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🌲 The Pine Ridge Artist Retreat

A Solo Creative Retreat at The Trails

Tucked high on a ridge among old-growth pines, The Pine Ridge Retreat is a weeklong solo experience for artists, writers, photographers, filmmakers, and creatives seeking quiet, beauty, and uninterrupted time to work. This is a place to reconnect with your creative rhythm—away from noise, distractions, and deadlines.

You’ll stay in our most secluded cabin—Pine Ridge—with no WiFi, no noise, and nothing but mountain forest, trails, and sky.

What’s Included

  • 7-night stay in the Pine Ridge Cabin: a handcrafted retreat with a queen bed, full kitchen, custom woodwork, and a porch that opens into the forest
  • Use of two additional creative structures on the land for writing, thinking, or filming
  • 93 private acres of trails, meadows, trees, and quiet
  • Direct access to the Monongahela National Forest for extended wandering

💫 Why Artists Come Here

The Pine Ridge Retreat exists for those who crave space—not just physical space, but creative and emotional spaciousness. It’s for those who are ready to listen inward and let the land, the stillness, and their own imagination guide them.

📅 Availability & Cost

  • Length: 7 nights
  • Retreat Fee: $695
  • Applications: Accepted on a rolling basis

📨 How to Apply

To apply, send a short email introducing yourself, a link to your past work, what you’re working on now, and why this retreat speaks to you.

📩 maxcusimano@me.com
Subject: Pine Ridge Retreat Application


Mountaintop view just a short walk from your cabin.

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