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Eagle Haven Retreat Center
Red Wing, MN 55077

ken_neuharth@yahoo.com

952-484-0112


This vacation home is available all year around for group gatherings and retreats.

Just a short, scenic 45 mile drive SE of the Twin Cities in the bluffs along the Mississippi River, Eagle Haven offers great views of the back channel of the river, with 14 acres and lots of privacy. Easy access to historic Red Wing. It is also less than a hour drive to the Minneapolis Airport and Mall of America.

Amenities:

  • Spacious 3600 sq ft A-frame style home with lots of window
  • Three Bedrooms and a large loft area which divides into two additional rooms. Plus 2 futons and 3 sleeper sofas
    Easily sleeps 15-20
  • Dining room with existing seating for 12, with room for 2 more tables for a total of 24 people
  • Updated kitchen
  • Sitting room with wood-burning fireplace.
  • Large great room with TV, DVD, VCR, and lots of movie selections.
  • Basement has rec room with pool, ping pong, air hockey, large screen TV, video games and wet bar.


    Outdoors :You can enjoy the wrap around deck with views of the water, gas grill, swimming pool, volleyball, basketball and firepit. The home is air conditioned and heated with lots of parking. Boat launch area just minutes away.

    Christian orientation.

Click here for more photos of the property


Dunrovin
Christian Brothers Retreat Center

15525 Saint Croix Trail North
Marine on Saint Croix, MN 55047

651.433.2486
dunrovin@dunrovin.org

www.dunrovin.org


You’ll find year-round hospitality for groups and individuals at Dunrovin. There are fifty secluded acres of woods, lawns, and pond on the nationally designated Wild and Scenic St. Croix River. Large and small meeting areas, chapel and prayer room, comfortable lounge, great food, professional yet casual atmosphere. Spiritual guidance available.
Accommodations include 50 beds in 45 simple, clean, comfortable rooms; and 20 cots for youth. Largest group: 150 day use. Swimming, canoes, kayaks and paddleboats are seasonal; campfire circle and walking paths available all year.

We’re 30 miles northeast of St. Paul and 10 miles north of Stillwater, MN.

Christian Life Coaching is available through Jerome Meeds, director of the Center. If you want more from life – more growth, greater purpose, maximum performance – look into what a personal coach has to offer! Jerome Meeds will help people grow faster, perform at a higher level, understand themselves more deeply, and live with greater purpose and fulfillment.

www.dunrovin.org



Olive Branch Retreat on Fuller Lake
27740 County Rd 98
Grey Eagle, MN 56336

Phone: 320-393-7212

info@olivebranchretreat.com

www.olivebranchretreat.com


Welcome to the Olive Branch Retreat
Olive Branch Retreat is a place to share and to relax with family or friends. Located in Grey Eagle, Minnesota and on Fuller Lake, the Olive Branch is the perfect getaway for gatherings both large and small. It accommodates many venues – special events, couples retreats, girlfriend getaways, crafting weekends, spiritual retreats, business planning or team building. We can accommodate up to 21 overnight guests. Day guests at your discretion.

The Olive Branch is a private home nestled in 57 acres with mature trees and lake front that provides a breathtaking view.
The Olive Branch has been newly remodeled from what used to be a convent to an 'old world' style dwelling to enjoy family and friends. The bedrooms are tucked privately into two separate wings. The gathering space, dining room, screened porch, breakfast porch and kitchen are large in scale and furnished with an antique decor for entertaining and relaxation. A chapel, large outdoor space and renovated chicken barn complete the amenities.

Nature surrounds the property. Walking trails are private throughout and run adjacent to 1100 acres of state land. Fishing on Fuller Lake is always a good catch. Adventure Canoeists can connect to Lake Hennessy from Fuller Lake.


Room Retreats and Quiet Corners
Areas Where You Can Make the Most of Your Retreat:

  • Seven Sleeping Spaces plus pullouts - enough to sleep 21 guests
  • Two full Bathrooms and one 3/4 Bath
  • Library loaded with reading material
  • Sitting Room with TV & DVD player for movies; game closet for games & an art table for creativity
  • Large Gathering Room with fireplace and breathtaking view to Fuller Lake
  • Large Breakfast Porch with walkout to Lakeside Patio
  • Private Kitchen with Coffee Bar – stocked with utensils and cookware
  • Attic for playing hide & seek and imaginary play
  • Repurposed Chicken Barn with Half Bathroom, wet bar, wood stove and fire pit with a view of the lake
  • Bishop Peter W. Bartholome Chapel for quiet reflection



Hillcrest Hide-Away
404 Hillcrest Street East
Lanesboro, Minnesota 55949

(507) 467-3079
(800) 697-9902

hillcresthideaway@yahoo.com
www.hillcresthideaway.com


Immerse yourself in the tranquil setting of our spacious 3,500 sq. ft. Craftsman Home. We are located in Lanesboro, 45 minutes southeast of Rochester, MN.
Awaken each morning to a just-baked loaf of home made bread delivered to your room.
Later enjoy a hearty breakfast in our dining room.



