Camp Alta Mons hosts a large number of group retreats from SW Virginia and abroad. A group retreat can be a simple one night, cook your own food event. Or your group can stay for a week or more and let us do all the cooking. Retreats often include a ropes course event facilitated by our well trained, highly experienced staff. Our two main retreat facilities are the Retreat Center and the Retreat House. Each providing a kitchen, meeting room and beds for a self contained retreat or you can have full food service in our dining hall.With various facilities and facility combinations available to host groups up to about a hundred, Camp Alta Mons (if booked far enough in advance) can accommodate a great variety of groups. Do you need help planning your retreat, ask our staff to help guide you through the process of organizing your event.
Hotel-style
accommodation for retreat groups, conferences and large family gatherings. Sit
in a rocking chair on the deck of this modern 51-bed facility and watch the
fish play in the pond, or just relax and read a book. 
24 bedrooms (21 rooms have 2 single beds, a bath is shared by two rooms, 3 rooms
have 1 bunk and 1 single) with individual heat controls, fully equipped kitchen,
deck, rocking chairs. 1 bedroom and bathroom is Handicap accessible. Upper level
large meeting room with a piano, gas fireplace, round tables and padded chairs,
lectern, TV/DVD/VCR, phone (local). Lower level meeting room with kitchenette,
TV/VCR, refrigerator, white board, lectern, tables and chairs. Meeting rooms
have AC/Heat.
Cook your own meals in the complete kitchen, or join us in the dining hall for
delicious, wholesome, buffet style meals. All rooms include linens (towels,
wash cloth, sheets, blankets and pillow).
In the “back 400” is a renovated old farmhouse that we have turned into a great
retreat facility for youth or adult groups. The house comfortably accomodates
26 max for short
term
retreats and smaller groups of 20 persons for extended periods of time. Enjoy
solid wood bunk style beds and two "leaders" rooms with two single
beds. Other amenities are a modern kitchen, three full baths, and a large meeting
room with gas fireplace, TV DVD, VCR and 8 6ft tables and chairs. Scroll
over the pictures to see more of the house. This is an awesome place
to bring your group. You will commonly see deer grazing in the lawn, find plenty
of room to run and play, have outdoor devotions around the fire pit, cookout
in the charcoal grill provided, sit in rocking chairs on the front porch or
even pitch a tents around the house if your group should exceed the bed space.
Required minimum of 10 overnight guests to rent the house. Note: Linens
are not included, but are available for cost/per set (towels, wash cloth, sheets,
blankets and pillow)

The "Wellspring" retreat cabin is available for solo
or duo retreats. Wellspring is an all weather, handicap accessible, self contained
cabin with a single bed and pull out double sofa and a small study/chapel. This
cabin is nestled in the woods near the center of the camp. This is a favorite
of ministers and those seeking a personal retreat in a comfortable setting.
Handicap accessible.
Full size bed, pull out sofa bed, desk, CD player, fully equipped kitchen, AC/Heat,
wheelchair accessible bathroom, dining table and chairs, porch with 2 rocking
chairs
Are you a United Methodist Minister in the Roanoke/Lynchburg/Danville districts? Please contact us about our special services for the Wellspring cabin.
More primitive, isolated, facilities are available for those seeking complete solitude in God's great outdoors.
Camp Alta Mons •
2842 Crockett Springs Road • Shawsville, VA 24162 Phone 540-268-2409 • Fax 540-268-9503 • Email office@altamons.org |