Retreat venue in the heart of upstate NY
A Private Upstate New York Estate for Retreats, Offsites + Creative Gatherings
Step away from the everyday and give your people the time and space to think, create, connect, and simply be together.
The Maples Estate is a private 12.5-acre estate in the Schoharie Valley of Upstate New York, created for groups who want something more personal than a hotel conference room or traditional event space.
Gather your team around the farmhouse tables. Take a meeting on the veranda. Spend the afternoon working among the meadow or walking the property. Bring everyone together for dinner in the pavilion, then continue the conversation around the fire.
For a few days, the estate becomes yours.
Sometimes the best work happens when you change the setting.
There is something different about bringing people together away from the routines, interruptions, and expectations of everyday life.
At The Maples, your meetings, meals, downtime, conversations, and celebrations can all happen in one place, giving your group the freedom to move between focused work and unstructured time naturally.
Come here to develop the next idea, reconnect a team, make something together, mark a milestone, or simply create the space for conversations that are harder to have anywhere else.
Retreats at The Maples might include:
Leadership + Team Offsites
Strategic planning, annual retreats, leadership gatherings, workations, team development, and company milestones.
Creative Retreats
Writing, music, art, design, photography, collaborative projects, and dedicated time to make something together.
Workshops + Learning
Facilitated workshops, educational programs, small conferences, seminars, and intimate professional gatherings.
Wellness + Personal Growth
Yoga, movement, meditation, coaching, wellness programming, and restorative experiences.
Community + Connection
Board retreats, nonprofit gatherings, reunions, affinity groups, and intentional time together.
Have something entirely different in mind? Good. We like interesting ideas.
The whole estate becomes part of the experience.
A retreat doesn't have to happen in one room. Across 12.5 private acres, your group can move between spaces as the day changes.
The Farmhouse
An 1855 farmhouse that becomes your shared home base, with a double parlor, bar room, kitchen, veranda, gathering spaces, and plenty of corners for smaller conversations.
The Open-Air Pavilion
Nearly 4,000 square feet for workshops, shared meals, presentations, movement, performances, celebrations, and larger group sessions, surrounded by the landscape.
The Tree Grove
A quiet outdoor setting overlooking the valley for facilitated conversations, reflection, meditation, ceremonies, or simply a change of scenery.
The Veranda + Grounds
Take breakfast outside. Hold a breakout session on the veranda. Walk the meadows between meetings. Gather around the pool on a summer afternoon or end the night beside the fire.
There doesn't need to be a hard line between working and resting here. That's part of the point.
Your retreat includes exclusive access to our historic farmhouse, with overnight accommodations for up to 17 guests.
Five private bedrooms and an adult bunk room create a comfortable home base for your group, while the kitchen, double parlor, veranda, bar room, seasonal pool, grill, and fire pit give everyone places to naturally gather throughout the stay.
Make coffee in the kitchen before the first session. Leave your notebook on the table and come back to the conversation later. Cook together, order dinner in, open a bottle of wine on the veranda, or stay around the fire long after the day's agenda has ended.
When everyone is staying together, the time between the scheduled things often becomes just as valuable as the schedule itself.
Stay together.
What could a few days here look like?
There is no prescribed retreat itinerary at The Maples.
Maybe yours involves live music, a visiting chef, morning yoga, a recording session, a guest speaker, a facilitated strategic planning session, a long-table dinner, an afternoon with absolutely nothing scheduled. Bring us the idea.
Your retreat. Your level of support.
Some groups arrive with the entire experience planned and simply need the right place to host it. Others come with an idea and want help turning it into something real.
Both are welcome.
Private Estate Retreat
Bring your own programming and make The Maples your home for a few days.
Your retreat includes:
✔ Exclusive use of the 12.5-acre estate
✔ Overnight accommodations for up to 17 guests
✔ Use of the farmhouse and retreat spaces
✔ Open-air pavilion
✔ Tables + chairs
✔ Projector + screen
✔ Portable PA + Bluetooth speaker
✔ Seasonal pool
✔ Fire pit + campfire
✔ Lawn + board games
✔ Kitchen + grill
✔ Local recommendations and resources
Planning, Creative Direction + Production
Need more support?
Through Second House, our multidisciplinary planning and creative studio, we can help shape the experience itself.
That might mean developing the retreat structure, sourcing vendors, designing meals and gatherings, building programming, coordinating transportation, creating the environment, managing logistics, or producing the entire experience from beginning to end.
We can step in where you need us or build the whole thing with you..
“Katie is one of the most organized and thoughtful event managers I have ever worked with.”
– Michelle, Intuition Floral Design
Retreat Investment
Choose the amount of time that gives your group room to accomplish what you came here to do.
Retreat stays include check-in as early as 10:00 AM and check-out as late as 3:00 PM, so your first and final days can actually be part of the experience. Retreat availability is concentrated in July, with select dates available May through October. Peak-season dates may be reserved up to six months in advance.
Planning a larger gathering, public-facing event, or something that falls outside a traditional retreat? Tell us what you're thinking and we'll help determine the best way to approach it.
Bring us the idea.
Maybe you already have the itinerary. Maybe you have a loose idea scribbled in a notebook. Maybe all you know is that your people need to get out of their usual environment and spend a few days together.
That's enough to start.
Tell us who you're bringing, why you're gathering, and what you hope comes from your time here. We'll take it from there.