About
Ekone Ranch Summer Camps offers horse adventures, creative pursuits, wilderness challenges, and leadership journeys. Campers take part in an introduction to horsemanship and ranch life, including horse riding, bareback trail rides, and time with ponies. Sessions also include theater, improv games, circus skills, inventing characters, writing dialogue, art projects such as mural painting, natural dyeing, collage, basket-making, creative writing, nature art, harvest cooking, music, forest walks, rope swings, and music night.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: All sessions run Monday–Saturday (5 nights), apart from Family Camp which runs Thursday–Sunday.
Ekone Ranch Summer Camps is part of Sacred Earth Foundation, which stewards and shares a 1300-acre land trust in community with thousands of children and adults every year. Its mission statement is: “Ekone Ranch: Simply, radically, transformatively caring for people and place.” White Eagle Memorial Preserve at Ekone Ranch was one of the first conservation burial grounds in the United States, is certified by the Green Burial Council, and is one of the founding members of the Conservation Burial Alliance.
Campers may attend two years in a row of horse riding camps and then must choose another type of camp for a “skip year.” All sessions have two camps running at the same time. The camp application process is not first-come, first-serve; there is a two-week open-application window in December and rolling applications after that. Family Camp states that families define “family” for themselves, and that kids of all ages are welcome but not required. The Ranch and cemetery are described as busy working places that do not accommodate drop-in visitors, and visits must be organized in advance. Ekone notes that Google Maps sometimes sends visitors down a goat trail and provides step-by-step directions.
Testimonials describe children returning from camp more confident and grounded in who they are and where they fit into the world. Other testimonials mention finding a community and mission, children riding horses by a grave, love “coming up from the earth” at Ekone, and “the land, the food, the rad cowgirls, the animals” with Ekone described as “timeless with modern sensibilities.” Additional comments state that kids learned how to be brave in new environments, felt safe taking risks, roamed free of technology, and that adults and kids had “the most incredible experience.” One testimonial calls it an incredible place for a solo sit experience, and another says that every child came away feeling empowered and proud, with a deeper sense of connection to one another.
Last updated June 12, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: All sessions run Monday–Saturday (5 nights), apart from Family Camp which runs Thursday–Sunday.
Ekone Ranch Summer Camps is part of Sacred Earth Foundation, which stewards and shares a 1300-acre land trust in community with thousands of children and adults every year. Its mission statement is: “Ekone Ranch: Simply, radically, transformatively caring for people and place.” White Eagle Memorial Preserve at Ekone Ranch was one of the first conservation burial grounds in the United States, is certified by the Green Burial Council, and is one of the founding members of the Conservation Burial Alliance.
Campers may attend two years in a row of horse riding camps and then must choose another type of camp for a “skip year.” All sessions have two camps running at the same time. The camp application process is not first-come, first-serve; there is a two-week open-application window in December and rolling applications after that. Family Camp states that families define “family” for themselves, and that kids of all ages are welcome but not required. The Ranch and cemetery are described as busy working places that do not accommodate drop-in visitors, and visits must be organized in advance. Ekone notes that Google Maps sometimes sends visitors down a goat trail and provides step-by-step directions.
Testimonials describe children returning from camp more confident and grounded in who they are and where they fit into the world. Other testimonials mention finding a community and mission, children riding horses by a grave, love “coming up from the earth” at Ekone, and “the land, the food, the rad cowgirls, the animals” with Ekone described as “timeless with modern sensibilities.” Additional comments state that kids learned how to be brave in new environments, felt safe taking risks, roamed free of technology, and that adults and kids had “the most incredible experience.” One testimonial calls it an incredible place for a solo sit experience, and another says that every child came away feeling empowered and proud, with a deeper sense of connection to one another.
Last updated June 12, 2026.
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