Amangiri
Six hundred private acres of the Colorado Plateau, in a region where almost every other acre is public or tribal.
Amangiri sits in a protected valley at Canyon Point in southern Utah, near the Arizona line, on ground given as six hundred acres and in some accounts as more than nine hundred. The number matters less than what surrounds it. This is the Grand Circle: Glen Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Bryce, Zion and the Navajo Nation, a landscape almost entirely held by the federal government or by tribes. Private freehold of this size, in this country, is close to unrepeatable, and it is the reason the resort can put thirty-four suites against a mesa and have nothing appear on any horizon.
The resort opened in October 2009, designed jointly by Marwan Al-Sayed, Wendell Burnette and Rick Joy in sand-coloured concrete that reads as excavated rather than built, with a sandstone escarpment running into the main pool. The suites stand in two wings off a central pavilion, and a spa of some 2,300 square metres sits behind. Camp Sarika opened five minutes away in July 2020, ten tented pavilions with plunge pools on the same holding. Everything beyond the estate line is somebody else's, and reaching any of it means a drive.
A private hole in public country. The estate is not large by the standards of this shelf. It is remarkable because of what it sits inside, and the register should measure it that way rather than by acreage alone.
Built into the rock, not on it. The plan uses the escarpment as a wall and the valley as an enclosure. What was bought was a topography that does the screening, so the buildings could be low and few.
Who it is not for
Amangiri is wrong for travellers who want to walk out into the landscape at will: the famous ground around it is federal and tribal land with its own rules and permits. It is wrong for anyone who needs shade and water, because this is high desert and the summer is punishing. It is wrong for guests expecting a resort with a town nearby, since Page is twenty-five minutes and there is nothing else. For a camp that owns none of its wilderness, Aman-i-Khas in Rajasthan is the comparison.
Sources
- Encyclopaedic record and the architects' project pages - opened October 2009 at Canyon Point, Utah, with thirty-four suites; designed by Marwan Al-Sayed, Wendell Burnette and Rick Joy; spa of about 2,300 square metres
- Trade coverage - Camp Sarika opened 1 July 2020 with ten tented pavilions about five minutes from the main resort
Verification
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- Sources disagree
- the holding is published as six hundred acres and as more than nine hundred acres.
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Booking
Private Resorts arranges each stay on request, quoting the rates available for the resort and dates. No benefit should be assumed unless it is confirmed in writing for the individual reservation.
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