Guests can swing by to tour the crops, feed the animals, and collect eggs from the chicken coop (to take home or pass along to the kitchen staff at Clay to prepare for breakfast).
Located on a 140-acre site that was once a tree nursery and a dairy farm, Wildflower leans into the region’s agricultural heritage with a working farm that supplies ingredients for cooking classes, the menu of the hotel’s progressive New American restaurant, Clay, and many of the treatments at the excellent spa, Thistle. And for all its comforts, which are considerable-the instant it opened its doors last fall, it became the premier luxury escape in the Catskills-the hotel rightly recognizes that nature is its greatest amenity. Step onto this picturesque Auberge Resorts Collection campus, in a meadow in the shadow of New York’s iconic Shawangunk Mountains, and you feel almost as if you’ve entered the world of a Hudson River School painting. With any luck, the clear skies above will be filled with shooting stars. Nights here are for campfires beneath the constellations that guided ancient Arabian nomads across these deserts. The Rock Pool, squeezed between natural sandstone pinnacles next to the spa, has what must be one of the most spectacular settings anywhere for an infinity pool.
After a hot day of exploring AlUla’s extraordinary Nabataean tombs, coming home and sinking into a private plunge pool feels like the ultimate treat. Light and spaciousness reign inside calmingly minimal villas, with shaded lounging spaces and firepits outdoors all are set against the backdrop of the surrounding honey-colored rock formations that have been carved by wind and water for millennia. Its villas are practically camouflaged, with their surfaces textured like the sands and batwing-shaped canopies protecting them from the sun. Drive through AlUla’s Ashar Valley and there’s a chance you won’t even notice this new desert outpost.
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