Mile marker #30
Take Highway 177 to Matfield Green. Just south of town, turn east at 55 Rd. toward the Matfield Green Cemetery. At the cemetery turn south (R Road) and follow the blacktop 3.8 miles to the retreat center. The road becomes Thurman Creek Road. The Main House at Tallgrass, a two-story gray farmhouse,
Fee Schedule
The fee to book the Bunkhouse is $140 a night for the first four people and $35 a night for each additional person. The Bunkhouse sleeps up to 12. A $50 non-refundable deposit, received no later than one week in advance of the booking, will secure your dates for the Bunkhouse. The booking is not complete until the deposit is received.
It is possible for an individual to book the lower floor of the Bunkhouse, including the well-equipped kitchen to prepare meals, for $60/night. There is a $20 non-refundable deposit required.
Two guest rooms in the Main House are used for overflow for larger groups and can sleep up to 7. The fee is $40 per person per night.
(Click here or on the Photo Gallery link on the left to see pictures of the Bunkhouse and Main House).
The costs of meals are $5.50, $6.50, and $10.00, respectively, for breakfast, lunch and supper. Meals are home-cooked, if not always home-made. Breakfast is continental style (cereal, muffins or breads, fruit, juice and coffee).
There is a fee schedule for facilitators wishing to book the Bunkhouse for their own use. Please contact the Retreat Center
for more information.
Applicable taxes are included for lodging and meals.
Please feel free to bring snacks to share and your own soft drinks. Coffee and assorted teas avcailable.
Rev. Blair is available for spiritual companioning ($50 for one and one half hours) or for small group facilitation of 5 beginning at $150 for one hour.
With her motto of "Have Retreat - Will Travel," Rev. Blair is also available to facilitate small and large group retreats in other locations. Fees begin at $150, plus mileage, meals and lodging (if overnight).
For more information or to ask specific questions, click here or on the "Contact Us" link to the left of this column.
Photos by Marshall Hutchinson
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Directions to Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center
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Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center:
Where Women Find Their Way
1780 Thurman Creek Road
Matfield Green, KS 66862
620.753.3465
tallgrassretreats@wheatstate.com Rev. Billie Blair, Director
Directions and Fees
is on the north (left side) of the road. Watch for a large yellow mailbox (see picture above). If you get to the gravel road, you've gone too far.
Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center
Where Women Find Their Way
Photo by Jim Beck
55 Rd.
Matfield Green
Cemetery
1780 Thurman Creek Rd.
R Rd
Hwy 177
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Tallgrass Spiritual
Retreat Center
To Cassoday
To Cottomwood Falls
To El Dorado
To Emporia
From Turnpike, you must get off at Cassoday Exit 92. There is no local road off the turnpike.
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