Though they’ve been quietly cropping up at nature resorts and state parks for several decades, yurts are now gaining mainstream appeal, particularly since HGTV featured them on the hit show Design ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When you get away from the chair lifts, resort towns and highways, the Rocky Mountains in winter are quiet and stunning. And cold. Very, very cold. Only the ...

BROOKINGS, Ore. — The shrill whir of a hair dryer doesn't routinely pierce the peace and quiet of Oregon State Parks. Unless, of course, you're staying in a yurt. A yurt is a tent-like structure built ...

When Duane and Lisa Raleigh decided to buy a second home near Moab, Utah, they broke from tradition and bought a yurt. The Colorado couple chose the kind of round, portable structure first used ...

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 ...

MEDFORD, Ore. -- Stacy Savona recalled it was something of a typical winter night on the Oregon Coast. Winds were gusting and the rain was coming down, but she remained high and dry in her yurt at ...

MEDFORD, Ore. — Stacy Savona recalled it was something of a typical winter night on the Oregon Coast. Winds were gusting and the rain was coming down but she remained high and dry in her yurt at ...

If you’re getting the itch to go camping this winter, but don’t feel like braving the cold and/or rain, there is another way. Oregon State Parks offers a variety of cabins and yurts that are perfect ...

MEDFORD - Stacy Savona recalled it was something of a typical winter night on the Oregon Coast. Winds were gusting and the rain was coming down, but she remained high and dry in her yurt at William M.