Mini Golf Wonderland With Bar and Food Trucks Opens in Mission Bay

By Caleb Pershan—August 16, 2018


Stagecoach Greens is an elaborate, 18-hole fantasia

It’s almost tee time at Stagecoach Greens, an 18-hole mini golf course, bar, and food truck park opening tomorrow, August 17th in Mission Bay. The seriously intricate course, with miniature versions of SF landmarks, tables for dining, cabanas for chilling, and space for five food trucks, is located in a previously empty lot at 1379 4th Street.

The lot is adjacent to existing food truck park Spark Social, and like that space, it’s a project of Parklab, which also operates sites like SoMa Streat Food. They’ve developed a reputation for giving life to unused lots in need of interim use — some slated for development, or in the case of the 1379 4th Street space, bound to become permanent park space.

Jan and Esther Stearns, a couple of retired mini golf fanatics, are the visionaries behind Stagecoach Greens itself. “They’re the most passionate people about mini golf I’ve ever met in my life,” Parklabs founder Carlos Muela says of the Stearns. Jan and Esther have three children, and say some of their best family memories have been over mini golf.

The 18-hole golf course takes its theme from San Francisco’s cycles of boom and bust. Fabricators like One Hat One Hand of the Bayview realized the designs, which include the Chinatown Dragon Gate in miniature, a Gold Rush era saloon, and the Salesforce Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid as dueling Rock ’Em Sock ’Em robots.

Five food trucks from the Parklabs stable will be stationed at StageCoach Greens. Hookt Donuts, Jeepney Guy, and newcomer Al Pastor Papi from chef Miguel Escobedo will be there permanently, with two more rotating trucks in the mix. A bar, punnily dubbed “The Watering Hole,” will serve adult refreshments.

Starting tomorrow, Stagecoach Greens is open 7 days a week, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with $8 tickets for kids and $16 tickets for adults available at the course or online in advance.

 

Table seating at Stagecoach Greens

Tickets can be purchased in person or online

The park’s Bison Paddock in miniature

A close up of the shipyard hole

The 10th hole figures the Salesforce Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid in combat

A hole in the back 9

A mock up of McCovey Cove on the Giants themed hole

A Giants themed hole

The last of the 18 holes

The back 9 holes are inspired by San Francisco’s more recent history

Players will put through this dragon head on the course

More details on a Chinatown themed hole

A decorated golf cart on the course

A saloon-themed hole

A saloon-themed hole

A trompo at Al Pastor Papi

Tacos from Al Pastor Papi

The Al Pastor Papi truck will be permanently stationed at Stagecoach Greens

More saloon-themed hole

Putters at Stagecoach Greens

The first of 18 holes