Fun Activities and Team-Building at Minnesuing Acres Lodge

Our Executive Challenge Course*, available during summer and fall, is a series of low-risk activities — led by a Minnesuing staff member — that will improve team communication and build camaraderie. Give it a try!

Activity 1: Acid River
The goal is to get all of your team members across the "acid river," with three boards that must fit into designated slots. The boards cannot touch the "acid," nor can the participants!

Activity 2: Climbing Wall
Getting the whole team over this 11-foot wall takes smarts as well as strength! You must strategize on who will be the easiest to get over the wall and who will be the toughest — and execute accordingly.

Activity 3: Birthday Log
A real communication challenge! Participants are randomly perched on a log and then receive their instructions: to arrange themselves by birth date on the log, without talking or stepping off.

Activity 4: The Swing
Get ready to deliver your best Tarzan impression! Starting from a platform on one side, participants swing on a rope, Tarzan-style, and cross a small creek to safely reach the other side.

Activity 5: Trust Fall
From four feet up, team members stand with their heels on the edge of a platform and free-fall backwards into the waiting arms of their benevolent mates. You can trust them…can't you?

Activity 6: Spider Web
Step aside, Spider Man! Rope is strung together between trees, resembling a spider web. Team members must use problem-solving techniques to assist their designated "spiders" through the holes.

Activity 7: Three Platforms
Starting with three platforms — A, B and C — group members must travel from A to B to C on a simple board. But, as participants soon discover, each platform gets a little farther away and smaller in size. Gotcha!

Activity 8: The "V"
Talk about bonding! Two group members stand, facing each other, on two cables that are three feet off the ground, in the shape of a V. They have to move and balance each other — hands locked — from the closed end of the V to the wider open end without falling off.

Activity 9: Paul Bunyan Ski Event
Three participants from each team stand on wooden "ski" planks and hold onto "poles" made of rope. The goal is to figure out how to ski together on the same equipment, while racing the other team. Super-sized fun!

Activity 10: Mohawk Walk
Participants have to help each other traverse across a cable that’s suspended between three trees, without any feet touching the ground. A fun test of balance and group communication!

Activity 11: Balancing Platforms
Using two different balancing platforms that unexpectedly rock from one side to the other, this activity tests your team’s ability to move as a group.

*$10.00 per person.

"The home-cooked meals were wonderful and the meeting facilities were excellent. Even though we were 'up in the north woods,' we were still connected through our cell phones and high-speed Internet. We also enjoyed viewing the charming guest rooms, to see the different antiques and décor. We loved the property and look forward to future meetings!"

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