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Three stacked shipping containers on a Hocking Hills ridge turn out to be the real Box Hop — not the Georgia version some write-ups claim.
Levi Kelly’s walkthrough of “the OG Box Hop” sets the record straight on where this container home actually sits: a steep, wooded lot near Rockbridge, Ohio, in the Hocking Hills region, not the North Georgia Mountains as some accounts have claimed. Built by husband-and-wife team Seth and Emily Britt, the property has been welcoming Airbnb guests since late 2018. Kelly’s tour moves floor by floor through a build that stacks three repurposed intermodal containers into a compact but fully loaded retreat.
- The OG Box Hop sits near Rockbridge, Ohio, in the Hocking Hills — not Georgia, correcting a location error that has circulated in other write-ups.
- Seth and Emily Britt built the home from three shipping containers — two side-by-side on the ground floor, one mounted above — and opened it to guests in late 2018.
- The upper container’s glass garage door opens directly onto a rooftop lounge deck, reached by an industrial spiral staircase from the living area below.
Setting the Record Straight on Location
The biggest correction in Kelly’s tour is geographic. The Box Hop that started it all isn’t tucked into the North Georgia Mountains — it’s built into a steep, forested lot near Rockbridge, Ohio, part of the Hocking Hills region known for its sandstone gorges and dense hemlock forest. That hillside setting matters structurally as much as scenically; it’s part of why the containers were arranged the way they were, with the third unit stacked above the other two rather than spread across a flat footprint.
Three Containers, One Steep Build
Seth and Emily Britt constructed the retreat from three intermodal shipping containers: two placed side-by-side at ground level and a third mounted on top. The exterior is wrapped in matte black corrugated metal with natural cedar accents, and an elevated wraparound deck circles the structure, strung with outdoor lights and anchored by a hot tub facing straight into a stand of towering pines. The Britts began hosting guests in late 2018, and the design has since become the template people mean when they say “Box Hop.”
Inside the Ground Floor
The first floor is open-concept, built around mid-century modern furnishings, an indoor fireplace, and an eating counter tied into a full kitchen. The standout detail is a bright orange retro-style refrigerator that anchors the kitchen’s color scheme against otherwise neutral tones. A bedroom with a full-size bed and a full white-tiled bathroom — soaking tub combined with the shower — round out the lower level, which is compact but doesn’t feel improvised; every surface reads intentional, from the cedar trim to the tile work.
The Upper Container and Rooftop Deck
An industrial metal spiral staircase connects the ground floor to the container mounted above, which holds two bedrooms with floor-to-ceiling glass framing forest views on every side, plus a half bathroom. The signature move, though, is a glass garage door in the upper level that slides open directly onto a rooftop lounge deck — turning the top of a shipping container into usable outdoor living space with a sightline straight into the treetops.
Two containers on the ground, one stacked above them, and a glass garage door that opens straight onto the roof — that’s the whole trick of the Box Hop.
For anyone chasing this exact build after watching Kelly’s tour, the layout logic is worth studying alongside other container conversions — the cost and design tradeoffs covered in this metal-house timelapse line up closely with what the Britts pulled off on their Hocking Hills lot. And if the stacked-container concept has you rethinking what counts as a weekend rental, the hobbit-hole treehouse tour is the next stop for the same kind of built-different lodging. The Box Hop’s real selling point never changes: three boxes, one hillside, and a rooftop view nobody expects walking in.
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