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Corporate Team Building Activities in Napa, CA
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- Founded
- 2010
- Group size
- 30 to 6,000+
- Where we run activities
- 50 states + Canada
- Formats
- In person or virtual
Why Napa works for a corporate event
How a Napa event works with us
Companies come to Napa for a resort offsite: a leadership retreat, a sales incentive or a board meeting with a day of wine country built in. The program usually sits between the morning session and a winery dinner, on a resort lawn or in a ballroom, and it runs 1.5 to 2 hours. We bring everything to the resort and work with its event team, so the group never leaves the property unless the plan says so.
Most booked activities in Napa, CA
The activities corporate groups book most often in Napa, CA.
Bike Build Donation®How the Bike Build Donation® Program Works Teams compete in interactive challenges. Points earned are used to “purchase” bike parts. Teams assemble the…- Length
- 1.5 to 2 hours
- Group size
- 30 to 1,000+ people
- Setting
- Indoor / Outdoor
A Minute 2 Win It!A Minute 2 Win It! is one of our most engaging and competitive team building experiences—perfect for energizing your group and igniting friendly rivalry. Teams…- Length
- 1.5 to 2 hours
- Group size
- 30 to 1,000+ people
- Setting
- Indoor / Outdoor
Jeoparody Live!What do you get when you combine state-of-the-art game show technology and team challenges presented to your group by our fun and engaging event facilitators?…- Length
- 1 to 1.5 hours
- Group size
- 30 to 1,000+ people
- Setting
- Indoor
Operation Military CareOperation Military Care is a powerful charitable team building event where collaboration, friendly competition, and gratitude unite to create meaningful care…- Length
- 1.5 to 2 hours
- Group size
- 30 to 1,000+ people
- Setting
- Indoor / Outdoor
Minute 2 Win It! for CharityMinute 2 Win It! for Charity is a high-energy CSR team building experience that blends fast-paced tabletop challenges with the meaningful goal of preparing…- Length
- 1.5 to 2.5 hours
- Group size
- 30 to 1,000+ people
- Setting
- Indoor
Donation Nation Care PacksDonation Nation Care Packs is a meaningful team building experience that brings your group together to assemble care packages for community organizations that…- Length
- 1.5 to 2 hours
- Group size
- 30 to 1,000+ people
- Setting
- Indoor / Outdoor
Igniting Team Performance®Igniting Team Performance® is a high-impact, hands-on team development program that blends interactive team challenges with actionable learning. Designed to…- Length
- 2 to 3 hours
- Group size
- Any number of people
- Setting
- Indoor / Outdoor
Team OlympicsGo for the gold with Team Olympics, a high-energy program that combines athletic-inspired team challenges with spirited collaboration and friendly competition.…- Length
- 1.5 to 2 hours
- Group size
- 30 to 1,000+ people
- Setting
- Indoor / Outdoor
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Charitable builds for Napa Valley kids
Bike Build Donation® is the program Napa groups book most. It has run at Silverado, The Meritage and the Napa Valley Marriott, and bikes built here have gone to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Napa Valley. Operation Military Care and Donation Nation Care Packs fill the same slot when a group would rather pack than build. Donations from Napa programs have also gone to Soldiers' Angels, the Napa Valley Education Foundation and Northwood Elementary School.
On the lawn, between the vines
Napa's resorts are built around lawns, olive trees and vineyard views, and the weather lets a group use them for most of the year. A Bocce Ball Tournament has run at The Meritage, which sits against its own hillside vineyard in south Napa. Team Olympics needs about 50 square feet a person, which a resort event lawn has to spare.
Game shows after the tasting
When the afternoon belongs to wineries, the program moves to the evening and indoors. Jeoparody Live! has run at Carneros Resort and Spa for a hospitality group, and A Minute 2 Win It! has run at Silverado for an event planning client. Minute 2 Win It! for Charity adds a donation to the same games.
Leadership retreats
Napa is a common choice for a small leadership team, often biotech or pharmaceutical, meeting away from the Bay Area office. Igniting Team Performance® has run at The Westin Verasa Napa, next door to Oxbow Public Market, and it is a facilitated session with a debrief tied to how the team works.
