EL COSMICO

WHY I LIKE IT: Glamping in Marfa doesn’t get better any than at El Cosmico. Choose from yurts, vintage trailers, tepees, safari tents and more, all perfectly suited for resting your wandering bones after a long nomadic trek through West Texas.

DON’T MISS THE: Trans Pecos Festival of Music + Love, El Cosmico’s weekend of live music, sandlot baseball, workshops, markets and more. Make sure to also visit El Cosmico Proivision, the hotel’s gift shop, for all of your curated bohemian needs.

DON’T KILL MY VIBE: “We are aware of a fascination with doing nothing that burns among us like a small rebellion inside our workweek souls. It has tangible representations in the hammock, the smell of last night’s campfire smoke in your jean jacket, a rucksack.  It has been named: dolce far niente, siesta, walkabout, bum. It is the culture of hippies and surfers and ascetics and its presence in a people tends to have a direct correlation to contact with the natural elements. It is not to be confused with lazy – it is the liberation from an obsession with productivity. It is a revolutionary act rather than a dereliction of duty. It is a declaration of total freedom to say ‘now, I do nothing for a little while.’” – El Cosmico

WHEN YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW: Check-in to El Cosmico to purposely check-out. Wi-fi is limited to the hotel lobby, encouraging guests to hang on porches, swing in hammocks, get lost in the gaze of the West Texas mountains, and drift into temporary freedom.