Lightly facilitated weekend retreats designed to help you unplug and reconnect to what matters.
Newly renovated cabins with everything you need, and nothing you don't.
The best campground in Michigan - you get whole place - cabins, tents, kayaks, swimming - all included.
Modern life is loud...
You’ve tried powering through. You’ve tried vacations that traded work noise for tourist noise. What you haven’t had is quiet. Not the app version. The real thing.
The place
Water & Woods is 80 acres of private woods, meadow, and spring-fed water near Kaleva, Michigan. Simple cabins. No paved roads past the gate. No Wi-Fi, and cell service thins out about the time the trees close in.
We didn’t design a getaway. We just left out the things you need to get away from.
Start Your Journey
A scheduled weekend with a loose frame. Light facilitation is offered, never required. Sit in on a morning session, or skip it and take the trail instead.
No group, no frame. A simple cabin, the lake, and as much of the 80 acres as you feel like walking. Come alone, or bring one person who also needs the quiet.
Three Simple Steps
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Choose an upcoming retreat or an open cabin weekend.
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Leave the busy digital world, full of its distractions and stresses behind.
03
Walk the loop, swim, read, nap, or do nothing at all. Nothing here is required.
A private, spring-fed lake. Cold into June, swimmable by July, quiet all year.
Eighty acres of pine, hardwood, and meadow, with mowed trails and a loop that takes about two hours if you don’t hurry.
Days here are measured by light on the water. There’s nothing on the schedule unless you put it there.
Kaleva, Michigan
15271 Makinen Rd, Kaleva MI 49645
About four hours from Detroit, three from Grand Rapids, forty minutes from Traverse City.
