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Outdoor Team Building Activities & Events

Getting outside with your team is just FUN! Nothing is better than getting fresh air, enjoying the sunshine, and having fun together. Team Building programs ideal for the outdoors can enhance team spirit, collaboration, and communication. Outdoor team building activities could be just the thing to add some variety to your corporate events and keep things interesting.

Customization and Flexibility for Outdoor Corporate Events

The BEST team will work with you to help select the ideal program for your outdoor space, and tailor the activity to meet the unique circumstances for your event. Most of our programs can be delivered indoors OR outdoors, but those listed below are best suited to be adapted to an outdoor environment.

Outdoor Team Building Activities Hosted by the Experts

BEST has delivered custom outdoor team building activities to countless small to large corporate teams with groups from 30 to over 6,000 participants. Contact us today to discuss customized solutions for your next outdoor team building event!

Outdoor Team Building Activities & Events

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Outdoor Team Building Activities & Events

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Bike Build Donation®

Bike Build Donation®

Bike Build Donation® has been enjoyed for many years by groups large and small. This top selling bike building charity event continues to resonate with participants as they recall the joy of receiving their first bike.

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A Minute 2 Win It!

A Minute 2 Win It!

As seen on the popular TV game show, and adapted for team play, your group will participate in rounds of fast-paced tabletop challenges. The competition heats up as one-minute games are practiced and scored using commonplace items like pencils, plastic cups and a deck of cards. Teams will cheer and have a blast as they vie to be named A Minute 2 Win It! Champions!

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City SmartHunt®

City SmartHunt®

Unleash your team’s inner explorer with City Smarthunts®, the ultimate tech-driven scavenger hunt! Work together while exploring with the most advanced team building scavenger hunt on the market. Ready for an unforgettable team-building experience?

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Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation

Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation

Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation is a fun charity team building program where your group will design, construct and play a mini golf course using canned and boxed food items. Working in teams, each hole has a special theme and rules, unique to that hole. After the course has been built, an entertaining tournament ensues with scoring and fun competition. Once completed, the course will be deconstructed and the food donated to a predetermined food bank or similar organization.

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Igniting Team Performance®

Igniting Team Performance®

This exclusive training will guide your team through a progressive series of engaging initiatives followed by rich processing discussions focused on high-performing teams. Throughout the program, demonstrated skills are acknowledged while areas for improvement are identified and immediately applied during subsequent activities. Igniting Team Performance® will enhance individual and team performance in the workplace.

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Competition to Collaboration®

Competition to Collaboration®

Our engaging, trademarked training program that highlights the positive impacts of organizational synergy, both in sharing best practices and celebrating your colleagues’ successes. It begins with two sub-teams completing various challenges separately, attempting to improve their own performance and reaching goals for the other team to beat. This is followed by a surprise twist that reinforces the message of team collaboration.

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Team Olympics

Team Olympics

Go for the gold with Team Olympics, a high-energy program that combines athletic-inspired team challenges with spirited collaboration and friendly competition. Whether hosted indoors or outdoors, this program is a surefire way to ignite energy, camaraderie, and lasting team pride.

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Amazing Chase SmartHunt®

Amazing Chase SmartHunt®

Unleash your team’s potential with an Amazing Chase SmartHunt®! After a fun icebreaker, teams armed with iPads tackle interactive missions, solve puzzles, and complete photo/video challenges for points. Navigate Road Blocks and Detours to maximize your score. Real-time communication and a live scoreboard amp up the excitement. Get ready for an unforgettable adventure with a highlight video finale!

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Earth Wind and Solar

Earth Wind and Solar

On your mark…Get set….Sun! In this energizing event, teams compete in trivia and creative challenges to earn materials, build solar-powered “rovers,” and assemble science kits that are donated to children in need.

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Bridge to the Future

Bridge to the Future

In this collaborative event, teams work together to build an actual bridge that has the strength to support the weight of the entire group. There are two amazing aspects of this project. Each section of the bridge will be an independent artistic representation of your future mission and goals AND the principal building materials of the structure are cardboard and duct tape!

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Go-Kart Competition

Go-Kart Competition

Put the pedal to the metal and get your group fired up with Go-Kart Competition, a high-octane event where teams turn into competing pit crews and drivers – designing and building their own self-powered go-karts to race to the finish line. Promoting teamwork, creative originality and hilarious fun, this event is a winner no matter which go-kart comes in first.

