This article first appeared in the November/December edition of Yampa Valley Adventures. Yurts offer visitors to Northwest ...

For a few thousand years now, yurts have been an exceptional choice for shelter. The round structures were long valued for their stability, simple assembly and portability. Such things mattered, ...

A yurt that was carried off by floodwaters last summer from a campground in Marshfield has a new home in Montpelier, where it will be dedicated on Juneteenth as a BIPOC gathering place. The ...

A yurt is a round cylindrical dwelling capped with a conic roof that's been in use for at least the past few thousand years. Originating in Central Asia (Genghis Khan and his horde used them), the ...

A dream winter weekend in the peaks of Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains begins in the warm yet quirky embrace of a canvas yurt. The map churned out of the printer, light gray with plain black text. It ...

Cami Ostman acquired a plot of land from her aunt that had previously belonged to her grandparents. On the 20 acres in eastern Washington, she built a yurt to live in off the grid. She spends half her ...

Want to learn how to build a yurt from scratch? Build your own yurt with these simple, low-cost plans. This yurt design has its origins in the folk wisdom of ancient Mongolia, where the prototype has ...

Central Asian cultural traditions have received international recognition as the ancient bowed instrument Kobyz and the ...