Tree Resort or Treesort

 July, 2020 - Feeling like a kid again !

Jack and I are both past the age of climbing trees with any success but when we were surprised by our brother and sister-in-law with a gift stay at the well known Oregon Out 'n' About Treehouse Resort, we were up for the adventure.  This was not our typical hotel or motorhome camping stay, this was unique accommodations where you literally climb a tree to go to bed. Now we know why Tarzan liked living in the trees. 

The Out 'n' About Treehouse's, located near Cave Junction, Oregon, offers more than traditional camping with their 'Treesort' lodging, they offer the fun and experience you can get by staying in a treehouse suite. To get to the 18 different treehouses (from 8 ft to 40ft up in the trees) you start out climbing a couple stories of spiral stairs attached around some large trees at the main lodge and then take a number of the seven swinging bridges to the different 'suites' in the forest.  If the excitement of the accommodates isn't enough to get you excited they have onsite activities such as horseback riding, zip line rides, spring fed pool and tree hung swings.

Main office & breakfast building.

Our tree suite for the stay was in 'Forestree' and it stood about 35 feet off of the ground which we accessed by climbing three flights of stairs and crossing two suspension bridges (yes, they did some swinging when we walked on them).  The room itself surrounded a tree in the middle and had a queen bed, single bunk beds, refrigerator and happily a toilet and sink. The view from the tree was great overlooking a meadow where we spotted wild turkeys with babies. On the ground were full service bathrooms spread around so it was easy access to any shower if needed plus a kitchen area where you could prep, cook and refrigerate food for dinners which were our responsibility, but they provided breakfast.  

 I must say exploring the network of bridges that connected the treehouses was an adventure in itself. The bridges, made out of wood planks and wire ropes, tested our skill with balance, but once we were use to that, traversing high above the ground turned out to be a lot of fun.  We did experience movement inside the cabin when it was windy and the treehouse would sway a little. We compared it to being on a boat with the constant wave movement.

One of the suspension walkway to our tree suite

35 FT off the ground

Home Sweet Home

Forestree

View from treehouse 

Interior - bed

Additional bunk beds and sink area. Toilet is to the right behind door

Barn-door

Some of the other treehouses were larger than ours like Majestree and Pleasantree and included kitchens and showers and then there were some smaller like Elementree and Serendipitree which were less equipped with no sink and toilet. There's a treehouse for everyone's style.

Majestree  - the tallest at 40 ft off the ground

Serendipitree

We stayed for two nights.

Forestree

 After a good nights sleep the first night we woke early to a hot breakfast of eggs and pancakes.  Then it was time to saddle up and ride off in the forest.  It has been YEARS since either one of us have been on the back of a horse but we surprisingly felt comfortable to be back in the saddle again. My beautiful white horse was named 'Tigger' and I hoped it wasn't because he was jumpy and Jack's horse was 'Mayor' (a tall black beauty). We elected to the harder more scenic ride and so glad we did.  We rode through the zipline meadow and climbed the mountain trail to the other side for a couple miles, crossed three steams and saw wild turkeys and a few deer. We had a great time.

After we recovered from our hour long horse ride our second adventure for the day was zip-lining.  We had the Outback package which took us to the highest zip-line of the approx. 10 different lines available. After we mastered how to use our gloves as a break peddle to slow ourselves down we flew through tall pines like birds stopping at our perches and continuing until we reached the end. But wait - there's more, the 'Outback' package meant - we had to access two of the tree stands via an unbraced rope foot bridge (like Ninja warriors) then we had to repel down from the last tree to the finish.  What !!!!!!!  Oh yeah and it was fun.  We didn't land on our heads so we call it a successful ending for our zip-lining adventure. 

Jack coming in for a landing

Once we finished our very active morning the rest of the day was directed to total relaxation. We relaxed by the pool, relaxed on the swings and had relaxing naps.  It was a very successful day.

Pool area - So relaxing

Feeling like a kid again

Just a swingin'

Watch out I'm going higher....

It was a fun couple of days and ones we will not soon forget or stop talking about.  Our closing thoughts are that this was a   'tree-ific' time  !!!!!!!!

Thanks for reading about our adventures.  

Jack and Deb