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Crack the Case!®

Crack the Case!®

Crack the Case!® is a thrilling mystery-themed team building experience that challenges your group to work together, think critically, and collaborate across teams to uncover clues and solve a final case. With engaging puzzles, unexpected twists, and a dramatic group finale, this detective-style adventure inspires connection and creative problem-solving in a fast-paced, interactive format.

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Corporate Survivor

Corporate Survivor

Test your team’s physical grit, mental agility, and group strategy in Corporate Survivor – a dynamic series of team-building challenges loosely inspired by the hit reality TV show. Designed to push collaboration, communication, and trust to the limit, this high-energy program brings out competitive spirits in a fun, structured, and unforgettable way.

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Momentum

Momentum

Momentum is an inventive team building event where each sub-team will be tasked with designing and building a Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction machine to accomplish a simple task. Teams must collaborate and strategize together to not only create a successful contraption but also to out-design other teams and ultimately be declared the Momentum champions!

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Catapult

Catapult

Put your team’s creativity, collaboration, and accuracy to the test in Catapult, a high—energy team—building experience in which groups design, build, and compete with their own working launchers. This hands-on construction challenge fuels innovation and friendly rivalry while bringing teams together for a shared mission of design, experimentation, and success.

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Fiesta Fun!

Fiesta Fun!

Fiesta Fun! is a delicious and exciting recipe contest where your teams will combine creativity with culinary skill to make their own brand of Salsa, Guacamole and Golden Margaritas! Experience the sights, sounds and flavor of Mexico with the beat of Mexican music setting the stage for this gastronomical team builder. Once the creations are finished, it’s on to the judges table to see who will win the medal for best taste, creativity and presentation.

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Corporate Canvas

Corporate Canvas

Corporate Canvas is a collaborative art-based team building program. In this creative experience, participants contribute their own brushstrokes and signatures to a large-scale company mural designed to reflect your brand, values, and team spirit.

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Race Car Rally

Race Car Rally

Race Car Rally is a high-energy, collaborative team building event where creativity meets competition. Teams build and customize their own mini race cars – crafted on official LEGO® car platforms – then take to the track for head-to-head races.

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Morning Jumpstart

Morning Jumpstart

Kick off your group’s day with Morning Jumpstart! This fun and engaging program was developed based on requests from clients to create an event that can be delivered on any day of the week as a fun way to launch into a productive workday with smiles and camaraderie. Morning Jumpstart will promote team cohesion and enhance relationships through a fun series of games, challenges, and morning wake-up-themed activities.

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Tapas and Sangria Making

Tapas and Sangria Making

Emphasizing creativity, delegation and teamwork, Tapas and Sangria is a program with a lot of punch. Your group will be formed into “wineries” tasked to develop, make and market their own brand of Sangria. Each winery will also make tapas from cold ingredients – no recipes provided! The event will close with a tasting contest and awards presentation for Best Tasting Tapas, Best Sangria and Best Marketing Campaign.

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Putting for Pets

Putting for Pets

Putting for Pets is a fun corporate philanthropy event that concludes with the donation of pet food/supplies to local animal shelters and rescue organizations. Your group will design and build a unique one-of-a-kind, miniature golf holes using pet supplies and other building materials. Your team will experience the joy that comes from giving to fuzzy paws and a worthwhile cause!

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Food Truck Face-Off

Food Truck Face-Off

Set your team on course for a culinary adventure with Food Truck Face-Off. This is a deliciously exciting competition and bonding experience. After forming into sub-teams, participants will choose a cuisine and theme for their very own “food truck”. Teams will name their company, design a logo, build, decorate and market their truck and prepare an original dish. Once the gold-winning team has been chosen, all will be invited to roam from truck to truck and sample all of the tasty creations!

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Build-a-Raft Competition

Build-a-Raft Competition

This high-energy event will bring out your group’s competitive spirit as they work together to design, build and race their very own “seaworthy” vessel! Once their initial rafts are built, it’s literally sink or swim as each team takes to the water to test their craft in an effort to identify possible design flaws before the races begin! When the heats start, the excitement mounts—which crew will take home the gold? This dynamic team challenge will test each participant’s problem solving skills and creativity.

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Customization and Flexibility for Outdoor Corporate Events

Outdoor Team Building Activities Hosted by the Experts

Client Testimonials

I cannot stress enough how much fun our staff had during the Team Olympics portion of our HSD Spring 2023 Retreat Picnic.  The entire process of hiring BCE, coordination with you, working with Eric and the other facilitators, and ease of payment / working with Jennifer was just amazing.  Although there was a chance the day could have been interrupted by rain, the weather worked out and the activities went on as planned. Eric and his facilitators were very engaging and went out of their way to ensure that everyone participated and had a good time.  We will definitely use BCE for future team-building activities. Thank you so much!!!

