Beacon Treatment Center

Beacon Treatment Center is a men's extended-stay outpatient program in Vernon, Arizona, on a 26-acre rural campus bordering the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest with a 2.3-acre pond. Its six-month program combines a classroom curriculum with outdoor recreational therapy — camping, canoeing, fishing — alongside daily 12-step meetings and individual and family counseling. Beacon is deliberately not a medication-assisted treatment program: it says it takes a holistic approach and aims for sobriety without MAT, which is worth knowing before applying if you are on methadone or buprenorphine. It accepts most insurance, AHCCCS (Arizona's Medicaid program) and AIHS.