A lodge under the darkest sky in Colorado.

Wet Mountain Valley8,900 ftBortle class 20 streetlights in 11 miles

Scroll. Let your eyes adjustSee the dark nights

01 · North

The whole sky turns around one star

Everything up there moves through the night except Polaris. Follow the two stars at the end of the Dipper and you will find it, the same place, every night of your life.

02 · The cabin

Drawn for the dark

An A-frame with a glass roof over the bed and a deck that faces south. Every lamp is low, warm and on a switch, so the night stays outside the window where you can see it.

410square feet

65square feet of glass roof

2guests

03 · The plan

One room, and the night

The bed under the glass, a stove, a bath with a window to the ridge. The hot tub sits at the far end of the deck, away from every light.

04 · The count

Seven thousand, give or take

From a city you can count about forty stars. From the deck, on a clear night with no moon, the number is closer to seven thousand, and you will not need a telescope for any of them.

05 · The moon

Come when the moon is away

The darkest nights are the ones around the new moon. The calendar below marks them, so you can choose yours before you choose a cabin.

06 · Long exposure

Stay up. It is worth it.

Pick your nights

An A-frame cabin at night, its glass roof lit from inside

A glass roof over the bed

Six cabins, three sizes

Forty acres, six cabins and a quarter of a mile between any two of them. Each one is named after the constellation that rises over its deck.

A dark A-frame cabin among tall trees, with warm lights on

The Dipper

The smallest and the furthest out. One room, one stove, the whole north sky.

Sleeps 2From $340 a night

A small A-frame cabin lit from inside, with a deck, at night

The Swan

Two bedrooms and the longest deck on the land, with the hot tub at its end.

Sleeps 4From $420 a night

A large cabin with a glass front glowing at dusk, a fire pit in front

The Archer

The big one, with a glass front two floors high and a fire pit for the whole party.

Sleeps 6From $560 a night

Dark nights

Choose your moon

The next six weeks, with the moon of every night. The ringed ones are the darkest. Choose the night you arrive and the night you leave.

Dark night, moon under 20%

Choose the night you arrive.

Ask for these nights

What is included

Everything but the clouds

A telescope on every deckTen inches of mirror, already pointed at something.
Red lanternsRed light keeps your eyes adjusted to the dark.
The hot tub, until twoWood fired, at the dark end of the deck.
A guide on new moon weekendsAn hour on the deck, and you will know the sky by name.

The inside of a wooden cabin with a hanging stove and warm string lights — The stove, always lit

A glass and wood cafe among autumn trees — The cafe in the trees

A snowy pine forest below the mountains at dusk — The forest after a snowfall

A glass walled terrace with small tables, looking over a wide valley — Lunch with the whole valley

A round wooden hot tub in the forest — The hot tub, until two

An old log cabin in a mountain valley, snow on the peaks — Old mining towns up the road

A woman under a blanket by a glass wall, with snow outside — A slow afternoon by the glass

A wooden A-frame cabin with a tall glass front among pine trees — An A-frame in the pines

Two people with mugs at the glass wall of a cabin, looking at a snowy forest — Coffee and fresh snow

A small wooden cabin under deep snow, with mountains behind — Snow on the roof by morning

Book a night

Tell us when

Tell us the nights and the cabin. We answer within a day, with the weather we expect and what will be up in the sky.