COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--You’ll find one at 10,000 feet, welcoming intrepid heli-skiers in Nevada’s Ruby Mountains. Near Austin, Texas, couples enjoy their morning coffee while taking in panoramic views from one that’s perched 60 feet high in a majestic Cypress tree. At the United States Embassy in Mongolia, a modern Pacific Yurt stands alongside its traditional counterparts, and these days it’s rare to visit an American campground, music festival or military resort that hasn’t embraced the structure as a cost-effective yet luxurious way to house guests in both style and seclusion.
Since pioneering the modern yurt nearly 40 years ago, Pacific Yurts, the Cottage Grove, Oregon-based leader in yurt technology and customer service, has seen its innovations brought to life in myriad ways by private and commercial customers who recognize the structure’s seemingly endless possibilities. If you’ve experienced a yurt yourself, it’s likely that Pacific Yurts built it, and with “YURT BUILDER 3D™,” the newest addition to its website, www.yurts.com, the company has placed those possibilities directly at your fingertips.
YURT BUILDER 3D™ works like a virtual shopping cart for Pacific Yurts’ many options and amenities, an online visual tool that allows prospective buyers to choose their yurt’s size, color and accessories, then view their custom creation from any angle and even take a look inside. As they build their ideal yurt, a price quote is automatically generated, and for the final touch, the online visitor can place their yurt in one of several idyllic virtual settings.
“We’re streamlining the process of helping our customers gather information on the yurt visually, on their own, and helping them decide how it’s going to work best for them,” said Pacific Yurts founder and President Alan Bair.
Bair said there’s nothing quite like the YURT BUILDER 3D™ elsewhere in the yurt-building industry, and he added that it’s only natural that Pacific Yurts be the company to pioneer the technology.
“We’ve been the leader in yurt innovation for decades, so why wouldn’t we want our website to reflect that?” he said.
The company’s revamped site also offers a chance to explore the accommodations of yurt getaway destinations through its “The Yurt Experience” page, which showcases the many backdrops for one of the world’s most adaptable and versatile buildings while boosting the online audience — free of charge — of commercial yurt owners throughout the U.S. and Canada. They have also incorporated 360° virtual tours of their four largest yurts onto their website to help capture the unique feeling of being inside a yurt.
It’s this kind of online accessibility that no doubt helped convince Airbnb to dub 2014 the “Year of the Yurt,” recognizing the most popular type of rental chosen by the listing site’s users. It’s also the kind of relationship that comes with every Pacific Yurts purchase.
Because it’s only after the online yurt experience begins that the lasting value of the modern yurt — and the company that has brought it to millions worldwide — really shines through. Pacific Yurts knows it’s the quality of their yurts’ construction, the innovations that only they can offer and the reliability in customer service they’ve honed over decades as the industry’s leader that are the keys to their continued success.
Throughout the listings found on the Yurt Experience page, you’ll find Pacific Yurts customers that have learned to rely on the company’s ability to deliver quality yurts in less time than their competitors. Recently, a state parks department was able to order three Alpine yurts — their largest models, which feature an ability to withstand snow loads that could crush a lesser structure — and have them delivered in no time.
“We’ve had customers tell us that they don’t even go out for bids anymore, because we’re the only company capable of turning around a large order, quickly and with quality,” Bair said.
And the enhancements keep coming from Pacific Yurts’ inviting Cottage Grove headquarters, where 90 percent of each yurt’s materials are sourced regionally and assembled by local employees and where thermal glass windows and a new line of low-maintenance fiberglass doors with optional programmable keypads have helped to further expand the yurt’s appeal.
It’s business practices such as these that have continued to help new generations discover Pacific Yurts and, by extension, the possibilities of the company’s stock-in-trade.
“Many people that we talk to are discovering the yurt for the first time,” Bair said. “It’s so impressive that our modern yurts have continued to be trendy for almost 40 years, and that innovations have continued to open up new and exciting ways to use them.”
To begin designing your custom yurt, visit the YURT BUILDER 3D™ page.
