9/20/2023 0 Comments Caprine acres(Photo/Jessica K, Hipcamp) Stay Freeĭon’t forget, a free Hipcamp stay at one of the hundreds of thousands of sites around the country is available to our #SaveASpot sweepstakes grand-prize winner.Įven if you don’t win the grand prize, which includes huge bundles of gear from REI and a $1,000 travel stipend, you may still be one of 25 daily prize winners.Struggling to find your self-care routine? We hear you. Now I’m kind of providing that,” she said. “I used to travel quite a bit and used to say that everywhere I go, I want it to be memorable. Smaller art events and music are also included with this Hipcamp stay. “Stuff like that, even if it sounds ridiculous, it pulls off blinders and opens up a different part of the world with different kinds of thinking,” Kettler said. There, guests can sit and paint or just take in the land. The treehouse is another extra to pique guests’ interests and pull them out of their everyday norms. It’s a guided hike, but you’ll lead the llamas, Scarlet and Penny. Guests can tour the property with llamas for $40. The goats were a hit with guests, and so they’ve added experiences with goats into a visit, from goat yoga to pajama parties with goats in the yurt.Ī featured extra is the llama hike. The herd started with four and has grown to 15. Her partner always wanted some, among other animals, and, apparently, he wasn’t alone. “We’re definitely not a five-star hotel, but we are an interesting experience for a lot of folks that don’t get access to a menagerie of animals and nature.” (Photo/Jessica K, Hipcamp) Happy Neighbors “People want something a bit more interesting,” she said. It’s an artful way to live and not just about the destination, Kettler explained. Her idea is to make it a destination for those who like to roll slow. After all, sleeping outdoors is a good way to see the country. She estimates roughly half of her guests come to get away, and the other half are dropping in. That caused a chain reaction to use us as a stopover site,” Kettler said. One person came through on their way to Colorado, and then that person would tell their family. “We had a following in Pennsylvania for a while. Getting Away or Stopping Inĭuring the pandemic, the site drew visitors from neighboring cities like Iowa City, Des Moines, and even Minneapolis and Chicago. There’s chickens crowing all the time, coyotes over here, an owl over there,” Kettler said. You have the rolling hills, and the animals are super friendly. Soon, Windy Goat Acres will add two cabins down the hill from the main site. There’s also a primitive site with hanging pods to lounge in during the day. The first yurt transitioned from a common space to a rentable spot. She’d stayed in yurts while working in California and wanted to live in one again. That took off, and the success prompted her and her partner to buy the yurts for the property. Her foray into Hipcamp was renting a small cabin with a couple of beds and no amenities. “It’s a bit of a green oasis surrounded by mono-crop farms.” “When we got here, it was just gorgeous because we had all the fruit trees, medicinal plants, and, of course, the willows,” said Kettler, who is also an herbalist. (Kettler has since turned that into her studio.) The unique listing had once been a cattle lot, and then the sellers worked on its biodiversity and planted willows all over to sell from their onsite shop. Owner Jessica Kettler bought the land roughly eight years ago. Windy Goat Acres, in Iowa, is just one of Hipcamp’s available U.S. (Photo/Hipcamp by Jackeline Crespo) Windy Goat Acres
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