Gateway Ranch

03/04/2026

For everyone who has ever been part of the Gateway Ranch family, this message is for you.

This May, we’re inviting all of our Gateway Ranch friends, supporters, neighbors, and community members to come experience what we’ve been building together.

The Mosaic Gathering, produced by the Sondering community, is back for its 4th year. This is going to be the best one yet.

Mosaic is our annual celebration of art, music, creativity, connection, and community at Gateway Ranch. We think of it like Northern Arizona's show and tell. It is the place where all of the ideas, friendships, art, music, and magic that have grown out of Gateway and the Sondering community come together in one weekend.

We would truly love to see the Gateway family come out and be a part of it.

May 1–2, 2026
Gateway Ranch
Weekend passes are only $100

More than 75 live bands, DJs, artists, facilitators, and experience curators are coming together to create an unforgettable weekend of music, workshops, performances, art, movement, and shared experiences.

Bring your kids. Bring your parents. Bring your friends. Come camp under the stars, make new connections, make art, dance, play, and remember what it feels like to be fully human.

Make friends. Make art. Level up.

Come make friends, make art, and level up at this communal weaving of music, ideas, art, community, and culture in Flagstaff, AZ.

13/09/2025

🌿✨ Volunteer Call: Help Us Get Gateway Ranch Ready for Southwest Flow Festival! ✨🌿

We’re gearing up for Southwest Flow Festival, and we’d love your help making Gateway Ranch shine! 🌞

Any time between now and the evening of Thursday, September 18th, we’re inviting volunteers to come out and help us beautify the space and prepare for an unforgettable weekend. Whether you have an hour or a whole day, every bit of support makes a difference.

👉 If you’re interested, please comment on this post or reach out directly to Michael Hucks about volunteer opportunities.

Bring your friends and family. It’s a community effort! 💪
And if you’d like, bring your camping gear and spend a peaceful night under the stars before the crowd arrives. 🌌

Thank you for being part of the magic that makes Southwest Flow Festival and all of the events at Gateway Ranch possible. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

27/03/2025

Does anyone know of an archive, library, or organization that might be interested in taking these Indigenous publications from the 70s? I have 15 issues of Akwesasne Notes and 1 issue of The Navajo Times, all from the mid to late 1970s. They’re in pretty good shape and full of interesting, insightful stuff. I’d love to donate them to a good home where they can be preserved, shared, and appreciated by others. Any leads are welcome. Thanks!

01/01/2025

I spent most of today deep cleaning the Temple at Gateway Ranch, preparing the space for ceremony and entering into the new year with no dust in the corners. As I carefully took each item down from the altar—cleaning them and setting them aside to be rearranged once the entire altar was cleaned and polished—my heart overflowed with gratitude, even more so than before.

Every offering that adorns this altar now. Every offering that has come and gone over the years. The art donated to this space. The sound healings. The prayers. The intentions. The literal blood, sweat, and tears poured into this temple. The builders. The architects. The artists. The healers. The healed and the broken.

As the energy and history of this sacred space began to make its presence known to me, I stepped outside onto the stoop of the Temple to take a breath and let it all sink in. My eyes panned across this sacred land, and the full breadth of its healing power revealed itself to me at a deeper level than ever before. In my mind, a time lapse unfolded: decades of gatherings, celebrations, art, music, love, moments of awakening—on and on and on. And again, as it often does, the gravitas of my role as a steward of this sacred land became clarified for me to a new level.

Speaking for Michael and myself, we are honored to share this stewardship, and we are indescribably excited to bring even more of what makes Gateway Ranch magical to this space in 2025 and beyond.

To every single one of you who has contributed to the magic of Gateway Ranch: thank you. Thank you, Kate, for your vision and the actions that created this place. We love you and are deeply grateful for your continued wisdom and guidance as we carry the baton forward.

Tonight, Michael and I, along with our partners, Eva and Leighann, will ring in the new year in ceremony in the Temple of Life. Together, we will set and speak our intentions for the year ahead—personally and as the caretakers of this sacred space.

Our intentions?�More art.�More connection.�More community.�More intention.�More celebration.�More transformation.�And above all: more love.

Happy New Year, Gateway Ranch family. We love you. Yes, YOU.

- Michael Hucks

11/05/2024

What an unbelievably beautiful show the sky is putting on tonight ✨🔭

27/04/2024

Gateway Ranch work parties announcement!

