Cave + Luxury?! -- The Most UNIQUE Vacation Rental Ever | Beckham Creek Cave Lodge

Beckham Creek Cave Lodge in Parthenon, Arkansas is easily the most unique vacation rental we've ever experienced! It's located in Northwest Arkansas, just outside of Ozark National Forest and Buffalo National River.
We worked in partnership with the lodge manager, Rayne Davidson, and with the owners to be able to stay here for several days for the purposes of creating this film. It was awesome not only to be able to see the place, but to actually live at the lodge for a few days to get the full experience! And they even allowed us to invite family (one brother from Nashville, another brother and his family from Dallas). Staying at the lodge also afforded us the opportunity to film in a variety of weather conditions, from beautiful sunrises to misty mornings to stormy afternoons to brisk evenings around the firepit.
If you're looking for a cool and unique vacation experience, you should definitely consider this place! You can check availability and book your stay through their website: www.beckhamcave.com
We're very thankful to Rayne, who was wonderful to work with! She was so hospitable, and even acted as our tour guide, showing us cool hiking spots and caves (more than just Beckham Cave!), arranging ziplining, horseback riding, and canoeing, and overall just making sure we had a great experience while there.
We also want to thank Horseshoe Canyon Ranch for the ziplining and horseback riding adventures! They're a wonderful group of people who offer all-inclusive vacations at their ranch, allowing guests to participate in the many outdoor activities that they have. Please check out their website at: www.gohcr.com
A little about the project itself:
This film was two years in the making! We first heard of Beckham Creek in 2017 when it was for sale and went viral. At the time, I reached out to the realty company to inquire about making a video, but nothing came from that inquiry.
Then a couple of months ago we were making plans to go to Nashville for a wedding, and Beckham Creek Cave Lodge popped into my head again, so I looked it up and saw that it had been developed into a vacation rental. So I reached out to them and started a conversation with Rayne, and within a few days we had arranged for us to stay there.
The equipment used for this film:
Panasonic GH5
Voigtlander 25mm f0.95 lens
Voigtlander 10.5mm f0.95 lens
DJI Mavic 2 Pro
Nebula 5100 Slant gimbal
Syrp Genie slider
RODE Stereo Mic X
The song for this film is "Bloom" by Tony Anderson. It was licensed through www.musicbed.com.
All footage is copyrighted to Blue Mantle Films. If you'd like to use portions of this film, please reach out and we can discuss specifics.

[@RicardoGhion]

Belo filme, belas imagens

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Obrigado!

[@bmxer8699]

Wow, and they've changed things up even just since you made your video! Just went for 3 days with my family in September. Honestly, even with this great of a video, people wont be able to grasp the magic of that place unless they see it for themselves. Oh, and the power went out on us at 4am for 3 hours and we were in the master deep in the cave.. and WOWWWWW I have never been in absolute darkness like that where my eyes can't pick up any light whatsoever and the silence... it was crazy how quiet it got when all the dehumidifiers and geothermal units shut off. A+++ drone footage

[@BlueMantleFilms]

It is an incredible place for sure! I've been talking with them about doing an update to this video which would be more of a tour video, and they're open to that idea, so we may find ourselves back there in the coming months and have another (longer, more in-depth) video on our channel. That's a shame about the power going out! We never lost power when there, but there was a significant amount of rain for a couple of days (which made it into the video at 0:57-1:15). One night I woke up at about 3 in the morning because it was so loud from the water dropping from the ceiling near the entrance. It certainly was a unique and adventurous experience!

[@GMcMac-pf9fm]

What state/country is this in?

[@mymedusabarber]

How much was it a night

[@OurLakeLife]

How on earth can anyone dislike this? Stunning, as always... love the sound effects that were added to give each section its own unique character.

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Thanks, Heinrich! I was excited that most of the sound design was done with the original audio or at least from a clip taken right around the same time...that way I was able to accurately represent the acoustics.

[@thebabbler8867]

Either they can't afford the lodge or they're hating on Blue Mantle's camera skills. Its a lose lose situation for them.

