Washington Odd Inns and Unusual
Places to Stay - Cabooses, Castles, and Treehouses
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Treehouse Point - Issaquah, Washington
The Treehouse Point is part treehouse hotel, part quaint event
venue, part wilderness preserve and is in the middle of a lush
forest yet only a 35-minute drive from downtown Seattle’s famed Pike
Place Market. The experience of staying at The Treehouse Point is a
curious mix of luxury and roughing it. These luxury treehouses have
luxurious beds that you’d expect to find in a high end bed and
breakfast. The treehouses are weatherproof and sturdy. Each is
heated, electrified and well adorned with comfy chairs, desks,
books, puzzles and CDs. The Treehouse Point includes breakfast of
the granola, yogurt, fruit, eggs and home-made pastries plus plenty
of tea and coffee.
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Manresa Castle in Port Townsend, Washington
Manresa Castle in Port Townsend is the Seattle and
the Puget Sounds gem for both dining, catering and
hosting for your next event. The beautiful Manresa
Castle and the surrounding grounds are an elegant
storybook setting for weddings. Manresa Castle's
romantic gardens, banquet hall and rich library have
seen many couples exchange their vows. You will
experience one-of-a-kind ceremony and reception
venues for events both large and small. With so many
indoor and outdoor settings for your event, any
season is a good time to get married at Manresa
Castle. The library is elegantly draped windows and
rich wood paneled walls can be transformed to a
variety of intimate configurations. The Banquet Room
can accommodate 80 guests at a sit-down dinner and
dancing reception. Other rooms can be appropriated
to handle larger groups.
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Pirate's Cove Caboose - Puget Sound, Washington
Perfect vacation rental centrally located with easy
access to Washington's great attractions, Olympic
National Park, Mt. Rainier National Park, Mt St.
Helens, Seattle to the North and Portland and the
Columbia River to the South. Puget Sound is looking
at you from your living room, bedroom, Hot Tub and
Beach. Kayak, Swim, Suntan, Fish from the beach,
Play, Relax, Love. Three gorgeous acres on Pirates
Cove on S. Puget Sound's Hammersley Inlet. Tall
firs, flora and fauna surround the property and make
for peaceful walks on the trails traversing the
property and leading to the beach with great varied
character...sandy beach, rocky beach, oyster beach,
clam digging beach, a private beach of excitement
and/or quiet solitude in one of natures most special
places.
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Quartz
Mountain Fire Lookout - Washington
For a unique and memorable vacation, spend the night in the
fire lookout that sits atop the rocky summit of Quartz
Mountain in Mount Spokane State Park. Perched at an
elevation of 5,129 feet, the lookout provides stunning views
of the Spokane valley, the north Idaho panhandle and the
Selkirk Mountains. In the summer, the landscape is
wildflowers and huckleberries.
The lookout is 14-by-14 feet in size. It is a wood-frame
structure with wrap-around windows and deck and sleeps four
comfortably. Visitors may take along their own food and a
propane stove is available for cooking. There is no
electricity in the lookout. Maximum capacity: Up to four
people. Pets are not allowed.
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Cedar Creek
Treehouse in Ashford, Washington
Imagine waking up to the music of a mountain stream flowing
by your cabin -- except that your cabin is 50 feet up in a
giant cedar tree with a view seen only by the birds. You're
living in the tree canopies of a lush evergreen forest. You
can see for miles. A great blue heron glides silently over
the rushing creek far below. The sun splashes through a
skylight and illuminates a mammoth tree trunk growing
straight up through the floor of your two story treehouse
and disappearing through the ceiling. Cedar Creek Treehouse
is an Earth-friendly, privately owned and operated mountain
retreat, located one mile as the crow flies, 10 miles by
car, from the Nisqually River Entrance to Mount Rainier
National Park, and bordering the Gifford Pinchot National
Forest.
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