Where hospitality meets stewardship.

Having spent decades in hospitality, Suzanne Laurie, co-founderof Stay Wilder, has watched how easily places can be made to feel interchangeable.

“You could be inside a hotel chain in Mexico City and not know whether you were in Mexico City, or Vancouver, or London,” says Suzanne.

It’s the flip side of a business model that’s designed to be replicated at scale.

Stay Wilder takes a different approach. Set near Sechelt on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, the eco-glamping resort is built around proximity to the wild: a small cluster of off-grid geodesic domes tucked into the forest, with wide windows and stargazing skylights, powered by an onsite solar grid.

Suzanne and her team call it regenerative, a concept better known in farming and still relatively new to hospitality.

For her, regeneration starts with a simple question: what are we trying to restore? In regenerative agriculture, the answer is often the soil — restoring ecosystems and leaving land healthier over time. At Stay Wilder, she applies that same idea to both the landscape and guests’ relationship with it.

“Part of what we’re regenerating is people’s innate connection to nature, something many of us have lost over time,” she says.

That intent shows up in the details. When the domes were built, the team avoided cutting down trees and used upcycled materials for the decks. Much of the furniture is upcycled as well, and locally sourced through Wood Shop Vancouver. Their food suppliers use reusable packaging, and meals can be prepared in a community kitchen. Even the amenities — like BC made, biodegradable soap from RavenSong — are chosen with the same intent: small decisions that add up to a lighter day-to-day footprint.

Expanding with intention.

As Stay Wilder worked with Vancity on financing to support its next phase of growth, the team took part in Vancity’s climate coaching. Run by Synergy Enterprises, the program offers business members up to three hours of one-on-one support with a sustainability expert at no cost.

Suzanne says the sessions surfaced ways to further reduce energy use and prompted practical next steps, including putting more commitments into writing, such as a local supplier policy.

“Vancity saw potential in us when we didn’t have many years of operating history, so it felt natural to talk about our plans to expand,” adds Suzanne. “I’ve been with Vancity for over 20 years now, and my experience has consistently been the same: people took an interestin me and my business. I wasn’t a number; I was a person.”

In 2026, Stay Wilder’s near-term priority is straightforward: expand from six domes to ten so more guests can access the experience and impact of a nature stay. Longer-term, Suzanne is also exploring partnerships with landowners who want to keep land wild, work she hopes can pair Stay Wilder’s hospitality expertise with land protection and a shared model of contribution and impact.