Mission Partner Program

The Evergreen is a founding B Corporation, and as part of this growing community of companies that use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems, we extend our Mission Partner rates to all certified B Corps, foundations and non-profit organizations – 501(c)(3). Mission-based organizations can take advantage of discounts for individual employees or meetings and retreats between October 15th and April 30th each year.

Individual Discount Program

This program provides a great perk to employees at no cost to the employer. Our Mission Partner Individual Discount Program provides the employees of mission-based partner organizations with significant discounts on cabin rates so employees can enjoy independent getaways to the lodge and Yosemite. Employees of partner organizations can stay at the Evergreen from October 15th through April 30th and receive 25% off standard cabin rates on weekdays and 15% off on weekends (subject to availability and certain holiday blackout dates).

To become a partner organization and register your non-profit, foundation or B-Corp with us takes just a quick phone call to our Groups Manager, Yoanna Logan at (209) 379-2373 x1516. Once your organization is registered with us, all your employees need to do is call us and mention that they are employees of your organization when booking their cabin. When they arrive at the lodge, they will then need to show their business card and matching photo ID (special arrangements can be made ahead of time for organizations where not all employees have business cards).

Meeting Discount Program

The Evergreen Lodge is an ideal location for staff and board retreats, conferences and other group meetings. Our wooded Yosemite setting combined with modern facilities foster a unique combination of big thinking, camaraderie and reflection. Meetings at the Evergreen are highly customized and can include a variety of onsite and offsite recreation and activities.

Our Mission Partner Meeting Discount Program provides mission-based organizations with a series of significant discounts on meetings and retreats, including waiver of all facility fees, 25% off cabin rates, discounted meals and discounted group recreation. While cumulative discounts vary by itinerary, the total discount for a meeting is usually 25-30% off of the entire stay. See our Sample Group Itinerary to see how it works.

The Mission Partner Meeting discount is available from October 15th through April 30th for group getaways from 10 to 150 people. Larger groups can have the entire Lodge to themselves (for an additional fee), which allows for tremendous flexibility and creativity. Naturally, discounts are subject to availability and select holiday blackout dates apply.

Please email Yoanna Logan, our Group Sales Manager, or call her at (209) 379-2373 extension 1516 to discuss your group’s needs and reserve your meeting or event.

Our fully furnished cabins, tucked in the woods and surrounded by national forest, provide a back-to-nature escape with unexpected comforts and style at a competitive rate. Our main lodge, built in 1921, has a classic tavern and an indoor-outdoor restaurant serving contemporary mountain cuisine. We also feature a general store, a comfortable great room and recreation center, indoor and outdoor fireplaces, and a spacious meeting and event hall – all set around a central plaza.

Lodging

Guests at our mountain resort stay amidst the tall pines in fully furnished cabins dotted throughout the property. Our cabins are built to suit your needs and include private bathrooms, private decks, heat, fans, and comfortable furnishings. We strive to provide a relaxed lodging experience with warm hospitality. We offer a variety of cabin types and sizes. Our cabins allow you to savor the serenity from your deck, then walk on over to our Main Lodge and Plaza and rejoin the group for a variety of food, drink, conversation, and activities.

Meeting & Property Facilities

Our main event facility, Tuolumne Hall, accommodates up to 150 people, and our recreation building, restaurant, tavern, outdoor plaza, and dining area, pool area, and Coyote Hill event area provide groups with a variety of interesting options for both organized functions and leisure time. Plus, larger groups can have the entire Lodge to themselves, which allows for tremendous flexibility and creativity.

Tuolumne Hall: Our main meeting building features a large event hall with vaulted ceilings, cathedral windows, and a classic mountain feel. A smaller ‘boardroom’ is adjacent to the event hall and can be used in conjunction with or separate from the main hall.

Recreation Building: Couches, chairs, and tables fill the space and a big fireplace crackles away during the colder months. We have designed the space to accommodate many uses including:

Reading from our recreation library
Accessing maps, photos, and handouts of the Yosemite area.
Talking to a recreation expert and learning about other programs and activities at the Evergreen and in Yosemite
Using phones and the internet (no charge)
Playing board games, cards and just hanging out

Main Plaza: Guests both lounge and play in our Main Plaza, where you can enjoy a game of horseshoes or Bocce ball, or relive your youth playing ping pong or twirling a hula hoop. Our Main Plaza also contains our Outdoor Dining area and Sun Deck with picnic tables and benches beneath the tall trees.

Coyote Hill Event Area: Our Coyote Hill outdoor event area is a beautiful, private, wooded venue for meetings and receptions. Coyote Hill, which includes a private campfire area, can accommodate groups of up to 200 for daytime or evening use.

General Store: Complete with housemade soft serve gelato, our General Store provides everything you need for your stay with us and for your adventures around the Yosemite area. In the morning, get coffee, a muffin, a couple of energy bars, and a sandwich and hit the road for a day’s adventure. Later on, pick up a few gifts for the folks back home, or round out your recreation gear with a set of hiking poles. Return in the evening and re-energize with a milkshake and a bit of relaxation on the front deck.

