Curious what it’s actually like to stay in a luxury dome in the Canadian Rockies? Here’s the real experience.
At first, staying in a dome seems like a novelty.
Until you wake up one morning and the forest is completely covered in fresh snow. You make a coffee, sit down, and just watch it for a while, and it feels like you’re part of something instead of just looking at it.
But if you’ve spent any real time in the mountains, you know that the best places are usually the ones that haven’t been blown up yet.
…That’s usually when it clicks.
That’s the feeling we wanted to build into every stay here.
I first came across geodesic domes after seeing the Patagonia Eco Domes near El Chaltén. The way they sat in front of the Fitz Roy range stuck with me for years. It didn’t feel like accommodation, it felt like a different way of experiencing a place.
Fast forward seven years, and building something similar in the Canadian Rockies that we call home became a bit of a long-term goal that we eventually decided to go for.
The biggest difference with a dome is how connected you feel to what’s around you.
You’re not looking out a window at the mountains, you’re inside that space. The light changes throughout the day, weather becomes part of the atmosphere, and you’re constantly aware of where you are.
At the same time, we didn’t want to lose comfort.
You’re still in the Blaeberry Valley, which is pretty raw and wild, but inside you’ve got heated floors in DripDōme, an indoor fireplace in LSD, and a full kitchen and bath in both, providing a level of comfort that makes it quite easy to stay there for a few days without feeling like you’re roughing it.
We tried to maintain that eloquent balance between comfort and wilderness.
DripDōme is the more spacious option. We decided to do something a little bit different and built an epoxy resin espresso bar, with 3 or 4 different options for guests to brew coffee and pull fresh espresso shots. We also bring in premium, freshly roasted BC and Alberta coffee because we wouldn’t have it any other way (We love coffee!). It sleeps up to four, has heated floors, and sits in the best position on the property in terms of views. It’s a good mix of design and functionality.
If you’re picturing yourself here already, you’re probably exactly the kind of guest we built this for.
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The Luxe Serenity Domeis much more minimal. It’s built for two people, with a slower pace in mind. It’s quieter, more intimate, quirky and feels different in a way that’s hard to explain until you’re there. The glow of the fireplace as you fall asleep staring straight into the mountains is often the therapy you never knew you needed.
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The experience doesn’t stop at the dome itself.
People end up outside picking wild berries, playing with the cats, using the fire pits, cooking on the grills, or spending time in the sauna. This spring, we’re adding a hot tub and outdoor shower beside DripDōme, which I am personally SO excited for, it will really end up being the dream space that we wanted to create.
Most people come for the dome, but end up spending just as much time outside.
We’ve also started building out what we’re calling The Blaeberry Rituals Collection, which includes things like fondue kits and drinking chocolate setups, just to give people something to do in the evenings that feels a bit more intentional.
The days tend to follow a pretty simple rhythm. Slow mornings, time outside in the mountains, and then quiet evenings, and hearty meals in between.
It’s not something that’s easy to explain, but most people leave feeling like it was a different kind of stay.
Once you’ve experienced it, it’s hard to go back to anything else.
