Lodging lowdown

The weekend’s main events will take place at the Sequoia Retreat Center and the nearby Stones & Flowers Retreat and Ben Lomond Quaker Center, all deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains near the small town of Ben Lomond.

We hope this spot is close enough to San Francisco and Silicon Valley (1-2 hours) to make it an easy weekend excursion for locals or a convenient leg of a Bay Area tour for visitors from afar. It is also not far from Santa Cruz (30 minutes) or Monterey/Carmel (1.5 hours) for those who want to visit points of interest on the coast.

For those who have time to spend a night or two in the immediate vicinity, we are organizing several lodging options suitable for a range of budgets, styles and tastes for togetherness. (This qualifies us as temporary housing kingpins of greater Ben Lomond!)

Our goal: Make it as easy as possible for as many of you as possible to spend as much time as possible with us and stay as close to the center of activities as possible.

area map

Map of the Sequoia/Quaker vicinity. Click on the map to see more detailed view.

Overview of options

  • On-site lodging: at Sequoia, Stones & Flowers, Waterfall and the Quaker Center
  • Hotels: in Ben Lomond and Scotts Valley