Sleeping among the pines in a sculptural retreat built by hand

The Pinecone Treehouse

1 Bedroom

1 Bathroom

It appears through the trees like something from a half-remembered dream. The Pinecone Treehouse is exactly what its name suggests: a pinecone-shaped structure suspended among the branches, handcrafted from wood and glass and lifted into the forest canopy on a single trunk. The design is sculptural and organic, its overlapping wooden shingles echoing the geometry of its namesake. Light filters through the surrounding trees and into the interior, where the feeling is one of stillness, elevation, and an almost childlike wonder at what careful hands and wild imagination can build.

Inside, the space is intimate and intentionally minimal. This is a single-room dwelling, designed for two, where every surface has been shaped with purpose. The circular footprint opens upward through a glass cupola, framing the sky and treetops overhead. A bed occupies the center of the space, positioned so that waking feels like waking inside the forest itself. The furnishings are spare and warm, focused on comfort without clutter. There is no television, no excess. The experience is one of subtraction, a chance to strip away the familiar and sit with something more elemental.

Access to the treehouse is part of the experience. A wooden staircase winds upward from the forest floor, and the transition from ground to canopy feels deliberate, a small physical ritual that separates this stay from the ordinary. The surrounding landscape is dense with trees, and the sense of privacy is near total. Birdsong replaces traffic. The rustling of branches replaces notifications. Guests tend to spend their time reading, watching the light shift across the walls, or simply sitting with the quiet.

The Pinecone Treehouse is not a place of amenities or programming. It is a place of craft, solitude, and closeness to the natural world. What it offers is rare and difficult to replicate: the chance to sleep inside a work of art, suspended in the trees, with nothing between you and the forest but a thin skin of handmade wood. It is the kind of stay that recalibrates your sense of scale, reminding you how little you need and how much that can feel like everything.

It appears through the trees like something from a half-remembered dream. The Pinecone Treehouse is exactly what its name suggests: a pinecone-shaped structure suspended among the branches, handcrafted from wood and glass and lifted into the forest canopy on a single trunk. The design is sculptural and organic, its overlapping wooden shingles echoing the geometry of its namesake. Light filters through the surrounding trees and into the interior, where the feeling is one of stillness, elevation, and an almost childlike wonder at what careful hands and wild imagination can build.

Inside, the space is intimate and intentionally minimal. This is a single-room dwelling, designed for two, where every surface has been shaped with purpose. The circular footprint opens upward through a glass cupola, framing the sky and treetops overhead. A bed occupies the center of the space, positioned so that waking feels like waking inside the forest itself. The furnishings are spare and warm, focused on comfort without clutter. There is no television, no excess. The experience is one of subtraction, a chance to strip away the familiar and sit with something more elemental.

Access to the treehouse is part of the experience. A wooden staircase winds upward from the forest floor, and the transition from ground to canopy feels deliberate, a small physical ritual that separates this stay from the ordinary. The surrounding landscape is dense with trees, and the sense of privacy is near total. Birdsong replaces traffic. The rustling of branches replaces notifications. Guests tend to spend their time reading, watching the light shift across the walls, or simply sitting with the quiet.

What we love about this stay

There's something disarming about being held above the forest floor by a structure that looks like it grew there. The Pinecone Treehouse earns its name honestly—its form echoes the geometry of its surroundings, and the floor-to-ceiling glass dissolves any pretense of separation between you and the redwood canopy of Bonny Doon. It's not roughing it; it's the opposite, really—plush bedding, eco-minded details, a deck that feels like the forest's living room. But the luxury here isn't the point so much as the permission it gives you to simply be still and watch light move through ancient trees. It's a stay that suits people who don't need distraction to feel restored.