Built and wild space, curated for your retreat.

Baker Road’s has a growing list of amenities to support our guest’s retreats. From inspired basics like meeting rooms and overnight accommodations to broader amenities like group transportation and diverse facilitators and practitioners, we’ve got retreat needs covered. With our added competency and credentials in outdoor recreation and deep knowledge of nearby wild spaces, we seamlessly integrate nature and all it’s restorative capacity into our experiences. Baker Road’s sweet spot is for retreats with 1 to 15 participants, allowing for deep engagement, care, and personalized hospitality.

Whether we’re showing up fully engaged to guide your retreat or serving as a hospitality provider in the background, we’ll weave this portfolio of amenities together to support your itinerary memorably and thoughtfully. When not in use for a retreat Baker Road is supporting, our overnight accommodations are available to rent personally through popular rental sites.

Built Spaces

  • Glen Road is a three-bedroom, two-bath retreat house, situated on six private beautiful acres. The house has seven beds ranging from twin-bunks to kings, allowing for flexibility depending on guest count and willingness to share spaces. The property has both indoor and open-air flex spaces built for business meetings or yoga and everything in between.

  • Main Street is has two primary spaces. The first floor, opening to Main Street in downtown Mount Vernon, is a massive 2,500sf open space, equipped with restrooms, ADA accessibility, and a comfortable resting lounge. The space can hold over 100 people. Upstairs includes a full kitchen, large dining or work table, and three private hotel-style rooms. Each room has secure digital entry, two queen beds, and a full bath.

Practicing mother nurture.

  • If you haven’t picked up on it by now, we’re particularly grounded in lessons from mother nature. Our aim is to be humble and helpful participants in this complex, shared ecosystem. When we slow down and direct attention to this intent, we’re reminded nature always offers what we need; assurance, perspective, and often, correction. Baker Road designs hospitality in reverence to this approach, cultivating experiences with generosity and a steady, unforced type of care.

If you haven’t picked up on it by now, we’re particularly grounded in lessons from mother nature. Our aim is to be humble and helpful participants in this complex, shared ecosystem. When we slow down and direct attention to this intent, we’re reminded nature always offers what we need; assurance, perspective, and often, correction. Baker Road designs hospitality in reverence to this approach, cultivating experiences with generosity and a steady, unforced type of care.

Wild Spaces

With years of experience, trust with land managers, and a commitment to leave no trace, we activate these spaces to support itineraries and facilitators.

  • The Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail, a unique, point-to-point backpacking trail traversing 70 beautiful miles overlooking a Pennsylvania river valley. Adirondack shelters and facilities along the trail, provide perfect accommodations for first-time backpackers.

  • Knox County Metroparks, including Honey Run and Wolf Run, offer rich trail networks, beautiful natural features, and large runs of land to traverse.

  • The Philander Chase Conservancy, endowed via Kenyon College, has protected thousands of acres of wilderness and farmland from commercial development and incorporates nearly 20 miles of trail.

  • Our namesake, Baker Road, offers nearly 60 acres of private land, over 10 acres of native wildflowers, 15 acres of forest, and multiple nooks and trails for hosting guests.

Encouraging wildness.

  • Thoreau reminds us, we all “need the tonic of wildness” - a reminder easy-to-ignore alongside daily routines in this modern, always-on world. Through planned uncertainty in guests’ itineraries, beautiful spaces, and yielding to the elements, Baker Road cultivates wild, wonder-filled moments on retreat. The dissonance between these moments and guests’ lives outside retreat can be deeply provocative, opening up new perspectives that lead to more contented experiences when they return.

Thoreau reminds us, we all “need the tonic of wildness” - a reminder easy-to-ignore alongside daily routines in this modern, always-on world. Through planned uncertainty in guests’ itineraries, beautiful spaces, and yielding to the elements, Baker Road cultivates wild, wonder-filled moments on retreat. The dissonance between these moments and guests’ lives outside retreat can be deeply provocative, opening up new perspectives that lead to more contented experiences when they return.

Service

We operate with a love for the challenge of boundless service. A kind of generous, all-encompassing hospitality that feels like it doesn't belong in the moment or in the environment it’s being offered. In this way we see these amenities as a disruptive force in their own right for our guests, each meaningfully complementing their initial intent to engage with Baker Road.

  • Event management so experiences feel seamless, smooth, and natural. We’ve got lots of reps to anticipate needs and emphasize guest experiences that feel complete and ready upon arrival.

  • Food and provisions are a memorable component of all our experiences. When we break bread, it’s a fresh sourdough, baked on cast iron. When we cook steak, it’s from a local pasture and grilled on live coals.

  • Transportation and travel logistics once guests arrive. A 15-passenger van also allows a group to engage differently with one another, adding the field trip sentiment to all of their movement during retreat.

  • Wilderness safety is integrated into every offer made, allowing guests to push a little harder and find new personal limits knowing a credentialed crew is running logistics in the background.

  • Outdoor gear and skill training are designed into programming with a beginner’s mind, tone, and enthusiasm. We love reminding guests of their analog intelligence through things like navigation, fire making, and exposure to the elements.