Solo silent retreat, Hocking Hills
Two nights of silence, and your nervous system finally stands down.
The Art Bungalow, a hot tub under the trees, and 58 adults-only acres where nobody needs anything from you. Guests call it the ultimate, rejuvenating getaway and silent retreat experience.
- Sleep through the night again, without a schedule waking you
- A day with no decisions in it, unless you want one
- Breathwork, sound and forest sessions on tap, never mandatory
Feel it first
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Why most trips fail
You are not tired. You are unable to stop.
Every weekend off gets filled before it arrives, and Monday looks the same as Friday.
Hotels put you next to a hallway, a lobby and 200 strangers, so the noise never actually drops.
Silent retreats usually mean a dorm bed, a bell at 5am and rules you did not agree to.
Silence you own, not silence you are assigned.
You get a private bungalow on a protected preserve, adults only, never shared with another booking. No group circle you must join, no timetable to obey. The only sound with a schedule here is the forest.
What you leave with
Three results, in the order they happen.
1Your body drops out of alert mode
Hot tub at dusk, electric fireplace, a bed facing the trees. Two nights is long enough for sleep to reorganise itself.
2Your head goes quiet without forcing it
Forest bathing, meditation on the platform and an optional evening sound bath do the work that trying harder never does.
3You leave with something you keep
One coaching or breathwork session, if you want it, turns a nice weekend into a change you can still feel in a month.
What it feels like
The change happens in this order, almost every time.
Hour one
You realise nobody is going to knock.
Hour four
You stop reaching for your phone mid-thought.
Night one
You sleep without setting an alarm for the first time in months.
Morning two
You sit on the balcony for forty minutes and call it enough.
Drive home
Your jaw is unclenched and you did not have to try.
What you hear
Wind in 58 acres of hardwood, and not one engine.
What you smell
Woodsmoke, wet leaf litter, and dinner being cooked for you.
What you touch
Hot water at dusk with cold air on your face.
What you see
Steel and stone sculpture standing where trees thin out.
Before and after
What you arrive with, and what replaces it.
Sleeping five hours and calling it fine
Two full nights, no alarm, waking with the light
Making 200 small decisions a day
A day where the biggest choice is hot tub now or later
Thinking about the reset you keep postponing
Coming home with one practice you actually kept
Noise you had stopped noticing
A baseline quiet you can hear again
Straight from us
The reason people come here alone
Almost every solo guest arrives slightly embarrassed about it. They booked two nights for themselves and feel like they should justify it to somebody.
By the second afternoon nobody is justifying anything. There is no lobby, no neighbours, no schedule you agreed to under pressure. There is a bungalow, a hot tub, 58 acres, and permission you did not know you were waiting for.
You leave with your shoulders somewhere lower than they were on Friday. That is the entire product.
How it unfolds
2–4 nights, told the way you will remember it.
01 / Arrival
You stop hearing engines about a mile out
One hour from Columbus, then a ridge road, then gravel, then nothing. You park once. The Bungalow is yours, the balcony faces the preserve, and no reception desk asks you anything.
- Settle into the Bungalow
- Optional guided art tour
- Hot tub at dusk
02 / The long day
Nothing is required of you, and that is the point
Walk the marked trails, sit on the forest platform, or stay in the hot tub until your hands wrinkle. Sessions exist if you want a spine to the day, and quietly disappear if you do not.
- Morning meditation in the forest
- Forest bathing walk
- Afternoon in silence
- Evening sound bath
03 / Departure
The change is in your baseline, not your photos
Slow morning on the balcony, 11am checkout, and a drive home where you notice your shoulders are somewhere lower than they were on Friday.
- Slow morning on the balcony
- Optional coaching session
- 11am checkout
One day, hour by hour
So you can picture yourself in it before you book.
7:10
Light, not an alarm
The Bungalow faces the preserve, so you wake because it got bright, not because something buzzed.
8:30
Coffee on the balcony
Nothing on the schedule until you put something there. This is the part guests say they had forgotten was possible.
10:00
Forest bathing walk
Slow, guided, sensory. Not a hike. Two hours of noticing, which is harder and better than distance.
13:00
The long empty afternoon
Read, nap, sit on the forest platform, or float. The day has no shape unless you give it one.
17:30
Hot tub as the temperature drops
Steam, cold air, the tree line going dark. The single most described moment in solo guest reviews.
20:00
Sound bath, optional
Bowls and gongs in a room with no other people in it. Most solo guests are asleep by ten.
Every session listed is optional. 10 are already shaped across your 2–4 nights, and you can add, swap or drop any of them while booking.
Dates and real numbers
See what your solo silent reset actually costs, before you talk to anyone.
Live calendar, live rates, live add-on pricing. Nothing here is a guess and nothing is hidden until checkout.
Open weekends by month
August
4 weekends open
September
3 weekends open
October
5 weekends open
November
4 weekends open
December
3 weekends open
January
5 weekends open
Aug 5–7
2 night minimum, live availability
2 nights
August 2026
September 2026
Adults in your group
Sculptor's Art Bungalow takes up to 2
Add sessions, watch the total move
Your estimate
$992
2 nights, 1 adult, all in
Per night
$496
Per adult
$992
- $400 avg × 2 nights$800
- Cleaning & reset$125
- Ohio lodging tax$67
Free 24 hour hold, no card, no resort fees
Everything included
One property, one team, one invoice.
