Your family.Your private lake.Your entire 188-acre retreat.
Texas family reunions, church retreats and business retreats on a private stocked lake, one group at a time.
Lake Godstone4.9153 reviews · 105 Google + 48 Website
Lake Godstone is a private 188-acre ranch and lake near Graford, Texas, hosting one group at a time: family reunions, church retreats and business retreats. The Lodge sleeps 35; with cabins and campgrounds the campus sleeps 100 or more. Seven docks, boats, trails, sports fields, a 300-yard gun and archery range and an observatory are included.
The Lodge, the cabins and the campgrounds
Every stay starts with the Lodge. The Guest Home, cabins and campgrounds are add-ons for the beds you need.
Hear first when this host opens direct rates or adds a new place.
Each has its own page, and most groups are a little of all three.
The lake
Forty feet deep, spring-fed, stocked, and nobody else on it
Seven docks with fish feeders and swim ladders, three beaches, canoes, kayaks, pedal boats and a rowboat, and a rule against motors that keeps the water glassy.
I built this place for families. The lake, the docks, the trails, the crosses on the dam and the Beatitude stones along the path: every piece of it was planned so that a group of people who love each other could get away together, with nothing between them and the outdoors.
That is why we only host one group at a time. When you book the Lodge, the gate closes behind you and the whole ranch is yours. Dom and Carol, who live here, will meet you when you arrive and are a phone call away the rest of the time. Rick keeps the grounds. I am often here too, and if you ask, I will happily show you the solar system and the water works.
Come fish, swim, shoot, hike, sing around the fire and look at the stars. Then come back next year. Most of our guests do.
Jim Attrell
Owner, Lake Godstone
Guest stories
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.
Ninety minutes from Fort Worth, four miles of gravel from anywhere
How to find the gate, and what is nearby when you want to leave it.
Getting here
Look for the eight-foot cedar fence and the power lines
From Fort Worth and DFW: take US-380 west to Jacksboro (about an hour), then Highway 4 south for 14 miles. Turn right (west) onto Halsell Ranch Road and follow the gravel for four miles; the lake is on your right.
From Graford and Possum Kingdom: take Highway 4 north seven miles from Graford, then turn west onto Halsell Ranch Road for four winding, hilly miles.
The physical address is 4636 Halsell Ranch Road, Graford, Texas 76449 (the post office calls it Jacksboro 76458). Dom or Carol will meet you at the gate, and the printable ranch map and the Google Earth map with the geocaches are yours on request. Live weather from our own station is at tempestwx.com/station/181981.
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.
Graford has the basics; Jacksboro, Graham and Mineral Wells have the rest.
Weddings
We house the wedding party; Painted Lakes hosts the wedding
Lake Godstone does not hold weddings, but we are the lodging for them. Painted Lakes, fourteen miles away, is the venue we recommend (Susan Lake, 940-229-9399). Book the Lodge for the family and the cabins for the couple, and the rehearsal dinner happens on our porch.
