So, You’d Like to Stay in a Treehouse
For some people, camping means hiking up the side of a mountain and pitching a tent. For myself, I like a few more amenities. A roof for example, and maybe a room with a view. It’s nice to have the wilderness all around, but nicer to have a few walls in between me and it. Of course, there’s no reason you need to stay in some bland cabin out in the woods. Not when you could stay in a tree house.
The Cedar Creek Treehouse is a privately owned vacation rental, located one mile as the crow flies (10 miles by car) from the Nisqually River entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. The lofty cabin is perched 50 feet up in a 200-year old Western Red Cedar. Inside there is a sleeping loft with two double beds (skylights brighten the area), a bathroom, a kitchen, a dining area, and an observation room, though it looks like there are great views of the forest and the mountains from every window.
Tree house living doesn’t come cheaply though. You’ll have to pay $300 per night (for two people–$50 extra for each additional person) to reserve this rental, but maybe it’s worth it just to say you’ve truly slept among the stars…