Bring your attendees to a beautiful cabin for an unforgettable incentive
So, you’re planning an incentive.
Lucky for you, these new and renovated properties offer a beautiful cabin setting rich with fun recreation, decadent dining and gorgeous gathering spaces to give your event that complete once-in-a-lifetime feel.
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For Gorgeous Gatherings in Georgia
Adairsville, GA’s Barnsley Resort is a jewel of Southern hospitality, and its recent renovations in its 25th anniversary year only amplify its significance. The multifaceted refresh sees a reimagined interior design and renovated guest rooms and suites, as well as the debut of the Biergarten, pickleball courts, improvements to the Beretta Shooting Ground and more.
The 39 free-standing cottages include 84 guest rooms and suites. Their refreshed style maintains the cottage character with warm plaids and stripes on the headboards and bed skirts, while soft neutrals and textures walls incorporate an elevated feel. Accent wall coverings and floor-to-ceiling draperies feature subdued floral patterns and sporting dog scenes, and new wooden nightstands and painted dressers amplify the homey aesthetic. New accessories include vintage-inspired lanterns, rattan sconces and mixed-metal finishes. The exterior of the cottages also features a refreshed look, with nature-inspired coloring across exterior accents, trims and siding.
The new Biergarten is located in the center of the resort village. Guests can gather around a two-sided stacked stone fireplace to enjoy biergarten classics like pretzels and bratwurst as well as barbeque favorites, or pick up lawn games or football on a covered pavilion. The six new pickleball courts expand Barnsley Resort’s already expansive roster of recreational activities. The Beretta Shooting Grounds, by High Adventure Company, are also upgraded, and offer a new five-stand station for group and introductory experiences alongside two new 15-station clays adjacent to the sporting ground’s Clubhouse. The Clubhouse, in addition, features and an expansive new deck, perfect for outdoor events.
Barnsley Resort offers a variety of meeting spaces across 16,000 sq. ft. of indoor meeting and event space, including the 5,000-square-foot Savannah Ballroom.
For Outstanding Activations in Oregon
Black Butte Ranch, in central Oregon, wraps up the finishing touches on its $20 million lodge project. The brand new 22,100-square-foot Lodge includes a new restaurant and bar, a second-floor lounge and bar, a private dining room, a new event space, a meeting room, outdoor dining and a state-of-the-art kitchen and catering facility.
Black Butte Ranch combines an idyllic setting with all the modern technological features today’s planners want. In addition to the Lodge, meeting and event spaces include the North and South Sister rooms in the Black Butte Ranch Community Center, and outdoor spaces including the Big Meadow Sports Pavilion and Lodge Event Lawn, which feature incredible views of the surrounding mountain landscape. Events will be pleased with many customizable catering options.
When it comes to recreation, Black Butte Ranch has it down, with two 18-hole championship golf courses, horseback riding and nearby fishing, skiing, snowboarding, rafting and more.
The property offers 90 privately owned, professionally managed vacation rentals, consisting of cabins, condominiums and custom homes for overnight guests, in addition to over 5,000 sq. ft. of meeting and event space, as well as more customizable outdoor spaces.
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For Vibrant Events in Vermont
In the middle of Stowe, Vermont’s brilliant outdoors is Lark Hotels’ newly opened AWOL Stowe. It offers 35 guest rooms and six serene, free-standing A-frame cabins with private patios. Its location outside the hustle and bustle of downtown offers a quiet retreat, but it is still close enough for visitors to enjoy the vibrant downtown area.
In addition to its luxurious and peaceful accommodations, the property offers an on-site Nordic spa deck for guest use, featuring a seven-foot cedar cold plunge pool, maintained at 50 degrees, as well as an indoor hot tub, cedar sauna and fire pits. In line with traditional Scandinavian style that invites guests to use one amenity after another, these amenities are laid out in a triangle, and the entire space is surrounded by mountains and lush forest.
All guest rooms feature original art inspired by Stowe’s natural surroundings, with purposeful monochromatic tones alongside handcrafted clay pottery dried branches and fronds and sculptural stics as décor. Guest rooms range from king deluxe accommodations to a signature Lark Suite with two bedrooms, a full living room with a central wood-burning fireplace and a private outdoor porch.
The onsite restaurant and bar features multiple soft seating groupings in addition to a long communal table which features a large hanging floral art installation.
AWOL Stowe offers multiple event spaces across the property, including The Lodge and The Grounds buildings.
