Still used in the steppes of Central Asia today, yurts are an ancient design of shelter, circular in form, made of felt or canvas. A group of four residents from the mining boom town of Fermont, in ...

Nestled in Decorah's picturesque Canoe River Valley is a home unlike most. A two-story wooden yurt, built and owned by 73-year-old Craig Mosher, snuggles up to a steep hillside of natural prairie and ...

As an artist and creative type, Debra doesn't want to be stuck working inside four walls. She believes her circular office helps her think outside the box. Jeff and Leslie Suhy like the feeling of ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Drivers heading west along Interstate 96 near Fruitport, ...

yurts takes advantage of the snowmobile ride in, often with a locally brewed keg and slabs of bacon and sausage bouncing on a sled beside stacks of fat skis. The snowmobile whisks you to two artfully ...

On a spring afternoon deep in West Virginia, Frankie ran around and around and around the deck of Solar Solitude, a rental yurt. To the uninformed observer, the Puerto Rican rescue dog, a guest at the ...

A few streets away, a young apprentice holds a bow of horsehair against an unfinished two-stringed instrument, trying to coax out a sound his teacher calls “as old as the steppe.” These scenes reflect ...

CUYUNA COUNTRY STATE RECREATION AREA – Seated at a table inside a fabric-walled yurt, my bare feet on a cool wooden floor, I listened to a trio of mountain bikers pass through the deep forest outside ...

GRASS LAKE, MI – A friend reached out to Steve Caro six years ago, saying he needed a yurt to stay in while recording a journey in the woods for a self-made documentary. Seeing the cost of yurt kits ...

Yurts are a quintessential element in Kyrgyzstan’s national identity. Not only are the felt tents emblematic of Kyrgyzstan’s nomadic past, they lend their shape to cemeteries, souvenirs and World War ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ouray – With the rain pattering on the fabric roof and children huddled around a board game snug inside the round walls, Joshua Kinne’s yurt feels like the ...

HOLIDAY yurts in a Christchurch wood have received planning permission despite local complaints about noise. The four, soon to be five, tents are set up in woodland on Sopley Farm, around Sopley Lake, ...