Heavens Door LLC Rental Cabins-near the Buffalo River

09/19/2026

3 days til fall begins! Who’s excited?🙋‍♀️🍁🍂

09/18/2026

Oct 1-5 now AVAILABLE! I just had a cancellation for the Lonesome Elk the 1st weekend of October! Better call quick to reserve it
318-465-2626

09/17/2026

Yoga pose?🤣
Last flowers of summer

09/17/2026

Have you ever seen bull elk fighting? I have!
I took this photo during a snow storm, down a country road not far from Heavens Door. I have the photo printed on canvas, hanging in the Lonesome Elk cabin.😊 Newton County, AR, close to Kingston.

09/15/2026

Thank you for the new reservations this morning! 😊🍁🍂🤩

09/15/2026

Have you ever eaten a pawpaw? I haven’t but need to find some!

If you ever ate one, you have never once been able to describe it to anybody who had not. 🍃 Custard, banana, mango, something. It grows wild in the creek bottoms of these mountains, it is the largest fruit native to this country, and most Americans will go their whole lives without tasting it.

The pawpaw ripens right now, these last two weeks of September, and it will not wait on you. A pawpaw goes from hard to perfect to gone in about three days. It bruises if you look at it wrong and it will not ship. That one fact is the entire reason you cannot buy one. It is not rare and it is not endangered. It is simply a fruit that refuses to be a commodity, so the grocery business gave up on it a hundred years ago and quietly wrote it out of the American diet.

Mountain families never wrote it out of anything. Children knew exactly which patch on which creek, and they knew the trick, which is that you do not pick a pawpaw. You take hold of the trunk and shake, and you keep whatever falls, because the tree will tell you what is ready better than your hands will. They came home in flour sacks and lard buckets. Most got eaten standing right there in the creek with the seeds spit into the water. What made it back to the house went into pawpaw bread, pawpaw pudding, and in some families a pawpaw pie that people still argue about at reunions. 🍂

Here is the part that ought to sit with us a little. The pawpaw was here long before any of our families were. Native peoples grew it, tended it and carried it, and there is good reason to think the patches are where they are partly because people put them there. Settlers ate it. The Lewis and Clark party lived on it for days when their provisions ran out. And then the country simply forgot it, not because it failed but because it could not be sold.

It never went anywhere. It is out there right now, back in the shade along the branch, dropping in the leaves.

Most people just never learned to look.

09/15/2026

Hey yall! Just another reminder: Don’t wait to book your cabin for October or November! Those are the busiest months of the year up here and my cabins are booking up fast for those months. Great time to hike, ride, build campfires, make memories, see the fall leaves, elk, & more! Your adventure awaits at Heavens Door! 5 star Superhost rating, cabins fully stocked with everything you need!

09/15/2026

I got a good shot of the moon and Venus last night. It was beautiful! Step outside if you haven’t seen it

09/11/2026

Thankful for the RAIN that woke me up this morning!

09/09/2026

Because of Airbnb’s changes… your total cost will be the same as before, but they were charging the guests 14% fees and me, the host 3% fees. Now they are changing it to make the hosts pay ALL the fees and the guests NONE. So now I will be paying 17% in fees on both my nightly rate and cleaning fee
to Airbnb instead of 3%! So… On Sept 15, my nightly rate on Airbnb will go up to $176 and cleaning fee $45. YOUR bottom line will be the same as when guests were paying 14% fees. But If you call me to book direct, you don’t have to pay ANY extra fees and my nightly rate remains the same ($149) and cleaning fee ($35) the same.
Call 318-465-2626 for reservations. Please share. Thanks!