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DECKED OUT

hour south of Columbus, Ohio, the rolling Hocking Hills region serves as the gateway to greater Appalachia, luring some 5 million visitors per year with a rugged natural beauty rooted in Blackhand sandstone foothills and craggy rock formations. The terrain  Designed from three 40-foot-long shipping containers, it’s a surprisingly posh three-bed, two-bath homestead for eight people on 18 acres. The unconventional modern facade makes a striking first impression, then charms with the black-and-white farmhouse interior everyone loves right now. A firepit, hot tub, and rooft op patio summon and soothe aft er a full day of outdoor activity in the seven sites If Box Hop is booked, try the idyllic Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls , where you can stay in a glampingcaliber yurt and do a spa sampler of three treatments in an 1840s log cabin.

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