there's a special place where world-class sportsmen meet for outdoor adventures with a Deep South flavor. Five Star Plantation covers 5,000 acres of east central Alabama's broom sage fields and mixed hardwood and longleaf pine forests. The land has been operated as a hunting preserve since 1919, and the charming, fully-restored lodge, stables and many other buildings date from that time or earlier.

Five Star Plantation operated a large number of specialized buildings for decades. Although many of the buildings were torn down as they fell into disrepair, a number of historic buildings and sites have been preserved, including a uniquely designed hay barn, grist mill, feed barn, an artesian well, a tenant cabin, water tower and two cemeteries. All these historic sites are an easy walk from the Five Star Lodge.

The plantation still has that Old South feel to it, and it doesn't take too much imagination to walk through the fields and recall the old-timers riding in mule carts and swapping stories as the pointers swept back and forth across the fields for coveys.

Today Five Star is professionally managed for bobwhite quail, whitetail deer, wild turkey and trophy bass and bream. During the summer months, the public is invited to fish on five different lakes, try their hand at sporting clay shooting, ride the plantation on horseback, or explore 25 miles of roads on foot or even in golf carts. During the cooler months, members and their guests hunt upland birds, duck, deer and turkey.

Five Star Plantation
P.O. Box 40
100 County Road 65
Kellyton, AL 35089
256.234.0900

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