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Eleven Experience hotels
Private lodges supply guides and gear for days of cat-skiing, fishing and other outdoor pursuits.
Eleven builds a lodge stay around the outdoors, with guides and equipment for pursuits such as cat-skiing, heli-skiing, fishing, and kitesurfing. Founded by Chad Pike in 2011 and named after the amplifier joke in This Is Spinal Tap, the collection pairs those adventures with intimate houses whose interiors are shaped by Blake Pike’s No. 12 Interiors.
12 Eleven Experience hotels in 7 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Founded by Chad Pike
- Worldwide: 12 lodges on file, in the United States, Iceland, the Bahamas, France, Canada, New Zealand, and Chile
- On the atlas: 1 Apex Luxury, 1 High Luxury, 6 Core Luxury, 4 Accessible Luxury
History
Chad Pike developed lodges around places he knew for skiing and fishing, with guides, chefs, and mechanics supporting substantial days outdoors. Blake Pike’s interiors provide a continuous creative thread through buildings with very different pasts. A former miners’ hall, a turf-roofed farm, and a Revelstoke shop each give the adventure a particular home.
Timeline
- 1830 — A sheep farm begins in the Fljót valley on Iceland's Tröllaskagi. It works until about 2007, when Pike buys it.
- 1880 — The Crested Butte building that becomes Scarp Ridge is already a miners' hall and saloon in the coal years.
- 1882 — Sopris House is standing on Second Street in the same town.
- 1930 — The Branham brothers build hunting cabins on Finger Lake, later the Iditarod's Finger Lake checkpoint.
- 1979 — Dick and Robyn Fraser open Cedar Lodge on the Makarora River.
- 1994 — Carl and Kirsten Dixon buy Finger Lake, end the hunting, and build Winterlake Lodge.
- 2003 — Felix Borenstein founds Owen River Lodge near Murchison.
- 2011 — Pike opens Scarp Ridge Lodge in November, six suites in the old Crested Butte hall, with cat-skiing on private ground. Eleven begins.
- 2016 — Deplar Farm reopens as a 13-room lodge after a rebuild that started in 2014. Bahama House opens in December in Dunmore Town, 11 rooms.
- 2018 — Eleven buys Cedar Lodge. Chalet Pelerin, the first French chalet, is placed by its neighbor's record in November of this year.
- 2019 — Rio Palena Lodge opens in November, seven rooms on 45 acres. It closes four months later with the pandemic and reopens in December 2020.
- 2022 — The Dixons sell Winterlake to Eleven. The sale is dated across 2022 and 2023.
- 2023 — Eleven buys Owen River Lodge in October.
- 2025 — The 1911 brick building at 111 First Street West in Revelstoke reopens in February as a 12-suite heli-ski lodge.
The houses to know
- Eleven Deplar Farm, Troll Peninsula, Iceland — Thirteen rooms in a turf-roofed sheep farm in the Fljót valley, rebuilt for heli-skiing.
- Owen River Lodge, Owen River, New Zealand — Three rooms on a South Island trout river, Felix Borenstein's lodge since 2003, Eleven's since October 2023.
- Chalet Pelerin, Le Miroir, France — Five bedrooms in a 1950s farmhouse, Eleven's first French chalet.
- Eleven Scarp Ridge Lodge, Crested Butte, United States — The founding lodge: six suites in an 1880s miners' hall, with cat-skiing on private ground.
- Eleven Revelstoke Lodge, Revelstoke, Canada — Twelve suites in a 1911 brick building on First Street West, reopened February 2025 for heli-skiing.
- Chalet Hibou, Le Miroir, France — A private-hire chalet in a Tarentaise hamlet, six bedrooms and a bunk room, neighbor to Pelerin.
- Eleven Cedar Lodge, Makarora, New Zealand — Four rooms on five acres of the Makarora River, a fishing lodge since 1979.
- Rio Palena Lodge, Palena, Chile — Seven rooms on 45 acres above the Río Palena, rebuilt from an old fishing lodge and opened November 2019.
- Sopris House, Crested Butte, United States — An 1882 house on Second Street, two blocks from Elk Avenue, one of the mining town's oldest buildings.
- Bahama House, Harbour Island, Bahamas — Eleven rooms in a Dunmore Town compound that began, around 1800, as Muriel's shop.
Newest openings
- Eleven Revelstoke Lodge, Revelstoke, Canada, reopened in February 2025. The red-brick building at 111 First Street West was put up in 1911 by Hector McKinnon, later a ten-term mayor, and served as a haberdashery, a tobacco shop, a pool hall, and apartments. Eleven and No. 12 Interiors made it a 12-suite heli-ski lodge. The town is often called the birthplace of modern heli-skiing.
Opening next
- No further Eleven lodges with a confirmed location and opening year were identified in the sources reviewed.
Every Eleven Experience hotel on the atlas
United States
- Eleven Scarp Ridge Lodge — Crested Butte · Core Luxury
- Eleven Winterlake Lodge — Alaska Range · Accessible Luxury
- Sopris House — Crested Butte · Accessible Luxury
Chile
- Rio Palena Lodge — Palena · Core Luxury
- Eleven Martin Pescador Lodge — Chaitén · Accessible Luxury
France
- Chalet Hibou — Le Miroir · Core Luxury
- Chalet Pelerin — Le Miroir · Core Luxury
New Zealand
- Owen River Lodge — Owen River · High Luxury
- Eleven Cedar Lodge — Makarora · Core Luxury
Bahamas
- Bahama House — Harbour Island · Accessible Luxury
Canada
- Eleven Revelstoke Lodge — Revelstoke · Core Luxury
Iceland
- Eleven Deplar Farm — Troll Peninsula · Apex Luxury
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