My grandparents (Dad's parents) use to Winter mainly in Southern California near Carlsbad, or somewhere in Arizona, and lived the rest of the year in a real small town called Bovill, Idaho. They owned a mobile home that sat at the Bovill site and then had a nice sized trailer that they would take to the wintering grounds. It worked out well for them.

I wouldn't mind doing something like that, but I can't seem to convince my wife. :)

Actually, there are deep forest areas and towns like the one in Rambo in Oregon, so you're good there. Unfortunately for Oregon, though (I looked it up), the first Rambo was filmed primarily in British Columbia, even though the story takes place in Washington. Both of those places have large forests, too. @lynncoyle1 would know about the BC side. :)