UD | Last-Minute Labor Day Plans: Right Here

If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version 08/26/13   Labor Management Not-So-Roughing-It on Labor Day Labor Day weekend. It’s nigh. So very nigh. And hey, good thing you made plans well in adv—we mean, good thing we went and found you five last-minute-bookable getaways for embracing the outdoors and extolling the virtues of the American worker. Or something like that...     YOUR OWN PRIVATE IDAHO Camping. Whitewater. Idaho.   A quaint outpost of oversize tents with king-size beds, wood-burning stoves and claw-foot tubs on Idaho’s Lochsa River. Which happens to be one of North America’s most ferocious whitewater rafting spots. Just something to think about while you soak in the claw-foot tub... Degree of Laboriousness: 5/10.   411: River Dance Lodge, 7743 Hwy 12, Kooskia, ID, 208-926-4300, more info here     CAP IT OFF Here’s a Beach to Camp On   A refined encampment on the Santa Barbara coastline where you’ve got 26 well-appointed safari-style tents within walking distance of the beach. Fire pit: check. Picnic tables: check. Heated swimming pool: kind of unnecessary with the ocean, but... check. Degree of Laboriousness: 4/10.   411: Safari Tents at El Capitan Canyon, 11560 Calle Real, Santa Barbara, CA, 805-685-3887, more info here     SPRING FOR IT A Log Cabin. With a Private Hot Spring.   Here’s a 19th-century ghost town across from Telluride that’s now a fully fledged, wi-fi-enabled wilderness retreat. Your move: the log cabin with its own private hot spring and cold plunge. Which is pretty cool. Or pretty hot. Degree of Laboriousness: 2/10.   411: The Well House at Dunton Hot Springs, 52068 Road 38, Dolores, CO, 970-882-4800, more info here     CHALLENGER ACCEPTED You’re in a Tent Surrounded by Wine   A 65-acre pinot noir vineyard on Washington’s Skagit River. You’ll have a tent with a queen-size bed, an outdoor shower and your own personal firewood supply to use with the pizza oven out back. You know what goes nicely with pizza: 65 acres of wine. Degree of Laboriousness: 1/10.   411: Challenger Ridge, 43095 Challenger Rd, Concrete, WA, 877-589-3226, more info here     FOR THE HELI OF IT That Time You Slept in a Helicopter   You head to Connecticut. You walk into a barn. Inside: a 17,000-pound 1968 Sikorsky Sea King Pelican HH3F helicopter. Inside that helicopter: a flat-screen TV, a full bar, a wood-burning stove and the indisputable right to demand that all cohabitants refer to you as “Goose.” Degree of Laboriousness: –3/10.   411: Helicopter at Winvian, 155 Alain White Rd, Morris, CT, 860-567-9600, more info here UrbanDaddy is pure editorial. You can't buy love from the Daddy. About Us   |    Archives   |    My UD   |    Perks   |    Contact   |    Jobs   |    Advertise   |    Tips Email Issues   |    Privacy Policy   |    User Agreement   |    Unsubscribe   |    Editorial Policy 900 Broadway, Suite 808 New York, NY 10003 © 2013 UrbanDaddy. All Rights Reserved.