You can see how it all lays out on our property map.

Facility	Square Footage	Theater	Classroom	Banquet	Reception
Tuolumne Hall	1250-1550	130	100	100	130
Cedar Room	600	40	18	36	40
Cedar Room (incl. covered terrace)	900	–	–	56	70
Board Room	300	20	15	18	25
Open Air Dining Patio	650	50	35	50	70
Outdoor Plaza	5000	–	–	200	225
Coyote Hill Event Area (outdoor)	3500	200	150	100	200

We invite you to email Yoanna, our Group Sales Manager, or call her at (209) 379-2373 extension 1516 to discuss your group’s needs and how we can best serve you.

Rentals

For rental of additional items for your event that the Evergreen does not have in-house we are happy to coordinate rental of any of the items listed below. For our services, which include coordinating delivery and covering associated costs, we charge a fee of 10% of the rental costs as listed below.

Item	Details
PA System:	Peavey system w/wireless microphone: $300 per day. With generator: $400 per day
Projector/Screen/Flip Charts	$200 per day
House Dance Floor Addl Dance Floor	$700 (18×24 natural hardwood) 3×3 sections (natural hardwood): $16.95 per piece
Extra Tables:	60” Rounds: $12 96” Banquets: $12
Outdoor Mushroom Heaters	40,000 BTU: $65 each
Tents for Outdoor Events	Pricing depends on size and specifics of tent and event

Prices are subject to change without notice, due to market changes.

Booking & Reservations

To reserve a date, a 15% non-refundable deposit of room, food, and beverage charges is due seven days after booking. Pricing depends on your specific program and group size. Please email Yoanna Logan or call her at 209-379-2373, extension 1516, to discuss your needs and reserve your meeting or event.

We offer an array of guided recreation options to help your group have the best possible all-around Yosemite experience. Our Professional Guide Service and Recreation Department, unique to the Yosemite area, will work with you to craft a memorable, fun itinerary that showcases Yosemite at its’ finest while meeting your goals and schedule.

Our most popular recreation programs for you to consider include:

Hiking

Hikes of any length and difficulty to lakes, waterfalls, meadows, and scenic vistas. Ideal for groups of any number and experience level as we have dozens of trip locations to choose from.

Stargazing

Experience the night sky like never before! Far from light pollution, you’ll be up close to nature’s light show, gazing through our Dobsonian telescope. Observe stars, planets, constellations and far out galaxies while listening to fun facts and mythology of the night’s sky.

Fly Fishing

Novices & experts are welcome. Experience the magic of fishing for trout on Yosemite’s beautiful waters. Typically a smaller group experience.

Rafting

Exhilarating outings on the stunning Merced & Tuolumne Rivers. Half and full day options are available.

Rock Climbing

The best place on earth to try climbing! Experience a Yosemite few ever see.

Biking

Enjoy riding scenic roads on our comfortable hybrid bikes. Biking is an ideal group activity and it can easily be combined with hiking to waterfalls and swimming holes for a ‘multi-sport’ outing.

Horseback Riding

Saddle up for rides of various lengths throughout the Yosemite area. Easily combined with sightseeing and hiking options for a diverse day in the mountains.

‘Peak Bagging’

For the more adventurous hikers, we can summit a beautiful peak (even Half Dome!).

Sightseeing Tours

Van or bus tours throughout Yosemite that can also integrate hiking, horseback riding and naturalist talks along the way. Tours can focus on the park’s most famous attractions, less visited highlights or a blend of both.

Team Building

We can help you meet your goals by integrating team building programs into many of our recreational offerings. Start by selecting an activity, and then we can integrate an appropriate program.

Golf, Swimming, Wine Tasting & Antiquing

A host of other area adventures await, including 18-hole golf, easily accessible, spectacular swimming holes, private wine tastings featuring local foothill wines, photography workshops/tours, and historic Gold Rush community antiquing and shopping.

In addition to this array of guided activities and outings, groups also have access to all of our regular Lodge programs and resources, including:

Complimentary Activities

Evergreen offers a daily schedule of complimentary activities for our guests (which you are welcome to incorporate into your itinerary), including:

Campfires with S’mores
Evening bingo
Movies
Live music
Guest lecturers
Nature presentations
Ping Pong, Horseshoes & Yard Games

Recreation Planning & Facilities

Evergreen also offers a variety of resources to help guests plan their unscheduled time, including:

On-site recreation experts who provide trip-planning advice and ideas
Handouts with “off the beaten path” excursions that showcase the best of Yosemite
Library of guidebooks and other relevant outdoor books, maps and photos
Free Internet access to comprehensive online sites and materials
Talks and movies about the area
Equipment rentals including bikes, GPS, walking sticks and snowshoes

Please contact our Groups & Events Manager at (209) 379-2373 ext. 1516 for more detailed information about designing an activity package for your group.

