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Driving down the Parkway in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, you will pass
several miniature golf courses. In fact, it will be hard to leave town
without wanting to try at least one of the great variety. Professor Hacker's
Lost Treasure Golf takes participants on an expedition to find lost treasure.
Two courses allow you to follow the Professor on his original search for
gold, and his later expedition on a search for diamonds on the fictitious
Fogclift Islands. We played the diamond course.
Instead of playing miniature golf through miniature settings with things
flashing and beeping at you, this is a serene golf course. You will golf
through huge volcanoes, inside pyramids, and next to mountains and waterfalls.
The colors of the golf course are all browns and green. The golf greens
that you golf on are all colored grass green. The surrounding scenery
is light brown stone and wood. Even the music playing is something that
you might find at a spa.
The main waterfall at the end of the course (and what you see from the
road) has a huge dinosaur skeleton laying in the lagoon. An alligator
is chasing an explorer who is trying to climb up the waterfall. You can
see that his boat went over the waterfall and crashed.
A large explorerer's plane sits atop the course above the registration
desk. After you get your club and ball, you can ride up to the start of
the course on a small train that resembles miners' carts. If you choose
not to wait for the train, you can walk up a set of stairs beside the
huge, smoking volcano. A creek runs past the holes for much of the course.
As you go from hole to hole you will cross wooden bridges and be surrounded
by streams and waterfalls. You will see dinosaur footprints, old gunpowder
barrels and a cart full of gold. The concept is that the Germans were
searching for the gold to help fund their needs during World War I and
now Professor Hacker is looking for any abandoned gold.
This golf course is fun for everyone and wasn't built with just children
in mind. The serene atmosphere helps tone things down since miniature
golf courses in Pigeon Forge are always crowded with families having fun.
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