Box Canyon is a recreational shooting sports site with long-range rifle, shotgun, and pistol bays.
Operating Hours
Open 7 am to sunset. Sites are open for day use only.
Sites are closed on Wednesdays for maintenance and cleaning.
Amenities
The area includes these amenities:
- 50-, 100-, 200- and 300-yard shooting lanes with fixed steel targets
- sporting clay/skeet shooting area
- shooting platforms
- gravel parking areas
- accessible parking spaces
- information signs and kiosks
- vault toilets
- trash receptacles
Site Occupancy
Total maximum site occupancy at Box Canyon is 90 people.
Safety
Emergencies: Call 911
Rules
- Disorderly or unsafe conduct, including unsafe firearms handling, is prohibited
- You may not use, possess, consume, or be under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances as defined by State or Federal law.
- You may only use a site during designated operating hours.
- You may not enter a site for any purpose other than activities associated with recreational shooting.
- Do not enter the hazardous exclusion area.
- Never cross the firing line (even if no other shooters are present). You may only shoot from immediately behind the designated red firing line toward provided steel targets and backstop.
- Never shoot if a person is down range past the firing line.
- Do not shoot at wildlife, livestock, or vegetation.
- You may only shoot at provided steel targets. No personal targets are allowed except for sporting clays at the shotgun skeet range.
- You must pick up and dispose of all brass, shells, and shooting-related trash immediately after shooting.
- Do not climb on any buildings and structures.
- Do not exceed the maximum occupancy posted at each site.
- Children under 16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult while in a site.
- Clean up after yourself and your pets.
- Inside the designated recreation area (map), you may only shoot from the designated firing platform with a developed or designated backstop. Hunting within the recreation area is permitted under State regulations.
Targets
- The pistol and long-range bays have fixed steel targets installed. No personal targets are allowed.
- Clay targets are allowed in the sporting clay/skeet area.
Ammunition
- Rifles and handguns are restricted to ammunition that is .50 caliber or less.
- Shotgun is permitted only at the skeet range and is restricted to birdshot only.
- Steel core, "green tip," armor-piercing, incendiary, and tracer ammunition and paintball equipment is prohibited.
Fireworks, exploding targets such as Tannerite, and other incendiary devices are prohibited on all BLM Arizona-managed public lands year-round.