This a design update for fans and critics of this course. The City Council has approved plans to not only upgrade tee pads, baskets and install signs after 20 years but add four holes in South Valley on the other side of the tunnel on 16. The redesign will take place this spring. The revised layout will be longer but still 18 holes and there's room for expansion in South Valley to 24 in the future. The big changes will be combining holes 2 & 3 into a tough par 4 and eliminating holes 8, 11 & 12 to reduce nagging erosion problems in the steeper areas of the park. There will be a few tweaks to existing holes including shifting a few tee pads and adding a few alternate pin placements. The four new holes in South Valley will replace the four lost and include some interesting holes with two legit par 4s and two par 3s. Once the new routing is ready to play, we'll create a new course listing called The Valley and retire this North Valley listing.

North Valley is a very balanced course that has a great array of long and short holes combining skill shot lines with sheer gusto. As previously mentioned, the park contains a large bowl area with a big lake/pond. The amount of holes and difficulty of these holes utilizing the geography is great. The course also has a few number of signature shots, including the aforementioned 600ft bomb over the pond for hole 15. I also really like the shot on 13 gliding over a tall brush grove.

The signage is horrible. If you haven't played the course, a few times, it's very easy to miss holes and tee pads, including some of the best shots on the course. Some tee pads are a little ratty and they could use a few more garbage cans to keep the littering down. The main improvement NV needs is to improve the signage and teepads.

This can't be added as a con, but i wish they would put the four or five holes on the bottom back in. It's been quite a few years, and the pads down below where even worse than the ones up top, but there were a few really cool holes going down to the lower pond and coming back up. That helped keep the congestion down on the front nine as well. I'm guessing it's not ever happening, but a guy can hope.
Fun course, follow someone if your new to it though.

This is a course that after you play it, despite your round, you should have the feeling that it was a fun course. There is a great variety of holes; long, short, wooded, open, water, flat, hilly, baseball field, you name it. And while it is important to share the park with non-disc golfers, there is ample space for stray discs, most of the time.

This course is a fairly far drive from my house. I guess the best indicator for if a course is good or not is if you have come back to it even if it is kinda far away, and I have come back multiple times.

By far, the biggest con, and the reason it doesn't have better ratings, is how hard it is to find the next hole. The first couple are easy, but then you get to a point where you see two chains on a hill, and only one teepad. I wondered "should I tee off, play one chains, then walk down and tee off the other?" But then luckily some kid walking by just said you tee off the sidewalk where there is sometimes a marker. The layout is very confusing and they could use signs directing you to the next hole.

Also, there are a few holes that might be easy to lose a disc on (and I am not talking about the water hole-that one is obvious). The sumac gets thick in areas and it might be smart to play with someone from your group watching where the disc lands on those holes.

Give it a whirl.

A lot of fun holes, and the scenery is great. Some distance holes for those who has a good arm.

After the first seven holes good luck knowing where you are. There are very poor markers, and some cement slabs are placed randomly throughout the course as if the starting area was moved. The transition from hole to hole doesn't make sense and some of the baskets are too close to each other. Large groups of people play all at once, which can be confusing to know where to go if you are new.

Despite all the negatives, a pretty nice course to try out. Remember to bring water, because the last holes have a lot of hills to trek up and down.

1) Somewhat beginner friendly. This is mostly true because of the forward tees that really change the toughest holes. That is a key feature because it is a great course that would allow a beginner to play along with a pro and see what a championship caliber course is like.

2) Concrete/asphalt teepads instead of dirt.

3) Baskets in good shape.

4) Wide varety in length with a max of over 600' and another about 550', with 5 more holes less than 200' Even those less than 200' have their own challenges however.

5) Has awesome variety: elevation changes, forced water carries, tight wooded tunnel shots, hole requiring a nice anhyzer or other throw. Baskets on slopes that can lead to roll aways (Not that I like it when it happens but it provides something to think about when shooting), a handful of open holes with scattered trees. It just plain has everything.

1) A little dirty with garbage in a few spots.

2) Compact soils lead to bare soil in some areas (again jut simply from overuse over the years). Not too detrimental to my review but it is a factor.

3) A couple of the holes although challenging and fun to play had some quirkiness to them, that left a slightly bad taste in my mouth. Not horrible, but noticeable again.

This was the first course I played in MN out of 7 on this weekend. I only started there because Kaposia was not open at 6 AM when I was up and ready to play, so I drove down the road. I am glad I played it first because I was able to be excited about a lot of the holes. Had I played Kaposia first I would have been less enthusiastic about some of the holes, although my overall impression would still have been favorable. Just a couple holes make this course memorable and worth the trip. It will challeneg you from start to finish. There are no easy simple straight forward holes. They all have unique differences and challenges.

The only reason this course cannot receive a 4 or higher from me is because of the confusion on the course, although all the holes are great the layout is a little goofy on some holes. It is somewhat dirty with garbage which doesn't really surprise me I guess.

Has a nice variety of wooded and open holes that make you work the shapes of your drives. It was nice to see such good use of the terrain and obstacles to force the shot selection. Has everything from short holes through the woods to open long holes across water. Big arms and midrange specialists are all rewarded. Pretty well kept up in general.

I hadn't played it in a few years and going back I found the flow confusing. The signage that was there didn't help much and the teepads weren't in great shape. A few of the holes had fairways pretty close to each other. Expect large groups.

3 or 4 years ago there used to be a lot of broken glass near the teepads but that seemed much better. Kudos to whoever is cleaning it up. Seems like the city needs to either make up thier mind to fix it up and/or expand or not. Either way it needs some love.

There is a wide variety of shot that need to be thrown here with a large amount of elevation change on a few holes. There are a few wooded shots but for the most part, it is fairly wide open.

The first time I played here, I spent more time looking for which hole I was suppose to play next and where the tees were then I actually did playing. This course could really stand some new numbers for the baskets as well as better tee markers.

Beautiful looking course with great changes of elevation and technical challenges. I got there in early evening so I appreciated that the course is a bit short and could be played quickly

I found it very difficult to find the correct teepads and also to know at which target I should be throwing. Some people on the course were very helpful or I would never have found some holes. Some teepads have absolutely no markings on them at all. The long hole and shot over the water on 15 (I think) seems a little absurd to me after so many short holes.

The directions I found were a bit confusing. The entrance is off of 70th street.