About
Ekone Ranch Summer Camp offers horse adventures, creative pursuits, wilderness challenges, and leadership journeys. Campers take part in horse riding, horsemanship, ranch life, and bareback trail rides, along with camp fun such as theater, improv games, circus skills, music night, and time with ponies and rope swings. They also engage in activities like interacting with the natural world, inventing characters, writing dialogue, mural painting, natural dyeing, collage, basket-making, creative writing, nature art, harvest cooking, music, and forest walks.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: All sessions run from Monday–Saturday (5 nights), apart from Family Camp which runs Thursday–Sunday.
Ekone Ranch Summer Camp is part of Sacred Earth Foundation, a land trust that stewards and shares the land in community with thousands of children and adults every year. Its mission is that Ekone Ranch is simply, radically, transformatively caring for people and place. White Eagle Memorial Preserve at Ekone was one of the first few conservation burial grounds in the US, is certified by the Green Burial Council, and is one of the founding members of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Ekone offers Family Camp where the whole family can attend, the definition of “family” is self-defined, and kids of all ages are welcome but not required. The camp uses a Skip Year Policy for horse riding camps, where campers may attend two years in a row of horse riding camps and then must choose another type of camp for a skip year, and all sessions have two camps running concurrently. Ekone generates 50% of its operating budget through earned income and the other half depends on philanthropic donations and grants.
Ekone Ranch is part of a 1300-acre land trust in South Central Washington State. Its work includes horse connection for all ages in respectful partnership, mentoring youth into empowered leaders ready to meet the challenges of their time, forestry for climate resilience and restoring healthy fire to the ecosystem, school field trips building class cohesion and wild learning, and restoring access to the land and fostering right relationship with Native communities.
Testimonials from families and participants describe experiences such as a daughter returning from camp more confident in herself and more grounded in who she is and where she fits into the world, finding a community and mission bigger than expected, and a sense that “there is love coming up from the earth at Ekone.” Another testimonial highlights “the land, the food, the rad cowgirls, the animals…Ekone is timeless with modern sensibilities.”
Last updated January 7, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: All sessions run from Monday–Saturday (5 nights), apart from Family Camp which runs Thursday–Sunday.
Ekone Ranch Summer Camp is part of Sacred Earth Foundation, a land trust that stewards and shares the land in community with thousands of children and adults every year. Its mission is that Ekone Ranch is simply, radically, transformatively caring for people and place. White Eagle Memorial Preserve at Ekone was one of the first few conservation burial grounds in the US, is certified by the Green Burial Council, and is one of the founding members of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Ekone offers Family Camp where the whole family can attend, the definition of “family” is self-defined, and kids of all ages are welcome but not required. The camp uses a Skip Year Policy for horse riding camps, where campers may attend two years in a row of horse riding camps and then must choose another type of camp for a skip year, and all sessions have two camps running concurrently. Ekone generates 50% of its operating budget through earned income and the other half depends on philanthropic donations and grants.
Ekone Ranch is part of a 1300-acre land trust in South Central Washington State. Its work includes horse connection for all ages in respectful partnership, mentoring youth into empowered leaders ready to meet the challenges of their time, forestry for climate resilience and restoring healthy fire to the ecosystem, school field trips building class cohesion and wild learning, and restoring access to the land and fostering right relationship with Native communities.
Testimonials from families and participants describe experiences such as a daughter returning from camp more confident in herself and more grounded in who she is and where she fits into the world, finding a community and mission bigger than expected, and a sense that “there is love coming up from the earth at Ekone.” Another testimonial highlights “the land, the food, the rad cowgirls, the animals…Ekone is timeless with modern sensibilities.”
Last updated January 7, 2026.
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