You’re planning something worth gathering for – a company offsite, a leadership retreat, a friend or family reunion, or a wedding – and you want a place that offers an unforgettable experience from the moment everyone arrives.
Rising Circle Ranch isn’t a hotel juggling several large events at once. We typically host one or two small groups of 10-30 people across our two retreats centers at a time, which means that you can have the full run of your own private retreat property surrounded by four square miles of high desert, hiking trails, and beautiful spaces made for gathering. The high-ceilinged buildings are classic Pueblo Revival architecture, with earth-toned stucco, exposed beams, covered porches, and shaded walkways. It’s remote enough to feel like a world away, yet just 25 minutes from Santa Fe.
Whatever you’re here to accomplish or celebrate, our team will handle the details so you don’t have to.
Rising Circle Ranch was designed by hotelier Chip Conley to do something a hotel or conference center can’t: give small groups a high-end retreat experience that feels completely their own.
Every detail was chosen with a hotelier’s eye – hand-selected tile, solid wood wardrobes, organic cotton bathrobes, beds you won’t want to leave. Our hospitality staff was trained by Chip himself with a high level of detail and awareness to ensure all your needs are met throughout your stay.
The land the ranch sits on has drawn people together for thousands of years. The Galisteo Basin has been a place of gathering and passage since at least 7,500 BCE – a historic trade route between prehistoric Paleo-Indians and historic indigenous peoples, such as the Puebloans and Plains tribes. Its ridges are still marked with the petroglyphs they left behind.
It’s a space for transformative experiences, where people can recharge and reconnect, and the regenerative initiatives we are practicing continue to preserve the land and honor those before.
Your own private retreat center surrounded by 2,600 acres of ranch land – productive days, unhurried evenings, and the kind of bonding that happens around a fire, not a boardroom.
For the forums and masterminds that already go deep, such as YPO and EO. A private retreat center, total seclusion for the work that matters, and the shared experience that brings your group back year after year.
For facilitators and organizations running their own retreats. Book the ranch as your venue, or add our experienced team to run the logistics start to finish – so you’re free to lead, not manage.
A weekend in the high desert with everyone you love: vows under the open sky, dinners worth lingering over, and the logistics handled so you're a guest at your own wedding. With plenty of room for a tent, we can easily accommodate events with 100+ guests.
The trip that finally gets everyone in one place for a milestone worth marking. Trail rides and hikes by day, delicious meals, fireside conversations under the stars, and a deep, comfortable bed to fall into at the end of the night.
Adobe interiors, courtyards, wide-open land, and big New Mexico light, on a working ranch built to a standard that holds up on camera.
Built around the original ranch house, set beside the pond. Ensuite rooms, gathering space, and an on-site kitchen, with open ground alongside for a tented celebration. Sleeps up to 42.
The newer center, with an enclosed courtyard and a hot tub for the slow end of the evening. Ensuite rooms and gathering space, indoors and out. Sleeps up to 44.
A striking indoor-outdoor space set right among the stables and paddocks, with horses all around – the perfect spot for a Western-themed cocktail party. No bedrooms or kitchen here; it's built for a memorable day or evening event.
Chip Conley's private residence, available to book for your gathering. Built in the 1990s, it’s an award-winning Architectural Digest home that offers stunning views of the Galisteo Basin, with a swimming pool and an expansive lawn made for an outdoor reception or wedding photos.
Hike the winding arroyos, watching for fossils from an ancient inland sea
Ride across the range on horseback to stone ruins dating back to the 1800s
Tour the property by horse-drawn carriage, pulled by our team of Percherons
Climb to a ridge marked with ancient petroglyphs, where the view extends for miles in every direction
Walk out to the seven-point star, a regenerative land-art piece set into the desert
Settle into a sound bath or morning yoga, in the movement studio or under open sky
Unwind in the sauna, or around the fire under a sky thick with stars
Enjoy an early morning workout in the ranch center gym (say hi to the horses on your way out)
Our chefs cook three meals a day from scratch, using organic ingredients grown and raised nearby – the flavors of Northern New Mexico, drawn from Native American, Spanish, and Mexican traditions. Long tables, generous spreads, and the kind of dinners your group lingers over well after the plates are cleared.
Between meals, the kitchens stay stocked with snacks, fresh-fruit smoothies, and drinks. And for your event, the chefs build a menu around your group and the occasion.
The best gatherings leave people changed – closer, more connected, better at being together. That rarely happens on its own, which is why our facilitators can build guided experiences right into your stay.
Drawing on decades of work in leadership and human connection, our team can lead a morning circle to open the day with focus and candor, run a session on the art of listening or cultivating purpose, or design something tailored to what your group is here to do. These are the experiences people point to later as the reason the time together mattered.
Tell us what you want your time here to do, and we’ll help shape a program around it.
Rising Circle Ranch was designed by Chip Conley, who founded Joie de Vivre and built it into the second-largest boutique-hotel group in the United States, then joined Airbnb as its Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, helping turn a startup into a global name.
Chip designed Rising Circle Ranch around a simple idea: the right place changes what happens between people. When the food’s taken care of and nothing’s left for you to sort out, a group can finally slow down and be together. That idea shaped everything here, from the layout of the buildings to the pace of a day on the ranch.
He built the ranch to a standard he’d want for his own family and friends. A hotelier notices what most people never do: the temperature of a room at dusk, how long a welcome takes, whether a chair actually invites you to sit.
That’s why a stay here feels like being handed the keys to a place built, down to the last detail, to take remarkable care of your group.
You bring your people. We handle the rest.
Lodging, meals, activities, and the flow of the days come together before you arrive, planned with you over a couple of calls so nothing’s left to chance. Once you’re here, our experienced hospitality team takes care of it – the meals served, the rooms turned down, the trail rides scheduled, the fires lit – so the person who organized this gets to enjoy it like everyone else.
No vendors to wrangle, spreadsheet to babysit, or running the show from the sidelines. Just time with the people you came to be with.
The experience was profound. It opened up avenues that have changed my life…
Former CEO of Mansueto Ventures, home to Inc. and Fast Company
I was completely blown away… We're planning on this being a yearly event.
Founder of Leverage, Author of Come Up for Air
Words fail to adequately express our gratitude. The entire experience was above and beyond all expectations. Importantly, as wonderful as the food, facility, and weather were, it is and always will be the wonderful staff who make the container the magical place that it is.Thank you for all that you do.
Reboot
This past week was incredibly powerful. Between the rainbows that appeared on our hike and the unmistakable magic that unfolded throughout the week, this group of 26 faith leaders has been forever changed. [It's] a place you can refind not just your purpose, but reconnect with your heart.
The Sacred Pause
