Linda Laban
| Special to USA TODAY
FALMOUTH, Mass. ‒ Retro-futuristic silver bullet Airstream campers are neatly lined up in small groves on a green hillock above Little Sippewissett Marsh in Cape Cod’s southwestern corner.
This is AutoCamp Cape Cod, opened in April in partnership with Boston-based developers Blue Flag Partners and the latest from California-based AutoCamp, a luxury Airstream glamping company, which began in 2013 in Santa Barbara, just before the glamping – that is, glamorous camping – trend took off.
“It was kind of an Airstream motel,” AutoCamp’s co-founder Ryan Miller says of the original camp. “The goal was to revolutionize outdoor lodging and have guests experience stylish modern Airstreams. Our business model is ‘great design meets the great outdoors’,” he announces.
In 2016, came a California wine country outpost, AutoCamp Russian River. Then, in 2019 the larger AutoCamp Yosemite opened, featuring a swimming pool and other expanded infrastructure. AutoCamp Joshua Tree will open by the end of the year.
The expansion will continue in 2022 with a site in New York’s Catskill Mountains and another near Zion National Park in Utah.
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