About Luxe Den Capitol Reef

Our story

We are two young couples, Morgan Kotter, Haley Kotter, Aaron Andrew, and Stephanie Andrew, who split our time between building software, raising families, and chasing the kind of desert trips that leave you feeling different when you go home.

We did not break ground on empty land. This place already existed: a pinyon pine grove at 7,000 feet, minutes from Capitol Reef National Park and a certified International Dark Sky Park. Most of what it needed was subtraction: fewer things standing between a guest and what is overhead.

Why Capitol Reef

We chose this site for what is above it. Capitol Reef is a certified International Dark Sky Park and neighboring Torrey is a certified Dark Sky Community, so even the closest town keeps its lights down. At 7,000 feet in pinyon pine the air is thin and dry, the property is minutes from the park and from Torrey but far enough out that nothing competes with the quiet, and what is out the door is trail and red rock: slot canyons, OHV and hiking access, and a whole lot of open country between here and the next set of headlights.