Plan Your Meetings

Want transportation?

Colorado Mountain Express drivers are very knowledgeable about the area and can inform airport shuttle passengers about the interesting sites they’ll see on the journey into town from the Denver airport (buffalo and big horn sheep, and the architecturally significant Eisenhower Tunnel Bridge). Stage Coach Luxury Limousine also provides airport shuttles. Fresh Tracks provides transportation between the area’s ski towns. To shake things up, think about booking Good Times Adventures dogsleds or snowmobiles, or sleigh rides from Two Below Zero or Breckenridge Sleigh Rides. Aces and Eights Casino Shuttle warms up groups en route to the historic gold mining, now casino, towns of Central City and Black Hawk with Trivia Challenge and karaoke-equipped limo vans.

Want to break out of the boardroom?

From the Beaver Run Resort, attendees can ski right out of meetings to the Beaver Run Super Chair Lift and the Quicksilver Six; from the spa they can ski to Peak Nine. The resort has an entire wing of meeting and conference space and several on-site dining venues. Local companies, such as Summit Concierge and Nordic Sleigh Rides, have dinner packages that take attendees on sleigh ride trips to an 1860s-style miners’ camp or the Gold Run Mountain Lodge for a hearty supper, music and entertainment. A short drive away in Kremmling, Rusty Spurr Ranch can sandwich in a cowboy lunch between team-building cattle drives, rafting trips or trail rides.

Want unusual venues?

Planners can create an intimate setting and exclusive lodging for board retreats or small groups at private homes, like Mountain Villa Paradise; ResortQuest, White Cloud Lodging and Paragon Lodging also manage residential properties available to groups. The O2 Lounge & Internet Café not only has reception space, it also serves different flavors of oxygen to help attendees acclimate to the altitude. The Alpine Villa is an executive retreat near the Breckenridge Golf Club and ski areas; amenities include conference facilities, a Roman bath, a dining hall, a billiards room, a home theater and a 35-ft. high natural rock climbing wall. The Riverwalk Center is a 770-seat outdoor amphitheater available for meetings, concerts and receptions. A roof and walls make year-round events possible. During the summer, lawn seating raises the venue’s capacity to 2,000.

Want historic settings?

The Country Boy Mine has indoor dining facilities and an outdoor fireplace/gathering area as well as underground gold mine tours, gold panning, and hay or sleigh rides. Downtown meeting, dining and reception space are available in Summit Historical Society homes, such as the 1896 W. H. Briggle House or the 1882 Barney Ford House Museum, which was built by a prominent mine owner and black rights advocate, the son of an escaped slave.

Want to team-build?

The Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center has a lodge for corporate retreats and a 40-acre outdoor campus able to accommodate groups as large as 300 for experiential learning adventures, including adaptive skiing, snowboarding and ropes courses for people with disabilities or special needs. Colorado Bike & Ski Tours creates trips on backwoods trails through abandoned mountain towns and ski huts built by the 10th Mountain Division for World War II training as well as GPS scavenger hunts and customized eco-challenges. Casarietti Studio has “Out of the Box” workshops designed to enhance creative solutions, communication and problem solving, led by artists Robert and Michelle Casarietti. Peak Rhythms creates group drumming and rhythm programs designed to empower and unite groups of up to 5,000 people.

Want group dining?

The Top of the World Restaurant & Lounge has breathtaking views of the Rocky Mountains and French-inspired American cuisine. Hearthstone Restaurant is an annual recipient of Wine Spectator’s “Award of Excellence” — it serves wild game, fresh seafood and hand-cut steaks in a 120-year-old Victorian home. Diners at The Dredge, a replica of one of the largest and oldest dredges to operate on the Blue River from 1900-1942, must walk over water to get to the floating steak and seafood restaurant. The River Mountain Lodge is furnished with leather couches, antique furniture, a roaring fireplace and an old-fashioned bar; in addition to banquet and bar facilities, the venue has a conference room and a poolside patio. Salt Creek Steakhouse serves steaks and Texas-style pit barbecue, and has a dance floor with live music and DJs. Modis is one of the town’s newer restaurants and has a sophisticated, nightclub feel.