Mt. Atlanticus Minotaur Golf volcano

Mt. Atlanticus is a miniature golf course built into a former department store, with golf huts five storeys up. It occupies the old Chapin Company store on North Kings Highway in Myrtle Beach, which the Sun News reported in 2024 was a department store from the 1920s into the 1970s. The course opened in 1998 and was the last design by James "Poddy" Bryan, whom Sports Illustrated called the "the father of modern miniature golf". Visit Myrtle Beach credits him with more than 20 courses in the Myrtle Beach area and about 200 across the United States; he died in 2002. Garden & Gun wrote in 2022 that its thirty-six holes wind over, around and through the old building. The operator describes two courses, Minotaur and Conch, with mountain-top huts 75 feet high and views of the Atlantic. Along the way the Sun News lists a Loch Ness-type monster, dodo birds, aliens and a giant Venus flytrap. The operator's backstory has a mass breaking away from Atlantis and settling on the store in July 1998; its minotaur is called Mulligan, while Garden & Gun describes a minotaur ruler named Goff. The Sun News says the original murals were painted by a group of artists that included Myrtle Beach artist Ruth Cox, and were freshened in 2023. Visit Myrtle Beach tells of Bryan spending a night in the highest tiki hut in a sleeping bag while a minor hurricane was forecast. A hole-in-one on the final hole wins a lifetime pass, and the operator says there have been over 10,000 winners. The operator says the Conch course is ADA compliant, with elevator access to all levels. Check the operator's hours and rates before you go.