10 Unique Stays Worth Booking This Summer

Tucked along the Mountain Loop Highway against the backdrop of Mount Pilchuck, this 17-acre working alpaca and llama ranch invites guests to stay in yurts, help with morning chores and learn more about regenerative farming than they ever expected to absorb before breakfast. Heads up: alpacas are touch-averse, so if you pictured yourself buried in fluffy animals for the weekend, you'll need to recalibrate.

Post Ranch Inn's Tree House suites perch nine feet above the Big Sur redwoods on stilts built to protect the roots below, which is what happens when you let architects design a treehouse instead of a 10 year old with a hammer. A wood-burning fireplace, a skylight positioned perfectly over the king bed and 1,200 feet of Pacific Ocean stretching out below makes your mortgage feel very far away.

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, most of us made peace with the fact that treehouses were behind us, and that is a tragedy Pete Nelson refused to accept, building seven handcrafted treehouses in an old-growth forest of Douglas fir, cedar and hemlock along the Raging River. Included is a homemade breakfast every morning, Snoqualmie Falls 10 minutes down the road and the distinct feeling that your inbox can take a hike.

Built from cedar and spruce with portholes for windows and a spiral staircase to get you there, these hand-built wooden spheres are suspended in a coastal rainforest like the world's most impressive ornaments. Getting there requires a ferry ride and a winding drive that makes you feel like you've been handed a classified envelope and told not to ask questions.

Tucked into the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas, this 5,800-square-foot lodge is carved into a living cavern where stalactites (the one thing I remembered from geology class) double as ceiling decor and a natural waterfall tumbles right into the great room, which is not a sentence you get to type very often. Jesse James used it as a hideout, bootleggers ran a moonshine still in it during Prohibition and now you can sleep in it with a private chef.

Six geodesic domes tucked into the forests and meadows of South Georgian Bay, each one sitting on 26 acres of wilderness with a private hot tub, a skylight built for stargazing and a propane fireplace doing its very best work on a cool night. This is for people who love the idea of camping but also love a king bed with a heated mattress topper, which is a completely reasonable position to hold.

Seven generations of the Hull family have been working this 300-acre Catskills farm since 1786, and they are very much still at it, which means guests get to show up, feed the pigs, collect eggs from the coop and feel the kind of useful they felt the first time they helped someone move a couch. A complimentary breakfast basket of farm-fresh eggs, homemade pancake mix and local maple syrup lands at your door every morning and campfire s'mores and hayrides round out the evenings.

Someone looked at three old grain silos in the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley and decided what they really needed was claw-foot soaking tubs, Egyptian cotton sheets and a multi-course farm-to-table breakfast. The five silo suites sit on an 82-acre working farm and vineyard where peacocks, alpacas, highland cattle and a rotating cast of barn cats are all just going about their day. The tasting room is a short stroll across the property, which is either very convenient or very dangerous depending on your relationship with Pinot Noir.

Staying at Limerick Lane Cellars means waking up inside a 53-acre Sonoma County estate where vines planted in 1910 are still producing some of the best old-vine Zinfandel in California, and the farmhouse you're sleeping in sits right in the middle of all of them. Complimentary tastings at the winery are included for guests and if that's not enough to pique your interest, there’s a wine-bottle-shaped pool on the property.

Canada's first geodesic dome resort sits on 55 wilderness acres in Cape Breton, where a collection of Mongolian yurts and treetop geodesic domes are perched in an elevated apple orchard with sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean, Bird Island and the Cape Breton Highlands. The domes run on solar power, puffins are nesting close enough to actually spot and the on-site bistro is pulling ingredients from the garden just steps away. You’ll never book another hotel room with a parking lot view after this.