Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

Add value to your meetings, conferences, and retreats by booking your event in the Detroit Lakes area where the lakes and woods relax you, while the lodging facilities pamper you. If a picturesque lakeside or woodsy setting is a natural for your event, let us introduce you to area resorts, or unique locations such as an alluring barn or new stately lodge at Detroit Mountain. Want something more urban? Our city hotels accommodate groups up to 400. Whether a corporate event, team building retreat or company conference, the Detroit Lakes area is a unique destination sure to please you.

1. Get Outta Dodge. Are you looking for unique venues for your event? Give Detroit Lakes a try. Hold your event lakeside at city or resort properties and soak in the call of loons in the setting sun. Book a corporate event at the refurbished Historic Holmes Theatre, with seating for more than 800 people. For that corporate retreat, let a lush green lawn be your carpet and a repurposed barn loft be the site of your banquet. Going all out for training? See the city from the lifts at Detroit Mountain and gather beneath the timbers of the new Detroit Mountain lodge. Detroit Lakes has options for your destination event.

2. Accessible and Wallet Friendly. Located less than an hour east of Fargo, ND and three hours northwest of the Twin Cities, Detroit Lakes is conveniently accessible by major highways 10, 59 and 34. The city airport serves light twin engine to single engine aircraft, or fly commercial into the Fargo airport, less than one hour away. Take Amtrak and Jefferson Bus Lines into the city, then rent a car because parking is free throughout Detroit Lakes. Continue to save some coin by checking shoulder season rates and wallet-friendly savings on local attractions, lodging, dining and shopping as well.

3. Begin and End Your Event. Need more than coffee to start your day? Take a stroll on the one-mile sandy city beach in Detroit Lakes. Work out or swim some laps at the Detroit Lakes Community Center. Unwind after the meeting with a visit to a winery or meet your friends at one of several hoppin’ pubs featuring live music and local fare. Connect with nature by hiking at nearby parks and preserves, or thousands of acres at our national wildlife refuges.

4. Four Season Fun. Detroit Lakes is synonymous with FUN. Your next company retreat or corporate training session could be on a pontoon or paddle board! Gather in the City Park shelters or historic Pavilion by the mile long beach. Conduct your small meeting while on one of eight area golf courses. Get a taste of the town afterwards by joining one of many events throughout the year. When the snow flies, make snow angels at Detroit Mountain – opening November 28, 2014 with skiing, snow tubing and snowboard terrain park. Beginning in 2015, take on miles of woodsy mountain bike trails at Detroit Mountain.

5. Small town nice. With all the amenities of a community of 8600 people, you’ll also find friendly small town hospitality in Detroit Lakes. From a welcoming business community to lodging property professionals, you will get the personal attention needed to make your event memorable. Contact the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce for free materials to introduce you to the city, and to help connect you with additional experts to complete your meeting needs.

For more information about booking your event in the Detroit Lakes area, call 800-542-3992, or visit us online at www.VisitDetroitLakes.com.