The Broadmoor Cloud Camp：科罗拉多州谢伊山上的封闭式团队静修地

Small groups that want to get away from it all together, in a self-contained environment that limits outside distractions and keeps team fully present, may consider a remote retreat high in the Colorado Rockies, far from the noise of the urban world.

All that and more is indeed available on the summit of Cheyenne Mountain at The Broadmoor’s Cloud Camp, yet it’s less than an hour complimentary shuttle transfer from bustling Colorado Springs and the campus of the historic The Broadmoor destination resort and conference center.

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“You are absolutely removed from the world when you’re up there,”  said Duane Zobrist, regional chair of YPO (Young Presidents' Organization) and CEO, Resort Outfitters, who facilitates group experiences at The Broadmoor’s Wilderness Retreats properties. “I’ve recently brought three different YPO groups up to Cloud Camp to go through the program that they have there: to unplug; to connect; to act as a retreat; and to run through chapter business.”

And through the wonders of satellite internet, connectivity to essential communications with the outside world is but a keystroke away, if the outside world just can’t wait.

Zobrist, who is Wilderness Retreats’ dedicated onsite coordinator for program organizers, said Cloud Camp’s relatively remote location and small size—with 22 rooms, it’s easy to do a buyout—offers a setting conducive to team bonding that’s just not available down mountain.

“What’s really cool about it when you do a buyout—this is the comment that I’ve heard over and over again—is, ‘Hey, it was so nice to be able to walk out and know that every cabin I walked by and saw someone sitting on the porch was a member of X organization. I didn’t have to worry, ‘Hey, do I know them? Do I not know them?’ I knew I knew them, and I knew that it was safe to walk up and talk to them.’

“When it’s a buyout, it’s what makes it unique, because you really do own the property,” Zobrist added. “The dinner times are yours, the cocktail times are yours, the entertainment times are yours.”

Zobrist said many groups will enjoy a first-night dinner at the King’s Table, a 44-person set-up using one long table in its great hall, and then do a six- or eight-person configuration—typically eight squares—with assigned seating, to break it up on subsequent nights.

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The All-Inclusive Components of Cloud Camp

At the all-inclusive Cloud Camp—which is joined by on-mountain Wilderness Retreat sister properties The Broadmoor Fly Fishing Camp and The Ranch at Emerald Valley—every element is handled in-house by Zobrist and his team, which allows planners to keep their eye on program objectives and outcomes, not logistics.

Key all-inclusive components include breakfast, lunch and four-course dinners, as well as pre-dinner social hours with cocktails and tray-passed hors d’oeuvres. Activity options, also included, can find retreat-goers partaking in everything from mule rides to yoga, mountaintop pickleball and soaking in hot tubs.

Team-bonding programs can include cocktail mixology, archery and evenings around a campfire, along with the option to bring a country-western band up to get attendees line-dancing with the help of instructors. Groups can also participate in falconry and fly-fishing outings.

Cloud Camp offers 1,500 square feet of meeting space in The Overlook Room, which features floor-to-ceiling windows that drink in the alpine views, along with an outdoor deck that is perfect for social hours.

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Yet with all the shared, sequestered time on property at Cloud Camp—across meetings, meals and activities that build alignment, trust and stronger working relationships—Zobrist admits that the first activity many attendees enjoy is to just chill the heck out.

“When you get there, all your group members are going to say, ‘I’m just going to go sit on the deck with a book and look out over the valley; look all the way to Kansas.’”

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Tyler Davidson is the vice president and chief content director for Meetings Today, which publishes the meetings industry trade magazine Meetings Today as well as MeetingsToday.com, various newsletters, webinars, the in-person Meetings Today LIVE! Hosted-buyer events and other meetings and events industry B2B channels.

Tyler has covered the travel trade for nearly 35 years.  In his role with Meetings Today, which recently won the prestigious FOLIO: Eddies Award for best magazine issue, Tyler leads the editorial team on its mission to provide the most in-depth meetings content in the industry. Previously, he worked as the Asia, Canada, Pacific Northwest and Western U.S. editor at Travel Weekly magazine and TravelAge West. Before joining the dual editorial staff producing destination sections for Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, Tyler was the Africa, Israel, Middle East, Switzerland and Pacific Northwest editor at TravelAge West. He also undertook general news and feature assignments while working at the magazines. 

Besides reporting on the travel trade, Tyler has covered the real estate industry, held various editorial positions at the San Francisco-based national satire magazine The Nose, wrote freelance technology industry pieces and covered the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders for a bilingual newspaper in San Francisco. He has a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University, where he worked in various editorial capacities on its award-winning student magazine, Prism. 

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