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sports center that offers something
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increasingly popular and enticing to
f you wake up one sunny morning
young
people. Equipment rental is
and are looking for a spontaneous
available at the back stand or you
family activity, I have found yet
can bring your own. Buckets of balls
another hidden treasure in the metro
are $5/medium, $6/large.
\-- - betroit area: Red Oaks Golf Dome
Bankshot basketball, a
and Sports Village.
new way to challenge your
Located in Madison
basketball skills, is a scored,
Heights, Red Oaks Golf
18-hoop course. The angled
Dome and Sports Village
backboards
make shooting
has a variety of activities
look deceptively easy, but
sure to please each family
are
rather tricky and only
member. At the front of the
add to the fun. The cost is
, H ,omplex are iwo, 18-hole
$3/person.
miniature golf courses,
Diane B aldwin
Spray-shot basketball is a
designed in a rockscape
Appl eTree
great activity for hot days.
motif, complete with a
Staff Writer
The
first player to bank three
waterfall. Music is even
shots wins, and the loser is
piped outside. The cost is
sprayed
with
water. Cost is
$4.50/adults, $4/child (10 and
$2/game. Balloon Bombs also is
under). There is no fee for toddlers.
open
during summer days. In this
The indoor driving range, golf
sling shot game, being on target
equipment and arcade are accessi-
soaks your opponent. Cost is
ble via the main building in the front.
$2/eight water balloons.
In addition to video games, the
There are seven batting cages with
arcade has games that award tickets,
varying degrees of difficulty, from
redeemable for prizes suitable for lit-
slow softball to fast baseball. They
tle people.
operate via tokens. Helmets must be
A one-third mile go-kart track wraps
worn
while using the batting cages.
round the batting cages, basketball
Cost is $2/22 pitches.
games and outdoor driving range.
The only food available is from
Riders have to be 58" tall to ride
vending machines.
alone, but two-seated karts are avail-
The best time for a family to visit is
able for a small child to ride with an
during
the day or early evenirg,
adult. Cost is $6/two-seater,
Monday through Friday. Open Mon-
$5/one-seater. All rides are five min-
day - Friday, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
\ utes long.
(248) 548-1857. El
A'With the recent success of Tiger

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Woods, the staff report that the dri-
ving range at Red Oaks Golf Dome
and Sports Village has become

Diane Baldwin is a freelance

writer in Clarkston. She is a busy
mother of 1-year-old Nicholas.

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