This weekend my youngest daughter gets married. Priscilla is the seventh of my nine daughters to marry, and she’s marrying a young man she’s known since their speech and debate days in high school. The rehearsal was yesterday. I got choked up standing in line with her, which surprised exactly nobody in my family.
The wedding isn’t at Monument Glamping. It’s at a beautiful private property ten minutes down the road — neighbors of ours, and friends. The groom’s family cooked the rehearsal dinner. And that detail is actually the point of this post.
Monument is bigger than any one business here.
People find Monument Glamping first and then discover the town. I’d rather it work the other way around. Monument, Colorado sits right where the Front Range starts to feel like the mountains — pine, granite, open sky, Pikes Peak on the horizon, and a creek running cold through the middle of it. There are trails minutes from our gate. There are local restaurants worth driving to. There are gorgeous private venues hosting weddings and gatherings all summer long, run by people we know and genuinely like.
We’re not competing with any of them. We’re the place you sleep well.
What Monument Glamping actually is
Monument Glamping is private-property glamping — not a campground, not an RV park, not a resort. Six acres along Monument Creek, eight units total: luxury safari tents and container homes. Each one comes with a real bed, a private deck, a private hot tub, and a private fire pit. No shared bathhouse. No neighbor’s generator. No packing a car full of camping gear you’ll spend an hour setting up.
On a hot August afternoon like today, the creek is the best amenity we’ve got, and we didn’t build it. Guests find a spot on the bank and stay there. In winter it’s the hot tub and the snow. The property gives us different things in different seasons, and we mostly just try not to get in the way of it.
Set up for the honeymoon, not the wedding
We get asked about weddings often enough that it’s worth saying plainly: we don’t host them. We don’t have a wedding venue. What we have is the thing couples want after the wedding — a private, quiet, comfortable place with a hot tub and a fire and nobody to talk to. Our units are built around couples reconnecting, which happens to describe a honeymoon night pretty precisely.
The same goes for wedding guests. If you’ve got family flying in for an event anywhere in the Monument or Colorado Springs area, we’re a much better landing spot than a chain hotel on the interstate.
Booked out, and still at the wedding
Here’s the part I find funny. Our property is full this weekend — booked with regular guests who have nothing to do with my daughter’s wedding. Wendy and I run this place ourselves, and we’ll be ten minutes away in wedding clothes while eight units are occupied and running smoothly.
That’s not luck. That’s what happens when the owners live on the property, know every unit, and build a business that doesn’t need them hovering over it. It’s also, I think, what makes a stay here feel different. This isn’t a corporate asset managed from another state. It’s our home ground, and our family’s life is happening right alongside your weekend.
Come see the town. Stay on the creek. Just show up — we’ll handle the rest.
Check availability and book direct at MonumentGlamping.com.
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