[@land3n_694]

film was fire literally

[@elizabethalexander4449]

Amazing!!!!!! I love everything about this. Especially Holly riding the horse 🐎 😎😁 so cool you also have this amazing video of your memories together as a family 💛

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Thanks, Liz! We thought about you guys on our drive home from here...we went right through Columbus and talked about calling y'all, but with 12 hours in the car by that point we were ready to finish the last two hours as quickly as possible and be home. Yeah, Holly's a BA. :-)

[@elizabethalexander4449]

Blue Mantle Films after 12 hours in the car I would have waved you on too 😂 we’re in Cincinnati now! I’ll be on the lookout for cool things that need to be shot so we can finally see you guys again 😁 crazy cool life- all the best!!

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Elizabeth Alexander dang! We could have seen you on our way out, then! We drove through Cincinnati a week and a half before while heading to Nashville for a wedding. Anyway, good to know you’re there and we’ll keep that in mind if we’re in that area!

[@TampaAerialMedia]

Excellent video, very well done. Absolutely funny that someone disliked it. Some people will just dislike everything, certainly a video worth of only likes.

[@BlueMantleFilms]

I thought that was funny too. It was literally within the first two minutes of publishing. I'm guessing it had something to do with the fact I did a "premiere" this time (which I've never done before) so it was probably someone who got a notification and didn't like the video so was annoyed with the notification. Oh well, can't please everyone. Thank you for watching and for the kind words on the video.

[@OurLakeLife]

@@BlueMantleFilms "Sadly" it takes all kinds to make a world... awesome job, don't let idiots (or in this case idiot - 1 so far) place a damper on anything, the rest of the world loves it.

[@BlueMantleFilms]

@@OurLakeLife Thanks! I'm not worried about it. I've had enough people dislike videos for reasons indiscernible to me, so it's just something I expect.

[@Relicanth]

It is now my ambition to stay here. Forever.

[@heidilight3636]

Me too!!

[@heidilight3636]

ThIS IS MY DAILY DREAM!!!! Are there HOT SPRINGS?! I thought I had to build it myself!

[@emancipator5104]

A piece of heaven call home. I'm so envy of them.

[@willettaagjenkins3838]

I absolutely love it

[@mr.motivid7354]

Saw your Miami hyperlapses and then found this and absolutely in love with your work. Such a beautiful job on every piece-

[@cbrsti]

You did an absolutely incredible job putting this together.

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Thanks, BradenTheGuy! This was a pretty cool experience, for sure, and I'm happy with the video! I first heard of this place two years ago, and being able to stay in it for several days was definitely a check off my bucketlist. :-) If you don't mind my asking: how did you come upon this video?

[@dietmartreptow8940]

WOW !!!

[@alexanderdavis9636]

Beautiful place, I also like the beautiful music, amazing ❤️

[@ciromorales5228]

excelente video, es hermoso.

[@fireislandmavic5939]

love the time lapses

[@TAPPChannel]

great memories, shots and editing... You deserve a more views that you channel has...

[@lanand9397]

The people who made this did an excellent job

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Not sure if you're talking about the video or the cave. If the video: thanks! If the cave: agreed, they did do an excellent job at turning the place into something incredible!

[@devinhatcher9599]

Ive actualy been to this place before and its so beautiful like no other

[@jfilho1966]

Amazing...

[@VinetiiOfficial]

Just found your channel and you are absolutely insane! From the edits, to the transitions, song selections, sound design, color grade.... man... SUBBED!!!

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Awesome! Well welcome to the channel. Thank you for the kind words on our work! I'd say this channel is mostly about having a creative outlet to work on projects I'm passionate about. Myself and my wife and our kids love to travel, so that's what a lot of the creative videos are, and we hope to continue to move in this direction (if we can make creative and/or travel projects our full-time work we would absolutely love it!). So please recommend us to those you know who you think would be interested in this style of content. I know it's not for everyone, but hopefully there are enough people interested in this work that it can become our full-time work. Thanks for subbing!

[@VinetiiOfficial]

@@BlueMantleFilms Ill be sitting down soon to watch a good portion of your content! Watched 3 so far and they each were so good. I just recently separated from the Air Force and moved back home to Chicago, Ill. That gave me the ability to continue my videography buisness full time. Your style i feel would pair well with mine and if you are ever out here in the mid-west area I would love to collaborate. Maybe if bigger jobs come up with a budget, I could afford a second shooter!? Facebook.com/VinetiiMediaGroup - If you are interested to see my work or just view my youtube page. (Only my car content though)

[@ramonametlleiorantes8485]

Hola i bon dia, estic veient aquest vídeo des de Sant Esteve Sesrovires - Barcelona-CATALUNYA. Gràcies per al seu Programa!