Duane

World Bank Group

World Bank Group

Best Corporate Events & TeamBuilding is an Invaluable Partner! They were there every step of the way to customize the TeamBuilding to fit the client’s expectations. Our client had done a boat building teambuilding in the past and we blew away her expectations. She was thrilled with the support prior and loved Paul our on-sites ability to go with the fluid nature of the event. The best part is the group had a blast! We are looking forward to many more programs together in the future!

Katherine

Chicago Is

Chicago Is

Your Competition to Collaboration program did a great job making connections between the workplace and the activities. We’ve done about 7 other activities as an office and none made the connection between how we work together in and outside the office as well as this event. The wrap up at the end, where your lead facilitator made parallels between situations that we experienced in the team building exercises with situations that may/may not occur in the office, was great debrief.

Dr. Joanne

Alexandria Associates in Dermatology

Alexandria Associates in Dermatology

Everyone was engaged and active, from the first warm-up activity through the end thanks to your great facilitator. He was one of the best I’ve seen in 13 years; clear, engaging, respectful, adapted the basic plan to our requirements flawlessly and had enough energy to drive home the transfer of learning to real-world work in the debrief. Our group loved working together on the Catapult construction. I’ll pass our experience on to the other IPTD facilitators. I suspect you’ll hear from one of them soon.

Lisa

CACI

CACI

Our group liked the competitive aspect of our Build-a-Raft Competition and being outside and getting in the water. They enjoyed working together in their teams and building the rafts so they could compete against one another. The program was very organized and as whole, they loved the activities.

Quincy

OrthoSensor

OrthoSensor

Our day of fun and games was very well organized and your lead facilitator was able to maintain a good energy throughout the day. We did A Minute 2 Win it in the morning and Team Olympics in the afternoon. They were good team building activities, high-energy, and they allow for the entire group to go back to childhood and not worry about what others thought and have fun without thinking about work. A lot of FUN! The consensus of the group was that it was a very fun day. Someone even said this was the best retreat they had been to since they started in the unit. Thank you!

Angela

The World Bank Group

The World Bank Group

It was great to see people working together in person to complete a project, people who usually work on the phone together, some not at all, to complete a very time consuming task. In my opinion, the most fun was watching and participating in the go-kart race and the beginning icebreaker. I appreciated everything starting and ending on time. Time management is very important to the Quality Team, especially since our time was limited. Judging from the looks on everyone’s face, everyone really enjoyed it. We’ll recommend it to anyone!

Denise

Morton Salt

Morton Salt

Our Igniting Team Performance and SmartHunt events were extremely well organized. Being able to incorporate the activities all outdoors and making it more social was a great team builder for our group. Your facilitator was an excellent program leader. Both programs were great and our group really enjoyed all aspects of the events.

Karen

Reynolds American Services Company

Reynolds American Services Company

FAQs about Outdoor Team Building Activities

How do outdoor team building activities improve teamwork and morale?

Outdoor team building activities improve teamwork and morale by promooting communication, trust, and collaboration in a relaxed environment. Outdoor settings are ideal for shared challenges (e.g., obstacle courses, problem-solving games) that strengthen team bonds. Being outside boosts morale by breaking routine and accomplishing fun group goals.
These activities can help build confidence, reduce stress, and improve workplace dynamics.

What should you consider when planning an outdoor team building event?

When planning an outdoor team building event, you should  define your goals – e.g., boosting morale, encouraging leadership, or improving collaboration. This will help you select activities that align with your team’s interests and are inclusive for all fitness levels. Consider logistics like transportation, food, restroom access, and safety planning when choosing an outdoor location for your event, as well as accessibility, permits, and weather protection. It is also good practice to build in flexibility – like a weather backup plan – and clear communication with participants so they are prepared for the activity.

What happens in the case of bad weather during an outdoor team building event?

In case of unexpected bad weather during an outdoor team building event,  safety and comfort should be the top priority. You should plan a weather backup in advance to be prepared with tents, indoor alternatives, or the ability to reschedule. Other good options include stocking bad weather supplies like ponchos or umbrellas to keep participants dry and comfortable in the case of bad weather. Communicate clearly with participants before and during the event about contingency plans. Most importantly, stay positive and adaptable to keep the team-building experience on track.

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