A classroom, campus Wi-Fi, a private lake and a 300-yard range on 188 acres reserved for your team.
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Texas Business Retreats at Lake Godstone: a private 188-acre lake offsite near Graford, Texas, 90 minutes from Fort Worth. A classroom for forty, Wi-Fi across the campus, a private gun range, a stocked lake and lodging for 35 to 100. One organization at a time.
Where the team sleeps
The Lodge for the group; the Guest Home and cabins for anyone who needs a door and a desk.
Hear first when this host opens direct rates or adds a new place.
Team building here does not need a facilitator. Split into boats for a bass tournament, run the range, take the UTV around the trail, and settle it around the six-foot fire pit.
Your team will not be checking email from a hotel ballroom here. They will be on a porch over a private lake, ninety minutes from Fort Worth, with a classroom for the working sessions and 188 acres for everything else.
We host one organization at a time. The ranch, the range, the boats and the trails are yours for the duration. Dom and Carol live on site and handle the logistics so you can run the agenda.
Bring the whole company. Leave with a team.
Jim Attrell
Owner, Lake Godstone
Video tours
Walk the ranch before you come
Jim’s own tours of the Lodge, every cabin and campground, the range, the trail and the lake from above.
A few of the thousands of photos our guests have taken here.
Lake Godstone
Find us
Graford, Texas, between Possum Kingdom and Jacksboro
4636 Halsell Ranch Road, Graford. From Graford take Highway 4 north seven miles, turn west onto Halsell Ranch Road and follow the gravel four miles; the lake is on your right. About 90 minutes from Fort Worth and two hours from Dallas.
All of it included with the Lodge, none of it shared with strangers.
On the water
Start at the dock
Every morning somebody is fishing off the Lodge porch before the coffee is ready. Seven docks ring the lake, with fish feeders that bring the bluegill in close enough to watch. The kids take the kayaks and pedal boats; the grandparents take the rowboat; everybody ends up on the lily pads by afternoon. Swim ladders at every dock, three beaches, a water slide at the Lodge, and not a single motorboat.
On land
Four miles of trail and a six-person UTV
The Tranquil Trail is a six-foot-wide marked path through forest and meadow with benches, a porta-potty and the comfort station along the route; walk it, run it or bring mountain bikes. The all-weather roads add six more miles for the UTV and golf carts. Geocaches are hidden across the ranch (the Google Earth map has the coordinates), and the hayride at dusk is the one thing every group does.
Under the lights
The sports complex
A floodlit basketball court, sand volleyball, a soccer and baseball practice field with goals and a backstop, horseshoe pits and picnic tables, next to the Field House and the observatory.
Things to do
Nobody will be bored
Everything below is included with the Lodge. The UTV, golf carts and firewood are the only things that cost extra.
After dark
Fire, stars and the green lights at the feeders
Nearly twenty rock fire pits are scattered across the ranch, from the six-foot steel pit at the Lodge to the little ones at the tent sites. The observatory’s Celestron telescope will find Saturn for you. And at the wildlife stands, green lights let you watch the deer and raccoons come in without disturbing them.
