--Mixture of open and wooded holes
--The woods will kill you, but you won't lose your discs in them.
--Short/long tees plus short/long baskets offer a variety of levels of play
--Free to play
--Meaningful use of elevation on almost every hole
--Outstanding, clear signage
--Well maintained for the most part.

--On a public school campus, and closed during the hours when school is in session (afternoon/weekend play is open)
--Many holes lack trash cans, and worse, people are piling up their trash where cans apparently used to be
--No alcohol policy, reasonable for a school, is ignored based on the trash present.

I went to play 18, and played 36 in 95+ degree weather because it was honestly just that fun.

You start out next to a parking lot on the side lot of a middle school with a rather dull uphill shot to your choice of short and long tees and baskets. Hole 2 continues to lull you into thinking this is just another junior high course, and then #3 drops you down a hill and into the woods, from which you will not escape until #16. My dear hobbitses, you should always stay on the path, but despite the best of intentions, it won't be long before you stray. So, to mix metaphors, into to the woods you go like you were Sondheim himself...

Tee boxes are concrete, and just starting to fill with the detritus of early fall. Does anyone else carry a small whisk broom in their backpack? Not a bad idea here, seasonally dependent, if you're going to uncork from the tees.

Not that you have to. Even the longest options make for a relatively manageable course lengths. Holes that go up significantly in length often jump from par 3 to 4 as well. The main difference for me with the dual baskets had much more to do with approach angles and guardian trees than they did with length.

Ground conditions are a mixture of dirt, chips, and occasionally grass, draped across a roller coaster of small hills. The woods are thick and treacherous, but fair, and not so obscured that your discs will easily disappear. I hit only 3-4 fairways in the wooded section, but I didn't lose a disc in 36 holes, nor did I come across the lost discs of others (I'm looking at you, Crown College!).

I suggest that you review and be familiar with the appearance of poison ivy. It has obviously been mitigated alone the fairway edges, but if you get in too deep (and you will), there is some present. I recommend good skin coverage and washing your hands with a dedicated poison ivy cleanser on the completion of the round. I did so, and had no problems.

By hole 9, I had used every shot shape I knew and invented a few more. By the time I emerged on 16, my head was so full of woulda/coulda/shouldas that I knew I was going to go around the horn again. I'll be back later this week for another shot at it.

This course is very enjoyable. It has a great set up with long and short baskets as well as pins. When playing from the blue pads to the blue baskets the course is pretty fun it's challenging but not ridiculous as many advanced players still should shoot par or under.
The tee pads our marked blue or red and super easy to locate
I like the variety it offers with both pads and pins. It has a few open shots and a lot of technical wooded lines my type of disc golf. I love the fact it offers both accuracy is the main key here. Good elevation shots for example hole 4. When playing from the blues there's a couple par 4s. The layout is super easy to follow a navigation was fairly simple. There's a very nice kiosk with a map that has everything marked out as well as practice basket
Bathroom at start of course
Huge parking lot

Some people won't like the woods section, and there's some ugly spots if you get off the fairways of underbrush. Honestly there's not many cons here to me and you can tell the course has been taken care of. Just dosen't have that super wow factor or any real signature holes
Course is closed on school days until 2:30

This course surprised me and is for sure worth the visit

Good mix of open, wooded, long, short, left, right and elevation. Though more are shorter and technical versus long bombers.
Two tees and two baskets on every hole is a huge plus. This allows for challenging holes for beginners to professional level players.

The only reason I'm writing this review is because nobody else has mentioned the poison ivy. If you are highly allergic to poison ivy, consider staying away. Patches of ivy are all over the wooded portion of the course. Maybe I'm misidentifying the stuff, but I'm 95% sure its the good stuff!

As everybody else stated, course is on school grounds and has limited time to play.
Course is pulled in winter.

I don't care if you like this review or not. I wrote it to let people know there is a lot of poison ivy at the course.

This course is set up on the grounds of the outskirts of a middle school and some surrounding parkland. There are 2 baskets on every single hole and 2 tee pads on all but a few holes. Let's start with the pins. Two per hole with the silver Mach 3's as the shorts and I don't remember what type they were, but the blue powder coated ones as the longs. All 36 of these are in phenomenal shape and caught great. The blue powder coated ones stand out nicely in differentiating between the two locations. Awesome set up here with these. Now on to the tees. These, again, are all top notch. They are plenty long enough, grip nicely and are all level. Another added touch is the engraved hole number on the front of each as well as the red or blue on this front section designating which tee pad it is. Never seen this before but is one of the best tee pad features I've ever seen. If it's a shared tee the front section is split in half and half red, half blue. Again, great job on these. The flow of the course is so easy to follow. As a matter of fact every basket, I mean EVERY basket, short and long, have a next tee sign with an arrow to the next hole. There are also large wood posts with next tee signs on most holes too. At least the wooded holes, as it's pretty self explanatory on the more open holes. If that wasn't good enough it has next tee arrows on the tee signs as well. Basically it's almost impossible to get lost or even turned around here. The elevation here is used flawlessly. There is a solid mix of up and downhill holes both in the open and wooded sections of the course. Speaking of that, there is a good mix of open and wooded. Probably about a third open and the rest wooded. It basically has everything but water hazards. This course can cater to any skill level. We played 2 rounds. Long tees to long baskets and shorts to shorts with me having a 15 shot difference between the two. I'll be back to play shorts/longs and longs/shorts at some point. Ample parking and a toilet by the parking lot. Tee signs by every hole too. These, once again, have all the info you'd ever need. There is a practice basket by hole 18's basket too.

