Crystal Springs Resort offers the most comprehensive team building and group activities program in the Northeast. With our curated Inspiration Series, teams can participate in tactile experiences such as guided nature walks, cooking with locally foraged ingredients, restorative yoga, sound bowl healing, meditation and more in a beautiful bucolic mountain setting. 

Please browse featured group experiences below.

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Putt and pour activity

Putt & Pour

Come out and test your skills! This one-of-a-kind, 18-hole natural grass putting course features multi-tiered greens and rolling terrain accentuated by rippling streams and colorful landscaping.

Group Laser Clay Shooting

Using a modified shotgun, participants fire an infrared beam at reflective clays. Real, deactivated guns are used with realistic sound effects that instruct the shooter when they have hit the target!

Goat hiking at Crystal Springs Resort

Group Hike with Goats

Our goats feel safest with humans, considering people are a part of their herd. Hiking with them is a natural way to bond with both the goats and your peers, while enjoying the 3 mile Nature Trail on property at Grand Cascades Lodge. We'll stop along the way to get priceless pics of your team with the goats!

Sound Bowl Activity

Group Sound Healing

Reduce stress and relax with this therapeutic approach that uses sound vibrations and frequencies to promote mental, emotional and physical well-being.

axe throwing girlfriends

Group Axe Throwing

Enjoy this modern sport in the crisp fall air! Concentrate and throw an axe into the target, with the goal of achieving the highest score by hitting the bullseye or rings closest to the center.

Group of coworkers taking part in a mixology teambuilding glass.

Group Fall Mixology

Craft innovative seasonal cocktails led by our Resort mixologist with hands-on instruction to create the best autumn-themed drinks.

Hiking group on nature trail

Guided Foliage Walk

Explore our 3-mile nature trail with a guide and immerse yourself in a spectacle of vibrant red, orange and yellow foliage. Peak leaf peeping is expected mid-October.

Susanne Wagner Teaching Wine Class

Group Wine Tasting

Experience our Wine Spectator Grand Award-winning Wine Cellar. Begin with a tasting of three distinctive wines, hand-selected by our Resort sommelier, followed by a captivating tour of this architectural marvel.

Woman wine tasting.

Blind Wine Tasting

Test your knowledge of wine with a blind wine tasting facilitated by our sommelier. Guests will be broken up into groups and will sample two different wines (a red and a white). The wine bottle will be placed in a brown bag to conceal the label and bottle shape. Guests will have 15 minutes to guess the continent, country, region, grape and year of each wine. After the game, enjoy a tour of our awardwinning Wine Cellar, or combine The Wine Educator with Blind Wine Tasting Game for an extra fee. Activity is hosted on property at Grand Cascades Lodge.

Botanical plant tie dyeing activity

Botanical Plant Dyeing

Explore the science and art of dyeing fabric with intuitive artist Jessica Darling. Learn how to identify seasonal local dye plants accessible and how to transform them in the dye bath onto sustainable and upcycled textiles. Participants will dye their own piece of fabric using dyes found in the region and around the Resort.

Animal Experience teambuilding activity at Crystal Springs Resort

An Appalachian Animal Experience

Visit a local farm to meet cows, horses, goats, donkeys, ducks, geese and more. Learn from a local farmer about the animals and leave with the ultimate souvenir to memorialize your event . . . an unforgettable photo of your team with all their newfound farm friends.

Group of adults picking pumpkins

Group Pumpkin Carving

Unleash your inner artist and transform a pumpkin into a spooky or whimsical creation. We've got the pumpkins and tools ready for your inspired designs.

Botanical hiking with forager teambuilding activity

Foraging With the Botanical Hiker

Join our Certified Herbalist & Naturalist for a nature hike to discover the edible and medicinal plants which can be found not only throughout the region, but in your very own backyard! She will share helpful hints for proper identification, as well as easy & efficient methods for harvesting and preparing these plants at home.

Bee Hive Box build teambuilding activity at Crystal Springs Resort

Bee Hive Box Build

Teams will work with a local beekeeper to build a bee box with supplied materials. The beekeeper will share fun facts about how a bee colony develops, how honey is made, as well as how bees are critical to local agriculture and the food chain. The completed bee boxes will be donated to a local farm and become the new home of a bee colony. As a thank you for supporting the local bee population, your group will receive souvenir jars of sweet honey from your sponsored hive at a future date.

