Desert Events
Create Memories with Fort McDowell Adventures
Barbeque Dinners
For over 30 years Fort McDowell Adventures have entertained guests from around the globe. We specialize in private group events for corporate incentive dinners, product launches, sales meetings, and outdoor team building activities, while letting your imagination take flight!
Team Building Events
Fort McDowell Adventures have host a variety of Team Building Events. We specialize in creating lifelong memories with friends and colleagues, while letting your imagination take flight! Let us provide you with the opportunity in creating your unique and memorable adventure.
Our Venues
Fort McDowell Adventures has the ideal venues for your family parties, causal or formal weddings, reunions , corporate events, and retreats! We host the most memorable corporate and Team Building events that will bring your team together!
Barbeque Dinners
For over 30 years families , friends, colleagues, and classmates have celebrated memorable events surrounded by our beautiful Sonoran Desert and majestic Four Peaks as your backdrop!
Our team at Fort McDowell Adventures is committed to ensuring that your event is unique and enjoyable, one that will create memories lasting a lifetime.
Set in the unspoiled majestic Sonoran Desert on the east side of the Verde River on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation—Fort McDowell Adventures offers guests an outdoor and visual experience unlike any other in Arizona.
Barbeque Dinner
Add-Ons
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That’s have you tapping your toes! Whether it is a Strolling Guitarist, 2-Piece Band, 3-Piece Band, 4- Piece Band, or a DJ we have everything you need to make your gathering pop!
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That will excite your senses with Strolling Magician, Caricaturist, or Native Spirit Productions.
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With Western Desperado Photos, Saloon Girls / Tequila Sheila, receive a beer from Corona our Beer Burro, Hot Air Balloon, or Cigar Roller & Attendant to make your event unforgettable.
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Make your event even more fun with our Cowboy Games. Click here for the list of all our games.
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Complete your event with a Magical Bang in the desert sky!
Experience Unparalleled Beauty
Experience Unparalleled Beauty
We welcome you to come and experience unparalleled beauty of Sonoran Desert on private trails, rarely accessed by the public. Our Professional, Experienced and Talented team is looking forward to providing you memorable events and adventures you won’t soon forget!
Team Building
Set in the unspoiled majestic Sonoran Desert on the east side of the Verde River on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation—Fort McDowell Adventures offers guests an outdoor and visual experience unlike any other in Arizona.
We welcome you to come and experience unparalleled beauty of Sonoran Desert on private trails, rarely accessed by the public. Our Professional, Experienced and Talented team is looking forward to providing you memorable events and adventures you won’t soon forget!
Team Building Activities
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Bond with your coworkers while taking a relaxing ride through the Sonoran Desert or experience a Cattle Drive!
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The Yavapai Nation hosts Adventures Out West in the beautiful Sonoran Desert. Hope on a Segway and take in the beautiful sights!
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Make your event even more fun with our Cowboy Games. Click here for the list of all our games.
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“If you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen.” - Harry Truman
Compete in a cooking contest with your team mates with a Sizzlin’ Chili Cook- Off, Nacho’ Typical Salsa Fiesta, or a Margarita Fiesta. So much delicious fun!
Create Memories at Fort McDowell Adventures
Create Memories at Fort McDowell Adventures
We specialize in creating lifelong memories with friends and colleagues, while letting your imagination take flight! Let us provide you with the opportunity in creating your unique and memorable adventure.
Our team at Fort McDowell Adventures is committed to ensuring that your event is unique and enjoyable, one that will create memories lasting a lifetime.
The Venues
La Puesta del Sol
“The Setting Sun”
La Puesta del Sol is Spanish for “The Setting Sun” and you’ll see why right from the start. Stunning 360º views from La Puesta’s incomparable vantage points, perched atop a cactus-dotted mesa, provide unlimited vistas of Arizona’s spectacular sunsets. Try a mouth-watering BBQ menu paired with Country music and cowboy games and experience an “Arizona Luau” like no other. End the night with a finale event and be sure to leave your guests with a memory that will last a lifetime.
Without a doubt, La Puesta del Sol is the most unique venue in Arizona, with retractable sidewalls offering indoor/outdoor dining, full bar and catering options, Dirty Doc’s Saloon, fire pits, Stage, open-air barbeques and more.
Minimum 200+ guest under cover, and 1,200+ outside seating.
Rosa’s Ranch
Southwestern Flair
Rosa’s Ranch is an intimate outdoor venue packed with Southwestern flavor. Amenities include fire pits, wood-burning kiva and sitting areas, a covered reception area, and the most stunning view of the Superstition Mountains you can ask for.
Pair a delicious BBQ menu with some Mariachis and one of our signature Prickly Pear margaritas, and you’ll savor every moment in this Sonoran desert backdrop. You may even hear a coyote cackle as the sun sets.
Minimum 300+ guest under cover, and 750+ outside seating.