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Canyon Point
Utah
To end the year on a high note, there’s probably nothing better
than bathing in the colours of a magnificent desert sunset before a
sheet of stars fills the sky. To make the most of your natural
surroundings here, spend New Year at Amangiri, perhaps one of the
alluring destination hotels in the entire country – don’t be
surprised if your hungover breakfast neighbour on 1 January
is an up-and-coming Netflix star. The resort offers tented
pavilions, suites and even four-bedroom desert houses that you can
rent out for a holiday blowout en famille. Outdoor fires, Zen
design and five-star cocktails are all on the menu, as well as
once-in-a-lifetime experiences such as horseback riding to
Amangiri’s Chinle Site for dinner in the desert before the
countdown to midnight. On New Year’s Day, if you’re not tanning by
the stone pool, one of the most striking pieces of land in the US
is also a couple hours’ drive away: the warped, rosy-orange earth
that forms Antelope Canyon on Navajo territory in Arizona is
absolutely not to be missed if you’re in the area.