[@guilhermerfr]

Meus parabéns! Belíssimo trabalho!! Estou querendo me aperfeiçoar nessa área também. Vou usar esse vídeo como inspiração.

[@jonahlevine]

Wow that was beautiful

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Jonah Levine thank you, Jonah! It was an incredible place, and this was a fun project to film and edit! And on top of that, staying at this place had been a bucket list item of mine for the last two years, so to able to check that off my list was really really cool.

[@dlf1976]

Coolest place I've ever seen

[@rodrigoaparicio4861]

Wow! an amazing job!

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Rodrigo Aparicio thanks! This was definitely a fun project to create.

[@rodrigoaparicio4861]

Yes, but that is the question, you have a very particular sensitivity for any type of video ... you can make a video of Rice Krispy and the video will also be incredibly beautiful. I am an editor, post producer and pilot of unmanned aircraft in Mexico City and at this moment I am a bit jealous, in the best sense of the word, with your talent. Congratulations my friend.

[@tonyeck1]

Awesome!

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Danke schön! I still haven't watched your lip dub. I don't like watching things on my phone, so your best bet for me to watch something is to email it to me, not send via text. But I'll send the link to myself and take a look. :-)

[@CrystalClearNM]

again, the foley es muy bueno : )

[@stevekite4819]

Beautiful

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Thanks! This was definitely a really cool experience, and such a cool and beautiful place to film.

[@questionreality2637]

Dude amazing

[@JamesSimmons1964]

Good to see you back posting.

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Thanks! I would absolutely LOVE to be posting more regularly, but keeping up with YT while also keeping up with for-hire work is hard. Hopefully we'll be able to make creative work our full-time work!

[@JamesSimmons1964]

@@BlueMantleFilms Best aerial content creator I've seen. Very creative!

[@IVANKULIKOVBLOG]

omg this is amazing, guys! It was like 3,5 minutes on timeline, but about a week in my mind!) nice job! I wonder how much time it takes to create a great video like this? shooting / post?

[@BlueMantleFilms]

For us it was a week in realtime and 3.5 minutes on the timeline. :-) We originally were going to stay at the place for only 2-3 nights, but there was a big storm and we actually got rained in, so they let us stay for as long as necessary until it was safe to leave. So we were there for a week. We intentionally allowed ourselves time to just enjoy it sometimes without filming, and then on some of the days we spent some dedicated time filming the place. So it was probably about two days' worth of filming. Editing took about three weeks.

[@dukebozikowski3801]

UNDERRATED!!!

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Thanks, and admittedly (hopefully not pridefully) I agree. I was really proud of this video and I thought it was going to do well (honestly I thought it might be my first video to go viral) but it's been slow in gaining views. Oh well, I've still got a lot to learn about the YT algorithm and how to maximize the launch of a video.

[@christinelund-molfese]

Amazing video! We live in Southwest Missouri... We're going to have to check out this place for a family reunion someday. Thanks!

[@kimkoch9854]

Its backed up for like 2 years cuz of the tv show

[@MustDoTravelsOfficial]

wow! This is really amazing.

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Thanks! I'm really excited by how it turned out. Thanks for watching.

[@TheRealSebster]

Nice.

[@bobdeluxeandtheideals1356]

❤️❤️❤️

[@noneofyourbusiness2253]

Very adventure.

[@BlueMantleFilms]

It was such a cool place!

[@iamshadyoshay6756]

I wanted to book for 2022 but their completely booked the whole year

[@rushikeshdesai2873]

My wish is to get me to live this way 😊 Realy you are lucky 👌✌️

[@BlueMantleFilms]

We are very blessed indeed! We don't live this way every day (wouldn't that be something?), but doing creative video work has definitely opened up many opportunities that a few years ago I wouldn't have thought possible for us. Thank you for watching!

[@kimkoch9854]

I stayed here for 3 nights it was aswome. The owners let us go back in to the cave to see the creek. Michel jackons used to play in a club here. The owners are planing to put hobit holes as overflow places because there are two 3-2 low water briges that u have to cross. There is a netflix show that shows it in one of the episodes. It was a berwery at one point. We got to ride around and see the drop off caves wher is you got it right and threw a rock down you couldent hear it hit the bottem. A spulunker fell 30 feet. he fell through a flase floor in a place called the "devils dancefloor" it is a cavern in the 1 mile long cave thatis about the size of a foot ball feild. Thats all i really know but Awsome work

[@loveintheatmosphere2617]

For some reason watching this almost made me cry😂

[@BlueMantleFilms]

That's a wonderful compliment. Thank you. Whenever I go back and watch our travel and experiences videos (like this one, or our more recent Switzerland travel video) it always makes me nostalgic for these really cool experiences that we've been blessed to have.

