Kentucky Shooting Ranges: KDFWR Wildlife Area Ranges, Sportsman Clubs, Clays, Archery and Indoor Bays

Q: Do the Forest Service ranges need the KDFWR permit?

No. KDFWR says the permit does not apply to federally owned ranges; Appletree Shooting Range, Golden Pond Target Range (Land Between the Lakes), Keno Shooting Range and Whitman Branch Shooting Range are marked pay to shoot or federal on the KDFWR map.

Q: Which KDFWR ranges have a tube rifle range?

Curtis Gates Lloyd WMA, Higginson-Henry WMA, John A. Kleber WMA, Miller Welch-Central Kentucky WMA and Taylorsville Lake WMA, per the KDFWR permit list of March 2026.

120 ranges in 64 of Kentucky's 120 counties: 11 KDFWR ranges, 4 federal ranges, 6 park archery and target ranges, 19 indoor ranges, 55 trap, skeet and sporting clays grounds and 48 places with archery. Checked November 10, 2026.

120Ranges

64Counties

11KDFWR ranges

$26.43Permit fee, year

159Town lists

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All 21 Kentucky public ranges and who runs them

A linked name opens its range page here or the operator site, and the small county link opens that county guide. KDFWR ranges sit on wildlife management areas or at the Frankfort headquarters.

Public range	Setting	Managed by	Disciplines	Hours	Fee
Curtis Gates Lloyd WMA Range Grant	Curtis Gates Lloyd WMA	KDFWR	archery, rifle, handgun, trap	Tube Range Hours: Tues – Sat: 9 AM-sunset (Eastern Time)	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
Higginson-Henry WMA Range Union	Higginson-Henry WMA	KDFWR	rifle, archery	Mon-Sat: 9AM- Sunset (Central Time)	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
John A.⁠ Kleber WMA Range Owen	John A.⁠ Kleber WMA	KDFWR	rifle, handgun	Tues-Sat:9AM-Sunset (Eastern Time)	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
Jones-Keeney WMA Archery Range Caldwell	Jones-Keeney WMA	KDFWR	archery	Monday: Closed, 9 am-sunset Tuesday through Saturday, noon-sunset… (Central Time)	Free
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Headquarters Range Franklin	Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Headquarters	KDFWR	archery	Dawn-Dusk, 7 days per week	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
Miller Welch-Central Kentucky WMA Range Madison	Miller Welch-Central Kentucky WMA	KDFWR	archery, 3D archery, rifle, trap	Tube Range Hours: Tues – Sat: 9 AM-sunset (Eastern Time)	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
Peabody WMA Rifle Range Ohio	Peabody WMA	KDFWR	rifle	Tues-Sat:9AM-Sunset (Central Time)	Free
Taylorsville Lake WMA Archery Range Spencer	Taylorsville Lake WMA	KDFWR	archery	Tue-Sun: 9AM-Sunset (Eastern Time)	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
Taylorsville Lake WMA Tube Range Spencer	Taylorsville Lake WMA	KDFWR	rifle	Tue-Sun: 9AM-Sunset (Eastern Time)	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
Veterans Memorial WMA Shooting Range Scott	Veterans Memorial WMA	KDFWR	rifle, handgun, shotgun	Wed-Sat 10 AM to 7 PM, Sunday 1 to 5 PM (Eastern Time)	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
West Kentucky WMA Archery Range McCracken	West Kentucky WMA	KDFWR	archery	Mon-Sun: Sunrise-Sunset	Permit; $26.43 yr / $5.29 day
Appletree Shooting Range McCreary	Whitley City, McCreary County	U.S.⁠ Forest Service	rifle, handgun	Mon-Sun: Sunrise-Sunset	Pay (KDFWR map
Golden Pond Target Range (Land Between the Lakes) Trigg	Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area	U.S.⁠ Forest Service	archery, rifle, handgun	Open dawn to dusk.	–
Keno Shooting Range Pulaski	Burnside, Pulaski County	U.S.⁠ Forest Service	rifle, handgun	Sunrise-Sunset	Pay (KDFWR map
Whitman Branch Shooting Range Whitley	London, Whitley County	U.S.⁠ Forest Service	rifle, handgun	Mon-Sun: Sunrise-Sunset	Pay (KDFWR map
Cherokee Park Archery Range Jefferson	Louisville, Jefferson County	Louisville Metro Parks	archery	Mon-Sun: Sunrise-Sunset	Free, membership
E.P.⁠ Tom Sawyer State Park Archery Jefferson	Louisville, Jefferson County	State park	archery	Mon-Sun: 7:30am-Sunset (Eastern Time)	Free
Hisle Park Archery Range Fayette	Lexington, Fayette County	Lexington city park	archery, 3D archery	Sunrise-Sunset	Free
Iroquois Park Archery Range Jefferson	Louisville, Jefferson County	Louisville Metro Parks	archery	Sunrise-Sunset	Free
Mattingly Target Shooting Range Daviess	Maceo, Daviess County	Daviess County Parks	trap, skeet, sporting clays, shotgun	Varies seasonally.	Pay to shoot
Pope Lick Park Archery Range Jefferson	Louisville, Jefferson County	Parklands of Floyds Fork	archery	Dawn-Dusk, 7 days per week	Free

A range permit has been required at 8 KDFWR properties since March 2026, free with an annual Kentucky hunting or fishing license and otherwise $26.43 a year or $5.29 a day.
An adult must accompany any shooter 15 or under, club and department event entrants need no permit, and federal ranges are not covered.
Two ranges that the KDFWR layer lists as department ranges, Jones-Keeney WMA Archery Range and Peabody WMA Rifle Range, are not on the permit list, and the layer marks both free.
The KDFWR layer shows archery only at Higginson-Henry WMA, while the permit list names a tube rifle range there, so both are shown.
Whitman Branch carries a KDFWR ownership type in the layer but names the Forest Service as owner; the layer lists Laurel County, and its point falls in Whitley County.

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KDFWR and federal rows from the KDFWR shooting range page and range map (Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources), including the March 2026 permit list; park rows from the same map. Checked November 10, 2026. Times are on local clock time: Central Time in the western 41 counties, Eastern Time elsewhere.

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