Pros:
Miniwaukan Park is an 18 hole course that plays through a compact old growth oak lined park.
1) Relative Ease of Play - this is a course that will not blow out beginners, which is necessary for growing the sport. Most holes play around the 200' to 300' range, and have some form of trees in play, so you'll need rudimentary distance and line-shaping ability, but nothing really difficult. Higher level players will have birdie opps on the majority of holes.
2) Old Growth Oak - I think it's a delightful setting to play disc golf in. You'll have a handful of legit golf lines you need to hit in the earlier part of the course.
3) Aceability -kinda sorta like I mentioned in 1: If you're, say, a rec/intermediate level player or above, you will have a higher than normal chance of recording an ace.
4) Odds & Ends of Basics: Rudimentary signage, the tee signs say what hole you're on, and signs on the baskets say what hole you're on too. Better than I can say at a surprising amount of area courses, so it helps with navigation. Baskets are Mach V's - seemed to be in decent condition and I had no qualms with how they caught. Reasonable trash can coverage, from what I can remember too (I usually pay better attention to this, but don't remember it being a huge problem)
Cons:
Ultimately, this course really suffers due to what I think are a variety of major safety hazards, and generally lacks that real excitement edge.
1) Tees - natural tees. Unlike fellow Mukwonago course The Phantom, the natural tees at Mini have seen a lot more wear, are really uneven, and in several instances, are straight up unsafe to tee off from. (Short) Tees are marked by small (yellow) concrete blocks in the ground, apparently there are long tees on every hole too (marked with blue concrete blocks, though I only found a few of them) - the shorts won't be hard to see due to the rutting, but good luck finding the long tees.
2) Walking Path & Playground - There's a walking path (that was fairly busy when I played) that comes into play on a solid half of the course, which is dangerous enough as is, but hole 13 in particular's fairway basically *IS* the path, and that part of the path has a blind corner for walkers that an unsuspecting person could take a 50-60 MPH projectile to the head if they're not careful. I don't know if there's a way around the path given the size of the plot of land the course occupies, but Hole 13 was the most egregious offender, and its basket is way too close to hole 10, to boot...please be careful when shooting. Hole 18 also gets way closer than I'd ever recommend to a seating pavilion and a playground.
3) Overall Variety - there's basically zero elevation here, and though shooting around old oak trees is fun, the "feel" of the holes all starts blending together pretty quickly.
Other Thoughts:
Quick hole note: Don't wildly overshoot 16. I did once as a younger player, and...yeah, your disc will be good as gone if you get it any meaningful distance into that mire.
Overall, Miniwaukan is one of those courses that I'd love to have in my neighborhood park, would probably play it all the time if I did, and is a perfectly fine place to bring beginners and/or kids, but is not worth any significant travel for - I'd call it a bottom 20% course in the Milwaukee metro area when stacked up against the wealth of really great courses we have here.
If you're from the area, staying around the area for a business trip, visiting family, or want a decent place to bring the kids where they can shoot some holes, have fun, then play on the playground, cool, come play it, but for more experienced disc golfers, this is a course that will probably only appeal to out of towners who are big time course baggers.
Be careful teeing off, seriously.