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 minimum fee to book the modern Bunkhouse is $110 a night for the first four people and $25 a night for each additional person.  The Bunkhouse sleeps 12.  A $50 non-refundable deposit is required to book the Bunkhouse. The booking is not complete until the deposit is received.

The Main House, which also is the home of the retreat director, has two bedrooms dedicated for guests.  One bedroom can accommo-date 4 persons and the other one will sleep 5.  These rooms can be booked for individual retreats or for small groups.  The fee is $35 a night per person and a $20 non-refundable deposit is required (Click here or on the Photo Gallery link on the left to see pictures of the Bunkhouse and the Main House).

The costs of meals are $4.25, $5.50, and $7.50, respectively, for breakfast, lunch and supper.  Meals are home cooked.  Breakfast is continental style (cereal, muffins or breads, fruit, juice and coffee).

Applicable taxes are included for lodging and meals.

Please feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drnks.

Rev. Blair is available for spiritual direction ($30 an hour) or for small group facilitation beginning at $150. 

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

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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W  --   E

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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.