I own a village of tiny homes in the Arizona desert that were built to feel like treehouses — see inside

• Urban planner Darin Dinsmore created a camp in Sedona, Arizona, with four tiny homes.
• The small cabins are located on the side of a cliff and were designed to feel like tree houses.
• Dinsmore lists the tiny cabins on Airbnb starting at $200 a night.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Darin Dinsmore, an urban planner and the founder of TinyCamp, a collection of tiny house short-term rentals in Sedona and Cottonwood, Arizona. It has been edited for length and clarity.

My background in urban planning was one of the things that led me to start the TinyCamp project in Sedona and Cottonwood, Arizona.