Photograph to comeCortijada Los Gázquez
Almería
A wholly off-grid farmhouse retreat in the Sierra María-Los Vélez natural park, run on sun, wind and wood.
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- Off-grid
- Solar-powered
- Dark skies
Photographs by The Bolder, used with permission.
The Bolder
Lysefjord, Rogaland, Fjord Norway
Six off-grid cabins cantilevered above the Lysefjord, four of them by Snøhetta.
Why we love it
The Lysefjord is the one with Preikestolen on it — a flat slab of rock six hundred metres above the water that appears on roughly every poster Norway has ever printed. The Bolder puts you on the same fjord and above the crowds, in six cabins that hang off the hillside with nothing in front of them.
Two are Sky Lodges, cedar-wrapped cubes over two floors by John Birger Grytdal. The other four, the Star Lodges, are by Snøhetta and are set low into the terrain rather than on top of it. All six run off-grid, and the whole point of the design is that the ground underneath is barely touched.
Best for: the fjord view people fly to Norway for, without the queue for it
Where it is
58.95, 6.11 — see it on the map →Checked August 2026 · We re-verify prices and opening every quarter.
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