Our Activities
Elevate your groups experience with transformative adventure and prayer activities.
Our Activities
Elevate your groups experience with transformative adventure and prayer activities.
Activities & Experiences
At the heart of our beautiful facility stands the Saint Kateri Chapel. Surrounding the Chapel are the two main gathering areas, the Main Lodge – accommodating groups up to 300 – and the Apostles Lodge – accommodating groups up to 100. Overlooking our two stunning lakes sit the four main cabins – Alpha and Omega, Trinity, and Logos – totaling over 280 beds. All of this, plus a full Challenge Course, outdoor stations of the cross, forest rosary walk, archery range, canoes, swimming beach, and miles of scenic trails make for an experience unlike any other.
The Waterfront
Gaga Ball
Our Activities
At the heart of our beautiful facility stands the Saint Kateri Chapel. Surrounding the Chapel are the two main gathering areas, the Main Lodge – accommodating groups up to 300 – and the Apostles Lodge – accommodating groups up to 100. Overlooking our two stunning lakes sit the four main cabins – Alpha and Omega, Trinity, and Logos – totaling over 280 beds. All of this, plus a full Challenge Course, outdoor stations of the cross, forest rosary walk, archery range, canoes, swimming beach, and miles of scenic trails make for an experience unlike any other.
Horses
Trail Rides
Enjoy the scenic countryside of Prairie Star Ranch from the back of a well-trained trail horse. Our guided trail rides will take you along the through the rolling hills and forests of Prairie Star Ranch for a memorable trail ride experience.
Trail ride participants must be 9 or older and capable of controlling their own horse with instruction (Corral rides are available for younger riders). To make sure you have a great experience, we provide friendly trail guides on all rides, and we do not permit double riding.
Helmets, long pants, and heeled close-toed shoes are required. Our team of wranglers will provide and help fit riding helmets for all riders. All trail ride participants must have a completed riding waiver in order to ride.
1.5-Hour Trail Rides
60 minutes riding time + instruction = 1.5 hour
Price: $20 per person
2-Hour Trail Rides
90 minutes riding time + instruction = 2 hours
Price: $30 per person
Giddy Up Days
Come and explore the trails of Prairie Star Ranch. Experience the beauty of creation from the back of one of our experienced trail-broken horses.
Make memories with family and friends while listening to the sounds of the trail and cowboy stories. Offered on select Saturdays, Giddy Up Days offer riders a 90-minute experience of story-telling, trail-riding, and some light refreshments.
Register below for your preferred Giddy Up date and ride time. All riders must be at least 9 years old.
Ropes Courses
High Ropes to Dual Zip Lines
Team building just hit a new level with our five-element high ropes course, leading participants through a series of challenges designed for fun and growth. Don’t forget, it all ends with an exhilarating ride down our dual zip line system.
Capacity: 25 participants
Time: 120 minutes
Difficulty: Medium & Hard, depending on path
High Commitment
Trusting others is hard. Trusting others at 30ft is harder. Lean in on your teammate as you make your way down our High Commitment element. This is a favorite of many groups.
Capacity: 20 participants
Time: 90 minutes
Difficulty: Medium
Dual Zip Lines
Enjoy the ride on our dual Ziplines. Our ropes crew will help your group climb their way up to our zip platform where teams of two will take a wild ride together. Participants will also enjoy the thrill of self belaying down from the zip line system.
Capacity: 20 participants
Time: 90 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Power Pole
1, 2, 3, Jump! Standing 30ft in the air, you and a partner will leap from the top of a small platform into the air and toward our trapeze bar. High fun! High adrenaline!
Capacity: 20 participants
Time: 90 minutes
Difficulty: Medium
Climbing Tower
Standing at the center of PSR, this mammoth double-sided wall offers participants the challenge and thrill of scaling a 40+ foot vertical face. The tower offers climbers several routes with varying degrees of difficulty for beginning all the way to experienced climbers.
