July 21–23, 2026 · Beaver Meadows Resort Ranch

Mahjong in
the Mountains

Three days of tiles, good company, and a view you won't want to leave — up at Beaver Meadows Resort Ranch, near Red Feather Lakes, Colorado.

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3 days
Jul 21–23, two nights
~8,000 ft
Red Feather Lakes, CO
All levels
beginners welcome
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發
Mahjong tiles set up mid-play on the red dock over the pond, mountains behind
How the three days flow

Three days, no whistle.

Tables are set up and going most of the day — this is the shape of it, not a schedule you have to keep. Meals and the marquee moments are marked.

Day 1Tue · July 21
  • 9:00a – 12:00pLearn-to-play morning, or early open play
  • 12:00 – 2:00pLunch on your own
  • 2:00 – 4:00pOpen play
  • 4:00pGuest check-in
  • 4:00 – 6:00pFree time · dinner on your own
  • 6:00 – 8:00p★Welcome & official open play begins
  • 8:00 – 10:00pOptional evening mahjong
Day 2Wed · July 22
  • 9:00 – 10:00a✓Breakfast
  • 10:00a – 12:30pMorning open play + coffee
  • 12:30 – 1:30p✓Catered lunch
  • 1:30 – 4:00pAfternoon open play
  • 4:00 – 7:00pFree time · fishing, riding, the pond
  • 7:00 – 10:00pEvening open play
Day 3Thu · July 23
  • 8:30 – 9:00a✓Breakfast
  • 9:00 – 11:00aOpen play
  • 11:00a – 12:00p★Mountain Mahjong finale & grand prize raffle
  • 12:00pCheckout
What's included

Your spot covers
everything that matters.

One price, and the whole trip is handled. Show up, unpack once, and play.

Three ways to join

Stay over, drive up, or learn at the table.

Most people do this

Stay over

Two-night room package

A room for two nights, open play all three days, breakfasts, a catered lunch, and the welcome gift bag. Split a room with a friend or keep a quiet corner of the mountain to yourself.

No retreat bookings available

★ 15% off — applied at checkout

For locals

Commuter pass

$135 · full day, no overnight

Live nearby? Drive up, join open play for the day, and head home at night — all the tiles, none of the packing. Perfect if you're close by or the rooms have filled up.

No commuter pass available

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For lesson-only visits

Come up for the lesson

$125 · July 21 · 9 a.m.–12 p.m.

Not staying over? Come up just for this three-hour group lesson, then head home. Want to make a full day of it? Pair the lesson with a Commuter Pass for open play before or after.

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The view

The best table in the house has no walls

You know the drill at home. Kitchen table, decent light, maybe the TV going in the next room. Now picture the same tiles on a dock over a mountain pond, the water doing that thing where it goes glassy in the late afternoon, a cool breeze coming off the peaks.

That's the part we can't really explain until you're here. We set up tables wherever the view is best — the dock, the porches, out by the water — and you just play. Somebody always ends up saying “I could stay here forever,” usually around the third hand.

It's still the game you love. It just happens to be somewhere you'll be taking pictures of the whole trip.

A mahjong table set up by the water with the mountains behind
Never played?

Never played? You'll be in a game by lunch.

Let's get the nervous part out of the way, because we hear it every single time: “I don't really know how to play.” Perfect. Come anyway.

We run a proper learn-to-play morning on day one. No pop quiz, no side-eye from the table that's been playing for twenty years. Just Nina and Jackie walking you through it slowly, with coffee, until the tiles start making sense. By lunch you'll be holding your own. By dinner you'll be a little competitive about it. That's how it always goes.

Plenty of women come solo and nervous and leave with a standing game and a group text. You don't need a partner, and you don't need to know a thing.

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Mahjong tiles lined up on a rack, the pond soft behind
Open play

Play as long as you want. There's no clock up here.

This is the part that surprises people. There's no rigid schedule, no whistle, nobody herding you from one activity to the next. Tables are set up and going most of the day, and you drift in and out as you please.

Want to play six hours straight? Go for it. Want to sit out a round, take your coffee down to the dock, and come back when you feel like it? Also great. Some of the best afternoons up here are the ones where nothing is planned and the game just keeps going because nobody wants to be the one to stop it.

It's social, it's easy, and it's the reason people book again before they've even left.

A mahjong table set up and ready, overlooking the pond
The pond

Your afternoon view

There's a pond, and there's a long red dock that runs right out over it, and honestly it does half the work of selling this trip on its own.

You can fish it. You can take the boat out. You can sit on the end of the dock with your feet up and a hand of tiles and not talk to anyone for an hour, which some days is exactly the medicine. The water's calm in the morning, gold in the evening, and it's the spot everyone ends up gravitating to whether they meant to or not.

