the fairways can be 5-6ft tall. Throw in the fairway!

Worth the drive from anywhere within reason! At the right time of year the Sumac is bright red following the fairways. Nothing beats crown after a fresh mowing on a calm day!

-Dual Cement Pads
-Well labeled signs
-Mach III Baskets
-Well Mowed
-Plenty of parking (northwest of main building)
-Holes 1-6, 8-10,17, and 18 are very nice holes and worth playing the course for
-Course loops around back to start area
-Good use of water and elevation
-Hard to lose a disc
-Very clean course, well maintained.
-Beautiful scenery, pond with bridges are very nice touch
-If you have a big arm, you will love the back 9
-Seems to be a very quiet course
-Restrooms in main building near parking
-Course is a little out of the way for the Twin Cities area which leads to less crowding and allows for a peaceful round with out having to deal with riffraff. This is a huge plus for me.

-Holes 7 and 11-16 are very open long bombs. There is no real line shaping required here. This can be good for practicing your drives or can be a nice challenge with wind. Hole 16 is the worst offender with flat land and no obstacles.
-Some difficulty navigating first time through. Map supplied in main office only shows the original 9 hole configuration. Hole 3 is north across the driveway from 2 and 7 is west of the building that you passed on the drive in.
-Did not notice trash cans, this did not seem to be much of a problem, seeing as there was no litter problem.

-Only one basket seemed especially short to me (hole #5), however considering the hole layout, it may add chances for skip aces.

-Holes #11-16 are more open than I would prefer, they do allow some nice practice for large drives thou. If there were more risk/reward scenario on these holes I'd like them more. If you feel the need to have a more technical game you can skip from hole 6 to 10 to 17 very easily, this is the original 9 hole configuration.

-Full 18 holes.
-Nice pointed tee pads.
-Signs with distances and pars on them.
-Every kind of hazards and shots with the exception of a true wooded hole.
-Very large area for 18 holes, therefore never crowded.
-New, nice baskets.
-Great variety of shot length.
-Not too busy at any time.
-Great elevation changes.
-Perfect amount and placement of trees. Overall well designed.
-Good use of the water on a few holes.
-Dual tees on all holes.

-Some baskets were lower which mixed my putting up.
-It was sometimes hard to know which basket to aim at.
-It was also hard to know where the next tee box was once or twice.
-No bathrooms, garbage cans, drinking fountains.

There has been a lot of work put into this course in the past few years and i suspect that it will continue to improve over time. Definitely worth a play if you're in the area.

Let me start off by saying that I'm born and raised in MN...but moved to the west coast 5 years ago...where I fell in love with disc golf. Just came back this last week to the little town of Waconia where my folks live. My vacation had included bringing along my disc bag to enjoy some R & R...

My dad wanted to give it a try, so we found that indeed, Crown College had a course less than 5 miles away. We went and checked it out and I'm glad that this course was his first impression of the sport. Rolling hills, blind shots into valleys, long bomb opportunities, tight technical shots galore and a GREAT big open course. Didn't feel crowded once and there were several groups on the course. THe tee pads were great. New cement pads for both the A and B boxes and all in the oh so helpful Arrow style box that helps point the way to the basket. While the signs were off on some holes, the regulars were more than willing to point us in the right direction if we got lost. Easily overlooked in my opinion.
The fact that there was water, grass, trees, hills, both up and down, new pads, an obvious effort at improving the course, I was thrilled at the find. Irritated that this was only 5 miles from my when I used to live there...doh!

Not much cons that can't be easily overlooked. As the other review states, there were several 9+ baskets that appeared to be set for pre-schooler height...seriously, the basket was less than 10 inches off the ground! This is easily fixed with a raise of the cement and they'd be perfect. Great chain/basket condition.
Number was off, but seriously, there were still bobcat marks on the course from within a day or two, moving the dirt, leveling it off. Their caring makes the world of difference for a few mis-placed signs...I'm confident that this will be fixed soon.

Great great great course. I didn't have much in the way of expectations when I went...but wow, I was very very wrong. Incredible variety of shots...bring the full arsenol! It was my first time there so the grass length was *manageable* at the time...but if they don't mow and go all natural out there...bring a twosome at minimum to assist in searching the long grass. I give it a 4 out of 5 all day long, and easily expect it to be a 5 when I come back in the fall. LOVED IT!