Of all the thoughtful touches at Bolt Farm Treehouse, one of Tori Bolt’s favorites is the guestbook.
“The way people pour their hearts out in here is not normal,” the co-owner says, flipping through the pages of handwritten notes detailing special moments shared at the 55-acre nature retreat. “To me, that shows you what this meant to them.”
The growing getaway in nearby Whitwell, Tennessee, offers a high-end experience away from it all. Well-appointed treehouses and geodesic domes huddle along a bluff overlooking the area’s patchwork of farms and rippling mountains. The artfully selected details within are second only to those outside, where guests can shower, soak in a private hot tub, dine or just relax on their oversized deck as they take in the scene that surrounds them — “a space to dream, have inspiration and breakthroughs,” Tori says, adding, “I hope they leave a little lighter. I hope they leave with greater strength in relationships and just truly feel relaxed.”
With a rough blueprint in hand for the property’s two treehouses, which are based on the one Seth Bolt built for Tori before their wedding, designing the eight domes was her and Seth’s “pandemic project,” she says, citing his creativity and pioneering spirit for the retreat’s growing footprint of unique accommodations. Now, the year-old retreat is adding five “mirror cabins,” the first of their kind in the United States, says Tori.
“As a pioneer, he always wants to be the first to try the next thing,” she says, listing some 200 such cabins in Europe and one in Mexico as the reflective rooms’ only other locations. “This really is a unique experience in the great outdoors.”