Gateway Park Fun Center — Attraction in Boulder

Visited this cute Miniature golf course on Thanksgiving. I was surprised they were even open, let alone to have one of the best customer service experience EVER! I have been in this industry for over 10 years and the owners of this facility are the exact reason I always try to support local businesses. When we arrived they were dead- 2 people on the course. They let us play "for free" and said Happy Thanksgiving. At the end of the course when you return the ball you receive a ticket- my ticket said FREE ROUND OF MINI GOLF. I brought it inside to give to the owner behind the counter for his next guests to use since we were from out of town. He said well let me give you some tokens for the arcade then instead, so we gladly accepted and played some games and won some tickets. I tried to then give him the tickets for the next kids to use who came in. He insisted that I take a prize home with me. He handed me a little 3D square puzzle with 6 pieces, and said enjoy. At first I looked at it and thought well this is a kids toy, but still very generous of him. It took me almost three weeks to complete the puzzle correctly, and each time I tried I was reminded of the wonderful couple who worked on thanksgiving running their business and made me extremely thankful on Thanksgiving for strangers like them. Not sure if this review is helpful or not, but I know I will make it a point to stop here the next time I travel to...

A little, local amusement park that has seen better days, but is still fun. My kids beg me to take them here & I give in about 3 times a year. The best part is the large go-karts which go fast enough to be pretty fun, though you need to take your smaller kids in a 2-seater. They can't go on their own until they're close to 5' tall. There are also tiny go carts for small children. There's a dilapidated maze that feels kind of creepy, especially as it gets to be dusk. The outside portions of the park, especially back where the maze is, usually lack any kind of supervision. There are batting cages that get pretty heavy use. There are 2 mini gold courses which are great. A little shabby in places but actually pretty well maintained with pretty landscaping and water features and huge animals. Inside is an arcade with skee ball, etc., you get tickets for and exchange for the typical junk that makes you feel like you traded $20 in tokens for 4 cents of parachute guys and punching balloons. But we keep going back! It's campy, it's dated, but it's cute and there's something nostalgic about it. While it's a little run down in places, you can also tell that they must be doing well enough to keep putting money into it, as they manage to keep getting new games and maintaining the mini golf....

We went on a Wednesday that happened to fall on Valentine's Day and had an amazing time. We were the only ones at the park since we showed up early and it was a Wednesday afternoon and the wind was actually quite intense, so the gentleman allowed us to play both courses for a discounted price! He also kindly checked on the ingredients in their pretzels to make sure they were vegan, and gave us extra balls to test all the tubes on the holes (the wind had blown debris in one tube on hole 1 but we had no other issues). The course itself was so much fun. The holes were all different and challenging in their own ways from the obstacles to the ridges and hazards. The golf course-style scorecard and scoring were a lot of fun too with most of the holes being par 2 with a few par 3's and even one or two par 4's scattered in there. We're really excited to go back in the summer when all of the water hazards actually have water in them, but even in February this was such a great time for an incredible price. They also have a driving range, batting cages, and an arcade with some awesome looking games, but those will have to wait for future adventures.

If you're looking for awesome mini golf (putt putt) at a great price I don't think you're going to...