Sheraton Dallas Hotel has introduced a new outdoor event space under its new event programming, Dare to Outdoors. The hotel’s catering team has partnered with Pacific Plaza Park, a 3.7-acre green space in Downtown Dallas. The park features a 31,950 square-foot lawn space and permanent seating, as well as night-sky friendly lights for star-watchers. Three food truck power outlets are available and standard outlets are located throughout the park. Outdoor amplified sound is allowed in conjunction with a special event permit between the hours of 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. Opened in 2019, Pacific Plaza Park was named one of the “Best of the Big D” by D magazine in 2021. 

The 1,840-room Sheraton Dallas is the largest hotel in North Texas and includes 230,000 square feet of meeting space. Additional amenities include a pool, a state-of-the-art fitness center, the bar and lounge Draft Sports Bar & Lounge and the restaurant Open Palette. 

Liven Up Your Agenda with Summer Fun in Snowmass Village

There are all sorts of happenings for meeting and event planners to plug groups into in Snowmass Village this summer, taking some of the pressure off building a memorable and effective agenda. 

 
Icefields Parkway Getaway Ideas for Groups in Alberta, Canada

In the soon-to-be released Spring/Summer 2022 issue of Mountain Meetings, I write about Mountain Activities 101. That’s not the official title of the article—it’s actually Mild to Wild—but it is a primer about the many amazing activities groups can enjoy in the mountains, from cave tours in Bend, Oregon, to a kayaking, hiking and hot springs excursion near Boulder City, Nevada. 

 
Outdoor Mountain Activities Warm Up Attendee Experience

With meetings returning to normal as the COVID-19 pandemic levels out, outdoor mountain pursuits are finding more time on meeting agendas. Taking events outdoors not only boosts attendees’ comfort level as they ease back into in-person meetings, time spent in nature is proven to improve brain health and stimulate creative thinking as well.

We’ll be looking at this topic in-depth in the Spring/Summer 2022 issue of Mountain Meetings. Consider this as an introduction to some of the possibilities.