Chicagoland Miniature Golf Course Listings

    Are you, perhaps, like me?  Do you like playing miniature golf and always wonder where there might be another place to do it?   And also, you live in Chicago?  Here is a compendium of links that may be of some assistance.

Courses I've Played

Course Name Address Distance from City # of Holes Difficulty* Recommended?
Congo River (IL) 1325 N. Barrington Rd
Hoffman Estates, IL
30-45 mins 36 Easy Yes
Congo River (WI) 7610 120th Ave
Kenosha, WI
> 1 hour 18 Easy Yes
Coyote Crossing 27W650 North Avenue
West Chicago, IL
45 mins 18 Medium Slight yes
Cozzi's 405 N. Rand Rd
Lake Zurich, IL
45 mins 18 Medium Slight yes
Diversey Mini Golf 141 W. Diversey Pkwy
Chicago, IL
In city 18 Medium Barely
Green at Grant Park 352 E. Monroe
Chicago, IL
In city 18 Excessively difficult No
Harry Semrow's Mini Golf 1150 E. Golf Rd
Des Plaines, IL
30 mins 18 Medium Yes
Lighthouse Mini Golf 2126 N. Lewis Ave
Waukegan, IL
45 mins-1 hr 18 Medium Yes
Mountain View Mine 510 E. Algonquin Rd
Des Plaines, IL
30 mins 18 Hard Slight no
Navy Pier 600 E. Grand
Chicago, IL
In city 18 Easy/medium** Barely
Novelty Golf 3650 W. Devon Ave
Lincolnwood, IL
Just outside 36 Medium Yes
Par King 21711 N. Milwaukee Ave
Lincolnshire, IL
45 mins 36 Easy/medium Big yes
Pioneer Park 7135 N. Harlem Ave
Niles, IL
30 mins 18 Easy/medium Yes
Putt-Putt Fun Center 408 E. Devon Ave
Elk Grove Village, IL
20-30 mins 54 Hard No
Putting Edge 275 Parkway Dr, Ste. 321
Lincolnshire, IL
45 mins 18 Easy No
River View 8 North Ave
St. Charles, IL
1 hour 18 Hard Slight yes
River's Edge 2205 Skokie Valley Hwy
Highland Park, IL
30 mins 18 Medium/hard Barely
Traveler's Quest 3459 Oakton St
Skokie, IL
10-15 mins 18 Obnoxiously hard No
Wilderness Falls 145 S. Clow Int'l Pkwy
Bolingbrook, IL
45 mins-1 hr 36 Easy Yes

*By difficulty I mean the ability of a decent player to challenge the course's stated par.  I don't want to give the impression that people should shy away from any "hard" course, but if a course is fairly challenging and sets a correspondingly unreasonable par, I have a hard time recommending it for "fun."
** Navy Pier actually has no stated par, so this is based on my interpretation of what par likely would have been on a better-run course.

Now that we've covered courses I have played, here's a list of courses I would like to play.  Or, at the very least, they're area courses that I haven't yet played.  This is as much a checklist for myself as anything else, but you may also find the collection of links useful.

Course

Location Distance from City
Action Territory 12345 75th St
Kenosha, WI
1 hr 15 mins
Crystal Mines Mini Golf 370 Liberty Dr
Crystal Lake, IL
> 1 hour
Golf Waters Mini Golf 1100 W. Wood St
Bensenville, IL
30-40 mins
Holes and Knolls Mini Golf 845 Pershing Ave
Glen Ellyn, IL
45 mins
The Hub at Berens Park 493 Oaklawn Ave
Elmhurst, IL
30-45 mins
Lambs Farm Mini Golf 14245 W. Rockland
Libertyville, IL
45 mins
Libertyville Sports Complex 1950 N. Route 45
Libertyville, IL
45 mins
Lighthouse Point Mini Golf 14 State Route 25
Dundee, IL
45 mins-1 hr
McCarthy Park 16801 S. 80th Ave
Tinley Park, IL
45 mins-1 hr
McCollum Park Mini Golf 6801 S. Main St
Downers Grove, IL
45 mins
Putter's Peak 950 W. Lake St
Addison, IL
45 mins
River Trails Park District 1500 E. Euclid Ave
Mount Prospect, IL
30-45 mins
Smuggler's Cove 4400 Westbrook Dr
Aurora, IL
1 hour
Sportsman's Country Club 3535 Dundee Rd
Northbrook, IL
30 mins
Stony Creek Golf Complex 5860 W. 103rd St
Oak Lawn, IL
45 mins-1 hr
Zigfield Troy Mini Golf 1535 75th St
Woodridge, IL
45 mins-1 hr