Alliance Redwoods Conference Grounds

We came here for a school outing and the kids had a great time. Depending on the cabins, the one we were at did not have restrooms (felt more like a 8×12 jail cell that had four beds). They location here provides food (brings back the high school cafeteria days), breakfast lunch and dinner and their menu changes daily.
Staff here are very knowledgeable and really know how to get the kids involved. Their activities are well planned and everyone in our group had a blast.
The restrooms was something that, given the location, was acceptable although every time you walk past it, your nose reminds you they’re portable toilets. This location is not within cell phone coverage so don’t bother. The location does offer free Wi-​Fi though.

Our church group came back from Redwood Alliance with severe bedbugs bites July 2015.
Did anyone else have the same experience?

We were recently at Alliance Redwoods for a church retreat. The grounds look nice to start with. However, I slept poorly and the food left way more to be desired.
We were assigned a room downstairs in Aldenwood. First, I don’t understand why we didn’t get keys for our room. The doors to the rooms remain unlocked your entire stay. So go prepared for that. The walls AND floors were VERY thin. You can hear everything. Babies crying, walking (but it sounds like stomping), snoring. The beds were decent, the bathroom was tiny. One group in our party found bed bugs, so look before you sleep.
The food started off pretty bad on Friday night. It got a bit better as the weekend went on. The drink selection was decent and dessert was decent. The dining hall was clean and easy the access.
I signed up for archery, and although it was only $ 5pp, it was a waste of time. My time would have been better spent taking my son swimming. Too many people signed up (20+ participants, most of which were children who really were too young for it) for the 1 hour slot, so we just got one turn to shoot 5 arrows. There was very little guidance and the range was mediocre.
So although I’d rather rate this place higher, I can’t. If another retreat is hosted here, I will have to sign up only for a day trip and commute, rather than stay overnight. The messages we hear are not effective if I’m tired from no sleep.

I have many wonderful things to say about AW, but the one thing I would really like is the recipe for the banana cake you served this week in the dining hall. Wowzers! So good :)

Came here with my daughter’s 6^th grade class. I fell in love with place and staff. I want to give special thank you to 2 of the Naturalists name «Cheese» and «Sherlock». They are the most patient and motivating people I ever met in a long time. Our group of kids love them. I’m planning to bring my family there to have a special family retreat. I can’t wait.

Alliance conference grounds is great on many levels.
The staff are friendly, helpful, communicate well and are on top of their game.
The grounds are beautiful and well kept.
They have a good variety of housing options. From yurts to cabins.
Recreational options for groups and individuals. For a conference we’ve tried paintball, climbing walls, ropes courses etc. They also have a great tree top zip line excursion that I hope to try this year.
All in all, try it!

What a cool place to take a school group and learn about the great outdoors. I went as a chaperone along with a group of fifth graders. OMG! What was I thinking?! — but I survived. Yes, I did. I actually squeezed in some fun, too.
They’ve got cabins, yurts, basketball courts, a climbing gym, free wi-​fi, and a large cafeteria. The naturalists were awesome. They were fun, informative, and not pushovers. We went for day hikes, night hikes (so cool!), campfires, climbing, and swinging from high up in the trees on a giant rope swing (properly harnessed and helmeted). The kids really seemed to have a blast.
Special mention needs to be made of the nurse. He worked around the clock — and I know for a fact since I seemed to always be escorting one kid or another to his office for skinned knees or whatever. He was really nice, patient, and joked around with the kids or talked to them sweetly depending on what they needed to ease their fears.

Went here as a chaperone with school group for 5^th grade Outdoor Education. The grounds were beautiful and well kept. Staff was wonderful, naturalists very knowledgeable and accommodating. Everyone makes you feel very welcome here. Our group stayed at the Big Rock lodge, which was actually across the street. The lodge was perfect for our group of 24 (4 adults and 20 kids), and could have actually accommodated a few more. Lodge included bathrooms, hot showers, and very spacious area for meetings & activities. Only suggestion would be to build a walkway/​bridge over to this lodge because the street you have to cross, although not very wide, but cars drive pretty fast on this road (hence, 4 stars instead of 5)!
On the main grounds, there is a hospitality lounge, dining hall, lots of recreational areas, and meetings spaces. Medic at the nurses station is very caring & thorough, esp for the kids who needed to take prescription meds.
Outdoor activities we did were zip-​lining, piñata, and night hike. Again, naturalists do a fantastic job with educating, motivating, and keeping everyone safe. It’s pretty obvious how well-​managed and organized they are here. I would definitely recommend this place for other schools to utilize for Outdoor Ed! Thank you Alliance Redwoods!

OK… let me calm down. THIS PLACE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT SHIZZLE!!!
I love this retreat center… I would go here over any other place I have been to and I’ve been to about 6 in Cali. Best food goes to Kononia, but other than that this is the place for me!!! I have been here twice and the second time I went I saw a lot of neat renovations which was nice to see.
The staff was awesome and the food was pretty darn good. They have so many nice facilities around too. If you don’t go with a gigantic and I mean HUGE group then the upstairs of the main building has an indoor basketball court. There is a dope basketball court in front of the dining hall too. They have some decent sized rooms where big groups can fit…3 actually.
I love how they have little small group huts too… I use to do my morning prayer times there all the time (they have mini heaters haha). There is a really nice fireside lounge next to the office/​store too with free tea (under the dining hall). There is a large camp fire place towards the middle of the place too.
The cabins are pretty nice but I thought that the yurts were really comfortable more than the cabins. The yurts are honestly too far away from everything else though.
All in all this is the place man… seriously!

What an outstanding location! The redwoods are gorgeousand the grounds are kept very well. Definitely a great place to go!

