Find Your Own Ridge
Every stay faces open sky, 400 metres from the next. Pick a ridge, a roof and the nights.
Out Past
The Lights
Glass-walled cabins, domes and pods set alone on four dark-sky ridges of the high desert. Arrive before sunset and let the sky do the rest.
Snowline Cabin No. 4
See the Rim CabinSnowline Ridge, Eastern Sierra
A black timber cabin with one wall of glass facing the range. Wood stove, deep bath and a bed you can watch the sky from.
- 34 m² inside
- 60 m² deck
- 1 king bed
- Wood stove
Lights Out.
Sky On.
No streetlights for forty miles, amber lamps at knee height and glass over every bed. Our four ridges sit under some of the darkest skies left in the country, and we keep them that way.
Spend one night with us, light by lightFour Ridges,
One Rule
Every Farlight stay sits on high ground with nothing between the bed and the horizon. Six to twelve stays a ridge, never more, and never in sight of each other.
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Eastern Sierra, California · 2,450 m
Snowline
Black timber cabins on a snowfield under the range. Wood stoves, deep baths and skis by the door from December to April.
- 12 stays
- 3 h 40 from Reno
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Southern Utah · 1,900 m
Red Bench
Glass domes on a sandstone shelf, red rock below and snow on the peaks behind. The darkest sky of the four, and the quietest.
- 8 stays
- 2 h 50 from St. George
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Great Basin, Nevada · 1,700 m
Salt Rim
Shell pods along the edge of an old lakebed. Flat to every horizon, so the sky starts at your feet and the sunsets last twice as long.
- 10 stays
- 3 h from Las Vegas
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Northern Arizona · 2,100 m
Juniper Mesa
Canvas suites among junipers and yucca, a short walk from the rim. The mildest winters of the four and the best ridge for families.
- 8 stays
- 1 h 30 from Flagstaff
Four Ways To
Sleep Outside
Every roof is built to be looked through. Beds face the glass, lamps sit low, and the heating works on the coldest night of the year.
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Rim Cabin
$310 a night
Black timber, one wall of glass
Long and low against the snow, with the bed facing the glass. Wood stove, rain shower and a deep bath by the window.
- 34 m² inside
- Sleeps 2
- Wood stove
- Deep bath
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Glass Dome
$260 a night
Geodesic frame, clear roof panels
The sky is the ceiling. Curtains close the lower panels for privacy; the upper ones stay open all night, right above the pillow.
- 28 m² inside
- Sleeps 2
- Telescope
- King bed
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Shell Pod
$240 a night
A curved shell with one long window
A smooth white shell turned to the flattest horizon we could find. The window wraps the whole front, so the bed sees from edge to edge.
- 22 m² inside
- Sleeps 2
- 180° window
- Terrace
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Canvas Suite
$190 a night
Heavy canvas on a timber deck
The warmest way to sleep in a tent: a real bed, a stove, thick rugs and a second room for children. The flap rolls up towards the rim.
- 40 m² inside
- Sleeps 4
- Tent stove
- Two rooms
One Night,
Five Lights
A night on a ridge is not dark all at once. It goes in stages, and we built the stay around them, from the hour you arrive to the coffee on the deck.
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Arrival, around four
Last light
Your host meets you at the gate, walks your bags up and lights the stove. You get keys, a map and no wifi password.
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The sky goes blue
Blue hour
The ridge goes quiet and the first planets come out. The best twenty minutes for photographs and for not taking any.
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Supper outside
Firelight
The supper box arrives with the wood. Grill on the fire pit, bake in the coals, keep the blanket close.
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Lamps off at ten
Starlight
Give your eyes twenty minutes. Then the Milky Way needs no help, and the telescope on the deck is yours until morning.
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Coffee on the deck
First light
The ridge turns pink before anything else does. Breakfast comes up at eight; checkout is when you are ready.
Supper Comes
Up The Ridge
No restaurant and no dining room. At six a host drives up with a box from the camp kitchen: something to grill, something for the coals, bread from the valley and breakfast for the morning.
