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History, geology and plenty of golf
await travelers to southwestern
Minnesota.
By Chuck Lennon | Photos by Paul Markert
G
The prairie landscape
provides the perfect
canvas for this Rees
Jones design
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olf and geology come together with Native American history
on the Morton area tour. Two 18-hole courses anchor
fi ve nines, all set amidst the oldest rock formations in North
America and a park that commemorates what may be Minnesota's
darkest period.
Southwestern Minnesota's beautiful prairie landscape provided the perfect
canvas for Rees Jones' design at Dacotah Ridge, commissioned by the
Lower Sioux Indian Community in 2000. The course's rolling prairie has a
lake surrounded by fi ve holes, and Wabasha Creek is in play on eight holes.
There are stay-and-play packages at Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel.
Redwood Falls Golf Club is located at the entrance to Alexander Ramsey
Park, known for its waterfall and geologic formations. The par-70 course
has ponds in play on two holes and a river alongside Nos. 12 and 13.
A pair of nine-hole courses in Fairfax makes it an 18-hole town. Mayfl
ower Country Club's nine holes are spread among 150 acres of rolling
hills, with Fort Ridgely Creek impacting four holes. Fort Ridgely State
Park Golf Course is the only solely-owned state track in Minnesota, with
a depot museum and the reconstructed foundations of an 1853 fort.
Springfi eld Golf Club holds up the southern end of this tour, with a
1956 nine along the Cottonwood River, and Olivia Golf Club is set upon
what once was a grazing prairie for U.S. Army horses. The former stable
is now the cart barn.
With a waterfall and walking bridge that spans the Minnesota River
downtown and the Upper Sioux Agency State Park (see sidebar), Prairie
Ridge Casino and Granite Run Golf Course in its midst, Granite Falls is
a neat destination. Set upon the Morgan Gneiss (see sidebar), the rocky
outcroppings and bluffs in the area change with the sunlight's rays. The
town also has two excellent art stops that are part of the annual Arts Meander
event.
The Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway between Morton and Granite
Falls is distinctively unique and enchanting.
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