Have a Nerf gun battle with friends, family at Rigby’s Idaho Dart Arena

Elizabeth Moore-Davila having a Nerf weapon warfare astatine Idaho Dart Arena astatine 4024 East 461 North successful Rigby. See what it’s for illustration successful nan video above. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

Do you want to cognize what’s happening successful nan eastbound Idaho business scene? We’ve sewage you covered. Here is simply a rundown of this week’s business news crossed nan valley.

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RIGBY

St. Anthony mates unfastened indoor Nerf weapon arena successful Rigby

Andrew and Whitney Page, center, are nan owners of Idaho Dart Arena pinch Elizabeth Moore-Davila, left, and Ross Churchill. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

RIGBY – Long Idaho winters were a caller acquisition for Andrew and Whitney Page erstwhile they moved to nan Gem State successful 2022. Being cooped up for months prompted them to unfastened an intermezo venue called Idaho Dart Arena, which opened successful Rigby successful December.

The family nosy halfway offers a abstraction for customers to person Nerf weapon wars successful an obstacle course. It’s wrong an business building disconnected Yellowstone Highway astatine 4024 East 461 North. See what it’s for illustration successful nan video above.

Whitney tells EastIdahoNews.com they’ve gotten aggregate recurring customers successful nan past twelvemonth and they’re hoping to pull more.

“For nan group we’ve been capable to reach, they’ve really loved it,” Whitney says. “There’s not a ton of intermezo options successful Rigby, and I deliberation group are happy to person it a small person to home.”

Although nan erstwhile Utah mates had nary ties to eastbound Idaho, Andrew often drove done nan area for his occupation pinch Kimball Equipment Company. Their desire to springiness their kids “some abstraction and state to turn up in” led them to St. Anthony.

Shortly aft moving, they knowledgeable an Idaho wintertime for nan first time.

“It was a colder wintertime than we’d ever experienced,” Whitney recalls. “We person 3 engaged boys … and we felt cooped up.”

Andrew has fond memories of going to a Nerf weapon spot successful his hometown arsenic a kid and being trapped wrong for months motivated him to look into opening thing similar.

The Pages discovered a akin venue had opened successful Pocatello, and nan only different indoor Nerf weapon arena was successful Boise. They liked nan thought of opening their ain arena successful Rigby because it was a cardinal location betwixt Rexburg and Idaho Falls.

“We felt for illustration it would beryllium much successful successful that location,” says Whitney. “It conscionable didn’t make a ton of consciousness to unfastened a family nosy halfway successful St. Anthony wherever location isn’t a immense population.”

The business is simply a small disconnected nan beaten path, and Whitney says galore group aren’t alert it exists. They’re hoping to alteration that.

They’re grateful to their partners, Ross Churchill and Elizabeth Moore-Davila, some of whom are students astatine Brigham Young University-Idaho. Churchill wants to commencement trading homemade guidelines brew and guidelines brew floats astatine nan venue soon.

Idaho Dart Arena is unfastened Monday done Wednesday from 4 to 9 p.m. and noon to 10 p.m. Thursday done Saturday.

Ross Churchill having a Nerf weapon warfare astatine Idaho Dart Arena. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

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