The Fire Kitchen
Cooked on each ridge from what the valley farms bring up that week. Tell us what you do not eat when you book.
Tonight's Box
- Lamb and rosemary skewers for the fireGrill
- Squash baked in the coals, chili butterCoals
- Sourdough and greens from the valleyTable
- Piñon cookies and a flask of cocoaDeck
- Eggs, bacon and ground coffeeMorning
For two, with the wood$64
One Host
Per Ridge
Each ridge has one person who knows its roads, its weather and its sky. They meet you at the gate, bring supper up at six and keep their phone on all night.
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Mara Quint
Snowline · ask her about winter routes
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Eli Navarro
Red Bench · ask him about the old trails
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Walt Brennan
Salt Rim · ask him about the planets
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June Okafor
Juniper Mesa · ask her about the birds
We Keep
It Dark
A dark sky is the one thing we could never build back. These rules hold on every ridge, and they are written into our leases with the land.
No light above knee height, anywhere on the ridge.
Path lamps point at the ground and stop at your ankles.
Amber bulbs only, and few of them.
Warm, dim glass that leaves your night vision alone.
Shared lamps go off at ten, every night.
Your own lamps stay yours, on a timer you can override.
No generators, no drones, no speakers.
The loudest thing on the ridge should be the wind.
Nothing built that shows from the next ridge.
Every stay turns its glass away from the others.
The Last
Six Miles
Every ridge is a drive from a small airport and a short stretch of gravel from the last paved road. Leave the city by lunch and you are on the deck before the light goes.
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Fly in small
Reno, Las Vegas, St. George or Flagstaff, depending on the ridge. Any car will do; four-wheel drive only from December to March.
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Take the two-lane road
Two to four hours of open highway. Fill the tank in the last town; we send you its name and its best pie.
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Six miles of gravel
Graded, slow and beautiful. Your host meets you at the gate and brings your bags up on a cart.
No car? The shuttle leaves the last town at 2 pm on Fridays and Sundays.
Book a seat
Left In
The Guestbook
Every stay has a paper guestbook by the bed. A few of the things people wrote in it this year.
We meant to read. We lay on the deck until two and never opened a book.
Ines and Tom · Red Bench, February
My daughter asked why the sky at home is broken. I did not have a good answer.
Priya · Juniper Mesa, October
Snowed in for a day with a stove, a bath and Mara's soup. Best day of the year.
Daniel · Snowline, January
The sunset went on for so long over the salt that we ran out of things to say, which was the point.
Ruth and Ola · Salt Rim, May
Walt showed us Saturn's rings at midnight and then went to bed like it was nothing.
The Haddad family · Salt Rim, August
Third visit. I still do not know the wifi password and I am not asking.
Marcus · Snowline, March
Before You
Drive Out
Still unsure about something? Mara answers the phone from eight to eight, every day.
+1 760 000 0000Is there wifi or phone signal?
Not in the stays. Each ridge has a small cabin at the gate with wifi and a landline for emergencies, and your host is always reachable.
What happens if it is cloudy?
Clouds come and go fast up here. If a whole stay is overcast, tell us before checkout and we give you a free night to use within a year.
Are the stays warm in winter?
Yes. Cabins and suites have wood stoves, domes and pods have quiet electric heating and heavy duvets, and every bed has a hot water bottle.
Can we bring children or a dog?
Children are welcome in the canvas suites at Juniper Mesa. Dogs can stay in the Rim Cabins at Snowline for $30 a night.
Is there running water and a real toilet?
Every stay has its own bathroom with a hot shower and a flushing toilet. Water comes from the ridge's own well and is safe to drink.
What is the cancellation policy?
Cancel up to fourteen days before arrival for a full refund. After that we move your dates once, free, within the next twelve months.
Book
The Quiet
Tell us the ridge, the roof and the nights. A host writes back within a day with dates, the gate code and the name of the last town.
- Call a host+1 760 000 0000
- Writestay@farlight.example
- Office1 Example Street, Bishop, California