Location

Evergreen Lodge is blessed with a convenient location for enjoying all of Yosemite National Park and the surrounding Stanislaus National Forest. The lodge sits one mile from Yosemite’s western border and the entrance to Hetch Hetchy and is surrounded on all sides by the Stanislaus National Forest. Evergreen’s location is along the most direct route to Yosemite from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Evergreen Lodge is the most conveniently located of all Yosemite lodging for access to all three major parts of the Park: Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows, and Hetch Hetchy.

Area Highlights

Surrounding Evergreen Lodge are forest, meadows, rivers, swimming holes, fire roads, vistas and neighboring Camp Mather (day-use fee access during the summer months), with its spring fed-lake and miles of trails. Within a 20-minute walk from Evergreen are Birch Lake, Sunset Point, Doughters Meadow and the Middle Fork of the Tuolumne River.

The Hetch Hetchy entrance to Yosemite is one mile from the lodge, and the Big Oak Flat Park Entrance is seven miles away. Listed below are drive times from the lodge to favorite nearby places in Yosemite and the National Forest.

Minutes Drive from Lodge	Location	Highlights
10	Carlon Falls	1.5 mile hike to waterfall
10	Hetch Hetchy Vista	Great view of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
20	Hetch Hetchy Reservoir	Trails, history, waterfalls & fishing
15	Preston Falls Trailhead	Hike along Tuolumne River
25	Merced Grove Trailhead	One mile hike to Giant Sequoias
30	Rainbow Pools	Popular & beautiful swimming spot
45	Yosemite Valley	Trails, waterfalls & massive granite
45	Tunnel View	Best view of Yosemite Valley
75	Olmstead Point	View of Half Dome & Tenaya Lake
90	Cathedral Lake Trailhead	7-8 mile round trip hike to a gorgeous lake
90	Tuolumne Meadows	Heart of Yosemite’s dramatic High Country
120	Mariposa Grove	World’s largest trees

Yosemite Facts

Yosemite National Park encompasses a spectacular tract of mountain and valley landscape in the Sierra Nevada. The park harbors a grand collection of waterfalls, meadows, and forests that include groves of giant sequoias, the world’s largest living things.

Yosemite is the nation’s third oldest national park and is a “Crown Jewel” of the National Park System
Encompassing 1,170 square miles, Yosemite occupies an area the size of the state of Rhode Island
The first tourists visited Yosemite in 1855. It became a national park thirty-five years later in 1890
The Park is open 365 days/year, 24 hours/day
The Park averages nearly 3.5 million visitors per year: about 2.8 million of those guests visit during the high season of April to October
The Park is home to 37 species of native trees including the Giant Sequoia, considered the largest living thing on earth. Sequoias can live from 1,000 – 3,000 years. Three groves totaling 700 trees are located in the Park (Mariposa Grove, Tuolumne Grove, Merced Grove)
Five of the Yosemite Valley’s waterfalls are among the ten highest waterfalls on earth. Yosemite Falls, where Yosemite Creek falls a total of 2,425 feet in two separate steps, is the highest waterfall in North America and the second highest in the world
Yosemite’s geological history has been evolving for 500 million years from an ocean floor to gentle, rolling hills to the formation of the steep Sierra Nevada mountain range with deep river canyons
Yosemite’s first inhabitants were Native Americans who inhabited the region 10,000 years ago. The Gold Rush brought the first non-native settlers to the area around 1850
The word “Yosemite” is derived from a Southern Miwok Indian word for “some among them are killers,” referring to the Mariposa Battalion who first entered the Valley in search of Yosemite Indians
Yosemite was the first territory ever set aside by congress for public use and preservation. This was done in 1864 by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War

We invite you to email Yoanna, our Group Sales Manager, or call her at (209) 379-2373 extension 1516 to discuss your group’s needs and how we can best serve you.

Mission Partner Program Sample Group Itinerary

The following is a sample itinerary for a 30 person retreat of a non-profit organization staying at the lodge in the fall for three days and two nights. The discounted cost for a program of this nature starts at approximately $225 per participant, and depends greatly on recreation and meal selections. Contact Yoanna a Logan for exact pricing by emailing her at [email protected] or calling (209) 379-2373 extension 1516.

Day 1

3:30PM – Arrive at Evergreen Lodge & settle into cabins
4PM – Free time
4:30PM – Check in with Recreation Department for tomorrow’s excursion
5PM – Cocktail meet & greet in Tavern
5:30PM – Private group dinner
7PM – Naturalist slideshow
8PM – Optional group activity

Day 2

7AM – Hot breakfast in Restaurant
8AM – Morning meeting
Noon – Buffet lunch
1PM – Choice of:
– Guided Naturalist outing to Hetch Hetchy Valley
– Guided Naturalist outing to Giant Sequoias
5PM – Return to Lodge for showers and free time
7PM – Private group dinner
8:30PM – Campfire/s’mores/billiards/free time

Day 3

7AM – Hot breakfast in Restaurant
8AM – Morning meeting
10:45AM – “To Go” box lunches (pre-ordered) delivered for your journey home
11AM – Check out of cabins

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