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Disc Golf in America - St. Charles, MN - Jessen's Park |
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Pablo my trusty Station Wagon and I arrived at Jessen's Park in St. Charles MN while jammin' to Tom Waits. Pablo digs that new Orphan's CD.
If you are driving on Interstate 90 in South Eastern Minnesota, you would make a huge mistake by not stopping at this course. It is located 2 miles or so off the interstate and is a kick ass course.
As usual any sort of Disc Golf web site gave us lousy directions. MN Frisbee Assoc. web site and Discgolf.com doesn't even list this course. Google maps does and I would recommend that site over most.
The best directions are as follows. Drive towards Main street St. Charles and look for EAST 15th Street on the East end of town (one mile from I90, the road from I90 becomes main street).
Drive east and turn right (south) onto Gladiola Drive. You drive up hill and come to the Golf Ball Course. Take a right onto Park Road. Take first left into Jessen's Park. Before you get to the parking lot notice to your right the first tee box near the entrance to the park.
The Description of this course online is lousy at best: Challenging and very scenic. Lots of elevation and plenty of trees. One large water hazard on #4.
This description sounds like an Hungarian Prostitute.
Let me assist you with your desicion to drive to this course.
All the tee boxes are rubber mats which are fine but the ground beneath them was never worked. The effect you get is a rectangular rubber picknick blanket. Most tee boxes do not tell you what hole you are on. There are some signs sporatically. This does not take away from the experience.
Hole one is nice to loosen up your arm and gives you an opportunity to be introduced to Southern Minnesota Flora. Unlike Wisconsin where pine needles keep the under brush at bay in Southern Minnesota you can have "tall cotton." Stinging nettles, gooseberries, raspberries, ramps and a host of green leafy plants can hide your discs with ease. I would recommend taking a companion to assist in spotting the general area your tee shots land.
The course is 18 holes and is layed out in a way that you could play just the front or back nine if you don't have a lot of time. Both have their chalenges and aspects that make this course a lot of fun.
Hole two is basically a big bomb of a throw off of a big groomed hill. You can let it all hang out and you have no opportunity of losing your disc. Hole four is up a steep path to the left of the basket on hole number three. Hole four's tee box has a big pond to your right and tall cotton to your left. The hole has a golf ball course fairway and is fun if you make a half way decent shot. Hole four brings you into the woods.
Both the front and back nine take you into the woods for four (front nine) and five (back nine) holes. The front nine has a tad less vegitation in the woods and is challenging. Trees, elevation and basket placement makes it challenging for the good player. Players with less than two years experience shouldn't be keeping track of their scores and should be working on their skills. The woods are a good opportunity for that.
Hole Nine is a lot of fun for sadists. The baskets is up a big grassy hill and the walk will take the wind out of most chubby players. It's fun to work on trying to throw for distance up a signifigant hill.
The back nine is challenging, madening and fun all at the same time. Holes 12, 13,14,15 and 16 are in the woods with heavy vegitation. You will be introduced to stinging nettles and long pants are strongly suggested. Nettles sting but eventually go away. Unlike poison ivy which has the affect of luggage. You can't get rid of old luggage and you can't get rid of poison ivy.
Some genious sprayed and killed a nice patch of ramps on hole 13. Ramps are wild leeks and a leek is in the onion family. They use them on the "Iron Chef" sometimes.
The holes in the woods on the back nine have no way of being mowed and will take a little extra time to find your discs. It was still a lot of fun and a good way to learn what the native plants of Southern Minnesota are.
After tramping through the woods holes 17 and 18 lack any real challenge. It is a nice way to end your experience and to try some different throwing techniques.
The park doesn't appear to get a ton of traffic because St. Charles is a little town and just far enough from Rochester, Lacrosse and Winona to keep people from venturing there on a regular basis. If I lived within 20 miles of Jessen's Park, Pablo and I would be there most Saturday's but we don't.
Overall the park is easy to navigate and the designer did a nice job. The city of St. Charles Minnesota have a nice park and did a favor to discers who love to play.
Pablo and I left Jessen's park with a little sweat on our brow, a smile on our face and Tom Waits giving us background music as we left St. Charles and headed for Rochester.
We rate this course a 4 out of 5 discs.
Johnny Rocket
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