Northern Utah Telescope Tours
(e.g. Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Eden etc.)
NOT at the Dark Ranger Observatory Near Bryce Canyon.
Utah Has Become The Dark Sky State!Southern Utah boasts 4 (Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Natural Bridges, and Hovenweep) of the darkest places accessible by regular car in North America! In total, 22 National and Utah State Parks are International Dark Sky Areas designation, as are do the communities of Torrey and Helper, Utah.
We the Dark Rangers® are among Utah's original night sky champions which is why we sally forth from our Observatory to offer telescope tours around the state but especially in Northern Utah including popular destinations like Salt Lake City, Park City, and Eden. These are Northern Utah bookings!
For Telescope Tours near Bryce Canyon, Utah, use the "Book A Tour" drop-down menu in top banner image.
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NOTE: 4-ticket minimum, NOT per booking, just per night. (see cancellation policy below).
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Jupiter and Saturn (brightest dots at left) and Milky Way reflecting in the reservoir of East Canyon State Park.
Green Laser Constellation Tour
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Telescope Tours at Other Utah (and Utah Adjacent) Locations
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If your night sky travel plans don't include Bryce Canyon or Northern Utah, we can still provide an epic stargazing experience in dark sky places like:
- Torrey/Capitol Reef NP (ultra dark) - Escalante (Grand Staircase Escalante NM) - Kanab (Grand Staircase Escalante NM) - Zion area (Springdale, Rockville, etc.) - Bar-M trails (North of Moab's awful light pollution) - Valley of Fire (NE of Vegas's horrendous light pollution) - Sun Valley Idaho (or other dark ID locales) - Etc. Such locations could be booked as a 1-night road show . |
Yes, we can transport our BIG telescopes anywhere!
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Northern Utah Telescope Tour Cancellation Policy
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Four Ticket Minimum:
For ALL activities a 4-ticket minimum must be met each night (not per booking, just per night) or that telescope tour will be cancelled and refund in full -- 100%. For example, if you are the first person to book for a particular night and you only buy 2 tickets you will not be charged until the nightly minimum of 4 is met. If by 6pm the night before your tour, nobody else has booked 2 more tickets, the tour will be cancelled and your credit card will not have been charged. Alternatively, if you decide to book 2 extra tickets (for 2 imaginary friends) the show will go on. If later, somebody else books 2 or more tickets for the same night, your 2 imaginary tickets will be fully refunded, after the tour takes place. Customer Cancels: Because financial institutions are allowed to do volume based-pricing, they put small businesses at a disadvantage. Credit Card companies charge us 3% and our booking service another 3%. Then to cover their expenses, the booking service charges us another $1.90 per booking. This means we only get ~92% of the money you see on your bank statement. If booking cancellation request is made (text or email is preferred) more than 42-hours in advance, 92% is refunded. Obviously, we can't refund more money than we receive, so a 92% refund is where we barely break even. If notification of cancellation is sent between 48 and 4 hours prior to start time, 50% is refund. With that short of notice we are lucky if we can rebook 50% of cancelled seats. BUT WHAT IF IT'S CLOUDY? Northern Utah weather is more regional and less dynamic, which makes it more predictable well in advance, than at our Dark Ranger Observatory in Southern Utah near Bryce Canyon National Park. Sadly cloudy nights are also more common in Northern Utah. When we can be certain your Northern Utah Telescope Tours is going to experience overcast sky, we will do a hard cancellation with a 85% refund. When we are uncertain, we will still go for it! Yet, if the sky is too cloudy for us to be able to show you at least 1 example from 4 of the 5 classes of astronomical object (solar system object, binary star, star cluster, galaxy, and nebulae) we will offer our cloudy night refund of 75%. Value-locked, Store Credit is ALWAYS an option too. |
