A wedding, a family reunion, a corporate offsite, a church retreat, or a hunting trip — reach out and see whether we can help. A lot of what the property can do is not on this website yet, and the fastest way to find out is to ask.
The short version
You get all of it: the lodge, the deck, the field, the sport court, the theater, and the 10 acres around them. Nobody else is on site, and nothing is shared.
The lodge sleeps a set number of people. The property holds far more than that through the day. There is parking, open cleared land, a barn and a garage for storage, and room for camp trailers and tents. Beds are the limit here. Space is not.
That matters most for the parts nobody plans. The hour before the ceremony. The late night after the session ends. The morning when everyone wants coffee at a different time. A venue rents you a window. This is a weekend.
What we host
Each of these has its own page, because each one has different questions under it. Start with whichever is closest to what you are planning.
Weddings & elopements
The field is level and cleared, with the tree line behind it, so your backdrop is forest. The deck runs the back of the lodge, and the kitchen opens onto it. Between them you have a ceremony site and a place to feed everyone.
Corporate retreats
The lodge takes a team off the calendar for two days. Sessions run in the family room, the theater, or on the deck. Breakout groups spread across the landing, the dining table, and the game room.
Family reunions
This is what the lodge was built for. Six bedrooms over two floors. The grandparents take a main-floor bedroom. The couple who wants distance takes the studio over the garage. The kids go upstairs, where the noise belongs.
Church & youth groups
A group that needs more beds than one lodge has normally splits across two rentals in different places. Here the leaders sleep inside and the group camps on the cleared land next door, within walking distance, on one property.
Group retreats
Some groups do not fit a category. A board, a club, a nonprofit, a sports team, a writing group, a homeschool co-op, a band. The requirement is the same: somewhere private, somewhere to gather, and enough beds.
Hunting trips
Hunting is not permitted on our 10 acres. Use the lodge as a home base instead. The property sits inside the Coconino National Forest, and elk country surrounds it.
How to book
Book an ordinary stay on whichever platform you like. An event is different. Airbnb and Vrbo are built to sell nights, and their rules limit what we can plan with you inside a booking. We cannot coordinate an event through a platform message thread.
So email us instead. We answer vendor questions, catering questions, and equipment rental questions ourselves, and we can tell you who we already work with locally. None of that fits in a booking request.
Do this early. Groups that write to us a year out get the date they want and a plan that fits the property. Groups that ask three weeks out get whatever is left.
Questions
Yes, with approval in advance. We host weddings, corporate retreats, family reunions, church and youth group retreats, and hunting parties. You book the whole property, so there is never another group on site. Tell us what you are planning and we will confirm it for your date.
More than the lodge sleeps. Overnight capacity is the limit on beds, not on people — there is parking, open land, and room to set up well beyond it. We set the number event by event, so tell us what you are planning and we will confirm it for your date rather than guess.
No. Book an ordinary stay on whichever platform you like, but email us directly for an event. Those platforms are built to sell nights, and their rules limit what we can plan with you inside a booking. Vendors, catering, and equipment are a conversation, not a booking request.
Yes. There is space for two or three camp trailers with electric, water, and sewer hookups, and flat, cleared ground for tents next door. Reunions, church retreats, and larger offsites normally use both. Tell us your total headcount when you inquire.
Yes. There is gravel parking by the lodge and the garage, and open ground beyond it for an event. There is a second level, graveled area near the gate for trailers and towed vehicles. Tell us roughly how many cars to expect and we will plan where they go.
In most cases, yes. We approve it event by event while we are new. Ask when you inquire and we will give you a straight answer for your date.
Normally yes. There is open land to set up on, and a barn and a detached garage you can use for storage during an event. Tell us what you want to bring and we will tell you where it fits.
We price events individually while we are new. Tell us what you are planning and we will quote you directly.
Inquire
Tell us your dates and your headcount. The more you give us, the more useful our first reply is. We answer every inquiry ourselves, normally within a day.
Prefer email? info@spoonbilllodge.com