Josh Duhamel’s ‘doomsday Cabin’ Away From Hollywood Allows His Kids To Be Kids

Josh Duhamel has opted to unrecorded successful his "doomsday cabin" successful Minnesota complete Hollywood.

The "Ransom Canyon" star, his wife, Audra Mari, and their 1-year-old son, Sheperd, unrecorded 40 minutes distant from civilization connected their lakeside spot successful northwest Minnesota. The actor's 11-year-old son, Axl, pinch ex-wife Fergie, besides spends clip astatine nan home.

Duhamel's property, which he jokingly told Country Living he refers to arsenic his "doomsday cabin," is located up a two-mile ungraded way up to his location successful nan forest. "It’s an exhale whenever we get here," he noted.

Josh Duhamel calls his location successful Minnesota a "doomsday cabin." (VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Since nan prima is raising a family, he prefers to beryllium disconnected from nan hustle and bustle that Los Angeles brings, moreover though he recognizes that location are "a batch of awesome things" astir nan West Coast.

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"Here my kids get to beryllium kids, catching frogs, collecting sticks. They travel location and they’re filthy, and I deliberation that’s truthful bully for them."

"Here my kids get to beryllium kids, catching frogs, collecting sticks. They travel location and they’re filthy, and I deliberation that’s truthful bully for them."

"These days there’s truthful overmuch anger successful nan world, and I deliberation it’s because group are connected their phones, getting caught up successful immoderate they’re being fed done their devices arsenic opposed to being extracurricular connecting pinch nan world. Nature helps crushed you to what’s important," Duhamel said.

Duhamel purchased immoderate onshore and spent nan past 15 years building a rustic cabin. He yet added a 2nd parcel that came pinch a hunting shack and a 3rd parcel that came pinch a home. 

Josh Duhamel and woman Audra Mari unrecorded successful a "doomsday cabin" successful Minnesota. (Arnold Jerocki/WireImage)

"It’s a tiny small reddish compartment pinch a chromatic chimney that sits correct connected nan water; it’s fundamentally a Terry Redlin painting," he said, referring to nan celebrated artist's scenic work.

Building his spot complete nan years has been an enactment of emotion for nan actor.

Josh Duhamel was featured connected nan screen of Country Living. (Brian Bowen Smith for Country Living)

Josh Duhamel walks pinch a saddle successful his manus for Country Living. (Brian Bowen Smith for Country Living)

"We were fundamentally homesteading nan first 12 years. For nan longest time, we didn’t person plumbing. We were utilizing outhouses and washing dishes successful nan lake," Duhamel told nan outlet.

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Over nan past decade and a half, nan amenities connected Duhamel's spot person been upgraded, but he still harnesses that live-off-the-land mentality.

Josh Duhamel walks pinch a equine for Country Living. (Brian Bowen Smith for Country Living)

He explained, "I consciousness truthful connected to it. I didn’t conscionable bargain nan place, I shaped this place. While we’ve made a batch of improvements, you still consciousness for illustration you’re roughing it, and I emotion that."

Living remotely whitethorn besides mean immoderate run-ins pinch wildlife.

On Easter Sunday, Duhamel took to Instagram and shared a video of himself successful a bluish suit removing a goose from nan grille of his SUV.

On Easter Sunday, Duhamel took to Instagram and shared a video of himself successful a bluish suit removing a goose from nan grille of his SUV. (Josh Duhamel/Instagram)

"I conjecture we're having goose for Easter," nan character wrote for his video.

"RIP Buddy...Happy Easter," Duhamel captioned his post, adding a dream hands emoji.

Duhamel told Parade this period that his organization takes attraction of each other.

"Part of nan logic I built my spot retired successful Minnesota, heavy successful nan woods, is it’s removed from everything," nan "Safe Haven" prima told Parade.

Josh Duhamel and Fergie stock boy Axl. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Trevor Project)

He continued, "The closest shop is 40 miles away. Once we get there, it's really astir everybody taking attraction of each different – making memories, spending clip pinch family and friends."

Duhamel told nan outlet that his son, Axl, is going to person a different upbringing erstwhile he is staying pinch him astatine their compartment successful Minnesota.

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"My boy is going to person memories of this spot forever. He's not connected his iPad erstwhile he's retired there. He's retired location successful nan vessel pinch me, aliases he's playing shot connected nan beach, aliases he's retired location successful nan woods doing immoderate I'm doing.

"And past I person a small babe who's going to acquisition nan aforesaid thing. Someday I dream to walk this connected to them [so] they're capable to stock it pinch their kids. It's really important to maine that they person this. It's not conscionable astir having each nan amenities and each nan luxuries that we [have] go truthful utilized to. It's really astir family. It's astir legacy," he said.

While it took years for Duhamel to build nan off-the-grid spot for his family, he is grateful to person nan opportunity to "get backmost to nan basics."

Josh Duhamel stars arsenic Staten successful Netflix's recently released "Ransom Canyon." (Netflix)

Eoin Macken arsenic Davis and Josh Duhamel arsenic Staten prima successful "Ransom Canyon." (Netflix)

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"You're not consumed by each these different distractions," he told nan outlet. "When you're retired there, it's really astir having fun, making judge everybody's warm, everybody's sewage nutrient and water."

Duhamel opened up astir his disinterest successful Hollywood successful a 2023 interview pinch "In Depth pinch Graham Bensinger."

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"I don't deliberation I ever really sewage comfortable pinch each of it. It was conscionable a lot. I missed nan simplicity of who I really am," he said astatine nan time. "I'm conscionable not a feline who is comfortable doing reddish carpets, doing each nan Hollywood stuff. I don't dislike it, I'm amended astatine it now than I was, but it conscionable took maine a agelong clip to really consciousness for illustration I belong, for illustration I fresh in."

"You cognize Hollywood and L.A., that full manner can suck the psyche retired of you if you're not careful."

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Fox News Digital's Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report.