Home Sweet Yurt. Yurts provide a cheaper alternative than hotels, but offer more security and comfort than tent camping. While we absolutely loved our yurt experiences on our two-month cross country expedition, know this about yurts…
1) The yurts at Harriman State Park have no electricity and are a fifty foot walk from the parking area and there are bears in the area. We didn’t get there until after dark and that was a bad idea.
2) It can get very cold even in late August when we were there. Some yurts have heaters, but the one at Harriman only had a wood stove and it was too late (and dark) for us to make a fire. Again, poor planning on our part.
Note: I saw some of the brightest stars in the skies above our yurt and we got to hear a coyote cry…something I haven’t heard since I lived out in the country as a kid.
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3) Yurts sure are pretty.