Golf in Platteville

Platteville is a city in Grant County, set in the Driftless country of southwestern Wisconsin in the heart of the historic lead-mining region. Home to a campus of the University of Wisconsin and the Mining Museum, the city blends its college-town identity with the mining heritage that gave the region its character, marked by the giant letter M on a nearby hillside. The surrounding landscape is classic unglaciated terrain, with steep wooded ridges, deep valleys, and the scenic backroads of the Driftless. Platteville lies in the dairy and former mining country between Madison and the Mississippi. Golfers in the area find recreational courses set among the ridges and valleys of the Driftless. With Lancaster nearby and the Mississippi River towns within reach to the west, Platteville offers a base for golf in Grant County, in one of the most historic and scenic corners of southwestern Wisconsin.