City of Grand Island - Heartland Public Shooting Park

Heartland Public Shooting Park is an outdoor shooting range in Alda, NE, that covers a wide range of shooting sports. Reviewers describe a large facility with sporting clays, trap and skeet, pistol and rimfire ranges, rifle ranges and archery, and one reviewer says it caters to every discipline of shooting sports.

Rifle shooters have long distances to work with. One reviewer, who shot at the 300 yard range and then the 600 yard range where the F Class Competition is held, says the park has "all kinds of different outdoor shooting." Another describes a long-distance range with concrete culverts at the 100 yard line, and says the pistol and rimfire ranges have cable-reset Polish plate racks, that steel and paper targets are at all ranges, and that all ranges are shaded.

Two reviewers mention a day pass at the Alda park, one noting that shooting a match included a day pass for the other ranges. According to that reviewer a range safety officer is patrolling around and empty chamber indicators are required for everything, and another reviewer says the park provides ear and eye pros and empty chamber flags. Several reviewers call the staff friendly, and one first-time shooter says staff helped them get comfortable. Two reviewers describe checkout as slow or arduous.

Competitions and overnight stays are part of the picture. Reviewers mention 4-H national shooting sports events and zombie matches, one reviewer came for a daughter's college trap team, and others describe camping on site with power and water. Heartland Public Shooting Park pairs sporting clays, trap and skeet, rifle and pistol ranges and archery with on-site camping in Alda, Nebraska.