Garner, NC Outdoor Activities

Nestled within Lil' Black Creek Farm's 150 sprawling acres, Country Fun Park's tree-enclosed fields play host to myriad outdoor activities. Guests can spend an afternoon sniping out foes in the 3-acre, custom-designed paintball arena or take advantage of pig picking or spending time with farmer Ben's animals to barrage them with tactical assaults of love and affection. Golfers hone swings under the open sky at the driving range.

After a day plowing the fields, the young Dan Andrews would jump from the tractor, feel his boots sink into the freshly turned earth, and then grab his rifle for an evening of hunting on his family's farm. Once he graduated college, Andrews found himself wanting to share his passion for the outdoors, forged by experiences such as hunting trophy buck and stalking duck along the farmland's creek beds. He returned to the land that had sustained his family for five generations and founded Drake Landing.

Today, Andrews and his team—which includes staff claiming accreditation by the National Sporting Clays Association—oversee a preserve that spans separate ranges for shooting sporting clays, pistols, and rifles. In addition to maintaining rigorous safety standards at the ranges, crews also supervise a 3-D archery course out in the forest. For outdoorsmen desiring live field experience, Drake Landing's team leads guided upland hunting for pheasant and quail as well as hunting trips for dove, deer, and Red October.