This is a first: negotiating cowpats on the way to "check in". Welcome to West Wood Yurts, an enclave on a working farm outside Gateshead, where you swap boutique pampering for toilet blocks, designer ...

SEDGWICK, Maine — Melanie and Josh Wehrwein and their two young children, Caden and Aria, have lived for more than three years in a small fabric yurt on a patch of rocky land carved from the spruce ...

Still used in the steppes of Central Asia today, yurts are an ancient design of shelter, circular in form, made of felt or canvas. A group of four residents from the mining boom town of Fermont, in ...

yurts takes advantage of the snowmobile ride in, often with a locally brewed keg and slabs of bacon and sausage bouncing on a sled beside stacks of fat skis. The snowmobile whisks you to two artfully ...

Why You Should Consider Staying in a Yurt This Year Make 2017 the year you stay in a yurt and get back to nature. If you've never stayed in a yurt (or portable round tent), you're missing out on the ...

As an artist and creative type, Debra doesn't want to be stuck working inside four walls. She believes her circular office helps her think outside the box. Jeff and Leslie Suhy like the feeling of ...

A circular yurt made of wood and concrete on nearly 40 acres in Parkman is for sale for $169,000. Credit: Courtesy of Realty of Maine A yurt made of wood and concrete on nearly 40 acres is for sale in ...

Katie Urban paused at a hillside lookout in the Porcupine Mountains of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Wet snow clung to the trees, which disappeared in a gray mist to the northeast. Urban, a park ...