Abandoned (And Spooky) Mini-Golf Course Was Once A Popular Gettysburg Landmark
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The ‘Ghost’ Of Mulligan McDuffer
Anyone who visited Gettysburg, PA before 2017 probably remembers the Mulligan McDuffer Miniature Golf Course on the southern edge of town.
The popular tourist attraction had two 18-hole putt-putt courses complete with waterfalls, caves and hills.
The course is now overgrown, and the building that housed the ice cream parlor is completely gone.
The local landmark first opened in 1989, and was built by a local couple.
After 29 seasons of providing family fun to hundreds of thousands of customers, the last round of miniature golf was played in 2017.
Before the land was transformed into a tourist attraction, most of the ten acres was a junkyard, covered with thousands of old cars, trucks, and tractor-trailers.
The land where Mulligan McDuffer’s once stood was purchased by the Civil War Trust to be preserved as part of the Gettysburg Battlefield.
These pictures were taken in the early Spring. The golf course is barely visible now beneath thick summer vegetation, weeds and vines.