- The Art Bungalow to yourself, adults only
- Hot tub, electric fireplace, private nature-view balcony
- Trail, forest platform and meditation area access
- A consult call with Raven before you arrive
- Optional breathwork, sound bath, forest bathing, massage and coaching
- Art Bungalow for two
- Trail and preserve access
- Consult call with Raven
Starting from
$400/ night
- Stay
- Sculptor's Art Bungalow
- Length
- 2–4 nights
- Group
- 1 guest
- Sessions shaped
- 10 across the stay
- Add-ons available
- 5 on site
Free 24 hour hold on your dates. No platform or resort fees.
“It was the ultimate, rejuvenating getaway and silent retreat experience!”
Greg, Solo silent reset
Honest comparison
A hotel, a retreat centre, or 58 acres nobody else is on.
Who else is on site
A hotel floor, a lobby, other bookings, other groups
Nobody. 58 adults-only acres, one booking at a time
Sessions and practitioners
You source and coordinate four or five separate vendors
Breathwork, sound, forest bathing, massage, chef and coaching on site
Who runs the day
You do, on top of attending it
Owner-operated by an artist and a wellness practitioner
The building itself
Beige rental furniture and hotel art
Original museum-scale sculpture, handmade beds, a working collection
The invoice
Platform fees, cleaning fees, resort fees, vendor deposits
One itemised invoice, no platform or resort fees
The drive
A flight, a connection, a rental car, a lost day each way
One hour from Columbus, two from Cincinnati, two and a half from Cleveland
How booking works
Four steps, and only one of them needs you.
01
Hold your dates free
Pick your nights and we hold them for 24 hours at no cost, so you can check with the people coming before anything is committed.
02
Talk to Raven, not a call centre
A 30 minute consult with the owner. Group size, pace, dietary needs, what you want people to leave with. She shapes the plan around that.
03
Approve one itemised invoice
Stay, sessions, chef, everything on one page. No platform fees, no resort fees, no five vendors to chase and reconcile afterwards.
04
Arrive and hand it over
The property is set, the practitioners are booked, the schedule is printed. From the moment you park, someone else is carrying it.
Layer it up
Sessions you can add while booking, not chase afterwards.
Fit check
We would rather you knew now.
Book this if
- You are running hot and want a hard stop, not a busy holiday
- You want silence available, not enforced by a stranger with a bell
- You would rather sleep, walk and think than sightsee
Look elsewhere if
- You want nightlife, restaurants and a town to wander
- You want a group programme with fixed hours and a cohort
- You are bringing children, this property is adults only
When to come
The preserve is a different place four times a year.
Spring
Trilliums on the trail floor, cold mornings, the preserve waking up loudly. Best light for the forest platform.
Summer
Long green evenings, fireflies over the meadow, hot tub after dark when the heat finally drops.
Autumn
The busiest and most photographed season in Hocking Hills. Book two to three months out for peak colour.
Winter
Bare ridgelines, sightlines through the trees, fireplaces going, and the deepest quiet of the year.
Proof, not promises
4.97 out of 5 across 400 guest reviews.
“This was a perfect location for our CEO forum group to retreat for a long weekend.”
Megan, Corporate offsite, Sculptor's Art Lodge
“It was the ultimate, rejuvenating getaway and silent retreat experience!”
Greg, Solo silent reset, Sculptor's Art Bungalow
“I would truly recommend booking this experience to any and everyone.”
AD, Couples retreat, Sculptor's Art Bungalow
Before you book
The questions everyone asks.
Do I have to be silent the whole time?
No. Silence here is available, not enforced. Most solo guests talk to nobody for a day and love it, and you can add a session with Raven the moment you want company.
Is it safe and comfortable on my own?
The property is owner-operated and Raven and Dustin live on site. You have a private, locked space, and someone reachable the whole time.
Will I be bored?
Bored is the first two hours. After that, guests report the opposite: the day feels longer and more interesting than a city weekend.
Will I be bored?
Sometimes, for about an hour on day two, and that is usually the moment things change. Trails, art, sessions and a hot tub are all there when you want structure back.
Is it safe to be out here alone?
The preserve is private, gated to guests, and owner-occupied on site. Cell coverage works and Raven is reachable the entire stay.
Can I extend to three or four nights?
Yes. Two nights resets you, four nights changes your baseline. Longer stays get better nightly rates, ask on the consult call.
Who hosts you
Owner-operated, which is the whole difference
Dustin is a master sculptor, 25 years of large-scale commissioned work, featured on Disney+, the History Channel and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Raven is a wellness practitioner who designs the sessions and hosts the consult call herself. The art you sleep beside and the breathwork you are guided through come from the same two people, on the same land, and they live here.
- Free 24 hour hold on your dates before you pay anything
- One itemised invoice, no platform fees, no resort fees
- A consult call with the owner before every booking, always included
- Adults only, never shared with another booking while you are here
- Every stay funds our on-site and off-site animal rescue
Where you are
58 private acres, with the best of Hocking Hills inside 16 miles.
17683 Thompson Ridge Road, Laurelville, OH 43135. Drive times: Columbus 1 hour, Cincinnati 2 hours, Cleveland 2.5 hours.
Book the quiet before your calendar takes it
Bungalow dates go first on weekends and through fall foliage. Hold your nights now and shape the details later.
Free 24 hour date hold, one itemised invoice, adults only
Other ways to use the preserve
Couples
Couples Slow Weekend
From $400 / night, 2–3 nights
Facilitators & wellness groups
Wellness Cohort Retreat
From $1,600 / night, 3 nights
Companies & CEO forums
Leadership Offsite
From $1,200 / night, 2–3 nights
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