Bison Ranch Retreat Center offers students and teachers an exciting creative learning environment that is outside the day-to-day routine of school. A place where teachers and students can open up, share, laugh, learn, and experience something fresh.

The Retreat Center has been designed with you and your school in mind. We provide a remarkable environment where your students will learn and grow. Located in Overgaard, Bison Ranch Retreat Center is in the heart of Arizona’s White Mountains.

At Bison Ranch, you will receive excellent lodging accommodations, nutritious meals, recreational amenities, and tremendous educational and athletic experiences for your students. All of this at a very competitive price!

Here are some of the facilities and activities that are available to supplement your educational and athletic curriculum:

• Brand-new Student Center with 28 rooms and 140 beds - each room having its own bathroom (linens provided). There is a meeting room and a game room in this building.
• A beautiful Lodge complete with a fireplace, loft, kitchen and several meeting rooms
• Buffalo Museum of America that offers an educational opportunity for students with over 30,000 artifacts related to buffalo
• Dining Hall capable of seating 150 students at a time
• Outdoor dining, entertainment, and picnic area that can seat 200 with a bonfire pit
• Meeting Pavilion that seats up to 300 with state-of-the-art audio/visual capabilities
• Tennis and basketball courts, sand volleyball court, a recreation field for soccer, football, softball, and various other activities
• Hiking, biking, and ATV trails
• Stocked 4.5-acre fishing pond
• Equestrian Center with horseback riding
• Spacious outdoor paint ball area and equipment
• Live herd of buffalo
• Over 130 lakes and streams within a short drive
• Campfires and cowboy cookouts
• Look through high-powered telescopes at the brilliant night sky, free from light pollution
• Western-themed shopping and dining in Bisontown shops and restaurants located on property
• Local attractions nearby such as the Painted Desert, National Forest, and Sunrise Ski Resort.

The facilities and activities at Bison Ranch can supplement your educational and athletic curriculum to create a powerful experience for your students – one they will long remember and cherish for a lifetime.

At Bison Ranch, you and your students could hike through the trails and examine local vegetation and wildlife. Last week, we saw a herd of over 30 elk and several wild horses right in our own backyard!

You can gather to watch an educational video or put on a class presentation in the brand-new Meeting Pavilion, complete with state-of-the-art audio visual equipment. Or, you could engage your students in various forms of athletic events where they can learn teamwork and develop athletic skills.

I know the sense of school spirit and camaraderie will be forged within your student body through these types of activities. These types of activities will create memorable experiences for your students, strengthen friendships and heighten school loyalty.

Our professional staff will help you formulate the plan for your visit and provide you with on-site assistance as necessary and requested. We are committed to providing you quality lodging, recreation opportunities, and excellent meeting facilities so students can connect, learn, and grow in an upscale, yet rustic and nurturing, environment.