This is the Starlight Casa Home ...

Just 10 miles and 100 years from downtown this brand new adobe home built in the classic Tucson styles offers an authentic Tucson experience. Passing through the entry of the Starlight Casa you cross a gateway between past and present.

The Starlight Casa is a reminder of yesterday and a harbinger of tomorrow incorporating modern passive solar design with ageless building practices originating in Babylon at the dawn of civilization. Though built with all the modern comforts of the present, the Starlight Casa is a portal into the past providing a sense of what life was like for Tucson's pioneers.

Who Else Wants to Feel Like a Pioneer without Sacrificing Comfort?

Then book the Starlight Casa and travel between eras enjoying the best of both incorporating creature comforts of the present while respecting and accentuating Tucson's original architectural elements.

Because you´ve read this far, you deserve a truly authentic Tucson experience, and you´ll find, as you read the entire description, even more...  

Since this is your holiday, your big break from life as usual, you´ll notice this property listing isn´t a few, measly sentences, haphazard room pictures, & a list of features looking just like every other listing.

This is a description more worthy your time, and ready to transport you to another. You may notice as you´re reading that you mind wanders... ...picturing what's in store for you during your stay at the Starlight Casa.

You'll be ensconced in an intimate canyon setting studded with massive boulders.

It's the perfect peaceful retreat or a catalyst for tales of adventure. Evidence of Tucson's storied past surrounds the property. The abandoned gold mines in the canyon walls are reminders of hopeful miners from a time long since past. Perhaps you´ll be the next guest to find pottery shards from an earlier civilization along the wash immediately behind the home.

From several points on the property you can...

Feel the Peace from the White Dove of the Desert...

You'll enjoy panoramic views of the mission with its white towers reaching skyward from the surrounding fields. As you look upon the mission from this rare vantage point, you´ll be looking back in time... ...back to the birthplace of Tucson.

The White Dove of the Desert, the San Xavier Mission, is Arizona's oldest intact European building. Returning to the Starlight Casa you can experience some of these original architectural elements inspired by the mission.

You can imagine Apache scouts atop the stone towers.

The canyon provided the ideal location for the Apaches to stage multiple raids upon the mission. Visitors from both near and far find the canyon and it's rich history a magical almost mystical place blending past and present in a vortex of time.

Prior to construction the site hosted a sweat lodge conducted by a Native American medicine man possessing an M.D. and Ph.D. Recently an owner of an adjoining vacant lot brought their newborn to the canyon for a naming ceremony ritual. If the location has this much appeal to natives, how much more magnificent will it be for your vacation?

Without this invitation you wouldn't find this place. There is a secret garden quality to the entire canyon hidden from prying eyes unless you know where to look. Even the artisans involved in the Starlight Casa's construction often commented that they never knew this place existed although they'd been in the area for decades.

Others tell stories of how they used to ride their horses all over the area yet somehow missed this place never knowing it was ever here.

Be Among Those Privileged Enough to Gain Passage...

...and you too will understand why everyone who does, feels happier and better for it.

There are 139 ageless building principles used in the design of the Starlight Casa that together form a language that speaks to you about the harmonious connection between yourself and nature. The canyon wildlife continue to use the same winding paths all around the home worn into the earth by earlier generations.

Often the local desert denizens visit the patios such as the desert tortoise shown in the property photos. Think about it...

Why Go on Safari when the Safari Can Come to You?

Multiple covered, outdoor seating areas connect the home to it's surroundings. The South facing back patio utilizes strategic design to maximize the sun's location in the sky throughout the year to allow for sun soaked winter afternoons and shady summer mornings. Sheltering the patio is Beehive Peak shaped by primordial winds and now home to a variety of wildlife.

While appreciating the ancient origins of the canyon walls you may be distracted into the present by coyotes scouting their next meal, hawks tending their nest high up on a craggy cliff face, or catch a glimpse of the javelina (ha va leena) returning to their beds where they lay together in sprawling pig piles. They look like hairy wild pigs but they're not pigs at all. Instead they're peccaries from South America.

