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I stayed in a tree house resort along the California-Oregon border, my first vacation in 11 months
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The Out n About Treehouse Treesort is a network of narrow wooden suspension bridges connected by standalone platforms and tree-borne cabins with mossy roofs.Freda Moon/SFGATE
Two flights up the shaking metal staircase, I felt a stab of regret. What had I gotten us into this time, I thought, as my five-year-old’s hand tightened and her steady stream of commentary went uncharacteristically quiet. Was she thinking what I was thinking? “What kind of idiot imagines sleeping 40 feet above the ground, in a closet-sized tree house, on a near freezing February night, with two small kids, will be fun?”
Escape to a treehouse for an elevated vacation getaway, say tiny house experts
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Small home experts Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons have been taking their tiny house on wheels around North America to find functional, attractive little abodes and advocate for living simply. After almost five years on the road, they were stopped in their tracks by a treehouse in the Columbia River Gorge.
Elevated 20 feet above the ground on private property in White Salmon, Washington, is the Klickitat Treehouse, a Scandinavian-style dwelling fully supported by three Douglas fir trees.
Floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights frame views of Mount Adams and the forest canopy.