Lose Your Mind n' Find Your Soul

The Forest is your secluded, magical escape on 80 acres of private forest. Close (not too close) to Gimli, Manitoba down a long, private road. Waiting for you to restore and disconnect, enjoy the decks, walk the trails, or take in the healing medicine of the forest. Nestled in the spruce and aspen boreal forest, a woodstove, hammocks, fire pits, hiking trails, swimming pond, snowshoeing. And the vinyl collection. And As John Prine said we threw away the TV.

Ah "the Forest"!

I love this place and I am sure you will too, mostly because it's pretty secluded and alone on 80 acres. Think a simple little cabin in the woods. I call it the "Forest" or the "Little Retreat".

There's a lot more info on our website (www.littleretreatintheforest.com) and on our social media pages (IG is @littleretreatintheforest) and the House Manual, or email at littleretreatintheforest@gmail.com. The Airbnb page has like 300 plus reviews from the last decade of guests.

It's rumoured as rumours go that it was once lived in by an old fella years ago or trapper or something but that's just rumours as it goes lol, that’s before it was renovated as a modern house but keeping the cabin the woods vibe.

Anyway it has everything you'll need since it's now essentially a house with everything. Think nice bedding, soaps and lotion, plush towels and a selection of herbal teas, coffees, and some medicinal herbs and teas for donation/purchase from Hollow Reed apothecary. And of course all the firewood you’ll need to stoke the ol’ woodstove.

Sharing it with you is part of the desire to share with you if you also need time some oasis time where time can almost stop, away from all the busyness and everything else, alone in the woods, this might be for you.

Oh and we’re pup friendly too, I think that’s why lots of folks come. And to be in nature on our private trails and fire pits or with the wood stove.

Our place is perfect if you want a retreat spot to restore at in the forest, away from everything and just take a big 'ol break, sit in the geodesic dome in summer away from the bugs (there's lots of them in June and July!) or just sit and listen to the aspen and watch for birds or look at wildflowers on our trails AROUND THE 80 ACRES.

NOTE: if tall grasses, bugs and lots of pure nature (or cold in winter!) in a wild Forest and not a soul in sight aren't your thing then our place may not be what you want.

When you book a stay I will send you a detailed message closer to your stay with all kinds of information about it, so hopefully I will answer all your questions, but message me anytime before your stay with any kind of question though :). In the meantime please read the house manual and check out our social media pages.

I'm grateful for my travels like vintage off grid trailers by Joshua Tree national park, a hut in the desert near Slab City, CA (out of this world), an adobe home in Tucson, Arizona, a sailboat in downtown Vancouver, a yurt in the mountains of northern Arizona, a tent at Monument Valley, Utah, a float home on Vancouver Island, a school bus in Portland Oregon, an off grid Earthship in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico.

This cabin is basically a house with a cabin in the woods feel, we even added a basic espresso maker (new!). In summer guests love the outdoor tub and shower nestled in the woods 100 feet away from the cabin.

Use as much firewood as you like (within reason lol I have to cut and split it) and there's always some dry wood inside the cabin.

You will find rough trails I am working throughout the forest. If it's spring bring rubber boots, in winter we supply snowshoes :). You might see deer, owls, eagles, ravens, but hopefully not bears or coyotes but they are there - you'll hear the coyotes at night. Sometimes if you are lucky the aurora borealis.

You will find several ponds. One I made a small beach. It is swimmable. There's a couple canoes and a kayak. Clay bottom is gooey and soothing on the toes like the spa!

The house has all the modern day comforts but as John Prine said I threw out the TV :) We kept the guitar and banjo lol (seriously!). I did however, equip the house with good satellite Wifi and two WiFi networks in case you need it an you are outside the cabin. One works up to 400 feet away I am told, so much for disconnecting.

The Vinyl collection - there is also the old cabinet record player which plays awesome, so bring some of your vinyl! My old collection is there including some old Hank Williams, Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and other cool stuff.

Cleaning! The walls end up with black marks from people’s days there, which we try and wipe up between guests as much as possible, and we have a cleaner from a nearby town and it gets cleaned (beds made, rooms and floors vacuumed, water checked, holding tank checked, kitchen cleaned, bathroom cleaned, dusting and wiping and cleaning the fridge) regularly.

We ask you to please clean up after yourself, it's pretty much wash and put away your dishes, wipe after yourself, and tidy up - we clean but we don't wash the dishes between guests, that's for you to do.

Please bring in wood from the wood shelter for the next guests if you used it, same with the sauna please.

No fireworks... forest fires.

No parties.

No playing recorded or amplified music outside.

More info on our website!