The course is not playable during school hours or apparently in the winter when the pins are pulled for cross country skiing. The course could become busy during peak hours and on weekends. Not really a con per se since this means it's a good course. However back ups can happen easily as it is easy to lose sight of your drive and end up searching in the rough. Especially problematic with larger groups.

If you are anywhere near here I'd highly recommend giving this one a spin. This was absolutely the best middle or elementary school course I've played....by far. I've never even played a better high school course. Hell this course is better than probably 85 percent of the courses of any kind I've played. The designers did an almost unbelievable job with this design. Almost, because it's here and it's real. Play this course.

-18 holes, with most of them having 2 tees and 2 baskets. That makes 4 possible ways to play each hole.

-Great for groups of mixed skill players. Intermediate players can still find a good challenge from the long tees, and beginners won't get discouraged by playing from the short tees.

-Good use of elevation. There are lots of uphill and downhill shots.

-Accuracy is highly rewarded, especially on the holes with tight fairways. One particularly memorable hole had a fairway that was less than 8 feet wide which ran 250' into a clearing.

-An 800+ rated player will probably be able to get at least par on the majority of holes, though a lot of the birdies might still be tricky. 900+ rated players could find this course trivial.

-Not much room to throw your distance drivers. Take it as an opportunity to practice stretching out your mid ranges and putters to longer distances if you have a big arm.

- Dual tees and baskets

- Significant difficulty challenge between long and short in some cases, meaning lots of variety

- Good use of elevation

-Mix of open vs technical holes

-Excellent flow, the next tee location is always clear

-Great signage. Shows elevation change and distance for each pin placement

-Course is closed during school hours

-Course can get crowded, go in the early morning for an empty course

-Baskets are pulled in the winter and the course is used as a cross country skiing course - no winter play

-The rough can get very thick in the summer for holes 3-12

This is one of my favorite courses. Every time I pass through Lakeville, I make a point to stop here. Going early on a weekend morning is nice because there is only one or two groups on the course.

Course flows well, has many options for playing long/short baskets and tees, very technical but also a few holes you get to throw in the wide open but even those holes offer some elevation and require good placement for an easy bird. Holes are fairly short for the most part and even the longer holes require more of a placement/upshot than a huge drive. Good course to work on your line shaping as well as course management given the different shots/lines needed as well as placement due to the small gaps or landing areas which need to be hit. If you are having an "off" day and mental game is struggling, this course could eat you up quick and one wouldn't think when they show up to the first few holes. This course will surprise you specially playing blue to blue. One of the coolest features is the actual BLUE powder coated baskets to match the tees, different from the reds.

Update**all issues noted below have been addressed and course plays much better after being suped up for AM worlds last year and given time to mature.**

Gravel tees are worn down and a few "pot-holes" during run up makes footwork a little tricky, being newer course the brush and saplings are still battleing with the foot traffic and will say it has much improved from last year but still a few killer trip stumps and thick "schule" lol... Concrete tees and better tee signs would bump this course up 1 disc for me as it gives you everything you want playability wise but lacks in the areas which many other 3.5-5 disc courses offer specially when it comes to amenities and overall feel is very "rec" course but plays more advanced from the longer tees. Some holes are very tight together and also blind which caused players to throw while we were still in the fairway or discs/players crossing into eachothers lies. Lacks benches/waiting areas which was a problem on such a high traffic day.

It is obvious there was a good amount of time spent designing this course and they really took advantage of the land/space available by using all of its features to the fullest. There was a local league there the day we played and I couldn't believe how many times discs would come flying by us while we still were throwing an up-shot or groups of 4-5 not letting us (quick playing 2fer) through as well as my disc being picked up on one of the blind holes plus people in the open fields just throwing discs like crazy with no regard for others around as if they owned the place... Just didn't get a good vibe at all even though the course is challenging and probably one of the better free 18 hole courses around, it was less than a welcoming 2nd time at this course and not its fault either but part of it none the less. I'd rather play a less desirable course and not have to deal with the crap we did that day. Great work designers and those who help to make this free course possible and all of their continued efforts to grow DG by giving us new courses every year, all around the Twin Cities!

Fantastic course! Wide variety of open & wooded, hilly & flat, close & long shots. Each hole has 2 baskets in different locations (one for the long tee and one for the short tee) but you can play at the alternate basket to change the game up. Best course in the area by far!

Dirt tee pads. If this course had cement tee pads it would be one of the best courses in the country.

Kenwood Trails DGC has a great start to the course. There are a variety of holes that require a variety of shots, including holes in the open, holes in the woods, and a few holes with some elevation change. The tee pads and baskets are also top notch.

I really don't have too many bad things to say about this course. It could definitely use some more wood chips around the greens though in order to knock the dust down.

This course definitely plays more difficult than it looks, at least for me. Take your birdie opportunities early, as it gets more difficult/technical in the woods.