Sportsmans Field

The closure was most likely due to a combination of economic factors and declining use. The airfield was a private facility that existed solely to serve the guests of the adjacent Sportsman's Lodge. As general aviation traffic to the lodge waned, or as the costs and liability of maintaining an airstrip became prohibitive for the business, it was likely abandoned. The closure was not related to military conversion, urban development, or a specific major accident.

The site is now an open agricultural field, used for grazing or hay production. The faint outline of the former north-south runway is still discernible in satellite imagery, but there are no remaining signs of airport infrastructure like hangars, markers, or a windsock. The Sportsman's Lodge, the business the airfield was built to serve, was destroyed by a fire in 2006 and was never rebuilt, erasing the original purpose for the airfield's existence.

Sportsmans Field, also known as Sportsmans Lodge Airfield, was a private airstrip that served as a convenient fly-in destination for anglers and tourists visiting the renowned Sportsman's Lodge on the Madison River. Active from at least the early 1950s, it catered to the general aviation community, allowing pilots to land their private planes just steps from a prime fishing location. The airport featured a single unpaved, turf runway (listed as 3,600 feet long in a 1963 directory) and handled light single- and twin-engine aircraft typical of private recreational flying during that era.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Sportsmans Field. The land is privately owned and has been fully reverted to agricultural use. With the associated lodge gone and the land in private hands, the revival of the airport is considered highly improbable.