Capacity: 20 participants
Time: 90 minutes
Difficulty: Easy & Medium, depending on path
Low Ropes Team Building
Don’t overlook this challenging, fun, and dynamic piece of our course. Our team loves low ropes! With 8 elements and more coming, team building takes on a whole new level of depth at low ropes.
Capacity: 10-25 participants
Time: Half-Day & Full-Day sessions
Difficulty: Easy & Medium
Archery
A Sport for All
With six lanes and a beautiful setup, this archery experience is often a favorite of retreatants. Regardless of whether your group feels more like Katniss with a bow or Gizmo, our team wants to help everyone discover and enjoy the fun of this ancient sport.
Accommodates: 18 participants
Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Waterfront
Covenant Lake
Enjoy a swim at Covenant Lake while some relax on the beach. Don’t forget a belly flop competition out on the floating dock! There are hours of fun in store. Availability is dependent on acceptable water and air temperatures.
Accommodates: 60 participants max
Time: 60 minute sessions
Difficulty: Easy
Wet Willie Water Slide
Feel the rush of a 30ft drop with an exhilarating plunge into Covenant Lake on our 100ft long Wet Willie© water slide! Added in 2013, this attraction immediately became a favorite of groups and retreatants.
Accommodates: 80 participants
Time: 60 minute sessions
Difficulty: Easy
Mercy Lake
Who doesn’t love setting out in a canoe to explore and play? Mercy Lake offers your group the opportunity to team-canoe in and around the coves and boundaries of this beautiful body of water. Don’t miss taking time to meditate on Christ’s life at Calvary Point or to enjoy the fun of canoeing games with our PSR staff. Availability is dependent on acceptable water and air temperatures.
Accommodates: 27 participants
Time: 60 minute sessions
Difficulty: Easy
Gaga Ball
So what is gaga ball?
Fun! Gaga Ball is fun. It came to PSR in 2012 and became an immediate favorite. Historically Gaga Ball comes from Israeli camps and was brought over to the United States in recent decades. In Hebrew, ga ga means touch-touch.
Players are in one of our two awesome octagonal pits, where they hit a small ball at opponents’ feet and shins in an attempt to be crowned the champion. Gaga is a game of high energy for all levels of play. The most athletic to the least, the most aggressive to the most passive, can win this fun-for-all game.
Accommodates: 30 participants per pit
Time: 5 minutes – hours of fun
Difficulty: Easy
Tent Camping
I can bring my group camping you say?
That’s right. With nearly 300 acres and many beautiful camping locations to choose from, PSR can help you make your next camping experience remarkable.
Whether you are looking for something more in-tents or something more relaxed in your camping adventure, PSR wants to help. Click below or call to set up your next camping trip at PSR.
Common Questions
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Waivers
We understand that collecting forms can be difficult, so we have given you access to our release waivers in order to make that process as simple as possible. Before participating in any of our adventure activities, a signed release waiver is required.
Common Questions
- As a missionary, you will be tasked with living a life that is fully alive, while witnessing to the joy and truth of the Gospel. You will be building relationships both in our PSR community as well as with the retreatants and parishes you serve.
- Living as a missionary at PSR is about living the New Evangelization in the daily tasks of retreat ministry. It is about connecting youth and families to Christ and his Church, through retreat facilitation, high adventure activities, and Christian hospitality; witnessing to a life lived in, with, and through Jesus Christ.
- Our missionaries strive to inspire and serve all who enter through the gates by their joy, generosity, and fun.
- As a missionary, you will be tasked with living a life that is fully alive, while witnessing to the joy and truth of the Gospel. You will be building relationships both in our PSR community as well as with the retreatants and parishes you serve.
- Living as a missionary at PSR is about living the New Evangelization in the daily tasks of retreat ministry. It is about connecting youth and families to Christ and his Church, through retreat facilitation, high adventure activities, and Christian hospitality; witnessing to a life lived in, with, and through Jesus Christ.
- Our missionaries strive to inspire and serve all who enter through the gates by their joy, generosity, and fun.
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Prairie Star Ranch is a division of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Copyright © The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. All Rights Reserved.
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Prairie Star Ranch is a division of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Copyright © The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. All Rights Reserved.