Install Day: What Arrives on Your Property and What Happens Next
Updated: 16 hours ago
For GMs, ranch owners and hosts with a date on the calendar: how a WestPost installation unfolds, what your site needs and what your team learns.
The truck turns off the county road a little after first light, trailer riding behind, gravel popping under the tires. Your staked pad is still wet with dew and a meadowlark is working the fence line. By the time the evening light comes across the field, a furnished room with an original painting on the wall will be standing where there was only grass that morning.
This is a current guide to that day. It is a single day of work by our own crew, arranged so your team does little beyond watching, asking questions and taking over the finished rooms. Here is what arrives, what happens, and what you need ready.
The WestPost installation, from truck to turndown
We call it the WestPost Install Experience. It moves through five stages, in order, all in one day.
Deliver
Our crew arrives with the TeePees, the furnishings, the art and everything needed to raise them. Each TeePee measures 20 by 20 feet and travels from our warehouse in Pinedale, Wyoming. What you provide is a way in for the truck and trailer, which we cover below.
Raise
The crew stands each TeePee on its pad and anchors it. Every site is reviewed for its own weather before install day, so the crew arrives already knowing how your ground and your wind behave. The cone shape sheds wind and presses the poles down, which is why a TeePee holds its ground in country as gusty as ours. Wyoming ranks among the windiest states in the nation, with a mean around 21.5 miles per hour by one Global Wind Atlas reading reported by Cowboy State Daily, and we build our practice around that.
Furnish
Next comes the room. A real bed goes in, made with WestPost linens, with a spare set folded in the dresser for your housekeeping team. The heater, ambient light and ambiance candles are placed. If your configuration includes the Libation, its bar and lounge seating are arranged for groups.
Style
This is the stage guests notice without knowing why. The original signed painting by Jesse LaBenne goes up where a guest sees it from the pillow, or at the back of the Libation where every seat can see it. Linens are dressed, light is set for dusk, and the room is finished the way it will appear in your first listing photograph.
Walk your staff through
Before the crew leaves, they walk your team through power, heat and care: how the solar and battery carry the room through the night, or how the outlet connection works if you chose grid power; how the heater runs; how to care for the canvas, the linens and the art. Bring the people who will clean the rooms and answer the late night guest call. They are the ones who will use what they learn.
What your site needs before install day
Most of the work on your side happens weeks ahead, and it is short.
A reasonably level pad. Each 20 foot TeePee sits on a 26 by 26 foot area so three feet stay clear on every side. Five rooms take a little under 3,400 square feet before you lay out paths. Our footprint and permits guide explains how to choose the spot.
Access for a one ton truck and trailer. A ranch road or graded path is usually fine. Tell us about gates, tight turns, soft ground or low branches.
A power choice. Solar is standard, so no outlet is needed. If you prefer grid power, provide an accessible outlet and the crew runs the cabling. The rate is the same either way.
Approvals in hand. Your county planning office decides what a guest structure requires. We send the specifications, and you file for approval.
Your team on site. Plan for at least one manager and one housekeeping lead to join the walkthrough.
That is all we ask of your side. Everything else arrives on the trailer.
Quotes and payment
Delivery and installation are quoted with your proposal, so the figure for your property is known before the date is set.
Every order is built from the ground up for your property, so allow a three month lead time. Payment follows the work: a third when you book, which secures both the build slot and the day our crew arrives; a third as the TeePees roll out of our Pinedale warehouse; and the last third on install day itself.
The photo folio
On install day, the crew prepares a photo folio documenting the condition of each TeePee and its contents. It is a shared record. Anything broken at pickup or reported during the lease is replaced at market standard and deducted from the deposit, and the folio is how everyone knows what the room looked like on day one. Keep a copy with your property records.
Removal, in a day
At the end of a lease, or when owners send their TeePees home for the off season, the process runs in reverse. Removal also takes a day, and your land is left as we found it. For owners, WestPost Care can take the TeePees down, store them in Pinedale and raise them again for the next season.
Why one day matters
Guests are not waiting for a construction schedule. Cairn Consulting Group data reported by Modern Campground put the average glamping rate at $251 a night in 2025, with stays lengthening from 2.2 to 2.7 nights. Every week a room sits unfinished is a week of those nights going to someone else. A one day WestPost installation means no foundation, no crew camped on your property for a month and no torn up lawn in the middle of your season. It means a new room by evening.
Morning, a truck in the drive. Evening, a guest at the door.
Tell us your property, your season and your preferred install week. Crystal reviews each request herself and responds within 48 hours. Request your install proposal, compare lease terms, explore ownership or read the FAQ.
Collector's Note: hanging day in a gallery
Before a gallery opens a show, there is hanging day: the work arrives, is uncrated, inspected and condition noted, then placed, leveled and lit. Curators judge each painting at the height a visitor's eye will meet it. Light is warmed and aimed to avoid glare. Install day in a TeePee follows the same instinct, with the pillow as the viewing bench.
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