Yurt Kids
This page is dedicated to the growing community of children who live in, study in or go camping in yurts.
These Colorado kids skied from yurt to yurt on the Hindsdale Haute Route ski trail. The yurt behind them is a "solar yurt" made by Red Mountain Lodge Works of Lake City, Colorado.
Keegan and Rohnan Holt are twins who live in yurts in Alaska. Visit their family blog, YurtsNDogs, to read more of their story.
Our beautiful yurts
We call this our Cupcake Yurt...this is the 12foot yurt that is used as an arctic entry which holds the trash & recycling. And in the winter it becomes a freezer for some of our food.
Keegan(8 years old):
We live in a 30-foot yurt connected to a 12- foot yurt that we use as an arctic entry. It’s a circle. We built our yurts 9ft off the ground with a floor below. Our bedroom and bathroom are on the first floor. We heat our yurt with a woodstove and a Toyo. We go through 7 cords of wood a winter. I like my loft of toys in the yurt.
Our woodshed with the Yurts in the background
Our bookshelf staircase to the loft in the 30foot Yurt (the bedroom below is Mom & Dad’s)
Rohnan(8 years old):
One of the reasons I like the yurt is my mom can’t put me in a corner. When we moved here, I slept in the loft. It is on top of my parents’ bedroom in the 30ft Yurt. We had to use a ladder to get up to the loft, but now we have bookshelf stairs. I like the lattice walls because I can climb on them.
Keegan on left and Rohnan on right
Rohnan:
I like ALASKA because we get tons of snow. I like to sled, ski, dog mush, snow machine, build snow forts, and have snowball fights.
Rohnan mushing and Keegan in the sled bag waiting for his turn to mush...Dogs mushing are Mittens & Snowman in lead and Cricket and Bumble Bee in wheel.
Keegan:
I love summers in Alaska: sea kayaking, swimming in the pond, bike riding, picking fireweed, having long days, camp fires, and not having to haul wood.Rohnan & Keegan:
We see lots of wild life: moose, fox, eagles, sand hill cranes, trumpeter swans, shrews, squirrels, snow birds, loons, hawks and ravens.ATTENTION KIDS! We welcome your yurt stories and photos (send to becky@yurtinfo.org).