Retreat Amenities:

  • Create your own personal retreat in one of our four spacious guest rooms. Each room is equipped with two comfortable chairs for relaxation and personal meditation.
  • Three of our rooms have a comfortable sofa-bed for flexible sleeping arrangements.
  • Large and small common areas are available for small group discussions.
  • A landscape labyrinth is found outdoors for your quiet meditation.
  • Meals other than breakfast are available upon request.
  • A sumptuous bountiful breakfast is served in the dining room every morning
  • Outdoors activities abound from biking, bird watching, Amish tours and much more

Call us to discuss your small group getaway. We are ready to partner with you to make your retreat a success.


389 N. Oxford St,
Saint Paul MN 55104
phone: 651-641-0008

www.loyolaspiritualitycenter.org

info@loyolaspiritualitycenter.org


Our vision: transforming the world one person at a time.

Our mission is dedicated to helping people notice, name and respond to the experience of God in their lives. We welcome all regardless of faith tradition, age, race, sexual and gender orientation or economic means.


Loyola is a nonprofit spirituality center, offering individual spiritual direction, retreats and workshops. We also have a program for veterans and their families, offering free spiritual direction.

Outreach programs:

  • Welcome Home: A Listening Ministry for Veterans and their Families
  • Senior Centers
  • For church congregations and other groups

Workshops:

  • Living Contemplative Prayer
  • Unplug the Christmas Machine: Simplicity in Advent and Christmas
  • Living Simply
  • From Success to Significance to Surrender
  • Perspectives on aging
  • Enneagram
  • Men's spirituality

Retreats:

  • A Time to Remember: A Retreat for Women Whose Mothers Have Died
  • Extended Ignatian Exercises
  • Directed retreats
  • Lent and Advent
  • Spirituality of aging,
  • Contemplative nature retreats
Click here for upcoming retreats



Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict
104 Chapel Lane, St. Joseph, Minnesota 56374-0220

Phone: 320-363-7116

dmanuel@csbsju.edu

www.sbm.osb.org



The Spirituality Center at Saint Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph is a place to seek solitude, quiet and peace. Women and men of all faith traditions and cultures are invited to our Center and hermitage for individual or group retreats.

In addition to rooms in our Spirituality Center, Subiaco hermitage, a simple cabin with full amenities, is available. Come for a night, a weekend, or a week —whatever works.

The monastic grounds and sacred spaces provide an atmosphere for prayer, quiet reflection and relaxation year round. Guests frequent the wooded walking trails and labyrinth, adjacent to the Spirituality Center. Whether you are here for a few hours or longer, you are invited to join the monastic community for the Liturgy of the Hours, and Eucharist.


For more information, click on our Spirituality Center link at www.sbm.osb.org, where brochures are available, or e-mail Dorothy Manuel, OSB at dmanuel@csbsju.edu.


WindCradle Retreat

Grand Marais, MN 55604

www.windcradle.org

Phone: 1-218-387-1536
Toll free: 1-866-586-2224

Email: windcradle@boreal.org


Windcradle Retreat

Located eight miles North-East of Grand Marais, MN

WindCradle provides a perfect setting for soul, mind, and body restoration. Gaze at Lake Superior, amble out the door to the Superior Hiking Trail’s deep gorges and peaceful woods. Sit by a bonfire as the moon sparkles on the water, nestle by a wood fire.

  • Outdoor sauna on site
  • Labyrinth on site
  • Spiritual direction available
  • Massages available for a small extra charge
  • Small prayer chapel with lake view
  • Connecting trails from WindCradle to the Superior Hiking Trail
  • Beach combing, hiking, and sitting
  • Gathering spaces with lake views

Retreat/Workshops:
For Retreat/workshop schedule,see website.

With any of the courses, no particular background (in literature, language or wilderness) is necessary: but an interest in reading and considering spiritual issues from a new perspective and an openness to soul growth.

Rentals for Individuals and Groups:

Guest house for individuals or couples who want quiet reflection on the beach, on the Superior Hiking Trail, in front of the wood burning stove, or in the meditation house. WindCradle can also be used for group retreats (such as vestry or church boards, prayer shawl knitting ministry groups, book groups, etc.)
Location:

WindCradle is located eight miles northeast of Grand Marais, MN. Closest airports are Duluth, MN or Thunder Bay, Ontario. Car rentals available, or possible shuttles for guests arriving at similar times.

Smokey Hills Wilderness Retreat
53014 State Hyw 34
Osage, MN 56570

www.smokeyhills.com
toddpayne@smokeyhills.com
320-761-4863


Smokey Hills Wilderness Retreat is a brand new upscale lodging destination for spiritual retreats, church retreats, corporate events, ATV tours, snowmobiling clubs, and scrapbooking clubs with a full service conference center, catering, restaurant and lodging.
We are conveniently located in northwest Minnesota approximately 10 minutes from Park Rapids. Our mission is to be a place that allows for rejuvenation of the body mind and spirit. In this unspoiled landscape you can fish, hunt, ATV, snowmobile, and much more. Our retreat has a lot of classic up-north charm and relaxed atmosphere that you will love.

