Where to take your team for an executive offsite within an hour of Bentonville — private property, no resort crowds, no conference center fluorescents.
Northwest Arkansas has become one of the busiest corporate hubs in the country. Walmart, Tyson, J.B. Hunt, and a wave of startups are all based within a short drive of each other. What's missing — until you look an hour east — is a place to take the team that doesn't feel like a hotel ballroom.
The default move is a downtown Bentonville hotel with a conference room. It works for half-day meetings. It doesn't work for the thing offsites are actually supposed to do — pull people out of their normal patterns long enough that they think differently.
For that, you need three things: a different setting, no commute back home each night, and enough downtime in the schedule for people to actually talk.
Eureka Springs is an hour from XNA airport and 75 minutes from downtown Bentonville. It's in the Ozark Mountains — forest, bluffs, lake — but it's not so remote that people lose half a day in transit. For a Tuesday-to-Thursday executive offsite, it's the sweet spot.
The best retreats have the conversation happen around a fire, not a whiteboard.
Forest Springs hosts executive teams as private buyouts. You have the whole property: the rooms, the great room with the fireplace for working sessions, the sauna, the pool, the cold plunge, the firepit, and ten acres of forest trails. No other guests. No conference desk. No background noise.
We don't run on-site dining — we point you to the best nearby local restaurants for group dinners, or arrange a private chef for a working dinner on the property.
Email hello@forestspringsresort.com with your team size and target dates. We'll send a buyout proposal within 48 hours.
Forest Springs
A boutique resort & spa in the Ozarks