Tree House Hotel

Filed in archive Offbeat on June 17, 2005

During my Architecture student days, I asked one of my professors to approve my plan to design a fully-functional treehouse. He said no. He was an unimaginative old guy who thought that students should only design based on what the history of Architecture had to show. He probably hated Howard Roark. But, I digress.

As an adult, I still have not forgotten my little dream. I have always wondered how it would be to stay overnight in a tree house? It's the epitome of a child's dream. My adult dream.

However, since I have changed careers 4 years ago, that is not possible anymore. There are, thank God, other options which would fulfill this childhood dream of mine.

"Imagine having your own state park for a weekend, with a clear mountain stream flowing by your cabin -- except that your cabin is 50 feet up in a giant cedar tree with a view seen only by the birds!

You're living in the tree canopies of a lush temperate rainforest ... you can see for miles ... a great blue heron glides silently over the rushing creek far below ... the sun splashes through a skylight and illuminates a mammoth tree trunk growing straight up through the floor of your kitchen and disappearing through the ceiling!"

If you would like to experience that or you need to try something different, why not book a weekend at Cedar Creek Treehouse?!

"Cedar Creek Treehouse is an Earth-friendly, privately owned and operated mountain retreat, located one mile as the crow flies, 10 miles by car, from the Nisqually River Entrance to Mount Rainier National Park, and bordering the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. We offer unique treehouse vacation rental lodging with this "bed and breakfast" cottage 50 feet up in a 200-year old Western Red Cedar tree. And with the new addition of our Treehouse Observatory (and its "Stairway to Heaven" access) -- giving you spectacular mountain views 100 feet high in a nearby fir tree -- we are redefining the concept of a treehouse resort."

Cedar Creek Treehouse
P.O. Box 204, Ashford, WA 98304
Call 360-569-2991



Photocredits: http://cedarcreektreehouse.com