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Open Sky Zion

Safari-style canvas tents on eighty acres of southern Utah desert, sixteen miles from Zion. Off-grid, dark-sky, and one of the best ways to see the park.

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Tswalu Kalahari

South Africa's largest private game reserve. Tswalu Kalahari is 114,000 hectares of Kalahari wilderness, black-maned lions, and dark-sky nights.

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Zannier Sonop

En canvas suites built into a granite boulder field in southern Namibia, Zannier Sonop is 1920s expedition style meets one of the world's great deserts.

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Three Camel Lodge

Forty traditional Mongolian gers on the edge of the Gobi Desert. Three Camel Lodge is one of the most culturally grounded properties on this list.

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Starstruck Glamping

StarStruck Glamping puts you inside a geodesic glass dome on Terlingua Ranch in the Big Bend region of Texas, under some of the darkest skies in the country. Fall asleep to the Milky Way overhead. Wake up to the wide open Chihuahuan Desert.