A LITTLE ABOUT US
your hosts
We’re Ashley and Ross Griffith, a husband-and-wife team who have built our lives - and our marriage - around hospitality, creativity, and connection.
We met in 2012 while working at the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Grand Teton National Park, where we learned how meaningful it can be to help people experience extraordinary places.
Ten years of marriage later, we’re still partners in every sense: Ross has a big-picture, long-range mindset, and Ashley brings the details to life.
Washington’s Olympic Peninsula has always held a special place in our hearts, and when we discovered this incredible place, it felt like coming home. We imagine it as a place where couples and families can gather in the beauty of the rainforest - celebrating love, sharing meals, and waking up surrounded by moss, trees, and light.
Together, we’ve owned and managed long-term rentals and an Airbnb, and Ashley has planned over 225 weddings and events through her business, Grit City Weddings + Events. We understand both the business and the heart of hospitality: balancing guest experience with careful stewardship of the land.
sprezzatura
(Italian term pronounced sprāt-tsä-ˈtü-rä)
a kind of effortless grace,
the art of making something difficult look easy
It’s a philosophy we return to often, and one that shapes how we host.
Behind the scenes, every detail is intentional so your time here can remain unhurried, calm, and fully your own.
Greenstone is located on traditional Quileute tribal land.
Using the rivers much like a highway system, they relied on the lower Beaver Creek area for gathering reeds for basket making, as well as hunting and fishing.
The Quileute share a legend that a formation of white rocks at nearby Beaver Prairie are the bones of a massive whale, dropped by the mighty Thunderbird after growing tired of flying the carcass from the sea to his mountain home. “It’s not worth it,” Thunderbird is said to have declared.
Greenstone is in Beaver, WA but also technically Sappho, an unincorporated community in Clallam County, WA.
Sappho - named after the ancient Greek poetess by Martin Van Buren Lamoreux, who settled in the area and created the townsite in 1895 - was for most of its history, a Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Company town. At its peak, it was home to around three thousand residents.
The main house at Greenstone was built in 1916 as their local office. The town later burned down, and the post office closed in the early 1970s.
According to local lore, Theodore F. Rixon, a master surveyor and forester from England, emerged from the woods one day onto the property and beheld a local woman chopping wood as part of her morning chores. Theodore was quite taken with her beauty.
They eventually married and purchased the property, which they styled “Westlands”.
The Rixon family remains in Clallam County today, and some of Theodore's maps prepared for the U.S. Geological Survey can still be viewed online.
The Greenstone Bridge over Beaver Creek was built to service the lumber railroad line (which you can still trace along the property) and allow access to the town of Beaver just down the road.
While the exact construction date is unknown, it does have a unique geological survey marker embedded in it’s north-side railing.
There have been several owners of the “Westlands” since the Rixon family, each contributing to the preservation of its character the special sense of place.
We are honored to be part of that lineage and look forward to sharing it with you.
A Glimpse into history
the Rixons
A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR
FOUNDING INVESTORS
for believing in our vision
Micah and Isaac Hilton
Eric and Leigh Anne Lynch
Greg Griffith
Tracy Oltman
Lindsay and Drew Kneeland
LeighBeth Merrick
Connor Vincent