Danny Dombrowski
Skyline Paintball, located in Strasburg, Virginia, about a forty minute drive, is one of the best paintball places in the state of Virginia. The business is tucked away in the woods, down a gravel road. As you pull up to the check-in area, you pass endless fields with different designs from castles and buildings to trees and pallets. Not only is it a fun place to play it, but it is also very affordable.

This past weekend I headed down with seventeen friends to play. We were all very impressed with the layout when we arrived. The check-in process and getting gear can take some time, so I would recommend arriving a solid twenty to thirty minutes before your time slot begins. For two hours and all of our gear, it ended up only being $20 a person, however you will run out of paint and it is pretty costly. We ended up spending another $180 on three more cases of paint which each contain 2,000 paintballs. 8,000 paintballs may seem like a lot for two hours, but they will be gone before you know it. Other than the cost of paint, I had no other negatives.

The other cool thing about playing there is that each group is assigned a ref to officiate their games. Our ref was laid back and fun to be around the entire time. Also, you get to move around from course to course throughout your session. Skyline Paintball has over ten fields to choose from compared to most local places that only have one or two. All the fields are pretty in-depth as well. My favorite was the town, which sort of had a Walking Dead feeling to it since it was an abandoned town. During our session we got to play on four fields, but I plan to play on the other ones the next time I go.

For $20 and being with a group of friends, I don’t know what could be more fun then getting to shoot each other for a couple hours. It was definitely one of the funniest things I have done, and we have already started talking about going up again to play soon. If you want more information, you can head over to their website, http://www.skylinepaintball.com/home.html.