Team Building Details
Why True Friends Team Building?
Team Building with True Friends offers customized, professionally led team building experiences for businesses, schools, universities, nonprofits, and groups seeking intentional, off-site bonding retreats in Minnesota. Each program is intentionally designed around your group’s goals—strengthening communication, trust, problem-solving, and collaboration through engaging, hands-on challenges. When you choose True Friends, your experience also supports our nonprofit mission to provide life-changing programs that enhance independence and self-esteem for children and adults with disabilities year-round.
What Sets True Friends Team Building Apart?
Courses are inspected annually by accredited challenge course professionals, and activities are adaptable for all abilities through alternative roles, partnered climbs, and ground-based options.
Activities are designed around your specific goals, group size, and comfort level—whether you’re planning a corporate team building retreat, student leadership program, or staff development day.
Our trained facilitators guide each experience with intention, ensuring programs are engaging, inclusive, and impactful.
Participants are encouraged to step outside their comfort zones at their own pace, promoting confidence, autonomy, and mutual support.
Teams build communication, trust, and problem-solving skills through interactive ground initiatives, low elements, and high ropes experiences.
Creative debriefing tools help groups translate challenges into real-world lessons that strengthen workplace culture, classrooms, and team dynamics.
Team Building Packages
Choose from a variety of indoor, outdoor, and winter team building packages in Minnesota, designed to strengthen communication, trust, and collaboration. True Friends offers professionally facilitated corporate and group team building activities for teams of all sizes, ages, and experience levels.
Our High Ropes Challenge Course is a powerful team building experience in Minnesota that builds confidence, trust, and team support. Participants navigate elevated elements while encouraging and supporting one another from the ground and the course itself. Individuals are challenged to push their personal limits while learning how teamwork, communication, and trust contribute to collective success—key outcomes for leadership teams, workplace groups, and organizations.
Our ground-based team building activities focus on practical skills that translate directly to your team enviornment, including:
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Trust and support
- Conflict resolution
- Strategic thinking
Activities range from on-the-ground challenges to elements up to eight feet high, making them accessible, engaging, and adaptable for corporate groups, schools, universities, and community organizations across Minnesota.
True Friends team building packages in Minnesota are ideal for:
- Corporate teams and businesses
- Leadership retreats and staff development days
- Schools and universities
- Youth groups and nonprofits
- Families and community groups
Each package includes a clear description of activities, duration, pricing, and available Minnesota locations—making it easy to plan a meaningful and memorable team experience.
Our Locations
Low Rope Activities
High Rope Activities
Zipline
Capacity
Signature Packages
Our most popular team building experiences offer something for every group — whether you’re taking on high elements in the ropes course or diving into engaging activities on the ground.
This program is for a group looking for a short, fun-based activity.
Duration: 2 hours
Activity: Choose from either low or high elements
Cost: Starting at $20 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prairie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
This is our most popular program!
Duration: 4-5.5 hours
Activity: Ground-based initiatives and a high rope element
Cost: Starting at $30 per person
Add ziplining for an additional $7 per person. (Not available at Camp Eden Wood).
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prairie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
This program is for the group looking for the ultimate team building experience.
Duration: 6-7 hours
Activity: Includes multiple ground- based initiatives and two high ropes elements
Cost: Starting at $42 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prairie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
Get the team building experience with the feel of a retreat.
Duration: 24-48 hours
Activity: Includes ground-based initiatives, high rope elements, three meals, and a campfire extravaganza
Cost: Contact us for pricing
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prairie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
The perfect program for when you’re looking to get out of the office but can’t make it to our challenge course. Our portable events come to a location of your choosing, whether at a park, school, or in and around the office building, we can provide meaningful teambuilding options for your team.
Duration: 2-4 hours
Activity: Customizable
Cost: Starting at $20 per person
Winter Packages
Come brave the snow and discover our most popular activities, reimagined for winter or adapted for the indoors.
Don’t let winter prevent you from a team building adventure. This 2-hour Trek will facilitate growth in any group through challenging activities in our gymnasium, either climbing or low group activities.
Duration: 2 hours
Activity: Choose from either high or low elements indoors to challenge your group to grow your team
Cost: Starting at $20 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prairie, MN (low elements only)
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
Continue to challenge your team all year round, no matter the weather. This 4-hour Odyssey takes our signature program into our gymnasium but still includes a combination of ground-based initiatives and climbing.
Duration: 4 hours
Activity: Combines both ground-based initiatives and an indoor climbing wall
Cost: Starting at $30 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
Prepare to embark on a true Minnesotan excursion. Journey through challenging ground activities and elements guided by our facilitators. Set your own goals as you attempt various high rope elements and learn to brave the outdoors through Fire Building or Shelter Building.
Duration: 4-5 hours
Activity: Includes learning basic orienteering, knot tying, and belaying skills while building a fire, building a shelter, and navigating high ropes activities
Cost: Starting at $30 per person
Locations available:
- Camp Courage – Maple Lake, MN
- Camp Eden Wood – Eden Prarie, MN
- Camp Friendship – Annandale, MN
Outdoor Skills Packages
Explore the woods, work as a team while you learn survival and wilderness skills.
Learn and practice one essential outdoor skill crucial for survival in the Minnesota wilderness.
Length: 2 hours
Activities: Choose one of the following: fire building, shelter building, orienteering, and knot tying.
Cost: $20 per person
Experience and learn two essential outdoor skills and how they can be used together.
Length: 4 hours
Activities: Fire building and orienteering OR shelter building and knot tying
Cost: $30 per person
Step into a shared wilderness story where your group works together to navigate challenges, adapt to new situations, and build confidence in the outdoors. By learning and practicing all four core outdoor skills, your group will gain the abilities needed to brave the wilderness with minimal equipment.
Duration: 6 hours
Activity: Fire building, orienteering, shelter building, and knot tying
Cost: $45 per person
Prepare Your Team
2-3 weeks prior to your scheduled event, a True Friends Team Building representative will reach out with pertinent information for your day such as meeting spots, pre-splitting groups, any adaptive needs, etc.
We will be out on the course rain, snow, or shine. In the event of severe weather, we will plan for indoor programming when possible, or reschedule for the next earliest availability. Please plan to participate rain or shine!
Chaperones: Plan to have one chaperone for every 10-15 individuals under 18.
Weight Guidelines:
(High Ropes Harnesses):
- Minimum weight 80 pounds
- Maximum weight 310 pounds
- *Camp Courage Zip Line: Maximum weight 280 pounds
Ensure you have the right clothes and gear with our packing list here.
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