Group Retreat Venue in Washington
Most retreat centers rent you a building. Here you can rent the whole place — a 14-person log lodge, six cabins, tiny homes, 22 RV sites, and all four lakes on 54 private acres, with nobody else on the grounds for the length of your stay. Eighty minutes east of Seattle on I-90, open every month of the year.
What a Whole-Property Retreat Means
The thing that makes a retreat work is usually not the room you book. It is whether your group has to share the place with strangers. An exclusive buyout here hands you the lodge, all six cabins, the tiny homes, the 22 RV sites, the tent sites, all four lakes, and the full 54 acres for the length of your stay. No day-use traffic, no other reservations checking in behind you, no negotiating the dock with a family you have never met.
That matters in practical ways. A session can run late on the deck without a noise complaint from the next cabin. The dock and the swimming beach are yours on the schedule you set, not on a sign-up sheet. Somebody can walk the trails alone at six in the morning. And because the property is one continuous piece of land rather than a strip of units on a road, your group stays together instead of scattering to three motels off different exits.
Buyouts are quoted, not listed, because the number depends on your dates, your headcount, and the season. Winter and shoulder-season weekends are the easiest and least expensive time to get the whole place. Peak summer weekends go early and cost the most. Either way, start with a phone call: tell us your group, your dates, and how many beds you actually need, and we will tell you what is possible on those nights.
Not every group needs the whole property. Smaller retreats often take the lodge on its own and add a couple of cabins for overflow, which is a very different price and works fine outside of peak season.
The Groups This Property Fits
A working kitchen, a room to gather in, beds in several price ranges, and 54 acres with a gate. That combination suits some retreats better than others — here is where it lands.
Church & Faith Groups
A gathering room, a full kitchen, and a lakefront with no day-use crowd walking through the middle of a service. Cabins and RV sites keep families together without splitting the group across two towns.
Women's & Wellness Retreats
Quiet is the product here. Trails leave from the cabin doors, four lakes sit empty on a weekday morning, and the tiny homes give you rooms with a real bathroom and a stove when comfort matters to the weekend.
Yoga & Movement Groups
The lodge main floor clears for mat space in bad weather, and the meadows and lakeshore handle it in good weather. Bring your own mats and props — we have the ground and the view, not a studio.
Youth Groups, Scouts & Camps
Fishing with no license, free kayaks and paddle boats, a swimming beach, hiking trails, and a corral with five sheep, two alpacas, and four horses. Programming most youth leaders would otherwise have to invent.
Clubs, Alumni & Interest Groups
Fishing clubs, quilting groups, motorcycle and RV clubs, car clubs, alumni weekends. The mix of 22 RV sites and indoor beds is unusual and it suits groups that show up in different kinds of vehicles.
Teams, Co-ops & Creative Groups
Sports teams, homeschool co-ops, writers and artists. Limited cell service turns out to be a feature for a working weekend, and the theater room handles film nights, critiques, and slide sessions.
Two kinds of groups have their own page instead. If you are planning a company offsite with an agenda and a planning session, start with corporate retreats. If the group is extended family coming from several directions, go to family reunions, which covers multi-generation logistics in more detail.
Where Your Group Sleeps
Retreat planning usually stalls on the bed count. This is the whole inventory, so you can do the math before you call.
| Accommodation | Sleeps | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| The Lodge | 14 | Also the gathering building — kitchen, fireplace, theater room, deck |
| Cabins 4–6 | 2–6 each | Shower in the cabin, kitchenette, private porch |
| Cabins 1–3 | 2–6 each | No shower in the cabin; bathhouse is a short walk |
| Tiny Homes | Up to 7 each | Full kitchen and full bathroom — the comfortable end of the property |
| RV Sites | 22 sites | Electric (30/50 amp) and water, dump station on site |
| Tent Sites | Varies | For the members of your group who would rather be outside |
Mixed across those units, retreats of roughly 15 to 50 or more are workable. One detail to put in your group email early: bedding and linens are available at additional cost or guests can bring their own. Every group that skips that line hears about it at check-in.
Where Your Group Gathers
The lodge is the center of a retreat here. Its open main floor has a wood fireplace, vaulted ceilings, and enough room to pull the furniture back for a circle, a workshop, or a presentation. The dining table seats the full group of 14 for working meals, and the kitchen behind it is full-size — refrigerator, oven, stovetop, microwave, dishwasher, and the cookware, dishes, and utensils to feed a crowd without paper plates.
