The Offsite Outpost Atlas is a free, browsable library of the places and activities behind the company's corporate event plans. It sits at /atlas and splits in two: a Retreat Atlas of private residences and estates for multi-day company retreats, and an Outing Atlas of single-day client and team events browsable by what you would actually do.
Below is what each half contains, how it is organized, and — more usefully — how to use a venue atlas at all without wasting three weeks on a shortlist that falls apart on the first capacity call.
What is the Offsite Outpost Atlas?
339 residences across 14 regions, and 107 single-day outing formats across 15 activity categories. That is the whole catalog, and it is the same catalog the planner composes from — exposed as pages you can browse rather than kept behind the planning tool. Nothing is held back for the tool, which means you can inspect the raw material before you ask anything to assemble it.
It is deliberately two libraries and not one, because the two products are different jobs. A multi-day retreat is a question about place — one property that has to hold your people, your sessions, and your evenings. A single-day outing is a question about activity — one thing your clients will remember, staged wherever those clients happen to be. Organizing both by the same axis would make one of them awkward to browse.
What is the difference between the Retreat Atlas and the Outing Atlas?
The Retreat Atlas is sorted by region across its 339 residences; the Outing Atlas is sorted by activity across its 107 formats. That single difference tells you which one you want.
| Retreat Atlas | Outing Atlas | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | Multi-day | Single-day |
| Audience | Your own team | Clients, or a team reward |
| Browse by | Region | Activity |
| The question it answers | Where would we go? | What would we do? |
If you are running an annual offsite for the whole company, start with retreats. If you are hosting eight clients for one extraordinary day, start with outings.
How is the Retreat Atlas organized?
By region — specifically, 339 residences bucketed into 14 macro-regions rather than sorted on raw country or state strings. The buckets run Western United States, Mountain United States, Southeastern United States, Northeastern United States, Hawaii, Canada, British Isles, Mediterranean Europe, Alpine Europe & Nordic, Africa & Middle East, Caribbean & Latin America, Southeast Asia, South & East Asia, and Australasia.
That grouping is a deliberate choice against granularity. Sorting a global residence catalog by its literal region field produces a long tail of territories holding a single property each, which is unbrowsable — you are scrolling a list, not comparing options. The 14 buckets are sized so that every one of them carries at least three residences, so selecting a territory always returns a set worth comparing rather than a single card.
Within a region, each entry is a named, identifiable property with a setting attached — castle, ranch, coastal, lake, alpine. The three examples on the Offsite Outpost homepage are drawn straight from these records rather than written as marketing, and each one resolves to a specific entry:
- "A castle in Ireland" is Ashford Castle in Cong, County Mayo, whose site dates to 1228.
- "Pebble at sunrise" is Pebble Beach Resorts on the Monterey Peninsula, where the golf links opened in 1919.
- "A cattle drive in Wyoming" is the outing The Cattle Drive, staged at Brush Creek Ranch in Saratoga — the catalog's only Wyoming ranch, and one that lists the cattle drive among its own signature experiences.
Specificity is the point — a venue library that cannot name its venues is a mood board.
How is the Outing Atlas organized?
By what the day actually consists of — 107 formats sorted into 15 activity categories: VIP hospitality, wine and food, on the water, nightlife and shows, golf, wellness, whisky and spirits, field sports, winter and snow, motorsport, equestrian, cycling, city races, give-back and service days, and in the air. The distribution is uneven: the three deepest categories — VIP hospitality (11 formats), wine and food (10), and on the water (9) — hold 30 of the 107 between them, while in the air is the thinnest at 4.
Each entry carries a tagline, the group size it suits, and a region. That last field matters less than people expect: a single-day outing is designed to be staged near your clients, so the region on the card tells you where the format is proven, not where you are required to hold it.
What is in an atlas entry — and what isn't?
Each entry gives you enough to shortlist and not enough to sign. You get the name, the setting or activity, the region, and the sizes it suits. You do not get live availability, a guaranteed capacity number, or a firm price.
That gap is not an oversight, it is how venue catalogs work. Capacity depends on your format — a room that seats 60 for a plenary seats 40 for a banquet — and pricing depends on your dates, your food and beverage minimum, and whether you are taking the property exclusively. A single capacity number printed on a card cannot carry all four of those variables, so treat the Atlas as the shortlist stage and confirm the three figures that actually decide it — largest single-room capacity in your format, total sleeping keys, and whether exclusive use is available on your dates — directly with the property.
How do you use a venue atlas without wasting the week?
Work in the order that kills options fastest. Most shortlists collapse late because planners browse before they constrain.
- Fix the goal first. Strategy offsite, culture reset, client entertainment, or reward. These want different buildings, and a venue that serves one poorly serves the others.
- Fix headcount and budget before you browse. Both are ceilings. Browsing before you set them is how you fall in love with a property you cannot fill or fund.
- Pick one region, not five. Every one of the Atlas's 14 regions holds at least three residences, so a single bucket is already a shortlist. Travel time is a real cost line, and a group flying three legs arrives to your first session already spent.
- Shortlist three, not fifteen. Three is enough to negotiate against and few enough to actually chase.
- Confirm the hard numbers in writing. Capacity in your format, keys, exclusive use, and what the quote excludes.
Then compose the days around the place, rather than trying to bend a place around days you have already scheduled.
Should you browse the Atlas or just use the planner?
Browse when you do not yet know what you want; use the planner when you do. The Atlas is the slower, better path for calibrating taste — 339 residences and 107 outings is more range than anyone reads end to end, but it is exactly the range you want to react to. The planner is the faster one: give it your group size, dates, and budget and it composes a draft plan you can edit, free and without a signup.
Most people benefit from both, in that order. If you already know the shape of the thing — a week, a headcount, a rough budget, a part of the world — skip the browsing. Plan your retreat with Offsite Outpost and start from a draft you can argue with instead of a blank page.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Offsite Outpost Atlas? It is Offsite Outpost's browsable library of the places and activities behind its corporate event plans, split into a Retreat Atlas of 339 private residences across 14 regions and an Outing Atlas of 107 single-day client and team events across 15 activity categories. It lives at offsiteoutpost.com/atlas and is free to browse with no signup.
What is the difference between the Retreat Atlas and the Outing Atlas? The Retreat Atlas is organized by place and answers "where would we go for three days"; the Outing Atlas is organized by activity and answers "what would we do for one day." Retreats are multi-day and usually company-internal; outings are single-day and usually client-facing.
How is the Retreat Atlas organized? By region — all 339 residences bucketed into 14 macro-regions, from Western United States and the British Isles to Alpine Europe and Australasia — so you select a territory and see the set inside it rather than scrolling one undifferentiated global list.
Are the places in the Atlas real, bookable venues? Yes — every entry names a real, identifiable property or event, such as Ashford Castle in Cong, County Mayo or Pebble Beach Resorts on the Monterey Peninsula. It is a shortlisting tool rather than a booking engine, so capacity, availability, and price are confirmed with the property for your dates.
Do you have to browse the Atlas to get a plan? No. The Atlas is the browsing path and the planner is the faster one — give it your group size, dates, and budget and it drafts a plan for you. Using both, in that order, is the usual pattern.
Can the Atlas tell me how many people a venue holds? Not on its own. Each entry carries the group sizes a property suits, but usable capacity changes with the format you are running — theater, classroom, or banquet all seat a different number in the same room — so get the figure for your specific setup, in writing, from the venue.