Meetings, Retreats & Conventions
Chetola Resort offers flexible meeting spaces, premium catering, and a full range of resort amenities - everything needed for a seamless and successful event. Our resort guestrooms and spacious condominiums complete your stay!
Contact Sales: 828-295-5527 | events@chetola.com
Outdoor Meeting Facilities
Gazebo and Arbor by the Lake
Chetola’s Gazebo and lakeside Arbor are the perfect locations for smaller receptions, corporate gatherings, ceremonies, reunions, retreats or cook-outs. The breathtaking scenery and Chetola’s outstanding banquet presentation combine to create the perfect outdoor event. Outdoor dining is available at the Arbor for up to 40 people.
White Pavilion Tent
Our beautiful tents by the lake or dining patio accommodate groups of up to 250. Perfect for social occasions, weddings, group functions and special events.
Accommodating up to 250 people
Up to 4800 Square Feet
Prices for tents can be quoted by our group sales office. For weddings and social occasions, visit Weddings at Chetola.
Firepit
Gather around our wood-burning fire pit with friends and family year-round. Rental packages include wood, lighter fluid, fire attendant, chairs and S'more packets.
Whether your objective is to Celebrate, Strategize, Learn or Bond, our TEAM is ready and waiting to help you every step of the way.
We look forward to working with you!
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Private Lakeside Bonfires
Interested in adding a little heat to your Corporate Getaway? Cozy up by one of our Chetola Lakeside Fire Pits this season. Whether it be a networking event for your organization, a family get-together, a birthday, or a night out with friends, our outdoor fire pits offer plenty of room to spread out while staying warm.
We have a limitless variety of activities on site.….Indoor Heated Pool, Fitness Center and Weight Room, Orvis Fly Fishing Clinics, Jacuzzi, Sauna, Guided Hikes, Massage Therapy, Facials, Manicures and Pedicures, Body Treatments, Hair Boutique, Yoga, Personal Trainers, Paddle Boating on Chetola Lake, Tennis, Team Building Events, Kid’s Camp and much more. We can also arrange for clay shooting, fly fishing, whitewater rafting, horseback riding, skiing, golfing, ziplining and anything else you might want to do while visiting with us. For more information, please visit the Recreation Center's list of activities by clicking here.
For your corporate team-building activities, Chetola can arrange for a variety of challenging, thought-provoking programs on site at Chetola or at a nearby location. From ropes courses to leadership strategies, we will help provide your group with innovative strategies and tools.
In 2008 Chetola became North Carolina’s very first Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Lodge; today it is one of only two in the state. Our experienced salespeople will arrange for Orvis Fly Fishing Schools, Float Trips and a variety of other fly fishing activities.
There’s good reason that Southern Living magazine says Chetola is “one of the best stays in the Blue Ridge.” Let our experienced meeting planners handle your next retreat from beginning to end while you sit back and relax!
Whether your objective is to Celebrate, Strategize, Learn or Bond, we are ready to help you every step of the way.
We look forward to working with you!
Interior Meeting Facilites
Equestrian Board Room
- 2nd Floor, Chetola Lodge
- Room Size: 20' x 25'
- Square Footage: 500 sq ft
- Theatre: 40
- Classroom: 30
- U-Shape: 20
- T-Shape: 16
- Reception: 37
- Round Banquet: 37
- Long Banquet: 20
- Board Room: 22
Evergreen Room
- 2nd Floor, Chetola Lodge
- Room Size: 55' x 35'
- Square Footage: 1,925 sq ft
- Theatre: 160
- Classroom: 100
- U-Shape: 50
- Hollow Square: 60
- Reception: 110
- Round Banquet: 110
- Long Banquet: 80
- Board Room: 45
Embers Room
- 2nd Floor, Chetola Lodge
- Room Size: 24' x 30'
- Square Footage: 720 sq. ft.
- Theatre: 60
- Classroom: 40
- U-Shape: 24
- T-Shape: 18
- Reception: 35
- Round Banquet: 32
- Board Room: 24
- Built-in Fireplace, Lakeview and Access to Outdoor Deck
Wireless Connections
Complimentary High Speed Wireless Internet Connections are available in all meeting rooms as well as in all guest rooms in Chetola Lodge.
Conference Equipment
Chetola Conference Services provides the following equipment upon request at no charge:
Podiums
Easels
The following equipment is available for a rental fee.
Photocopies
Portable Public Address (PA) System
Presentation Remote with Laser Pointer
Slide Projector
LCD Projector
Flip Chart Pads
Dry Erase Boards
Overhead Projector
Lavaliere Microphone
Television/VCR
Fax/Copier/Modem
Stage
Whether your objective is to Celebrate, Strategize, Learn or Bond, our TEAM is ready and waiting to help you every step of the way.
We look forward to working with you!
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Team Building: Chetola Facilitated
- 6- OR 13-STATION COMPETITION EVENT — Held offsite at the Chetola Sporting Reserve, this shooting adventure combines clay shooting, hand-eye coordination, and bragging rights for a unique activity to either start or cap off your retreat with a bang.
- CARDBOARD BOAT RACE — Each team is given supplies to make a cardboard boat that must reach the opposite side of the pool without sinking. The teams have 45 minutes to build a boat. Teams will then compete against one another with one member of the team in the boat racing to the finish.
- SCAVENGER HUNT — Enjoy an indoor or outdoor scavenger hunt around the Chetola grounds. One digital camera/phone is needed per team. Each team is given a list of riddles that signify places or things on Chetola property, with points attached to each item. A picture of the correct place or thing teased will earn the team the assigned points for that item. The team with the most points wins.
- TEAM TRIVIA — This lively team competition gets groups thinking and laughing together. Teams try to earn the highest score by correctly answering a wide range of trivia questions, competing in brain challenges and solving brain teasers. We make the program challenging but keep it light enough so that everyone can relax, participate and have a good time.
- FITNESS — Schedule a private fitness, yoga, tennis or pickleball class for your group; classes can be tailored for all fitness and skill levels.
- OUTDOOR ADVENTURES — We have activities for every kind of nature and outdoor enthusiasts Choose from Orvis endorsed fly fishing and float trips, clay shooting, archery, gun range, skiing, zip lining, golfing, ropes courses, snow tubing, whitewater rafting and more.
- ADULT FIELD DAY — Bring back your favorite day from childhood in this Adult Field Day! With a cornhole tournament, 3-hole disc golf, capture the flag, tug of war, a dizzy bat relay, hula hoop pass, and a kayak race, this field day will be one the whole team will remember!
HAVE YOUR OWN IDEA? — Let us know what it is and we’ll do our best to make it happen. Prices vary based on number of participants and activity.
Team Building: Preferred Partners
Sky Valley Zip Tours
Experience a canopy tour and zip line adventure like no other. An exhilarating half-mile ATV ride leads you to 10 zip lines, including the famous “BIG MAMMA,” and over a mile of cable, elevations up to 300 feet, a cliff jump, and 120-foot long swinging bridge.
High Gravity Adventures
This aerial adventure park features a high ropes course, a three-person giant swing, and a zip line canopy tour with a 70-foot free-fall. Harness up for more than 75 challenging aerial elements involving climbing, balance, and swinging from heights of 15 to 50 feet.
High Mountain Expeditions
Wind your way through a remarkable wilderness of dramatic cliffs, twisted mountains, hidden waterfalls and breathtaking pastoral scenery with river rafting, kayaking, tubing, and caving.