Enjoy StoneWind Retreat near Lake Shepherd Springs and the new Lake Fort Smith, a private mountain top resort with luxury yurt cabins, hot tubs, and and panoramic views of the Boston Mountains, White Rock Mountain, and the Ozark National Forest. The unspoiled beauty of the land invites you to relax and enjoy.
Living the Good Life at
StoneWind Retreat

StoneWind's elegant furnishings invite you to relax in style, with your hot tub and nature right outside your window. Click to enlarge.If you're thinking, "It's just a tent," you are in for a big--and very pleasant surprise. Each Yurt Cabin has 709sf of living space constructed on its own spacious 40' x 40' deck with stunning views. Each is fully self-catering with completely furnished kitchen, large shower bath, custom queen bed, a utility room with washer/dryer for long term visits, central heat and air for year round comfort, romantic log flame gas stoves so you can sit in front of the fire, a gas grill just outside the door for your barbecuing pleasure, plus many other amentities to make your stay comfortable and your Yurt a "home away from home."Each Yurt Cabin has a domed ceiling with a skylight and fan at the apex of the dome.

Our Yurt Cabins, manufactured by Pacific Yurts of Cottage Grove, Oregon, are sturdy and practical as well as beautiful. Designed as permanent structures to last for years and years, yurt cabins have wooden lattice walls and rafters reaching 16 feet to a domed skylight and ceiling fan. Each cabin is fully insulated and has central heat and air to keep you comfortable in winter and summer.

Our Yurt Kitchens are open, airy, and convenient with microwaves, stoves, pots, pans, dishes, even a crock pot. Click to enlarge.If you are wondering how Yurt Cabins do in "weather," the answer is, "great!" With reinforced lattice walls and airtight outer "skins," Yurt Cabins are guaranteed against 80 mph winds and 10" snows, yet they give the sense of being connected to nature while you relax in comfort. Environmentally friendly, harmonious with natural settings, Yurts have an energy and openness uniquely their own to make your stay a wonderful experience to remember--and repeat.

StoneWind's Yurt Cabins are available in two configurations: the Deluxe Yurt Cabin with Hot Tub and the Vacation Yurt Cabin without a hot tub. The basic size and design of both types of cabin is identical, with the same elegant furniture and amenities and the same size deck with mountain views.

Deluxe Yurt Cabins have all the features described above plus a hot tub outside on the deck, privacy screening, wonderful mountain views for your pleasure, and a picturesque ravine just off the tub area. If you have not experienced a hot tub under the stars, you owe it to yourself to do it now. Nothing compares to basquing in warm water under an inky blanket of night with only the moon and starlight above--the way it used to be before light pollution.

Everyone enjoys sitting on the decks to eat, read, or just gaze off into the distance. Three-toed slothism 101. Vacation Yurt Cabins have the same furnishings and amenities as the Deluxe Yurt Cabins. While they do not have hot tubs, the views of deer, sunsets, and stars from the decks are just as amazing. All our Yurt Cabins invite you to enjoy the beauty of the woods and mountains in the comfort of elegant surroundings. Deck tables with woven chairs overlook the mountains providing the perfect spot for a leisurely breakfast, a romantic sunset dinner, or a place to surf the internet on your laptop.

Yurts against the night sky just as the sun goes down gleam like jewels against the sky and the mountains. Click to enlarge.When was the last time you watched deer graze from your private deck or saw hawks and eagles soar on the wind? Have you heard any owls, treefrogs, bull frogs, or coyotes sing their night songs lately, or sat in your private hot tub and watched the starry heavens spread against blackest night without light pollution? Here at Stonewind, our unique and carefully protected natural setting allows you to reconnect with the simple things you may have forgotten--or have yet to know.

Sunsets over the mountains from the deck of a Yurt Cabin are always beautiful, but some are memorable. Click to enlarge.You can enjoy yurt living year round and experience the beauty of the wilderness in all its seasons from the lush green of spring and summer to the radiant colors of autumn to the peaceful quiet of winter. If you are an early riser, watch breath taking sunrises over the mountains and catch wild turkey and deer on their morning forage. Catch glorious sunsets every evening from the deck of your yurt cabin and absorb the peace and contentment of being in harmony with nature. Some moments are special. Mountain sunrises and sunsets are among them. Come see for yourself.


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Sunrise from the deck of the North Lodge. Sunsets over the mountains are spectacular ends to peaceful days. Click to enlarge.

Spring time on the mountain, dogwoods in bloom.StoneWind fields and woods in their full autumn colors--an amazing display of nature's seasons.


"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Parts of Animals

StoneWind Retreat, for stress management in the heart of the Arkansas Boston Mountains.
15840 Wilson Branch Dr.,
866-395-9979 or 479-369-0049

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