For the over five years we've lived in Myrtle Beach, we've driven past Snake River Golf many times and I thought it looked like an interesting mini golf course. However, it had already been closed down and was very rundown looking. A few weeks ago, we were driving by and I was surprised to notice it looked cleaned up with fresh looking greens. With summer ending and some cooler, less humid weather, I choose it as our next mini golf adventure.
Overall we enjoyed playing a round at Snake River Golf. The courses were nice with the greens still seeming very new (I think, it reopened back in May). There were still some feeling of it being rundown including a deck area that was falling in with falls in several parts that really should have been blocked/roped off for safety. The themeing was also mostly pretty plain, but there were some snakes and caves. Definitely, cannot beat the price, though, as $8 per person for all day play is among the cheapest (if not cheapest) in the area.
After a long day of traveling Route 66 from Tulsa to Pops and a round of mini golf at Route 66 Bowl, we needed some dinner on our way back to Tulsa. Sonic is one of our favorite fast food places, so couldn't resist getting some shakes when we noticed the vintage neon sign at the one in Chandler.
Route 66 Bowl in Chandler was a fun stop not just for the mini golf. The parking has a wide variety of vintage gas station signs. Inside there is even more vintage signs and memorabilia on display. I also liked how the art above the lanes featured bowling themed license plates for the states on Route 66. This visit we just played a round of mini golf, but maybe next time we'll bring our bowling gear and bowl.
Route 66 Bowl is more than just a bowling alley and one of the other attractions there is putt putt. Since we didn't have our bowling gear, we only played putt putt, but it did make me think we should bring our bowling gear next year when we do Route 66 so we could bowl here.
The putt putt area's walls are set up to resemble a town along with having some various road signs on the walls. The most interesting hole/holes is Hole 7 and 8, which has one starting point used for two separate holes. Also, unique is there are only 17 holes total and really it might as well have be just 16 as Holes 15 and 16 seem to be exactly the same.
Hole 1
Hole 2
Hole 3
Hole 4
Hole 5
Hole 6
Holes 7 and 8
Holes 7 and 8
Hole 9
Hole 10
Hole 11
Hole 12
Hole 13
Hole 14
Hole 15
Hole 16
Hole 17
Final Scores
Kj - 42
Mom - 56
Dad - 40
See full list of our Mini Golf Adventures here and our Route 66 Adventures here.
We've been by the Arcadia Round Barn many times on our trips to Pops nearby and even stopped to take pictures of it at least once, but this was the first time we managed to find it open to visit. The lower level features a gift shop and a museum with exhibits about the barn and local history. The loft was built to host dances. Outside there are a variety of old farm implements.
The Route 66 Interpretive Center is located inside the former Chandler Armory, which was built as a WPA project. We enjoyed the short tour of the armory and the main video about a man's two journeys on Route 66 decades apart finding some of the same places he had stayed and visited. There is also several different video stations to watch other short videos about Route 66 while sitting in different car seats or laying on beds, but most of these either did not work or the volume was too low to really enjoy them. It's hard to recommend stopping here until they upgrade their audio system, but I still liked seeing the architecture and the main video is good.
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