Huckleberry Wilderness Lodge
1 review for Huckleberry Wilderness Lodge
There are places you keep coming back to. Not so often that they become routine and mundane, but just often enough they acquire a patina of your memories. Some sweet warm musings, some bitter cold ghosts. You go back, hoping for more of the former, hoping to finally silence the latter. You go back because the place has become part of who you are.
Huckleberry Wilderness Lodge, secluded in the woods around Welches, perched by the Salmon River, is such a place. This former Fred Meyer family vacation home is now a rental with almost too many fantastic features: spacious wrap-around porch, stone fireplace, BBQ, hot tub, private meadow with a fire pit by the river, Etc. Though the kitchen is a little cramped, there are several bedrooms and room for tents in the meadow. Pets allowed for a small fee.
The rates are reasonable, especially in the off season, and the rental staff are friendly and professional. They even had a goodie bag waiting for the dog.
... I remember running down the trail the first time, following the fresh smell of the water and the sounds of the river running over rocks. I remember taking a foto of my friend napping in the sun, his t-shirt pulled up over his belly. I remember making ice cream. I remember soaking in the tub, looking up at the sky and the autumn leaves falling silently one by one. I remember my love near distraught that he lost his ring, the one we got on vacation together, and I consoled him, pretending I had not seen him, standing at the edge of the forest, take the ring off and throw it into the trees.
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