A Sanctuary Center

📰 In the news: A Sanctuary in Sedalia: The Quiet Corner Where Wolfensberger Meets 105

A Sanctuary Center is just under four acres at the corner of West Wolfensberger Road and Colorado Highway 105, a short drive west of Castle Rock. It is free, open sunrise to sunset seven days a week, and there is nothing to sign up for — you park and walk in.

The anchor is a stone labyrinth — one path in, one path out, no dead ends, about 50 feet across, though the path doubles back enough that it walks far longer than it looks. Around it: wishing trees hung with cloth streamers, a sacred geometry garden with steel Platonic solids, a medicine wheel, a Pa-Kua and a sundial, singing bowls on stone plinths, benches under the pines, and small shrines where visitors leave notes, shells and figurines.

A small chapel (864 sq ft, with a vaulted ceiling and a lending library) is open during the same daylight hours. Take a book, bring it back.

Founded by Sue and Jack Pfeiffer, who received the land in 2000 and built the chapel in 2003. The corner has older roots: a one-room schoolhouse, Oakland School, stood here from 1899 until 1958.