Spend a late season morning on the North porch with a cup of complimentary coffee or tea and listen as the dawn chorus of the birds greets daybreak in celebration. If you're really lucky you might witness the rare and some say sacred dance of the cottontails where bunnies spring into the air kicking their heels skyward in pure joy somersaulting their tiny bodies before once again becoming earthbound.

After a full day of sights, you´re invited to turn your gaze toward the heavens from the rooftop deck as twilight blankets the night sky and...

Enjoy a 4th Dimensional Experience...

...as you look deep into the past over the infinite reaches of space seeing billions of stars as they looked thousands of years ago whose luminosity travelled at the speed of light to greet you in just this moment.

It´s this view that generated the name Starlight Casa.

Just as the Pioneers Who First Settled the Area...

...stone was gathered from the location for the foundation and the walls forged from adobe blocks molded from the sands of time. In accordance with tradition the patio wall follows the contours of the land creating a 'wild run' that merges into a living fence made from ocotillos that grow profusely throughout the desert.

Occasionally the ocotillos of the fence appear as though their time has passed. Sporadically throughout the year they produce dark green leaves and flame orange blossoms that lick the sky encouraging rains that like a fountain of youth turn back the clock.

Authentic Tucson architectural design elements appear to slow time until inside the home where state of the art appliances allow you to prepare a warm meal in minutes. Don't be surprised if you never have to adjust the thermostat since the natural building materials combined with the high ceilings moderate temperatures providing unsurpassed comfort while reducing allergens inside the home.

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Should you fail to find the temporal or architectural qualities of the Starlight casa satisfactory you can 'travel back in time' and change your mind. We're so confident that you'll be enchanted by the magic of the 'Starlight Casa' that we guarantee your satisfaction in writing within the hospitality agreement. So go ahead and pick your travel dates and request your agreement while you´re still on this listing. 

You´re one step away from a truly authentic Tucson experience. There is a first come, first serve policy for reservations so you only have a small window of time to reserve your dates for this life altering and time twisting vacation before someone else. 

Guided Tours

For the Dinݩ (Navajo), the largest Arizona tribe, Hozho or 'Walking in Beauty' is a state of grace where an individual exists in harmonious balance with nature. This connection to nature is linked to time and space by the cardinal directions of a compass.

The 8 directions for many tribes symbolize disciplines related to time always moving in a clockwise direction beginning somewhere in the East where the sun begins it's daily travels.

Here is an example of their timeless wisdom:

East -Inspiration; Hazards

Southeast -Curiosity; Games

South -Learning; Pattern recognition

Southwest -Culture; Knowledge of Place

West -Legends; Ecology

Northwest -Celebration; Traditions

North -Wisdom; Lore

Northeast -Awareness; Instincts

Budget overruns on the construction of the Starlight Casa prevent us from spending most of our time with our out of state grandchildren. While we're still here for the next year you can choose 1 free tour for every complete week booked. Additional tours can be added for $97 per person per tour.

Many of the principles and skills featured during the tours come from a period of 4 years when I was involved in mentoring naturalists for $10,000 per person. Each of the tours offered is related to the timeless wisdom of the 8 directions.

The time machine element of the Starlight Casa allows you to forego the tradition of beginning in the east and select any of the tours from the following list.

Desert Connection

Family Nature Games

Wildlife Viewing/Tracking

Edible and Medicinal Plant Walk (Wildflower Walk in Season)

Haunted Tucson Tour

Guided Downtown Tour

Ghost Town Tour

Bird Language Tour

Bed configuration
3 Bedrooms, Sleeps 6 Master - 1 Queen Tower Bedroom - 1 King, Convertable To 1 Or 2 Singles. Has Access To Rooftop Deck. Bedroom 3 - 1 Queen

Nearby Locations
Activities: Bird Watching, Eco Tourism, Gambling Casinos, Photography, Scenic Drives, Sight Seeing, Walking, Wildlife Viewing

Local Services and Shops: ATM/bank, Groceries, Hospital

Activities: Mountain Climbing