Best Golf Courses Near Winona, MN

Winona, a small city located on an island in the Upper Mississippi River, is a beauty spot in the Driftless Area’s bluff country in southeast Minnesota. Golfers will find a number of gorgeous golf courses in Winona’s orbit. Water factors heavily into the strategy of playing at The Bridges Golf Club, but it’s a creek rather than the mighty Mississippi that inhibits your swings. At Cedar Valley Golf Course, a 27-hole facility, most golfers play the original and most scenic Trouts Run and Treasure Island nines. The newer, third nine, the Green Monster, is a brute—it is long and tough and you have to lay up or fly over water on the majority of holes. There’s a bridge at Winona that crosses the Mississippi, which forms a border with Wisconsin. Trempealeau Mountain Golf Club is just 15 miles from Winona, and Drugan’s Castle Mound is just 20 miles away. Another appealing choice where you might score a tee time discount is Coulee Golf Bowl in Onalaska, Wisconsin. Winona, which in its heyday was a rich lumber town, features historic architecture and many old buildings and elaborate homes with stained-glass windows. What most visitors remember most, though, is the gorgeous natural setting of “The Island City.”