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51 Days and Counting

Circle M • Lancaster, PA

As of August 1, there are only 51 days left of summer, according to the calendar. For some, summer ends when school starts, but the official calendar date is September 21, which is the first day of autumn. Time flies, especially summertime, whether you’re having fun or not.

Bend-Sunriver • Bend, OR

We’ve put together 50 fun things to do before we say farewell to summer. (We’re giving you one day to read this list and create an action plan!)

  1. Go to a waterpark
  2. Read at least one book from your summer booklist
  3. Eat outdoors
  4. Go fishing
  5. Try to learn a new watersport, like stand-up paddling or wake surfing
  6. Go to a local pool and enjoy getting splashed
  7. Visit a lemonade stand
  8. Watch the sun rise
  9. Watch the sun set
  10. Camp out in your backyard
  11. Glamp at your favorite Petite Retreats location
  12. Enter a watermelon seed spitting contest
  13. Take in a theater production under the stars
  14. Spend one day off grid – no social media, no TV, no podcasts (best paired with #11!)
  15. Catch fireflies
  16. Bird watch
  17. Take a walk in the woods
  18. Visit a farmer’s market and create something delicious with seasonal produce
  19. Make s’mores and then make more
  20. Enjoy an outdoor musical event
  21. Build a sandcastle
  22. Go to a carnival
  23. Ride a rollercoaster and scream at the top of your lungs
  24. Run through a sprinkler, even if it’s someone else’s!
  25. Listen to the crickets
  26. Pick berries
  27. Go to a baseball game – local or professional
  28. Eat corn on the cob
  29. Take a road trip (for as long as you can)
  30. Visit a national park
  31. Visit a national monument
  32. Visit an old friend
  33. Spend a day volunteering
  34. Spend a day watching old movies
  35. Go to a drive-in movie
  36. Grab some chalk and make sidewalk masterpieces
  37. Have a water balloon fight
  38. Have a squirt gun fight
  39. Fly a kite
  40. Try Goat Yoga
  41. Spend a day being a tourist in your own city
  42. Catch a parade
  43. Go on a picnic
  44. Visit a planetarium and enjoy summer’s night skies
  45. Eat popsicles
  46. Grill the perfect hotdog/hamburger
  47. See this summer’s blockbuster movie at a midnight showing
  48. Carefully enjoy a slip ‘n slide
  49. Glamp in a unique accommodation – yurt, teepee, tiny house
  50. Make a to-do list for next summer!

Goat Yoga

Glamping in Style with Petite Retreats!

Thanks to the advent of “glamping,” more and more people are catching the camping bug. And, because glamping made alternatives to tent camping cool, camping is no longer just a warm-weather getaway option. With glamping becoming trendier, accommodations like yurts, cabins, and tiny houses are now sought after options, compared to the more traditional, yet weather-dependent tent and all the outdoor accoutrements associated with camping.

Glamping options like tiny houses have all the amenities of a hotel while also providing the cozy, communing with nature feeling campers seek. Cottages and cabins can range from rustic to well-outfitted yet still maintain that same “one with nature” atmosphere provided by the camping cottages and cabins of yesteryear. Yurts offer a unique way to spend time among nature in a setting that is both cozy and spacious all at once.

Whether you’re looking for a wintery glamping experience filled with hot cocoa and activities bouncing around in the snow, or escaping the cold until the winter in the North is over, there are plenty of options ready and waiting to help make your glamping dreams come true with Petite Retreats!

Is the Pacific Northwest calling your name this season? Check out the Tiny House Villages in Leavenworth, Washington, or Welches, Oregon. The Mt. Hood Tiny House Village in Welches sits amid all the winter sports activities in the area and is also close to Portland so you can get your big city fix when you’re done playing in the snow.

Leavenworth Tiny House Village has the backdrop of the Cascade Mountains (and all the snow fun that comes with it) and is, of course, is just a few miles from the Bavarian Village of Leavenworth, where you may just feel like you went to sleep in Washington and woke up in Germany!

Leavenworth Tiny House Village
Leavenworth Tiny House Village

There are also yurts at Bend-Sunriver in Oregon, the aforementioned Mt. Hood, and several Pacific Coast locations from Washington on down through Oregon. Cabins can be found in California, Oregon, and Texas. And, if you insist on spending winter on the beach, colorful cottages in Florida beckon you to locations that include the Florida Keys and centrally-located Kissimmee.

Florida speaks for itself in terms of fun and sun. Kissimmee offers perfect proximity to all the theme parks and the Keys are as close as you can get to a tropical adventure without leaving the U.S. So, enjoy a cottage in the sun and go glamping the Sunshine State.

Colorful Cottages at Fiesta Key

Pick a yurt and enjoy a stay at Tall Chief RV Resort in Fall City, Washington, which is less than a half hour outside of Seattle. Or, choose a cozy cabin at Pacific City RV Resort in Cloverdale, Oregon, and enjoy winter hiking in Cape Meares State Park. Try out staying in a cabin “Cali-style” and book a stay at Rancho Oso RV Resort, located just outside the charming city of Santa Barbara. Enjoy “America’s Riviera” as Santa Barbara is known, and take in the history, culture, arts, and local wineries.

Get your winter glamping groove on while you can! Petite Retreats provides you with lots of variety in your choice of destination, or destinations if you’ve got the time. So, get going and get glamping!

Visit petiteretreats.com to find your perfect winter glamping getaway.