Friends with the Forest

Empower Yourself to Live Your Best Life!
Be Friends with the Forest to Create Your Best Life!
Bryson City, North Carolina
Health, Arts, & Outdoors Collective +
Self-Empowerment Platform/Community Services




Our Story
Creative Souls
Friends with the Forest strives to foster imagination and creativity within our community by providing unique nature-inspired events and services. We are a collective of compassionate artists, builders, event coordinators, writers, chefs, animal lovers, listeners, and decent human beings who are all friends with the forest. Our mission is to create exceptional experiences and community services to help people find it within themselves to discover who they've always wanted to be and what they've always dreamed of doing. We aspire to eventually be a venue celebrated for our commitment to environmental regeneration, innovation, and our ability to forge meaningful connections between people and nature.


