New hotels and A-List residents (including Julia Roberts and Tom Ford) have already made northern New Mexico fashionable. And now that the warmth of summer has melted the snow at altitude in the Sangre de Cristo range, Latir Mountain ranch has opened its High Camp at 11,500ft. An offshoot of El Monte Sagrado Resort & Spa in Taos, the new ranch also has a base camp at 8,000ft; operating as an organic yak farm, it will be open to guest all year round. The High Camp consist of a trio of teepees with queen-size beds and wood-burning stoves, and is open just from spring to autumn; but even then it is only accessible by helicopter, off-road vehicle or on foot. Guests spend the first night in Taos and have an 'altitude-adjustment spa treatment'; mountain activities include yoga, llama trekking and hiking among bald eagles, bears, bobcats and mountain lions.
CONTACT
El Monte Sagrado Resort & Spa (00 1 505 758 3502; www.elmontesagrado.com). From $2,000 per person per night at High Camp, $1,200 at Base Camp (minimum three nights)
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