With an onsite restaurant, Conference center, and 18 cabins we are perfect for father son groups, ladies scrapbooking groups, business meetings, church groups, and family gatherings or retreats. Our conference center is equipped with a full sound booth, electric piano and projector room with drop down projector screen, for conferences and meetings.

For the past two years Smokey Hills Wilderness Retreat has been in development and is now open for you to enjoy. Newly designed and themed cabins make each stay even more relaxing and unique. Our cabins have private baths, televisions w/ DVD players, air conditioning, mini refrigerators, a queen bed, and a set of bunk beds. We also have on hand 3 suites that have a living area with a pull out futon, table, and sink.

We have a full set of activities for your enjoyment that include guided ATV tours with rentals, scavenger hunts for the kids, bon fires, transportation to the trails and or lakes in our 15 person shuttle, Snowmobiling, paint ball course, on site movie theater, coffee shop, gift shop, game room, laundry facility, scrapbooking space and equipment and items to purchase.

Smokey Hills Wilderness Retreat - Spiritual Retreats, Family Retreats, Conference Center, Custom Theme Lodging, Fine Dining, ATV Tours, Snowmobiling, and Paintball Course in Osage, Minnesota


Retreat Center City State Phone Spiritual Orientation
ARC Ecumenical Retreat Center Stanchfield MN 763-689-3540 Ecumenical
Arcola Mills on the St. Croix Rive Stillwater MN 651-439-1652 Daytime retreat center
Benedictine Center of St. Paul's Monastery St. Paul MN 651-777-7251 Catholic/Benedictine
Camp Omega Waterville MN 507-685-4266
Camp Stanton Seasons of Joy Backus MN 218-682-2966 Earth and Goddess based spirituality
Carondelet Center At Present Host Facility St Paul MN 651-696-2750
Chi Rho Ctr Annandale MN 320-274-8307
Christ the King Retreat Center Buffalo MN 763-682-1394 Catholic/Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Christian Brothers Retreat Center (Dunrovin) Marine St Croix MN 651-433-2486 Christian Brothers of the Midwest District - all welcome
Clare's Well Spirituality Farm Annandale MN 320-274-3512 Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, Mn
Country Garden Retreat Hinckley MN 320-384-6052
Dwelling In the Woods Mc Grath MN 320-592-3708

Eagle Haven Retreat Red Wing MN 952-484-0112

Episcopal House of Prayer Collegville MN 320-363-3293
Franciscan Life Center Little Falls MN 320-632-2981 Catholic/Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls
Franciscan Retreat House Prior Lake MN 952-447-2182 Catholic/Franciscan
Good Earth Village Spring Valley MN 507-346-2494 Evangelical Lutheran
Green Lake Bible Camp Spicer MN -
Hazelden Renewal Center Center City MN 651-257-4010
Hillcrest Hide Away Bed & Breakfast Lanesboro MN 507-467-3079
Holy Spirit Retreat Center Janesville MN 507-234-5712 Catholic/Sisters of Saint Francis Rochester
House of Prayer Collegeville MN 320-363-3293 Episcopal/Benedictine
Jesuit Retreat House Lake Elmo MN 651-777-1311
Kelwood Retreat House Hastings, MN 651-437-4414 Interdenominational
Koinonia Retreat Center South Haven MN -
Lake Superior Retreat Minneapolis MN 763-434-5811
Lindisfarne Retreat Center Brook Park MN 320-629-6666 Small groups
Loyola St Paul MN 651-641-0008
McCabe Renewal Center Duluth MN 218-724-5266 Duluth Benedictine Sisters
Mount Olivet Conference and Retreat Center Farmington MN 952-469-2175 Evangelical Luthren Church of America -- welcomes all
Mount St Benedict Center Crookston MN 218-281-3441
One Heartland Center Willow River MN 888-545-6658 Host Groups
Pacem in Terris Saint Francis MN 763-444-6408 Catholic/Franciscan - Hermitage
Pathways Inc Bemidji MN 218-751-4208
Sacred Ground, Center for Spirituality St Paul MN 651-696-2798 Ecumenical - Meditation, Prayer and Spiritual Direction
Saint John's Abbey Collegeville MN 320-363-3929 Catholic/Benedictine
Shalom Retreat Ctr Mentor MN 218-574-2748
Shetek Lutheran Bible Camp Slayton MN -
Skete of the Resurrection of Christ Minneapolis MN 612-574-1001 Russian Orthodox
Spirituality Center St Joseph MN 320-363-7112 Sisters of Saint Benedict’s Monastery
The Retreat Wayzata MN 877-446-9283 Spirit of Recovery
Villa Maria Center Frontenac MN 651-345-4582
WindCradle Retreat
Grand Marais
MN 886-586-2224

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