Bring your phone. You'll want it. Just don't expect much signal — that's part of the deal.

The long red dock reaching out over the mountain pond
Ranch life

Ride in the morning, mahjong in the afternoon

It's a working ranch, so yes — there are horses, and yes, you can ride them.

There's something about being on a horse in the mountains before breakfast that resets your whole nervous system. Then you come back, wash the trail off, and settle in at a table for the rest of the day. That's a pretty great Tuesday, if you ask me.

Not a rider? No pressure at all. Half the fun is just ranch life happening around you — the horses in the field, the flag snapping over the barn, dirt roads and aspens in every direction. It feels like a different, slower world, which is the entire point of leaving town.

Two ranch horses nuzzling in the meadow
The locals

The other guests

We are not the only ones who love this place.

There's a moose who treats the meadow like it's his, and frankly, it is. There are deer at the edge of the trees most evenings. And there's a beaver — an actual, real beaver, which feels only right given the place is called Beaver Meadows. We have the footage to prove it, and no, we did not stage it.

You don't have to go looking for any of it. You'll be halfway through a hand, someone will look up, and the whole table will go quiet and grab their phones. It happens every year, and it never gets old.

A moose standing in the meadow, facing the camera
The bar

Crak, Bam, and a cold one

This is a getaway, not a class, and the bar keeps it that way.

Come five o'clock, the tables loosen up, somebody makes a round, and the whole thing shifts into evening gear. There's a bar on the ranch, so you can post up on the deck with a cocktail and watch the sun slide down behind the mountains — which at this elevation is a genuinely ridiculous view, the good kind of ridiculous.

We usually name a drink for the trip just for fun. Order two, stay for the sunset, wander back to the table when you feel like it. Nobody's rushing you anywhere.

A spritz with an orange slice on the bar at golden hour
The rooms

Home base for three days

You're not roughing it. These are real rooms on the ranch, with a porch made for morning coffee and an evening glass of something.

Your stay covers two nights, so you unpack once and settle in. There's nothing quite like walking back to your own room after a long, easy day — the air's cool, the sky's doing something dramatic, and you can hear the last table still going somewhere behind you.

Bring a friend and split one, or come solo and have your own quiet corner of the mountain. Either way it starts feeling like yours by the second night.

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A ranch room under a big Colorado sky
Ranch nights

How the day ends up here

When the sun finally drops behind the peaks, the whole ranch goes quiet and soft, and the day starts to wind itself down.

You wander back to your room along the water — the air cool and thin, the lodge lights catching on the pond, a few geese still out on the glass. No screens, no noise to speak of. Just the good, bone-deep tired that only comes from a full day outside.

And then you sleep. Windows cracked to the mountain air, that deep quiet you forget exists until you're back in it. If you drift off still running tiles in your head — replaying the hand you should've won, plotting tomorrow's table — you won't be the only one.

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The resort lodge reflected in the pond, framed by tall pines
The stuff you're wondering

Good questions.

Still not sure? Ask us anything — Nina reads every note.

I've never played mahjong. Can I still come?

Yes, and honestly you're exactly who we built the morning lesson for. We teach you from scratch, no experience needed, and you'll be playing real games by that afternoon.

I don't have anyone to come with. Is that weird?

Not even a little. A lot of women come on their own. By the first afternoon you've got a table full of new people, and by the end you've got a group chat. Coming solo is one of the most common ways people do this.

What's included in the price?

Two nights in a room, open play all three days, breakfast each morning, a catered lunch, and a welcome gift bag. Basically everything but your drive up and whatever you order at the bar.

Where is it, exactly?

Beaver Meadows Resort Ranch, outside Red Feather Lakes, Colorado — about an hour and a half up from Fort Collins, at roughly 8,000 feet.

Is there cell service / wifi?

Spotty, on purpose-ish. It's the mountains. Tell people you'll be slow to reply and enjoy it.

What should I bring?

Layers (mountain evenings get cool), comfy clothes, a swimsuit if you want the water, and your favorite mahjong set if you've got one. We've got sets too.

Is it just women?

Everyone's welcome. It does skew women, and the vibe is very much “your people,” but partners and friends of any kind are glad they came.

Can I come up just for the day?

Yes — grab a Commuter Pass ($135). You drive up, join open play, and head home at night. Want to learn while you're here? Add the Retreat Group Lesson (125) for a full day of tiles.

Can I come up just for the lesson?

Absolutely. The Retreat Group Lesson is a stand-alone $125 option on July 21 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Come up for the lesson, then head home — or pair it with a Commuter Pass for open play and a full day at the ranch.

Spots are limited, and rooms go

Come play somewhere
you'll never forget.

Grab your room while there's still one with your name on it — your 15% comes off right at checkout.

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Mahjong in the MountainsJul 21–23 · Beaver Meadows · 15% off
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