Summer Solstice Labyrinth Walk & Gathering
Join us June 20, 2025 at 7 pm
• Wear white or bright colors—it’s a festive occasion!
• Intersection of Highway 20 and Highway 242, with driveway on Hood Ave.
• Free of charge. Donations welcome!
• Sun hats & water bottles recommended
• No dogs, no recorded music, no smoking
• Celebratory, natural items may be brought to place at center of labyrinth
• Bring a drum, flute, or noisemaker if you like
• Finger labyrinth sculpture is also available
• The new park, where the labyrinth sits, should be open! Parking on-site. Yay.
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A special place to walk & reflect.
Sisters Community Labyrinth is a gathering place for relaxation, meditation, and reflection. Walking the labyrinth, which uses the design of the Cathedral at Chartres, promotes health and wellness.
Our Solstice gatherings are non-religious and non-denominational; everybody is welcome. A metal "finger labyrinth" sculpture provides an accessible experience on-site instead of walking.
We typically gather for events on Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice.
People also walk the labyrinth on equinoxes, full moons or other days that mark the passage of seasons and the wheel of the year. These events are not formally presented by Sisters Community Labyrinth, but we encourage you to enjoy the labyrinth on those days.
Visit Sisters Community Labyrinth at East Portal
At the triangle of land where Old McKenzie Pass Highway 242 meets Highway 20/Cascade Avenue in Sisters, Oregon.
Entrance and driveway are located on W. Hood Avenue. Restrooms open during summer only.
June 2025 Update: The labyrinth site, East Portal park, is still under construction but looking good! The parking lot will be open for our Solstice walk.
Folks can also park on roadways and in parking lots nearby if necessary.
Donate to our nonprofit labyrinth
If you'd like to bring a donation, we are currently accepting:
• Checks made out to SPRD, with Sisters Community Labyrinth in the Memo field
• Good old-fashioned cash
To donate via postal mail:
• Send checks made out to SPRD, with Sisters Community Labyrinth in the Memo field
Mail to: P.O. Box 2215
Sisters, Oregon 97759
In future, we will make online donations and credit cards feasible. Thanks!
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The land & our sponsor
SPRD & THE COMMITTEE
Sisters Community Labyrinth was born in 2012 — learn more about our history below. The labyrinth is maintained by volunteers and the Sisters Community Labyrinth Committee.
Recently, we’ve become a program designation of SPRD, Sisters Parks & Recreation District.
FRIENDS OF THE LABYRINTH
A loose assemblage of volunteers, donors and participants helps keep the labyrinth going—known as Friends of Sisters Community Labyrinth. Email sisterscommunitylabyrinth (at) gmail.com if you’d like to help out! And please join the general newsletter — see the “Subscribe” section above.
THE LAND
The land on which the physical labyrinth sits was formerly owned by the US Forest Service and is now owned by the City of Sisters.
The area, known as East Portal, is currently being converted into a transportation hub and park. The labyrinth will be retained as the site undergoes changes: we’ll be sharing East Portal with lighting, asphalt, a small dog park, and more.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
The current committee consists of Jan McGowan and Sharlene Weed—who were among the labyrinth’s initial founders and builders—along with Pat Leiser and Tiffany Lee Brown (T). The youth ambassador is Gusty Berger-Brown.
Photo of spring (vernal) equinox, from left: Pat Leiser and T. Lee Brown, with nature educator and ceremony leader Susan Prince.
Our Founding
Sisters Community Labyrinth was founded in 2012 by Sisters Cohort 3 of the Ford Family Foundation's Community Leadership course. The labyrinth is currently run by Sisters Community Labyrinth Committee of SPRD, Sisters Parks & Recreation District.
The leadership course was part of a series of training classes designed to create skilled, knowledgeable, and motivated leaders to contribute to the development of a thriving rural community through collaboration with a diverse collective of organizations. As part of the training, each cohort completed a project to present to the community.
The Sisters Community Labyrinth was one such project and was presented on December 1, 2012. More than $12,000 was raised for the project including a matching grant of $5,000 from the Ford Family Foundation.
DONORS & CONTRIBUTORS
Other major contributors included Bank of the Cascades, Campbell Foundation, Green Ridge Physical Therapy & Wellness, High Desert Aggregate, Jan and Jack McGowan, Rays Food Place, Sisters Parks and Recreation District, and the City of Sisters, in addition to the Ford Family Foundation.
ORIGINAL COHORT OF FOUNDERS
The Cohort 3 Class consisted of Sandy Alfonso, Annie Andreson, Cindy Barnes, LIsa Bergren-Fetrow, Wendy Birnbaum, Mary Pat Clasen, Jordyn Clymens, Beth Hanson, Beth Knowles, KIristin Kovalik, jan McGowan, Corrie Ortner, Candy Park, Jeremiah Perry-Weed, Helen Schmidling, Taylor Sickau, Leanne Smith, Sharon Thorkildson, Daniel Vitelle, Angie Ward, and Sharlene Weed.
Visit the labyrinth at East Portal
At the triangle of land where Old McKenzie Pass Highway 242 meets Highway 20/Cascade Avenue in Sisters, Oregon.
Usually, the entrance and driveway are located on W. Hood Avenue. Driveway may be closed during construction of the new park and transportation hub (2024–2025).
Restrooms open during summer only, until initial phase construction is completed (summer 2025 projected).
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