Check out Virginia.org for a listing of Virginia’s fall activities, especially the Graves Mountain Apple Harvest festival, all weekends in October (Graves mountain is only 5 1/2 miles from the yurt) It’s the best time of year to be in the yurt, with cool nights by the fire, crisp clean mountain air, and changing leaves!

We spend two weeks at the yurt this July, enjoying the new porch and the noises of the forest!

Vizsla not included.

The good news is, you won’t be crushed in your sleep by a falling poplar. You can see below the ceiling rafters splintered, but the roof didn’t even tear so it was still waterproof! I wonder what state a cabin roof would have been in… Or about the subsequent water damage from storms…

Thanks to our neighbors at Blue Ridge Yurts for recommending someone to fix it, even though it’s a Pacific Yurt! And of course, to Neal, who came upon the destruction and documented it for us! All told: damage < $1000. Time to fix: approximately one day (by a yurt specialist, and this doesn’t count the clean up of the tree debris outside, or fixing the deck).

Did I mention the same tree, after bouncing off the roof of the yurt, took out our deck railing and four five-year old conifers? I am most bummed about the trees, but we’ll put new ones in this summer.