Four people playing pickleball

Pickleball Group Session

Play the fastest growing sport in America - now available at Minerals Hotel! Pickleball is a cross between tennis and ping-pong and is ideal for any age and athletic ability. Minerals Hotel offers three courts which can be used to host individual games or group sessions including a crash course clinic for beginners to learn the rules and basic skills of the game. Organized tournaments between departments can be a great way to foster teambuilding and bonding.

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  • axe throwing girlfriends

    Group Axe Throwing

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    Enjoy this modern sport in the crisp fall air! Concentrate and throw an axe into the target, with the goal of achieving the highest score by hitting the bullseye or rings closest to the center.

  • Woman wine tasting.

    Blind Wine Tasting

    • calendar-icon

    Test your knowledge of wine with a blind wine tasting facilitated by our sommelier. Guests will be broken up into groups and will sample two different wines (a red and a white). The wine bottle will be placed in a brown bag to conceal the label and bottle shape. Guests will have 15 minutes to guess the continent, country, region, grape and year of each wine. After the game, enjoy a tour of our awardwinning Wine Cellar, or combine The Wine Educator with Blind Wine Tasting Game for an extra fee. Activity is hosted on property at Grand Cascades Lodge.

  • Sound Bowl Activity

    Group Sound Healing

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    Reduce stress and relax with this therapeutic approach that uses sound vibrations and frequencies to promote mental, emotional and physical well-being.

  • Four people playing pickleball

    Pickleball Group Session

    • calendar-icon

    Play the fastest growing sport in America - now available at Minerals Hotel! Pickleball is a cross between tennis and ping-pong and is ideal for any age and athletic ability. Minerals Hotel offers three courts which can be used to host individual games or group sessions including a crash course clinic for beginners to learn the rules and basic skills of the game. Organized tournaments between departments can be a great way to foster teambuilding and bonding.

  • Group of adults picking pumpkins

    Group Pumpkin Carving

    • calendar-icon

    Unleash your inner artist and transform a pumpkin into a spooky or whimsical creation. We've got the pumpkins and tools ready for your inspired designs.

  • Susanne Wagner Teaching Wine Class

    Group Wine Tasting

    • calendar-icon

    Experience our Wine Spectator Grand Award-winning Wine Cellar. Begin with a tasting of three distinctive wines, hand-selected by our Resort sommelier, followed by a captivating tour of this architectural marvel.

  • Putt and pour activity

    Putt & Pour

    • calendar-icon

    Come out and test your skills! This one-of-a-kind, 18-hole natural grass putting course features multi-tiered greens and rolling terrain accentuated by rippling streams and colorful landscaping.

  • Hiking group on nature trail

    Guided Foliage Walk

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    Explore our 3-mile nature trail with a guide and immerse yourself in a spectacle of vibrant red, orange and yellow foliage. Peak leaf peeping is expected mid-October.

  • Goat hiking at Crystal Springs Resort

    Group Hike with Goats

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    Our goats feel safest with humans, considering people are a part of their herd. Hiking with them is a natural way to bond with both the goats and your peers, while enjoying the 3 mile Nature Trail on property at Grand Cascades Lodge. We'll stop along the way to get priceless pics of your team with the goats!

  • Group Laser Clay Shooting

    • calendar-icon

    Using a modified shotgun, participants fire an infrared beam at reflective clays. Real, deactivated guns are used with realistic sound effects that instruct the shooter when they have hit the target!

  • Group of coworkers taking part in a mixology teambuilding glass.

    Group Fall Mixology

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    Craft innovative seasonal cocktails led by our Resort mixologist with hands-on instruction to create the best autumn-themed drinks.

  • Bee Hive Box build teambuilding activity at Crystal Springs Resort

    Bee Hive Box Build

    • calendar-icon

    Teams will work with a local beekeeper to build a bee box with supplied materials. The beekeeper will share fun facts about how a bee colony develops, how honey is made, as well as how bees are critical to local agriculture and the food chain. The completed bee boxes will be donated to a local farm and become the new home of a bee colony. As a thank you for supporting the local bee population, your group will receive souvenir jars of sweet honey from your sponsored hive at a future date.