HUGE thank you to everyone that responded and/or shared my request for help out at the ranch. We're going to have such a good time getting the space ready for Mosaic! If you can come to either or both of these work parties, I sure would be thankful :)

Who: You and your favorite people!
What: Whacking tumbleweeds, stacking firewood, beautifying the Temple of Life and Hooghan, putting up a massive tent, laughing and playing with friends!
When: Sunday, April 28 & Tuesday, April 30! Starting at 10:00am both days.
Where: Gateway Ranch!
Why: To get the ranch ready for Mosaic 2024: The Experiment Continues!

Here's a rendering of what ChatGPT thinks the scene will look like.

24/04/2024

Dear Gateway Ranch community,

Michael Hucks here. Whew! This is tough for me, but here it goes.

Last Friday, I had a bit of a tumble down the stairs while carrying a heavy load. It could have been a lot worse, but I sprained my ankle pretty badly and now I'm stuck wearing this clunky plastic boot for the next 6-12 weeks.

As you can imagine, it's put a bit of a wrench in my plans, especially with Mosaic 2024: The Experiment Continues just around the corner. I'm neck-deep in projects here at Gateway Ranch, getting everything ready for the incredible experience that awaits us. But as it turns out, hobbling around with a cane isn't exactly conducive to completing projects that require manual labor.

In my past, I've had a hard time asking for help when I need it, but I've been practicing getting better at that. The universe has a funny way of teaching us lessons sometimes, and I’m certainly learning one now: Ask for help when you need it.

So, here I am, asking for help. Over the past two years of my stewardship of Gateway Ranch, so many of you have generously offered your assistance. And now, I could really use it. If anyone's willing to lend a hand and help me get these projects wrapped up before Mosaic, I would be beyond grateful.

Drop me a message if you're interested in pitching in. Even if you can't make it out, your support means the world to me.

Thanks, y'all.

- Hucks

24/04/2024

We are honored to welcome special guests Dr. Rick Doblin, founder of Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Kate Hawke, 30 year Gateway Ranch resident and psychedelic assisted trauma specialist to Mosaic 2024!✨ They will be joined by Dr. Sue Sisley, researcher and DEA licensed mushroom producer, and Chuchu Wang, founder of the Ceremonia retreat center in Denver, and more special guests to celebrate Kate’s 70th birthday and bestow their wisdom upon us throughout the weekend!🍄🎉

These and other legendary guests will welcome your questions at the Ask a Psychedelic Pioneer panel. They will also share reflections on their lifetime of adventures during presentations, and informal hangout time. Come hang out with Rick, Sue, Chuchu, Kate and a whole heap of the most wonderful people we’ve ever seen in one place. The only thing missing is YOU!🌈

Register at http://www.mosaic.energy/participate
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12/04/2024

🎉🎂Exciting Announcement! 🎂🎉

On Saturday night of Mosaic, we have a special celebration planned that you won't want to miss! 🎈 We'll be throwing the birthday party of the century, to honor the magical Kate 'Kismet' Hawke as she celebrates her 70th birthday! 🎂 Kate holds a special place in our hearts as the matriarch of Gateway Ranch, previously stewarding the land for over 30 years and hosting countless transformative community gatherings.

To commemorate Kate's remarkable legacy, her profound impact on our community, and her 70th trip around the sun, we'll be hosting a special celebration featuring a clothing swap and fashion show! ♻️👗 Bring in your gently used clothes and costumes and get ready to strut your stuff on the runway in your fabulous new finds. Also, feel free to bring in any birthday deserts or treats for the community to share.🎂

🎉 Register for Mosaic today at www.mosaic.energy/participate and start practicing your runway moves. This promises to be a historic night to remember! ✨

12/03/2024

Wow this past weekend was one for the books! We had the pleasure of hosting the incredibly talented ASADI team for a video shoot over the past couple of days. We had such a wonderful experience and we look forward to working with them again!

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who graced us with their support, especially our incredible flow community, whose massive talent never fails to inspire and uplift. Your energy and enthusiasm infused every moment with magic, making this music video production a truly unforgettable experience. It felt like a mini Southwest Flow Festival last night!

Make sure to follow ASADI and stay tuned for the video release.

Special thanks to Xye () for feeding us incredible food all weekend, Marc Gleckman () for beautifully capturing all of the magic and being so fun to work with, Greg Yarbrough for successfully leading fire safety at Gateway Ranch yet again, and of course Evan Thibodeau() for putting all of this together!