When Dee Hein was 28, her mother died six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. In those six weeks, Hein and her brother were her full-time caregivers, doing all they could to make their mother’s final days a little more comfortable. They were difficult days, filled with stress, treatments, long trips to the hospital, and very little rest.

So it was with an inheritance from her mother that Hein decided to give to others what she and her family desperately wanted at that time — a place in nature to heal and connect, away from the turmoil and drama of cancer treatments, the poking and prodding, harried appointments, and a home life interrupted.