Where Napa events happen
Silverado Resort in the hills north of town and Carneros Resort and Spa to the south are the two resorts we have worked in most. The Meritage Resort and Spa, The Westin Verasa Napa downtown and the Napa Valley Marriott on Solano Avenue are the others, and a group staying up valley in Yountville can bring the program to its own hotel.
An hour from the Bay Area
Napa is about an hour's drive from San Francisco and Oakland outside rush hour, and about the same from Sacramento. The same facilitators work across Northern California, so a company can plan a city program and a Napa offsite together.
Where we host in Napa
Hotels and venues where we have run corporate events in Napa, CA. Photos come from each venue's own website.
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Planning guide
Lawn or ballroom: sizing a Napa program
Napa resorts pair event lawns with ballrooms and smaller rooms for leadership groups. The chart shows the room each attendee takes up in each program.
Floor area per person
- Bike Build Donation®25 sq ft
- A Minute 2 Win It!25 sq ft
- Jeoparody Live!25 sq ft
- Operation Military Care25 sq ft
- Igniting Team Performance®30 sq ft
A private room for a leadership retreat
- Team Olympics50 sq ft
A resort event lawn from May to October
Measured another way
- City SmartHunt®
- Downtown Napa's riverfront, Oxbow Public Market and First Street, a short walk from The Westin Verasa.
An event in a City of Napa park or on its streets needs a special event permit when it closes a street or passes 250 people, filed at least 90 days ahead with Parks and Recreation. On resort grounds the resort handles it.
A worked example
2,000 sq ft
80 people at 25 sq ft each
Resort lawns in Napa are wedding lawns on summer weekends. A weekday program gets the best lawn and the shade.
Planning guide
Napa's season, month by month
Napa's rain falls from November to March. Summer is dry and hot, with highs near 80 and some days much hotter.
Outdoors
April to June
- Highs from the upper 60s to the upper 70s, and the vines leafing out. The best months on a lawn.
Outdoors
July to October
- Dry and near 80, with heat waves past 100. Program in the morning, with shade and water.
- September and October are harvest, the busiest time in the valley.
Indoors
November to March
- The rainy season, with highs in the upper 50s in winter. Ballroom builds and game shows are the plan, and the valley is quieter.
Dates to plan around
- BottleRock Napa Valley
- Memorial Day weekend (May 28 to 30 in 2027). A three-day music festival at the Napa Valley Expo; rooms fill across the valley.
- Harvest
- September and October. Wineries are at their busiest, and so are the resorts.
- Quiet season
- January and February. Green hills, mustard in the vineyards and the easiest resort availability of the year.
Book around BottleRock weekend and early for harvest. Winter is the easiest time to get the resort you want.
Planning guide
Getting your group to Napa
Napa is about 50 miles north of San Francisco, at the southern end of the valley.
Flying in
- Oakland (OAK)
- Usually the easiest Bay Area airport for Napa, 1 to 2 hours by car.
- Sacramento (SMF)
- About an hour and a half by car.
- San Francisco (SFO)
- 1.5 to 3 hours, depending on bridge and freeway traffic.
- Sonoma County (STS)
- A small airport with Alaska Airlines flights to West Coast hubs.
Transit
- Bay Ferry and VINE
- The San Francisco Bay Ferry to Vallejo, then a VINE Transit bus to Napa.
- VINE Transit
- Napa County's bus system, with the Soscol Gateway Transit Center next to the Napa Valley Expo.
In town
- Downtown and Oxbow
- Walkable, with tasting rooms and restaurants along the Napa River and Oxbow Public Market on First Street.
Planning guide
How far ahead to plan a Napa program
3+ months out
Spring and fall offsites, harvest weekends and anything near BottleRock. The resorts set the agenda early.
90 days out
The deadline for a City of Napa special event permit, if the program uses a park or a street.
6 to 8 weeks out
Winter dates in a resort ballroom.
2 weeks out
Final numbers, the lawn or room, a heat or rain plan and the recipient for a charitable build.
January is the month when a Napa resort can most easily fit a program in at short notice. 800.849.8326
Organizations Napa events have supported
We have also supported Northwood Elementary School through corporate events in Napa, CA.
Ways to run your event
Choose the format that fits your team.
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Corporate events and team building in Napa, CA: questions we get
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