[@KDsBurnerYT]

I’m there rn

[@jdsebag]

Blue MantleFilms, I would like to ask permission if I can use some footage of your video at Beckham Cave during our visit for my cooking blog video. I will give credit to your video if permitted by you . Thank you. Nice work .

[@siddhantraina560]

Batman got jeleous after seeing this

[@lionvideos1288]

please could mr help you used filter in this shoot if yes which filter? another question which program did you edit?

[@BlueMantleFilms]

For all interior shots I didn't use a filter. For exterior shots on the GH5 I was using a variable ND filter from HOYA, I believe, and for drone shots I was using a Polar Pro ND4 or ND8 for realtime footage and ND64 or ND128 for the hyperlapses. Generally I would use stronger ND for hyperlapses, but since it was cloudy/misty/overcast conditions, the scene wasn't as bright and ND64 or 128 provided enough reduction in light for my needs. This was edited in Premiere Pro. Thanks for watching!

[@flon57]

How many bedrooms and how many can this accommodate?

[@marycogburn4763]

Love it, I just don’t know if I could handle all the drips, all over this cave.

[@kimkoch9854]

That was probably when they were about to put a new sealer on so thet it dosent drip

[@andrejaleksander350]

really awesome work! Dont understand the 2 dislikes... I mean its not PERFECT yet but its really close. It inspired me to be honest ! BUT think you also should upload this to LBRY, heard some sad stories from YTers which lost their monetesations... for no apparent reason. Greetings from Cologne, Germany @andrejaleksander

[@BlueMantleFilms]

You’re from Cologne? Two weeks ago I was in the Netherlands at Rolduc Abbey, maybe 50km from Cologne! I had thought about coming to Cologne but I wasn’t there for long enough. Oh well. Thanks for the kind words on this video! It’s the internet, it’s impossible to please everyone, so a few dislikes don’t surprise me. C’est la vie. I don’t actually monetize, so I’m not too concerned with that myself. I use YT primarily as an outlet for creative work and to have my work seen by a larger audience, and I think monetizing would limit that.

[@phly007]

How much would it cost to make this in California?

[@-0-R3B3LL10N]

Anyone Noticed Water Drops @ 0:37 and you can see waters on the floor.. maybe not a good sign?

[@BlueMantleFilms]

Yep, it’s legitimately a cave. They did a lot to it to make it really cool and luxurious, but it still is an actual cave, so there was a decent amount of water. The ceiling drips in the living room, but the bedrooms were fine. If I had to complain about one thing it’s that we couldn’t really change the temperature. Because its a cave it would keep its temperature pretty consistently around 65 degrees, even if we pushed the heat up on the thermostat. That said, that’s not particularly unexpected since, again, it’s an actual cave.

[@NathanBee681]

Can you turn off the water dipping from the ceiling? Because that must be obnoxious 😭

[@JasmineHatake]

I looked it up it’s 1400 dollars a night rip my bank account

[@belladonna1083]

2200$$ a night

[@lilithlevisis7826]

wow tht pllace is beautiful nxt time i wld advise filming the property n surroundings not hipsters n their kids laugh - the people being added in gave this an eerie cringe feeling one cannot shake off

[@marshall6361]

I was expecting to see inside the cave not people outside building a fire and running around in the rain

[@BlueMantleFilms]

I actually have been working on a cave-only video as well, but have been very busy and haven’t been able to finish it. That one will be basically showing the insides of the cave, not really our experiences there, so I’m sure that’s more what you’d want to watch.

[@marshall6361]

@@BlueMantleFilms good I would love to see more of the inside of it it's very beautiful

[@danntrev]

This music makes this feel like the cheesiest and worst commercial ever that just keeps going and going

[@debusen81]

Overproduced

[@adtatatumtemporis7111]

Snakes, spiders, venomous insects, bats, crawlers, humidity, pneumonia, infections, deseases... As much as it looks beautiful, all i see are complications.. And i am an outdoor person