Cedar Mountain Farm

I would love to introduce you to one of my family’s favorite places to go. It is Cedar Mountain Farm Bed & Breakfast. You can find their website here. This is one of those fabulous hidden gems that you almost don’t want to tell people about but it’s so amazing that I have to brag about it to you. It is just north of Couer d’Alene, Idaho and our family has visited there three times now. We are in California, so that’s how much we love this place.

Daryl & Al run a lovely, super hospitable bed and breakfast with lots of thoughtful details. We were given homemade popsicles and cookies and had a delicious breakfast served to us in the mornings.

Double fisting his popsicles! (he was tasting his brother’s)

Breakfast time and chatting with Al & Daryl. 🙂

Breakfast – homemade smoothies, fruit, eggs, baked goods – this time scones, another time we had coffee cake. Some sort of protein. This time was ham another time was sausage.

They have lots of beautiful flowers all around.

The part my kids like best is that they allow them to freely explore and interact with the animals. On our different visits we have bottle fed a lamb and held a newborn chick, turkey, and bunny. They have also run around with jumpy baby goats, fed the goats, and collected eggs.

The kids had fun seeing the new turkey poult

They loved picking grass to feed the goats. They were also given leftovers like banana peels to feed them.

They would run out first thing (still in jammies) to go see the animals.

We are total cat people and their cats are so sweet. One snuggled on my lap with me as I sat on the porch enjoying the peace and quiet before everyone woke up and another accompanied us on our walk into the forest on their property. In the summertime we have picked fresh raspberries and enjoyed chatting with other visitors over s’mores at the fire pit.

This guy misses our cats at home a lot when we travel so he loved getting some kitty snuggles!

Morning snuggles on the porch. I would set my alarm to wake up early because I loved sitting out there in the peace and quiet before everyone else woke up.

This sweet kitty came on our walk with us.

More raspberry picking with a new friend they made

On our first visit I was there with the boys, my parents, and my daughter was newly growing inside me. I found out I was pregnant the day before we left on our road trip! We loved it so much that we had to come back with Jon, my husband, since he wasn’t there with us on our first visit. We specifically saved a week of his parental leave when my daughter was born to go on another road trip the next summer so that we could take him to the farm. So our then 4 month old daughter got to go on her first multi-state road trip much earlier than her brothers. We visited again this past May and it was nice for her to actually experience the farm for the first time. She went around hugging each of the goats, wanted to keep checking on the bunnies, and enjoyed collecting eggs.

After our first visit my oldest cried sincere silent tears for about twenty minutes after we left because he was going to miss the baby goats and the farm so much. Our kids had a hard time choosing between going there and Disneyland- that’s how high it ranks in their minds.

When looking through my photos I found this. My Dad was taking a turn driving and I was writing notes back and forth to my oldest. When I asked what his favorite part had been so far, he replied, “kids” (the baby goats) and then wrote, “yes, but I miss them.”

He loved running around with those baby goats so much!

During our second visit since it was really hot in July we spent the day at the local lake in Farragut State Park and then returned when it was a bit cooler to hang out with the animals.

Our favorite room that we stayed in was Granny’s and Spring combined. We had a whole hallway to ourselves with a queen bed in one room and a twin/full bunk bed in the other. It had a wonderful jetted tub and huge shower.