You Can Now Live at the Most Secluded Hotel in the U.S.
The iconic Amangiri luxury resort is offering residences priced from $5 million to $12.5 million for the lot alone.
In southern Utah, near Arizona’s border, are 900 acres of private land within a series of undulating valleys out of which crop otherworldly rock formations. The light is dramatic. The silence is powerful.
Nearby communities include Big Water, Utah, about 8 miles northwest with a population of about 500, and Page, Ariz., the gateway to Lake Powell, about 16 miles southeast with a population of 7,320, according to census data.
“You may as well be on a deserted island,” says Jack Ezon, founder and managing partner of luxury travel advisory Embark Beyond.
Here, emerging from the stark desert landscape and with a focal point being a 165 million-year-old boulder, is the Aman luxury resort Amangiri, which opened in 2009. It blends access to the rugged outdoors with high-touch hospitality. A Who’s Who of famous faces have posted their stays on Instagram, from Miley Cyrus to Ivanka Trump. Starting at $4,200 per night, Amangiri has 34 guest suites and 10 tented pavilions at Camp Sarika by Amangiri, which opened in 2020.
Now, just about 15 years after the resort opened, you can live here: Amangiri is building 12 residences, with asking prices ranging from $5 million to $12.5 million for the lots alone. So far one residence has a buyer and is currently under construction; several lots are under contract.
There have been reports of Amangiri residences before. “Residences have always been part of the vision for the resort,” says Robert Hee, the CEO of Canyon Equity LLC, Amangiri’s developer. “It’s been a matter of evolving the concept to where we are satisfied.”
In the U.S., there are roughly 55,000 branded residence units—or privately owned residences affiliated with a brand, most often a hotel—across about 320 branded residence developments, according to Savills, a global real-estate firm. Currently, about 40% of branded residences in the U.S. are in resort locations.
“We aren’t thinking about our project in terms of jumping on a bandwagon,” Hee says. “This is the life cycle of our own property.”
Architects and interior designers Marwan Al Sayed and Mies Anderson, co-founders and principals at Los Angeles-based Masastudio, designed the homes, a process that took roughly six years. They were also both on the team that designed the resort, which took about eight years.
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