What the register looks like when the doors open

Last updated August 10, 2026

Where things stand right now

Those numbers are the state of the thing, not a forecast of it. Every one of them carries the date it was measured, and the older readings stay up beside the newer ones on the build log.

If you plan retreats

• Browse by state and market. The whole United States map, including the small markets other platforms skip. Coverage is uneven on purpose, and the markets page shows exactly how uneven, state by state, with the date each count was taken.
• Filter on what actually matters. Group capacity, on-site lodging, full-property buyouts, dedicated meeting space, and wellness or outdoor programs. Those are the things a planner compares, so those are the fields the register keeps.
• Read the photographs correctly. A listing never shows a different property. Until an owner claims their listing and uploads their own photographs, the register matches the venue with a close stand-in image, and it is treated as a stand-in rather than as evidence.
• Get a straight answer on price. Where a venue publishes rates, the register shows them. Where a venue quotes per group, the listing says quote only rather than printing a made-up number. That is most of them: on July 12, 2026, 133 of the register’s 1,374 venues published a starting price anywhere on their own website.⁴
• Reach a person on the first try. Nine venues in ten in the register list a direct phone number: 1,928 of 2,125 on July 18, 2026.² The register screens for that before a venue is listed, because a planner with a real number can answer half their own questions in one call.

Venue owners: claim yours early

• Claiming is free for the first 60 days, and the launch list goes first. Once the register opens, venues can claim their listing to add details, photographs, and current contact information. Owners on the launch list get first access, before the public.

  That is why we look for the basics first, like a direct phone line and physical event space. Claiming your venue profile ensures corporate planners connect straight to your team without any missing details.

• Your own photographs replace the stand-in. A claimed listing carries the owner’s images. An unclaimed one carries a close stand-in, clearly treated as such.
• Corrections are fast and they are free. A wrong phone number, an old photograph, or new ownership takes one message to fix, whether or not the listing has been claimed.
• Being listed is not something you buy. Properties are judged against the same four questions everywhere: real retreat lodging or dedicated meeting space, grounds worth taking a team to, a professional operation that answers, and a genuine welcome for outside groups.

What a listing holds

A listing is a compiled record of one property, and the fields in it are the ones a planner compares before picking up the phone.

• The property’s own name, website, and direct phone number, taken from the venue’s own site rather than from a listing about the venue.
• Lodging and meeting space, described as what is there rather than as a marketing line.
• Whether the whole site can be taken as a buyout, which is the question that decides privacy for a leadership week.
• Price, if the venue publishes one. Where it does not, the listing says quote only.
• Where it sits on the map, by town as well as by state, because a state is not somewhere you can hold a retreat.

Where a field is not known, the listing says that it is not known. There is no version of the register that fills a blank with an estimate.

What claiming does not change

Claiming a listing lets an owner correct and enrich it. It does not change how the property was judged in the first place, and it does not move it in front of anything else. The four questions were answered before the listing existed, and they are the same four questions for a claimed listing and an unclaimed one.

An owner who claims a listing is doing the same job a reader does when they report a wrong number. Both are corrections. One of them just happens to come from the person who knows the property best.

Why join the list before the doors open

Because the launch email is the whole marketing plan. There are no drip campaigns and no “last chance” countdowns. One email goes out when the doors open, to the people who asked for it. Planners on the list see the register before anyone else, and venue owners on the list get first access to claiming.

Your address is never sold, shared, or handed to a venue.

Until then, the record is public

The register keeps growing, and the growth is published rather than announced. The updates page tracks it with real numbers, the build log carries dated entries from the first day onward, and the coverage page shows where venues stand state by state.

The cuts are in there too. On July 17, 2026 the register held 2,281 curated venues.⁵ The next day it held 2,125,² because a quality pass removed venues and the build-log entry for that date says so. A directory that only ever grows is not telling you everything. The smaller number stayed up.