Inver Grove Heights may implement fee for disc golf course

Inver Grove Heights may implement fee for disc golf course

Flinging discs at North Valley Park in Inver Grove Heights soon could come at a cost. The city council on Monday will consider entering into an agreement with a vendor that would collect a user fee for the park's disc golf course. The switch to pay-per-play — a rarity in disc golf — would give the city a yet-unknown amount of revenue for maintaining and making improvements to the course, city officials say. Last year, the city asked users to voluntarily pay to play the 18-hole course miniature golf content, which opened in the early 1990s. Annual $30 passes were available either online or at the community center, but many players either ignored the fee or weren't aware of it, said Tracy Petersen, the recreation supervisor for the city's parks and recreation department. "It was difficult, because we didn't have staff down there to monitor the park and enforce (the fee)," she said. The city in recent years had discussed implementing a daily fee but always ditched the idea after considering the cost of staff time needed to collect it, she said. The one-year agreement between Inver Grove Heights and Fairway Flyerz is similar to the one neighboring South St. Paul entered into with the Little Canada disc golf retailer this week. Fairway Flyerz staff would sell annual and daily passes, disc golf accessories and snacks in a temporary building at North Valley seven days a week. The retailer would keep all revenue generated from its on-site retail sales Is Your Golf Swing Training Aids True.