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In the press
Television crews, travel filmmakers and local storytellers keep finding their way up the hill. Here is what they took home.
Spoon Mountain Glamping sits on a hilltop above Wimberley with three adults-only safari tents, and the coverage started arriving early. FOX 7 Austin brought a crew out in 2021 to show viewers what a tent with its own private pool actually looks like. Texas Lifestyle Magazine featured the property in its #TXAway series the following year. Hill Country Sun ran a piece called An Out-of-the-Ordinary Getaway in its Welcome to Wimberley issue, and Austin.com put Spoon Mountain on its shortlist of glamping within easy reach of the city. Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, later included the property in a print guide to the state’s literary retreats, in its November 2026 issue.
Alongside the press, the recognition that mattered most came from the people who live here. In 2022 readers of the Wimberley View voted Spoon Mountain Glamping the Best Vacation Rental in town, an award decided by locals rather than by an algorithm or a paid listing. Next door, our sister business The Med Spa has held the Best Day Spa title since it opened in 2016.
Everything collected below links back to the original broadcast, article or film. Where a publisher has since retired a story from its own site, we have linked an archived copy so you can still read it in full.
Lisa Bubert’s guide to Texas literary retreats put Spoon Mountain on the short list of places a writer can disappear to and actually get the work done, alongside the state’s long-established writing residencies. It runs in the November 2026 issue, A Booklover’s Guide to Texas (Vol 73, Issue 9). Print only, so the only way to read it is to find a copy.
Voted by the people who know the town best: Wimberley’s own. Down the hill, our sister business The Med Spa has held the Best Day Spa title since it opened in 2016.
FOX 7 Austin · TV feature
Austin’s FOX affiliate came out to the hilltop to show its viewers what glamping with a private pool actually looks like.
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Lexington Jones · Full tour in 4K
A travel filmmaker walks every corner of the tents, decks and pools in 4K. The closest thing to being here before you are here.
Watch the tour
Simply Living · Owner interview
The owners sit down to tell the story behind the hilltop: why safari tents, why Wimberley, and what they want every guest to feel.
Watch the interviewWritten features from around the Hill Country and beyond.
The statewide lifestyle magazine spends a getaway on the hilltop, from the safari tents to the fire pit sign that says collect moments, not things.
Read the feature Voyage AustinThe Austin interview series sits down with Yvette: the dream she and Ken shared, three decades of Wimberley EMS, and how a cedar hilltop became three safari tents.
Read the interview Austin.comOne of just four properties chosen for the city guide’s roundup of unique glamping escapes within reach of Austin.
Read the roundup Hill Country Sun · Welcome to WimberleyThe Hill Country’s own magazine toured the tents for its Welcome to Wimberley issue. The original page has since moved, so this links to the archived copy.
Read the archived feature Simply Living LocalThe written companion to Ken and Yvette’s interview: how a Wimberley hilltop became three safari tents and a spa.
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