Experience · Wilderness

Top Wilderness Hotels

The world's finest wilderness properties, selected by our editorial team.

Editor's Pick · The Rest, In No Particular Order

Deplar Farm

Fljót · Northwestern Region

Eleanor Kennedy-owned farmhouse in Iceland's Troll Peninsula — heli-skiing, Atlantic salmon, and northern lights from the geothermal pool.

Gleneagles

Auchterarder · Scotland

An 850-acre Perthshire estate with three championship golf courses and falconry at breakfast — Scotland's grande dame.

Hotel Rangá

Hella · Southern Region

A log lodge with its own observatory — Iceland's south shore with glaciers, waterfalls, and guaranteed dark skies out the window.

Post Ranch Inn

Big Sur · California

Big Sur's cliff-edge sanctuary — tree houses and ocean houses a thousand feet above the Pacific.

The Fife Arms

Braemar · Scotland

Iwan and Manuela Wirth's Highland gallery-inn — Picassos on the walls, Cairngorms out the window.