Ghost Ranch

About

"The skies & the land are so enormous, & the detail so precise & exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro, where everything is sidewise under you & over you, & the clocks stopped long ago.: -- Ansel Adams

Story

Dinosaurs once walked the soggy wetlands that became the arid high desert of Ghost Ranch. Millions of years later Navajos and various other tribes roamed the valley. The Spaniards settled here and then came the cattle rustlers, the wranglers and the dudes. Arthur Pack, one of the country's first environmentalists, bought the Ranch and sold a little piece of it to Georgia O'Keeffe. Scientists took respite time here from the stresses of building the nuclear bomb at Los Alamos. Famous guests have included Charles Lindbergh, Ansel Adams and John Wayne. Arthur Pack and his wife Phoebe gave the Ranch to the Presbyterian Church in 1955 and even though Georgia O'Keeffe wanted the Ranch for herself she eventually became friends of the first director of Ghost Ranch, Jim Hall. The history of Ghost Ranch reads like a novel. Read more by visiting our website.

Mission

Ghost Ranch, an education and retreat center of The Presbyterian Church (USA), grounds its life and program in reverence, hospitality for all people, and respect for creation.

Products

Educational Retreats & Workshops, Conference & Meeting Facilities, Spiritual Retreats, Lodging & Camping, O'Keeffe Landscape Tours & Horseback Trail Rides, Anthropology & Paleontology Museums Library, Hiking, High & Low Ropes Courses