Dark Ranger Telescope Tours

My partner and I had a great night with Dark Ranger Telescope Tours. We were visiting Bryce Canyon National Park for two days in early February and one of the nights we booked a winter telescope tour. While we ended up using our backup night as the first night did not work out, that ended up being a blessing as the night we went was less cold and not cloudy at all. We were the only two people on the tour, which made the experience all the more special. Seth was our Dark Ranger (tour guide) for the evening, is super knowledgeable, and did an amazing job! Seth showed us an impressive variety of celestial objects and phenomena, including planets, moons, stars, galaxies, nebulae, Iridium flares, and more. We even managed to see a plane and satellite through the telescopes while viewing the night sky. Seth captured great images of both Jupiter and the moon through the telescopes with our phones. Seth's presentation on the Fermi paradox was very interesting and well worth viewing--especially with a warm hot chocolate or apple cider, which was provided and helped us stay warm. We really enjoyed our entire experience and will book again if we're back in the area!

Booked this tour 2 hours before it was due to begin, and we are so glad we did! This became one of the highlights of our entire road trip. The energy that Logan and Eddie (sorry may have gotten his name wrong) brought to the whole tour was amazing, and they were able to share their passion and deep, deep knowledge of astronomy and conservation with us, expertly fielding questions along the whole way. The most exciting bit for me was being able to see Saturn through the telescope, and the binary gold and blue stars. Highly recommend to bring layers and a jacket to keep warm as it gets cold out there even in winter. We booked a zero gravity chair but ended up not using it at all as we were mainly using the telescopes.

This was such a cool experience. I loved that they tailored it to audience interest. It was partly cloudy, but we saw incredible things, and the dark rangers pivoted quickly if clouds overtook a telescope's view. We are all English speakers, but they seemed to be versed in working with audience's who didn't primarily speak English.

The owner is now trying to get me to remove my review. The owner boasts about how he is trying to bully me. If you are considering this event, please pay attention to how this owner is treating a paying customer that didn’t have a positive experience. Over the years I have found that Google Reviews have been useful to me when I am planning a vacation, things to do, places to stay, places to eat …etc. Google Reviews can only be helpful if paying customers are allowed to post honest reviews of their experiences without being concerned about the owner lashing out with an attacking response. Paying customers should be able to post a review about their experience whether the customer had a positive or negative experience. This owner is not concerned about his customers having a bad experience, he is only concerned if they post a review of their bad experience. My review is for other people reading these reviews trying to decide if this activity is worth their time and money. This owner has continued to post his childish rants in an attempt to distract the people from what occurred during the activity we attended. He also is hoping to prevent others from posting reviews of their bad experiences. If you are thinking about booking this event consider this: _You will miss the sun setting over Bryce Canyon. _You will miss the sun rising over Bryce Canyon because your family won’t feel like getting up that early the next morning. _You will need to pack extra layers of clothing to stay warm during this event. _If you attend this event and you don’t have a 5 star experience and then post a review about it, the owner will post an attacking response on you. Sort this business’s reviews from Lowest to Highest then read the reviews. You see 3 ideas in many of these reviews. 1. Not Organized. 2. Long Lines. 3. Many customers leave early. It is obviously upsetting this owner that people are reading my review and liking my review. The owner is claiming the screenshot of the email he sent me is now false information. This owner should do a few minutes of basic research on what his company is sending out to his customers before he accuses me of posting a false information. I posted a screenshot of the email I received from his company. This just shows you don’t know what is happening within your own business. Customers leaving early must be such a common occurrence that there is a sign in the parking area with special instructions on how to leave the parking area while the event is still going on. This owner made the decision to make this discussion public instead of contacting me in private. He is going to continue to hide behind his keyboard and attack all customers who made the mistake of booking this event, had a poor experience and decided to post a review about it. I can only post about what I observed and experienced the night I attended. This owner didn’t attend this event on May 19, 2024. He can only speculate about what occurred. He tries to come up with childish excuses why people had a poor experience instead of being a man and admitting things could have been better. The owner has continued to push his made up narrative were his staff gave clear instructions and guidance and that all of the paying customers chose to ignore important information so we could stand in long lines not knowing what we were looking at. The owner should at least try to act like an adult and take responsibility for when you and your staff are not prepared. Instead he has posted outrageous claims like at least 84% of the customers “weren’t listening”, “not paying attention”, and “anti-social”. When in reality there was little to no instruction or guidance from his staff. I suggest you think about the way you respond to online reviews. Your attacking approach and you feeling the need to call your customers names and attempt to point out their mistakes is the wrong approach. This area has many amazing things to see and do. Do not waste your time and money with this activity. I cannot recommend Dark Ranger Telescope Tours.

One of the highlights of our trip. Logan was so interesting and the stars and planets he lined up for us to see so astounding that we stayed out in 11F temps to view. He had hot drinks and blankets when we needed them. Highly recommend you do this. It's less than 10mins drive from hotels in Bryce Canyon city and very easy to find and it's so worth it to see things like craters of the moon, nebula, rings of Saturn etc. We were thrilled.

What an amazing experience! A must do after hiking in Bruce canyon all day. You get to peer through a variety of telescopes seeing galaxies, star clusters, nebulas, and more! So cool to see with your own eye. Very knowledgeable rangers and interesting presentations!

I did the Dark Ranger Telescope tour on Friday night. It was a breathtaking experience: I saw the Milky Way with my naked eye, I saw most of the planets, supernova remnants, nebula, tons of stars, galaxies. Seth was great at answering all my millions of questions about the universe. If you are into stars, quantum mechanics, black holes, gravitational waves, this is a great place to meet up with like minded individuals and share thoughts and theories. I suffer from post traumatic stress disorder from my service in the Army infantry in Iraq. This was more than a tour for me, this was therapy for my mental health that I desperately needed. Nothing makes me feel better than getting lost in the cosmos. Thank you for the memories.

What a wonderful experience. We booked our tour as a group of three and everyone had such fun. An educational experience as the presentation and viewing was done in laymen’s terms. Kevin and Logan were eager to share their knowledge with everyone and did it in a fun way too. Seeing Saturn was just many of the highlights for all three of us. Remember to dress warm! If you are wary of going out at night, don’t be. You will feel safe and welcomed.