The facilities looked clean and amazingly well maintained. The food was tasty. The staff seemed friendly and focused on making our experience a good one. Paintball was an unforgettable heart pumping blast for the guys. Would recommend trying the zip line though even though our group had not tried it.
Everyone skilled in the art of owning or overseeing a conference facility has probably studied this place as a case study of what skilled managers from another industry could accomplish in hospitality if allowed to experiment in the facility rental world.
This looked like a popular facility in that its guests find this popular. On any random day, one can see plenty of cars in the parking lots as shown via commercial satellite imagery (e.g. Google Maps, Microsoft Terra Server, etc.). Would use commercial satellite imagery to compare this facility with others as the parking lot having many cars hints at popular utilization.

This past weekend I took my husband on a surprise trip to Alliance Canopy Tours. What a blast! Even in the rain and being soaked from head to toe, we had a wild adventure flying through the sky on ziplines. The 800 foot zipline was the BEST! I am afraid of heights and I loved the experience.

A great place for church retreats. Been here twice and the staffs are just amazing. Very nice size gym is available. Foods are okay. Usually, 3 out of 5 meals are great.

We stayed at the yurts (near the field/​campfire) and it was VERY FAR from the dining hall and everything else. Not to mention the steep hike to the yurts several times in a day can make you sore the next several days. The yurts had about 10 bunks and showers/​restrooms closeby. It was near the campfire, but nothing else. Showers and restrooms were clean and I didn’t see any bugs in there (very impressed).
I would give it 4 stars b/​c of the distance of the yurts but the service here was amazing. Every staff member was gracious and kind and was never rude. Jared set up our fire for our last night (we only stayed a weekend) and the staff was cooperative and let us take pictures on the campground for our scavenger hunt and provided some of the items that we needed!
The food is what you would expect with dorm/​cafeteria food. French toast, eggs, sloppy joe’s, baked chicken and veggies, etc. They even had chips, cookies, cake and a fully stocked salad bar. They had a condiment section with Tapatio, Tabasco and Siracha too! Fountain soda and individual cartons of milk too.
They had a new outdoor basketball court, swings, pool, rock climbing rock, indoor basketball court and equipment. This is the fanciest retreat site I have ever been too. Would highly recommend!
WARNING: No reception for ATT. I think the only people that had it were on the Verizon network (and calls would still drop).

I came here a few days ago with my church for summer camp. I had an absolutely amazing time!!! They have pretty nice cabins, compared to the other places I have stayed in cabins. Lots of activities were offered (i.e. paintball, zipline, volleyball, sports tournaments, etc.) The food was iffy. Sometimes it was great, other times, not-​so-​great. The staff was wonderful, and really helped everyone out. They had a really nice chapel, where worship took place. The only thing that really bothered me was the hike up to the field. It was sooo steep and took FOREVER, but I still had tons of fun, and it was definitly worth the hike :)

Really? I’m the 2^nd to review? Dang it… I was hoping for another FTR, haha
Came here Valentine’s/Lincoldn’s weekend for World Christian Conference. (
) and this was the site this year. It’s usually in San Mateo, but the normal site was booked and this apparently was the backup.
Being out in the woods, this feels more like a church retreat site than a conference center, but had the features of a conference center, such as free WIFI, various meeting rooms, and a cafeteria.
The cabin where I was staying was small, with 4 bunks and a compartment shelf for our bags and whatnot. It was very cold in the room and the tiny tiny wall heater took a good 12 – 18 hours to significantly warm up the room. And you know it’s a retreat type of deal when you have a couple hundred feet to where the bathroom/​shower house is.
Other site features include a rec center with an indoor basketball court, gym, and a climbing wall. There is an outdoor basketball court out near the parking lot, and a ropes course about ¼ mile Northwest of the site.
They have nicer cabins as well. There was a «house» where the planning directors of the conference were staying and I hung out there one afternoon. It had 2 bedrooms (maybe 3?), a living room with fireplace, a dining room, and kitchen.
My friend was telling me the office had brochures that were for packages of $ 99/​night stays in the nicer cabins with the heater, fireplace, etc. and included free range of all of the available activites.
There is a creek that runs alongside the campgrounds and they have an iron patio set right alongside the bank of the creek to enjoy (weather permitting).
The food that came out of the cafeteria was typical retreat food. It wasn’t spectacular by any means, but you could tell they did their best trying to feed 200+ a decent meal for a few days.
Overall the campsite was really nice and I would’ve given it 5 stars if it weren’t for the rain. That kind of prevented anybody from being able to do anything outside…

I just got back from a weekend retreat here. The place was a bit hard to find, but most campgrounds in the wood will be.
The site itself was good. Most of the cabins were located in one area, and they had a nice «hospitality room» which is kind of like a big living room for people to hang out in. They have an indoor basketball court, outdoor sand volleyball court, swimming pool, rock climbing, and a mini-​half pipe.
The cabins were small, just enough room for two bunk beds and a bit of room for luggage. Bathrooms and showers are dorm-​style, but they’re not too far from the cabins. It was fun, kind of like being back in the dorms, showering and talking to the guy in the next stall.
The food was your average fare, nothing to get excited about. Though since they were cooking for a couple hundred people, we can’t expect gourmet food.
If your group does come up here, just try to avoid the Yurts. Those things are the big round cabins that sleep 8 or so, and they are located far from everythign else. You’re not gonna like the hike.
There is absolutely no cell phone service in the area, so it’s a nice place to get unplugged.
FIve stars cuz it’s everying I’d expect in a campground and more. I mean, indoor basketball? Awesome. Available activities also included archery, zipline, and paintball. I don’t remember other sites having so many activities available.