The Cameo Shooting and Education Complex is a public

shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missile ...

and

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting ...

range near

Palisade, Colorado Palisade is a statutory town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,565 at the 2020 census, down from 2,692 in 2010. The community was named for the cl ...

, owned and managed by

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages the state parks system and the wildlife of the U.S. state of Colorado. Responsibilities include state parks, wildlife areas, and the Colorado Natural Areas Program. History *1937 – The state legislature ap ...

(CPW). The complex is listed as one of Colorado's 43 state parks in CPW's 2023 publication ''Your guide to Colorado's state parks''. The complex hosts shooting and archery competitions.

Facilities

The facilities include multiple ranges for firearms and bows and arrows, shooting bays, an action shooting pavilion, archery bays, picnic grounds, long-range precision steel targets that go out to , and two sporting clay courses.

History

The complex was first opened in August 2018 with support from the State of Colorado, the town of Palisade, and others. The land the complex occupies formerly housed a coal mine and a coal-fired power plant, both of which were decommissioned early in the 21st century. The complex takes its name from the extinct town of

Cameo, Colorado Cameo is an extinct coal mining town located in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. The townsite is located off I-70 Exit 46 at coordinates at an elevation of . History The Cameo post office operated from December 14, 1907, until February ...

which was located at the site.

References

External links

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Unofficial website
{{authority control Protected areas of Mesa County, Colorado State parks of Colorado Protected areas established in 2018 Shooting ranges in the United States Archery venues