Our local range is pretty nice. There is two pistol ranges, one for NRA card board silhouettes and one for other targets with a couple of steel gongs. there is a skeet range, a trap range, a cowboy action range, a pattern board for shotguns and a smallbore/blackpowder range. I think there is an archery range somewhere as well. Oh yeah, there is also centerfire range with backstops at 25, 50, 100, 200 and 300yards. There is plenty of shade (it is heavily wooded around the ranges) the shooting area's are concrete with a roof overhead with decent wooden benches. each range also has some open area so you can shoot offhand or prone, or whatever. Plenty of trash cans around, a clubhouse with a phone for emergencies with a Kitchen as well. Plenty of parking right at the shooting line and areas for picnics' too. There is also some nature trails if you are into taking walk, just carry a side arm we also have lots of snakes.
The drawbacks are as follows:
No full auto!
A few snobby benchrest shooters. (they are afraid of the 458 Socom [:d] )
Rapid fire is frowned upon, bump firing will get you kicked out.
You can't shoot any targets other than paper, no tanerite, clay targets(except the skeet and trap ranges)Bottles, Milkjugs of water etc.
Long KBI Background check (actually might be a good thing, just a PITA when you first sign up
The only things I would like would be a longer centerfire range out to 1000 yards and allow 50BMG. More reactive targets, a popup range would be fun. Or how about a mock city street with popups like the FBI uses for training? I think that would be fun as well.
A shooting pit that could be cleaned out every few weeks with a Uniloader or Bobcat would also be very cool. You could put a couple of old cars and some refrigerators in for targets and allow milk jugs etc.. just not glass.