A unique Archery Adventure in a stunning Native Forest
- Learn to master the longbow and discover your inner Robin Hood – all gear provided
- Walk and shoot underneath the canopy of a rare fully established native New Zealand forest and see Nelson’s cleanest stream
- Learn a new skill with proper training by an experienced and certified archery coach – no previous experience needed
- Go for a walk with bow and arrow and shoot lifelike fantasy and game archery targets in our pristine native forest
- Only 15 minutes from Nelson central with a free pickup option from the i-Site
Sessions are private and by arrangement only – bookings are essential!
All Archery Park Nelson activities
We have a range of archery activities on offer that will suit corporates, small to medium size work and community groups, events, stag-dos, hens-nights, kid’s birthdays etc. Please explore our activities on offer or get in touch to discuss a custom event.
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- Dragon Hunt Archery Experience
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- Archery Battle – Fast and Fierce
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- Have a go at archery
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- Archery for Groups and Corporate
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- Archery Birthday Parties
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- School Holiday Programs
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- Archery Park Club
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- Robin Hood Social Scheme
Getting to Archery Park Nelson
Archery Park is only a 15 minute drive from Nelson Central. We’re located at Cable Bay Adventure Park on 194 Cable Bay Road, Nelson.
Drive 14km north from Nelson City towards Picton. Turn left into Cable Bay Road at the sign posts Skywire, Happy Valley and Cable Bay. We are 2 km down Cable Bay Road on the right hand side – look for the Cable Bay Adventure Park sign.
Free pickup: We offer a free pickup from Nelson i-Site for all Dragonhunt Archery Experience bookings.
Our mission: To grow the sport of traditional archery in Nelson and New Zealand
Archery Park is a Social Business: We sell archery adventures, guided by experienced archers and certified archery coaches. We use the money to fund the 3D forest archery range targets, track and field maintenance and staff. This allows us to offer a club structure for local families at an affordable rate. We also put a lot of effort into the development of the sport in Nelson and New Zealand, and with our Robin Hood Scheme we make it accessible to people that couldn’t otherwise pay for it.
We love nature and are very eco-friendly. We re-use all our arrows, repair what we can and try to use natural materials where possible. We are hosted on green 
servers and our brochures are printed on recycled paper. We stroll through our native bush on foot, so no nasty exhaust fumes there. And we look after the land, read about our conservation efforts here.
Under our Robin Hood Scheme we provide special rates to groups, services and businesses that have social or health oriented goals. We also love to support fundraising activities, after all, taking it from the rich and giving it to the poor is part of our heritage. Get in touch with us if this is of interest to you! So far we have supported the local CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service), the Big Brother Big Sister network and the Valley to View fundraiser. Read more here.
Archery Park Nelson Testimonials
A fun afternoon for our work team
We were looking for an activity for our work team, to back onto our annual planning workshop in Nelson. Archery turned out to be a great option that we all thoroughly enjoyed! Markus, our tutor, was very knowledgeable, friendly and had a great sense of humour. He worked in with our limited time frame to get us all up to speed quickly with the basics of archery and we were all hitting the targets quite proficiently in no time. With health and safety and the keys to building good technique under our belts, we headed up into the bush for some competition, which was great fun. I’d thoroughly recommend this activity for families, groups of friends or teams of all ages and stages.
A must do
Definitely recommend! A must do. Markus gave excellent instructions and we had a great time. Thanks again 🙂
Wow!
Wow! What an awesome experience. Markus is a top man with 17 years experience and great people skill. Definitely recommend to anyone in the Nelson area.
Highly recommend to anyone
On behalf of the team here that came to the archery park yesterday we would like to thank you and your team for making the day so enjoyable for us .I’m sure that the team would love to come and do it again sometime. Highly recommend to anyone to give it a go. Thanks again
We will return and recommend to friends
We had a great morning at Archery Park. The group and individual instruction from Markus was excellent – we were hitting the target in no time. Markus was flexible and accommodating for a first time group of 21. It was fun. We will return and recommend to friends.
