A unique place to stay in Patagonia: a dome in the forest, facing Fitz Roy.

Sleeping in a geodesic dome in the forest

A geodesic dome is a round shell made of triangles: it has no corners, the wind flows around it, and inside it feels spacious. Ours have a big window towards Fitz Roy, a private bathroom and a wood stove.

There are eleven of them, spread among the lenga trees, 15 km from El Chaltén on Route 41. Between one dome and the next there is forest.

Fitz Roy from the bed

The domes are turned towards the mountain and the bed faces the window. On clear mornings the first light hits the granite of Fitz Roy and turns it orange for a few minutes. You can watch it without getting up.

The night: wind, fire and a dark sky

While you are at dinner, we light the dome’s stove. Outside, often, the Patagonian wind is blowing and you hear it moving through the lengas; inside it is warm and you can see the fire through the stove glass.

There are no village lights. If the night is clear you see the whole sky, and the wood-fired hot tub is out in the open.

No signal and no wifi, on purpose

We decided it in 2014 and have not changed it. There is no phone signal and no internet in the camp. Each dome’s power is solar, 12 V, with USB ports to charge a camera.

The trail starts at the door

The camp sits where the northern trails of the park begin: Laguna de los Tres via El Pilar and Río Blanco, Piedra del Fraile, the Piedras Blancas Glacier and Laguna Capri. You set off on foot, without a car, with your packed lunch in the backpack.

The four kinds of dome

All of them have a private bathroom, a wood stove and a mountain view.

Dome en-suite

The domes along the row. Set up with a double bed or twin beds.

Deluxe Dome

32 m², the most spacious, with leather armchairs facing the window.

Dome for 3

Three beds, for friends or a family with an older child.

Premium Wooden Dome

Two wooden domes across the track, the most secluded.

Other unusual places to stay in Patagonia

Patagonia has many ways to sleep somewhere different: working estancias with sheep and horses, mountain refuges inside the park that you reach on foot, lodges facing the glaciers near El Calafate, and dome camps on the Chilean side, near Torres del Paine.

Ours is a dome in the forest at the foot of Fitz Roy, with full board, where the trail to Laguna de los Tres begins.

How to book

We are open from November to April. You book direct on this site, through the official booking engine: choose dates and a kind of dome and see the nightly price. From two nights, the transfer from El Chaltén is free. If you have questions, write to patagoniaecodomes@gmail.com.

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