CEDAR BREAK AT HOWARD RANCH

CORPORATE EVENTS

Where Your Team Remembers Why It Matters

Retreats · Team Builds · Offsites · Milestone Events

Conference rooms produce agendas. Cedar Break produces something harder to schedule — the kind of clarity and connection that comes from sharing a place that was made with care. Fifteen acres of Texas Hill Country, hand-built structures, and accommodations where everyone stays on-property and stays in it together.

Why It Works

The difference between a hotel ballroom and Cedar Break isn’t just aesthetic — it’s environmental. When a team walks into a space built from old-growth timber and hand-worked iron, with firepits and Adirondack chairs waiting outside, the posture of the group changes. The conversations that don’t happen in a fluorescent conference room start happening here.

Every structure on the property was built intentionally. The Tobacco Barn seats up to 120 and adapts to a presentation, a workshop, or a seated dinner with equal ease. The Pole Barn and Oak Grove offer covered and open-air breakout options. And when the formal agenda wraps, the Old Bar N opens — a private saloon that earns its keep as the most talked-about thing on any off-site recap. 

Your Venue Options

The Tobacco Barn

Primary event hall. Heart pine floors, hand-detailed timber beams, and an expansive fire pit patio. Seats up to 120. Wired for presentations and adaptable for workshops, dinners, and general sessions alike.

The Pole Barn

Covered open-air space for breakout sessions, vendor activations, or pre-dinner receptions. A practical second covered outdoor space that keeps a group moving without bottlenecking the main barn.

The Oak Grove

An outdoor breakout and gathering space under the natural canopy of oak and cedar. Ideal for morning programming, team-building exercises, or the kind of informal conversations that actually move things forward.

The Old Bar N

A private western saloon for the evening social. No event schedule survives contact with the Old Bar N — in the best possible way. A private bar, full timber-frame construction, and a capacity for the whole group to unwind on their own terms.

On-Site Accomodations

The single most underrated feature of a Cedar Break retreat is that your team doesn’t scatter at the end of the day. Fifteen Row Homes— each built to echo the working-class row homes of early-1900s America, furnished with materials from Appalachia and the Mountain West — give your group a shared home base. Add three Old Bar N Suites and five Airstreams and you have a full residential property for groups of any size.

HISTORIC ROW HOMES

Fifteen workforce-row-home-inspired casitas built with materials sourced from Appalachia, Colorado, and Montana. Book the whole property and your wedding party has their own private little town — a detail guests talk about for years.

OLD BAR N

Three suites above a private western saloon, set in a full timber-frame structure. Each suite is appointed with a private bathroom with access to an outdoor balcony with unobstructed views of the Hill Country at sunset. Below, the saloon is private, well-built, and available to guests — the kind of room that doesn’t need an occasion to justify opening it, but tends to create one anyway.

THE AIRSTREAMS

Five Airstreams, tastefully updated for modern comfort without losing the character that makes it worth staying in. Everything you need, nothing you don’t — and a Hill Country setting that makes the small footprint feel like a deliberate choice rather than a compromise. For the guest who wants something a little different from a standard room and a lot different from a standard night.

When people sleep on-site, they stay in the experience longer. The conversations that start at dinner finish at the firepit, and the team that checks out together has a different story to tell on Monday.

Enrich the Experience

Cedar Break isn’t just a place to stay — it’s a base camp for doing things you’ll actually talk about. Add any of the following to your stay or event and give your group something more than a checkout time to look forward to.

Hog Heaven — Some places bill themselves as an experience. Hog Heaven earns it. The Hill Country’s premier outdoor sporting club sits just down the road from Cedar Break and brings together sporting clays, pistol bays, and archery. Whether your group wants a competitive clay shoot before dinner, an archery session for the first-timers, or a full day working through every range on the property — Hog Heaven has you covered.

Twisted X Brewery — Exclusive Tour & Tasting (On-Site) One of the Hill Country’s most celebrated craft breweries is right next door — and Cedar Break guests get access that the general public doesn’t. Skip the tasting room line and step behind the operation: a guided tour of the brewery followed by a private tasting curated for your group. It’s the best possible reason to never leave the property.

Hill Country Wine Tour — Dripping Springs sits at the western edge of the Texas wine trail — over a hundred wineries and vineyards within reach, and some of the most scenic back roads in the state connecting them. A guided wine tour puts all of it within easy distance of Cedar Break: private transportation, curated stops at Hill Country vineyards, and a full day that requires nothing from your group except showing up. No designated driver, no navigation, no logistics. Just the Hill Country, the wine, and the afternoon you came here for. Available via our partner, 512 Tours.

Ask us about coordinating an experience as part of your Cedar Break stay or event.

Event Details

Full 15-acre property available for exclusive buyout
Up to 120 guests in the Tobacco Barn
15-hour rental window (9 am–11 pm)
Multiple covered and open-air venue spaces
15 on-site Row Homes
3 Old Bar N Suites for leadership team lodging
5 Airstreams + RV pad sites for accommodations
Private saloon (Old Bar N) for evening socials
Cowboy cooker firepits and communal areas
Vendor-flexible — choose your own partners
✦ Unlimited planning site visits
✦ Flexible payment options

The best off-sites don't feel like work trips. They feel like the kind of place your team talks about when they're trying to explain what the culture is actually like. Tell us what you're building toward. We'll help you figure out how Cedar Break fits.

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