I fully recommend this to anybody
We recently took a group of 24 kids down to the Archery Park, the children and staff that attended had a fantastic time. The instructors there were brilliant with teaching the children how to use the Bow and Arrow, then getting the Children to have a walk around the course having a turn to shoot the targets, the whole experience was very safe and extremely fun for everyone on the day. The children are already excited to go back and have another go. I fully recommend this to anybody that wants to learn more about Archery and have a great day out.
Just Brilliant
Just Brilliant! Markus provides a fun, informative and very enjoyable opportunity to try 3D archery. Being run in small groups it’s great value and you get plenty of individual guidance to master the basics.
We had a great Christmas do
Do it, it’s a lot of fun
Do it, it’s a lot of fun. Marcus is friendly and has a passion for archery and that shows during this lifelike experience. Not your typical range by no means. A+
Great fun for us as a couple
Markus was well organised and explained everything we needed to know.He gave us tips on how to improve our shots which really helped when it came to shooting the foam animals in the bush. Great fun for us as a couple and i would definitely go again and recommend to friends
The best place for a birthday party
I had an awesome 11th birthday party at Archery Park and definitely recommend it to anyone else looking for a fun day! Markus taught us all the techniques and coached us along the way while we had a great time trying to hit the target 🙂 The best place for a birthday party!!
We all had a blast
We had a great visit for our end of year work celebration. Although there was a drizzle of rain for part of it we all had a blast. There was 16 of us and they kept us busy the whole time. Lots of friendly competition and banter. Thanks Archery Park Nelson 🙂
It is not to be missed
I can’t wait to go back with more people
Great activity for a team Christmas Party!
Markus and his team are great teachers and very willing to help and make sure everyone is having a great time. They have a number of different options on how the day can run and what activities to do and cater to each group individually. Lastly was an amazing setting with great shade from the summer sun.
You can shoot at your colleagues!
Had a great few hours of archery with or work team… and what’s a better way of improving team chemistry than shooting foam arrows at each other?
A definite highlight
You may have tried archery before but this will be a totally new experience! Markus is passionate and knowledgeable, he will teach you how to become a great archer. You will be amazed at how much your aim improves with his helpful advice! Taking your skills from the range to the woods and aiming at life like 3D animals was a definite highlight! 100% recommend this experience!
Wonderful introduction to Archery
Wonderful introduction to Archery. Marcus is very professional, taking us through the basics, safety, technique, target practice and game hunting. Excellent equipment and very well thought out and fun 3D range. Marcus is a talented Archer and we are looking forward to more occasions with him as we improve and evolve our skills.
Expect a great time . . . And then see your expectations exceeded!
What can I say? The activity was organised by my adult kids and I went along expecting to shooting arrows for an hour. Instead we got a 3+ hour adventure. We got a first-rate tutor, Markus, who gave clear, safe, practical instructions (and patient too) teaching us the basics. Then, it’s off into the forest hunting for dragons and creatures, Lord of the Rings style. The amazing thing was how deceptively Marcus improved our shooting skills with each target increasing in difficulty. I could not believe that we were hitting targets as accurately as we did. The scenery in the forest was beautiful and surprisingly cool for such a hot day. We had a blast . . And recommend it 100%. . . Worth every cent.
This was the most enjoyable day of our trip
This was the most enjoyable day of our trip! I had never shot an arrow before, but Markus made it fun and easy. I think I even got really good at it!
The best possible experience
Congratulations,Marcus, on setting up a world class archery park. We loved the archery in the woods experience and range of 3-D targets – so much better than a bullseye target. Your excellent safety briefing, top notch archery training and quality equipment (long bows, arrows, arm guards and quivers) ensured the best possible experience. Thank you for an awesome archery adventure.
Highly recommended
Markus is calm, collected, friendly and professional, and his archery and instructions went down a treat with the kids at our 3 day course. Highly recommended.