Sleeping in treetops? Hotels for the adventurous

Courtesy of Out'n'About Treehouse Treesort

Oregon's Out'n'About Treesort offers the chance to sleep amid the branches in one of its 18 tree houses.

By Chelsea Morse, Food & Wine

Dream vacations often call to mind sandy beaches, frosty cocktails and poolside massage service, but adventurous travelers can opt to wrangle cattle, run zip-line courses and ski trails accessible only by helicopter.

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At Wyoming?s A Bar A Ranch, elk mingle with the ranch?s horses during morning feeding time. During the summer, guests ride those horses and fish the pristine North Platte River, which runs through 100,000 acres surrounded by national forest land. When winter temperatures dip down to minus 40 degrees and heavy snow closes most roads, well-bundled guests venture into the elements on the ranch?s Sno=Cat. Back at the lodge, longtime chef and cookbook author Kent Trebilcox, who trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, prepares a daily-changing menu and fresh-baked bread each night.

If sleeping near vast forests doesn?t quite satisfy the urge to be surrounded by trees, Oregon?s Out?n?About Treesort offers the chance to sleep among the branches in one of its 18 tree houses. Seven suspension bridges and more than a mile of zip-line courses connect the structures, set on 36 private acres. Tree-house-building seminars are even offered for those inspired by their stay.

For vacationers craving the roar of the ocean, the 16 cliffside yurts at Treebones Resort in California?s Big Sur area are as close as you can stay to the mighty Pacific while out of the range of salt spray. At night, guests can hear the barking of elephant seals ? earplugs are available for light sleepers? ?and during the day, intrepid paddlers can explore the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary on one of the resort?s kayaking trips. If the tentlike yurts seem a bit too luxe for hardcore campers, Treebones offers ocean-view campsites as well ? BYO tent.

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