The whole house is yours.

Stargaze Escape is a modern two-bedroom house on a fenced, landscaped lot in Yucca Valley — a comfortable home inside, and a backyard unlike anywhere else you'll stay. The whole place is yours: no shared walls, no other guests, no one to work around.

Inside

Behind the stucco walls it's an easy, mid-century modern home built for four. Two king bedrooms, one bathroom, a full kitchen and a living room that opens to the desert light. It's air-conditioned for the hot months and set up so you can settle in and cook, work or do nothing at all.

Outside

The backyard is the reason people come. A restored 1950s car turned into a bed, with a custom stargazing roof that can be pulled back. A stock-tank pool below a vintage Endless Summer sign. A private hot tub open all year. A gas fire pit ringed with boulder seating. A stained-glass telephone booth standing among thousands of cacti, agave and Joshua trees. Gravel paths edged with natural boulders wind between it all, and the whole lot is fenced and private — bring the dog.

The custom metalwork

Much of the custom metalwork on the property — the car-bed conversion, the fire pit and more — was fabricated by Emerick's Ironworks, a father-and-son shop building custom metal-and-wood and mid-century pieces since 1999.

The essentials

• Whole home · 4 guests · 2 king bedrooms · 1 bath
• Self check-in from 4pm by keypad · checkout 11am
• Dog-friendly and fully fenced (we're unable to host cats — a household allergy)
• 25 minutes to the Joshua Tree National Park west entrance

Have a look around: the two king suites, the pool and hot tub, the cactus garden, or the whole photo gallery.