Sentierre Resort — Hotel in Ivins

Sentierre is a perfect place to retreat to! I absolutely loved the swimming pool, the welcoming homes, and the warm staff. Every detail of my stay was remarkable and helped me relax, from executing delicious meals and snacks (Chef Eddie and his team are amazing!), to assisting with accessing all of the local entertainment and nature, to providing us helpful resources to help relax (Natalie was at the helm and made sure our stay was perfect!), to simply enjoying the views from a beautifully designed house. Despite summer monsoon rains that forced me to stay indoors (not a fan of the rain), the house had everything I needed to relax and also stay entertained with friends. I loved that each house’s architecture incorporates running water which adds to the relaxing ambiance and experience. I am looking forward to my next visit which I will likely figure out how to stay longer. I can see myself working remotely from Sentierre given that ther is great internet that would allow me to stay connected with work...

Ivins has sold its soul and the natural beauty of its surrounding desert landscapes to the devil in the form of lustful greed. A gaudy and clumsy resort, available to only the extremely wealthy will soon be stuffed into the soft coral sands, winding canyons, spectacular cliffs and breathtakingly sacred desert landscapes adjoining Utah's lovely Snow Canyon. Wildlife under duress will be uprooted and shuttled away to less welcoming areas, and perhaps to their extinction, to make room for the private swimming pools, extortionate second homes and ostentatious adult play-toys of the overly wealthy. Long lines of stalled or creeping automobiles crowding the unnatural pavement roads that violate the desert sands, will force incivility among humans and introduce raucous racketing on the silence of the desert. In time...expect to see a Trump Tower perched on the patient mesa that cuddles the canyon in its timeless beauty. Sentierre Resort is human pride...

It is fitting that the developers of this stain on the City of Ivins, the State of Utah, and nature named it ‘Sentierre’ or “pathways on earth.” Sentierre Resort bulldozed a beautiful natural area at the base of Red Mountain to build not just pathways, but roads, swimming pools, restaurants, and multimillion dollar homes for the enjoyment of the select few. The fact that this monstrosity was permitted to be built smack in the middle of Snow Canyon State Park and other protected lands is a selling point on their website: “bordered on all sides by protected land.”

Please join me in never patronizing Sentierre Resort, and by showing up to City of Ivins council meetings to let them know: we don’t want this kind of development here. For shame on Sentierre and the...