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Events & Retreats for Adults

Ekone is most famous for our youth programs, but this land has so much to offer for grown-ups too. We host and offer a wide variety of programs for adults and families, all with the participatory, land-based, inclusive community flavor of all of our work.  To inquire about bringing your program to Ekone, check out our program application.

Or check out what’s on the calendar already, and join us!

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Host your Event at Ekone

We partner with mission-aligned organizations and facilitators to bring your program offering to life. 

Ekone provides the unique facilities, magical land, delicious home-cooking, and staff support that creates a container for your work. 

You create the curriculum, do promotions and administration, and facilitate your program on site. All programs have some elements of co-creation; our staff can offer some support, facilitation, and activities as desired and negotiated.

Ekone is not your typical “retreat facility”! It’s a working ranch and a busy place. All of our guests are invited into community, including washing dishes and participating in the rhythms of ranch life. This is part of what makes the Ekone experience so special; you become part of something larger and get a taste of belonging.

Get in touch

Come spend time on Ekone land in retreat, solitude, community, and experiential learning.

Join a program offered by one of our talented partners, or one offered by Ekone’s own staff team. 

See the Calendar
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Three people riding horses on a trail through a grassy, hilly landscape with sparse trees and bushes, under a partly cloudy sky.
Two people, a woman with shoulder-length blonde hair and a man wearing a black cap, are smiling and standing close together inside a rustic wooden lodge decorated with string lights, a mounted animal head, and various lodge-related items.
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Finding Ekone Ranch

We are located east of Goldendale, in south-central Washington State just north of the Columbia River Gorge, in the homelands of the Kah-Milt-Pah, now one of the confederated bands and tribes of the Yakima Nation.

Google maps sometimes sends you down a goat trail - so please see step by step directions here.

Step by step directions