Corporate retreats and offsites in the Arizona pines.
Take the team off the calendar for two days. There are several rooms to present and meet in, and fast Wi-Fi throughout. Outside there are 10 acres for the half of an offsite that is not a session.
The short version
Corporate retreats and offsites.
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.
The unstructured half is the point. That is the disc golf course, the sport court, the field, and the firepit after dark.
Plan around the cell service. It is unreliable in the forest and depends on your carrier. The Wi-Fi in the lodge is fast and supports Wi-Fi calling.
- Session space
- The family room, the theater, or the deck
- Breakout space
- The landing, the dining table, the game room, the Study
- Screen
- A 200-inch screen and a 4K projector in the theater
- Connectivity
- Fast Wi-Fi throughout. No reliable cell signal
- Desk
- A standing desk with two monitors in Nora’s Room
- Outside
- Disc golf, a lit sport court, the field, the firepit
- Overflow
- Camp trailers with hookups, plus flat tent ground
- Invoicing
- We can invoice a company directly. Ask us
Somewhere to present, and somewhere to break out
A team of 15 needs one room to sit in together and three more to scatter into. Most rentals give you one. This gives you several, on two floors.
The family room seats the whole group around a stone fireplace, under a vaulted ceiling, with windows on two sides. The movie theater has four full-size reclining couches facing a 200-inch screen and a small stage at the front. Present from a laptop there and everyone can see it.
The deck runs the back of the lodge and holds a session in good weather. For breakouts, use the upstairs landing, the long dining table, the game room, or the Study.
The Wi-Fi is fast. The cell service is not
The Wi-Fi is fast and it reaches the whole lodge and the deck. It supports Wi-Fi calling, so calls and texts work over it.
Cell service in the forest is unreliable and depends on the carrier. Tell your team to expect no signal once they turn off Lake Mary Road, and to turn on Wi-Fi calling before they leave town.
Nora’s Room has a standing desk with two monitors, for whoever cannot be off entirely.
The half nobody schedules
The disc golf course, the lit sport court, the field, and the firepit are what people remember. Plan a session block and then leave the afternoon alone.
Meals do more work than any icebreaker. The kitchen has counter space for more than one cook, and one long table seats the whole group at the same time. Two grills sit on the deck.
If the team is larger than the beds
The lodge sleeps a set number. The property holds more. There is space for two or three camp trailers with electric, water, and sewer hookups, and flat cleared ground for tents.
Some groups bring trailers up for the extra rooms and keep the lodge for the sessions and the meals. Tell us your headcount and we will tell you how it fits.
Invoicing and approval
We can invoice a company directly rather than take a card at booking. Ask when you inquire.
Book direct with us rather than through a platform. It is simpler for your finance team and it is the only way we can plan an offsite with you properly.
How to book
Talk to us directly, not through Airbnb or Vrbo.
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
What planners ask about corporate retreats.
Is there space to run sessions and breakouts?
Yes, on two floors. Sessions run in the family room, the movie theater, or on the deck. Breakout groups spread across the upstairs landing, the long dining table, the game room, and the Study. Most rentals give a group one room. This gives you several.
Can we present to the whole team?
Yes. The movie theater has four full-size reclining couches facing a 200-inch screen. A 4K projector with surround sound drives it, and there is a small stage at the front. There is an HDMI input at the back of the room for a laptop.
Is the Wi-Fi fast enough for video calls?
Yes. The Wi-Fi is fast and it reaches the whole lodge and the deck, and it supports Wi-Fi calling. Cell service in the forest is unreliable and depends on the carrier, so tell the team to turn on Wi-Fi calling before they leave town.
Is there a desk to work from?
Yes. Nora’s Room, the studio over the garage, has a standing desk with two monitors and its own entrance. It suits whoever cannot be off entirely for two days.
Can you invoice our company?
Yes. We can invoice a company directly rather than take a card at booking. Ask when you inquire, and book with us directly rather than through a platform — it is simpler for your finance team.
What is there to do between sessions?
A lit sport court with pickleball and half-court basketball, a disc golf course, a level field, a firepit, and forest to walk in. The game room has billiards, skee-ball, foosball, darts, and three arcade cabinets. The unstructured half of an offsite is the half people remember.
Other groups
The property does more than one thing.
Inquire
Tell us what you are planning.
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.
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