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Meeting Spaces at Sugar Lake Lodge

A Minnesota Meeting Venue for
Meetings, Retreats and Meaningful Gatherings
What if your venue was part of your strategy? At The Leadership Lodge, it is. Our collaborative facilities are designed to remove distractions, sharpen focus, and give your team everything they need to achieve their objectives. The strategy does not stop when the meetings are done for the day: chef-crafted cuisine, comfortable lodging, and our pristine natural setting keep your team energized from the first session to the last. Arrive with an objective. Leave with a plan that’s ready to execute.
Indoor Spaces
A Year-Round Venue for Corporate Meetings and Retreats
From cozy board meetings to company retreats, The Leadership Lodge has a space that’s right for your team. With a wide variety of event spaces, plenty of common areas, and a main conference room that seats up to 195 people, we welcome groups ranging from small to not-so-small. Need room to break out? Our training and boardrooms have you covered. Staying overnight? Choose from hotel-style lodge rooms, multi-room villas along the golf course, or cozy lakeside cabins. Every indoor meeting space is equipped with updated technology and tech support, so you can focus on the work you come here to do.
Outdoor Spaces
Wide Open Spaces. Wide Open Possibilities.
Our outdoor meeting spaces are what put us on the map as one of the most in-demand retreat destinations in Minnesota. The crystal-clear waters of Sugar Lake are so blue that someone once called it “the Mediterranean of the Midwest.” Our 400 acres of wide-open resort space play a pivotal role in our experiential learning process. It’s the reason why industry-leading facilitators run their leadership development cohorts here, and why companies keep coming back to us year after year.
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What Organizations Say About Our Custom Retreats
“Sugar Lake Lodge is a beautiful resort tucked on the edge of the uniquely clear waters of Sugar Lake, outside of Grand Rapids, MN. Daily views of the rolling golf course, majestic pines, calling loons, soaring eagles and spectacular sunsets over the fairways and lake make any time spent here a special Northwoods experience.
As a preferred retreat center for us, we love the professionalism, customer service and genuine care and attention the entire Sugar Lake Lodge team puts into creating a personalized corporate experience for us every time we bring a group. They are driven to making every one of our corporate retreats the best possible experience and many of our clients make plans to come back with their families.
Thank you Sugar Lake Lodge team! You have raised the bar on hosting corporate retreats. We can’t wait to come back to work with you again soon!”
– Peter Bailey, President, The Prouty Project