There is also a movie theater room with a projector screen, which turns out to be the most useful room in the building for groups. It handles a talk, a slide deck, a film night, or a session that needs a dark room and a screen. Outside, the wraparound deck is the default breakout space, and the lakefront meadows take the overflow when the weather cooperates.
Between sessions, the property is the agenda. All four lakes are reserved for guests and need no fishing license — bring rods, tackle, and bait. Kayaks, canoes, paddle boards, and paddle boats are free and unreserved, so nobody has to sign anything out. Trails run from the cabin doors through forest and meadow. The corral holds five sheep, two alpacas, and four horses, and wild elk come through on their own schedule. For the full list, see everything there is to do on the property.
What We Don't Provide — Plan Around These
Purpose-built retreat centers hand you a package. We hand you a property. That is the trade, and the difference shows up in four places, all of which are solvable if you know about them before you send the invitation.
- No meals and no catering. There is no dining hall and no kitchen staff. The lodge kitchen is fully equipped for your caterer or for cooking yourselves, and most groups run a meal rotation. The nearest grocery store is in Cle Elum, about 15 minutes east. Ask us and we will recommend caterers in the Easton and Cle Elum area.
- Limited Wi-Fi and limited cell service. Do not build an agenda that depends on either. Bring a mobile hotspot if part of your program needs internet, download everything in advance, and tell your group that people back home may not reach them quickly.
- No sound system, stage, or conference A/V. The theater room has a projector screen and that is the extent of the built-in equipment. If you need microphones, a PA, or a flip chart, bring them or rent them.
- Bedding is not included, and cabins 1-3 have no shower. Linens are available at additional cost or guests bring their own. Cabins 4-6 have a shower in the cabin; cabins 1-3 use the bathhouse, which also serves RV and tent guests with 3 bathrooms and 2 full-size showers. Assign the cabins accordingly.
What you get in exchange is the part nobody can rent you twice: four lakes with nobody else on them, a gate at the end of the road, and 54 acres that belong to your group until you check out.
How Two Nights Usually Go
Two nights is the shape that works. One night is arrival and departure with a few hours in between, and peak-season weekends carry a 2-night minimum anyway. Standard check-in is 3:00 PM and check-out is 11:00 AM, though on a buyout there is often more flexibility at the front end because nobody is checking out ahead of you.
Most groups spend the first afternoon settling people into units and doing a slow opening session before dinner, then let the evening go to the fire pit. Saturday is where the property earns its keep: a morning session in the lodge while it is still cool, the lakes and the trails through the middle of the day, and the theater room or the deck for whatever needs a screen or a longer conversation. Sunday morning is a short closing session, a shared breakfast in the lodge kitchen, and a load-out that goes faster than anyone expects because the cars are parked next to the cabins.
Two constraints to write into your schedule. Quiet hours run 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM and amplified music stops at 10:00 PM, so an evening program with sound needs to land before then. And getting here in winter means crossing Snoqualmie Pass — check the WSDOT real-time pass report before your group leaves and tell everyone to carry chains during traction-restriction season. For the rest of the year the drive is freeway the whole way: I-90 East to Exit 63, then a mile and a half down the road on your left, about 80 minutes from Seattle.
How to Book a Retreat
Call or send your dates
Group retreats are not booked through the online reservation system — they are quoted. Call 425-622-2790 or use the contact form with your headcount, your dates, and whether you want the whole property or just the lodge.
We map your group to actual units
Headcount alone is not enough. We need to know how many people will share a room, how many are bringing an RV, and whether anyone needs a shower in their own cabin. That determines which units you need and what the quote looks like.
Contract and deposit hold the dates
Group and event bookings run on their own terms, outlined in your event contract rather than the standard nightly cancellation policy. A deposit secures the dates. See the cancellation policy for how group bookings differ.
Confirm the details closer in
Final headcount, unit assignments, arrival window, whether a caterer is coming, and anything you are bringing that needs power or space. Then send your group the packing list — especially the line about bedding.
Group and event terms differ from nightly stays — read the cancellation policy before you sign.
Group Retreat FAQ
Fifty-Four Acres, Yours for the Weekend
Tell us your group, your dates, and your headcount, and we will tell you what the whole property costs on those nights. Open year-round, and quietest exactly when retreats want it to be.