Salmon Creek
RETREATS 🌲
This is a time to slow down, become familiar with the place and it's rhythms, to quiet the mind, and really be present on the land. This may be a time to take a step back for some critical distance from your daily life, a chance to create something new, or even a pause from projects and productivity altogether.
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Once on the land we put everyone on a whatsapp party line, where the community can be directly in touch with each other, to announce meals, invite each other over, ask for help with something, organize an event, say “hey I’m going to town if anyone needs anything,” etc. On Tuesday mornings we lead a comprehensive tour of the entire property, including visits to all cabins and a hike down to the creek. This is also a chance to meet the group and a critical orientation to life on the land (outhouses, compost, wood stoves, etc). The resident host makes everyone feel safe, welcome, and at home.
If you’ve stayed with us before you’ll see some improvements every year, including: new roofs, hot water at the OK, new wood stoves & water heaters, plus rebuilt orchard gates that still say “hippie commune” but actually work!
Our seven self-sufficient modest homespun guest cabins are reached by foot trails across 33 acres of south-facing coastal redwoods. Each occupies a unique secluded nook in our south-facing wooded slope. They were lovingly built, rebuilt, repaired, furnished, and embellished by many hands over the years with scavenged local materials. They are cute, cozy, comfortable, well appointed, and pretty rustic (ie. an occasional mouse may find it’s way in and something will have to be done). All feature equipped kitchenettes, new wood stoves, bedding/towels, hot outdoor showers, outhouses, and yes fast wifi.
If you haven’t stayed with us before, read about our cabins and life with the land at Salmon Creek.
- One or two week stays.
- Arrivals exclusively Mondays 1:30-4:30pm. Full SCF tour/orientation Tuesdays 10:30am. Departures by 11am Sundays.
- You'll need a car to reach us and for the duration of your stay.
- Accessibility issues with all cabins, remote from cars and reached on foot.
- We are unable to host children under 10 or pets (except ADA Service Animals).
- Wood burning stoves are the only source of cabin heat. We are in a mild coastal climate with occasional frosts, but tending your fire is a big part of daily life.
- Also open for communal use: Dance Deck, Outdoor Kitchen, and trail down to Salmon Creek.
- All cabins have wood stoves, bedding/towels, hot outdoor showers, outhouses, fast wifi, and equipped kitchens with small fridge, sink, and cook stove, but most do not have ovens.
- Meals not included.
Price is total for one/two weeks:
- Solo at Salmon ($1000/$1600)
- Solo or couple in 1 bed at Moonlight, Walden or River ($1200/$2000)
- Solo, couple, or 2 friends in 2 beds at Rainbow ($1750/$2800)
- Solo, couple, or 2 friends in 2 beds at Cedar ($1900/$3000)
- Up to 3, in 3 beds at Dawn, with upstairs bedroom plus separate loft ($2200/$3500)
* Full payment to book. Non-transferable. Cancel with full refund within 48 hours. 50% refund up to 8 weeks before arrival and none thereafter. Reschedule within the season if alternate date/cabin available up to 8 weeks before arrival for 15% fee.
These retreats are a critical source of support for Salmon Creek Arts, work-trade arrangements are not available during this period. Email office (at) salmoncreekarts (dot) org any time.