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.
Every stay starts with the Lodge. Its nightly rate includes exclusive use of all 188 acres: the lake, the docks and boats, the trails, the sports complex, the gun and archery range, the observatory, campus Wi-Fi and the fire pits. Nothing on the ranch is rented to anyone else while you are here.
Cabins, the Guest Home and the campgrounds are add-ons. Add the ones you need for the people you are bringing and leave the rest; they stay empty, not booked by strangers.
The Lodge
Per night
Cleaning
Sleeps
The Lodge — 6 queens, 13 lower twins, 16 upper bunks, full commercial kitchen, 500 sq. ft. classroom, covered porch, upper deck, fire pit for 35
$1,200
$350
10–35
Weekly $6,300 · Monthly $18,000. Plus 6% hotel tax and firewood.
Add-on lodging (each plus 6% hotel tax)
Per night
Cleaning
Sleeps
Beds
Guest Home — three bedrooms across the lake, private dock, playground
$350
$100
8–11
1 king, 2 full, 3 twin, 2 upper bunks
Field House — by the sports complex and observatory
$225
$50
3–6
Queen bunk + queen pull-out
Inspiration Cabin — hilltop porch, valley sunrises
$225
$50
3–4
1 king + 2 loft twins
Wilderness Roost — in the meadows, deer at the feeders
$175
$50
4–6
Full, twin + 2 upper bunks
Reflection Cabin — above the dam, for two
$150
$50
1–2
Queen
Campgrounds — Refuge, Top of the Dam and Panorama group campgrounds plus six secluded tent sites, with power, water, fire pits and the comfort station
$450
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10–30 each
Tents and RVs
Adding the Guest Home or any cabin includes a golf cart for your stay. A six-person UTV and extra golf carts rent by the day. The Captain’s Cabin and the Serenity RV are available on request.
Paying and cancelling
25% deposit when you book, another 25% sixty days before arrival, and the balance thirty days before arrival.
Cancel more than 60 days out for a full refund; more than 30 days out for a 50% refund. Inside 30 days the payments are not refundable.
No security deposit.
Lodge groups check in at noon and check out at 4:00 pm.
Church and non-profit groups: ask us about discounts.
