Administrative Offices
11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 407
Rockville, MD 20852
301-468-2267
Capital Retreat Center is a full-service Glatt kosher hospitality campus in the Catoctin Mountains, one-hour from Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD, offering experiential learning, group dynamics, leadership training and youth education. The Conference Center opened in Summer 2012 and all other facilities were built between 2002 and 2007.
Capital Retreat Center is owned and operated as an independent 501(C)3, non-profit organization, located in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania with winter offices in Rockville, Maryland. The agency is a beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, an American Camp Association (ACA) accredited camp and a member of the JCC Association.
Capital Retreat Center can house over 500 guests in accommodations that range from hotel-style lodge rooms to cabins to platform tents. All accommodations are ADA compliant.
In addition to meeting spaces in the Retreat lodges, the dining facility has a state-of-the-art retreat lounge that includes an 8-foot presentation screen with build-in projector, DVD and VHS players, and an ethernet outlet for laptop-based presentations. The lounge is wired with microphone jacks. The lounge features a stone-hearth fire place with a wrap-around ledge for intimate gatherings, or space for over 200 seats, theater style. Adjacent to the lounge is an eight station Internet cafe. Nearby is a smaller board room for more private meetings.
Other facilities include two 40′ activity towers with multiple elements, such as one of a kind ???dueling??? zip lines, climbing wall, across the lake zip line and multiple low challenge activities; an aquatics center featuring a 5,500-square-foot heated pool, diving board, two 40′ water flumes, zero (beach) entry area, water-play features and a program pavilion for poolside events (Capital Retreat Center lifeguards must be in attendance when the aquatics center is in use); an Arts & Theatre Center with studios for pottery, ceramics, copper enameling, silk screen etc. and an indoor/outdoor stage area for drama production; athletic facilities that include soccer fields, a baseball diamond, a roller hockey rink, tennis and basketball courts, volleyball courts and an indoor gymnasium; and a private lake for canoeing, row-boating and fishing (guest are required to where life-jackets at all times while using the lake and Capital Retreat Center lifeguards must be in attendance at all times that the lake is in use.)
12750 Buchanan Trail East
Waynesboro, PA 17268
Capital Retreat Center
12750 Buchanan Trail East
Waynesboro, PA 17268