Six Runs Plantation
Six Runs Plantation is located in eastern North Carolina in Sampson County, approximately 15 miles south of Clinton, just off of NC hwy. 421 South. Six Runs offers southern hospitality lodging, hunting, and river paddling. We are a hunting preserve, licensed with the North Carolina Wildlife Association since 1980. Our 1,000-plus acres offers the finest Bobwhite Quail hunting between Raleigh and Wilmington. Bordering the property is Six Runs River where Friends of Sampson County Waterways, in conjunction with Six Runs Plantation, offers guided canoe and kayak trips to explore a four-mile stretch of primitive waterway. Self-guided trips are also available.
Bed & Breakfast
Six Runs Plantation lodge is a 7,000-square-foot, two-story structure constructed of heart pine, juniper, and cypress. The Todd House section was built circa 1800 and is heart pine and pegged. The Great Room, with exposed juniper log beams, reflects an openness from the lounge to the private spa. Bedrooms feature antiques, oriental rugs, and comfortable Queen Anne chairs and Chippendale furnishings.. Along the back of the lodge is a 70-foot-long sunroom, providing seclusion and privacy for guests' comfort, reading, and relaxation. The sunroom has a television and also offers sit-down dining for up to 20 guests.
Guests enjoy full use of the entire lodge including their bedroom, a lounge, formal dining, spa, sunroom, game room, covered decks, and offices. The main office includes a computer (with Internet access and printer), phone, fax, and copier and has accommodations for about eight people. Wifi is available throughout the lodge.
Upon arrival, Duplin wines and hors d'oeuvres are served in the lounge. Breakfast is served continental, gourmet or southern style in the formal dining room, the sunroom, or on the outside decks. Dinner is available, for a nominal fee, by request at time of reservation.
Hunting
Six Runs Plantation offers the finest Bobwhite Quail hunting between Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina from October through March. A river plantation, Six Runs is a working farm and dog training grounds where the habitat has been designed and planted for the optimum in wild covey shooting. Whether the covey rises from a pine grove or a broomsedge field, hunters will enjoy the thrilling sport of covey shooting as their forefathers experienced it.
While quail is the primary game sought at Six Runs, there are abundant populations of wild turkeys and deer. Ringneck Pheasant and Chukar Partridge are also available for the hunter's pleasure. Beavers living on Six Runs River have formed a number of impoundments that offer haven to wild wood and mallard ducks. There are several permanent deer stands positioned throughout the woods on the plantation offering the aspiring deer hunter the chance at a trophy buck.
Early morning and late afternoon duck and deer hunts are available free of charge to overnight quail hunting guests.
There are 50 different breeding plots on the grounds providing for excellent bird concentrations. We have planted a variety of grains including Egyptian Wheat, Grain Sorghum, Partridge Peas, Florida Beggarweed, Lespedezas, and Millet. With plenty of underbrush and cover for natural habitat Six Runs is overrun with quail and wild game. Daily dog training by professionals ensures an abundance of quail for the hunter.
Some of the finest Irish Setters are here to assist you in your hunt. Many of these fine dogs have been campaigned in national field trial competitions and are from a long line of Come Back Red Setter national champions. We are very proud of our Red Setters and know you will be, too.
Most of our hunting starts from a Toyota 4Runner which transports up to three hunters, but hunters may choose to walk or ride our Tennessee walking horses.
Trap Shooting is offered to those hunters wishing to brush up on their shooting skills. Guns, shells, and licenses are available.
Canoeing and Kayaking
A down east canoe outing in Sampson County's Six Runs and Black Rivers is relaxing therapy amidst nature's finest setting of environmental beauty. The lush, semi-tropical vegetation and pristine black water provide a relaxing and peaceful four-mile trip down a breathtaking stretch of primitive waterway. From the put-in to the take-out on our sandy beach is an approximate 2 1/2 hour paddle. Overnight primitive camping is available. River bank tree houses are underway for campers and canoe and kayak enthusiasts.
Come float the rivers on which our forefathers marketed naval products of pitch and turpentine rendered from Longleaf pines. Rice, corn, cotton, and tobacco were also floated down Six Runs River to Lisbon and Clear Run where they were put aboard ships sent by the King of England to the colonies. This historic river system was an important commercial trading route which provided access to British and colonial steamships using the Cape Fear River and its tributaries to come inland as far as Clear Run.
View the creek banks of former Indian lands and rice plantations, given in 10,000 acre tracts by the King of England to the Petersons. Along these banks, Lord Clinton established the town of Lisbon, which had more than 200 buildings, in its early days. Due to the swampy environment and habitual flooding, Lisbon was moved about 20 miles north and renamed Clinton after Lord Clinton, Lord Proprietor.
Six Runs Planation is located in the heart of this historically rich area. Its land sits partially in two townships - Lisbon and Taylor's Bridge.  Six Runs River was vital to plantation owners who used small rafts to float barrels of rice, corn, cotton and naval stores from the historic entry point of Tar Landing, located on the plantation proper, to nearby Clear Run on Black River. From there, these products were loaded onto steamships and transported up and down the East Coast and also to England.
In 1999, Six Runs Adventures was established as an educational and recreational river adventure. Canoes, kayaks, and small boats float leisurely down Six Runs and Black Rivers. Professional and self-guided trips are offered for your enjoyment. You have a standing invitation to join us for our river adventures. Group discounts are available.
