Forty wooded acres, twenty-eight lanes, real coaches who learned the bow before they learned to teach it. Bring nothing — we'll set you up. Loose your first three arrows on the house and decide whether the discipline finds you the way it found us.
Every archer who walks our gate starts on the same line: ten yards, a recurve, a coach standing behind their right shoulder. From there, the path opens — lessons, lane time, a junior squad, or a private session. Pick the one that fits this week.
Stance, grip, anchor, release. Ninety minutes one-on-one or in a four-archer cohort with one of our USAA Level 2 coaches. We supply the recurve, the arrows, the armguard, the tab — you supply closed-toed shoes and a willingness to be corrected gently for an hour and a half.
The single intro almost always becomes a four-pack. Booked once and used over four to eight weeks, the series covers grouping, sight picture, draw weight progression, and a first crack at scoring. Most archers begin reliably hitting the gold by week three.
Once you've completed an intro lesson — here or anywhere — the line is yours by the hour. Reserve a single lane or a group of three. Bow rental, six arrows, and target add-ons available at the gate. Walk-ins welcome after 2 PM weekdays, 9 AM weekends.
Junior Olympic Archery Development for ages nine through eighteen. Two evenings a week plus Saturday morning, with USA Archery achievement pin-progression, monthly mock tournaments, and a path toward state and indoor nationals for the kids who fall hard for it.
State indoor finalist twice in her twenties. Coaches the senior recurve squad and runs Sunday morning intro lessons.
Bowhunter turned target shooter. Runs the compound clinic Wednesday evenings and the 3D roving course on Saturdays.
Runs the junior squad. Two of her archers placed top-ten at indoor nationals last year. Patient with the nine-year-olds, exacting with the seventeen-year-olds.
Runs the traditional Saturday afternoons — barebow, longbow, instinctive shooting. The one with the cedar arrow stash.
The range sits at the foot of Cedar Hollow on land that was a working orchard until 1992. We kept the apple stand, the long sheds, and most of the hardwoods. The shooting lanes run northwest to keep the afternoon sun off the bow arm. The 3D roving course winds through the back ridge — fourteen foam targets, set seasonally, a favorite for the bowhunters in October.
We're a USA Archery affiliate club and an NFAA-certified outdoor range. Lanes are covered. Targets are checked every morning. The flag goes up at sunrise, comes down at sunset, and on the rare days it doesn't move at all, you'll find one of us under the long shed lacing fletching.
I came in for a single ninety-minute lesson on a whim. Eight months later I have my own recurve, a USAA membership, and a quieter mind on Sundays.
My daughter joined JOAD at ten. She's twelve now and out-groups her father. The coaching here is the kind that makes kids want to come back.
Pick a date, show up fifteen minutes early in closed-toed shoes. We'll fit you with a recurve, walk you through stance and grip, and put three arrows in your quiver before your lesson clock starts. If the bow finds you, the rest of the ninety minutes is yours. If it doesn't, you've still loosed three arrows on a good afternoon.