Nehalem, Oregon Est. 2022 45.7161° N, 123.8894° W
Nine cabins kept in the fog
Thirty-eight acres of second-growth on the wet side of the Coast Range. Every cabin has a cedar sauna, a creek-fed plunge, and a stove you light yourself. Two nights, minimum.
Why nine
For eleven years we drew buildings for other people. In 2019 we bought thirty-eight acres on the wet side of the range and started drawing for ourselves — nine small buildings, each one sited to a specific thing. A creek bend. A fern bank. The place where the fog stalls against the ridge and simply stays.
Maren framed the first two with a crew of four in the winter of 2020. Tobias detailed the saunas, which is why the benches sit a hair lower than standard — you sit deeper, the heat sits higher, and the top of your head stops complaining after round two.
Nothing here is built for a crowd. No lobby, no restaurant, no front desk after eight. There is a woodshed, a number that reaches an actual person, and nine doors that are yours for a minimum of two nights.
Three of nine
Each one sited
to one thing.
Rates run $340 to $620 a night depending on the cabin and the month. Every one of them has the sauna, the plunge, the stove and the window wall. What changes is what you are looking at, and how far you have to walk to get there.
All nine cabins
The round
Ninety minutes,
three times over.
The sauna is the reason most people come back. It is also the thing most people do wrong on the first night. Here is how we do it.
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01
Heat
Wood-fired cedar room at 82 °C. Split alder is stacked by the door; you feed the stove yourself, which is part of it.
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02
Plunge
Creek-fed, between 4 and 8 °C all year. Go in on an exhale. Come out a little before you want to.
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03
Rest
A bench under the eave, a wool blanket, nothing to look at but weather. This is the part people skip and the part that does the work.
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04
Again
Three rounds is the usual count. The last one runs past dark, when the fog closes the ridge and the only sound left is the creek.
Founders
“We were told nine cabins was too few to make the numbers work. Nine is exactly enough that we still know which one has the window that sticks.”
Hollowpine opened 4 November 2022
From the book by the door
What people write
on the way out.
“The fog came in at four and never left. We cancelled the drive to Cannon Beach and did not regret one minute of it.”
Elise M. · Seattle · Vesper, February
“I have never been so cold on purpose, and I have never slept so well because of it. Three rounds, then out like a light by nine.”
Daniel O. · San Francisco · Ridgeline, November
“Third stay. The wood is always stacked, the kettle is always the same kettle. That is the entire trick and nobody else seems to manage it.”
Priya R. · Portland · Alder, October
Booking for autumn and winter
Two nights, minimum.
Most people wish
they had booked three.
Chanterelle season runs mid-October to late November. The creek is loudest from December. We close for the first two weeks of January.