You'd never know it now, but the unassuming little town, originally ... to nearly 10 miles north of Parker, containing more than 300,000 acres — mostly in Arizona — along the banks of the ...

The property lies near the town of Portal ... In two nights of observing at Arizona Sky Village, I had skies steady enough to view planets at magnifications in excess of 400x.

The former laboratory technician is among scores of passionate astronomers who have beaten a path to Arizona Sky Village ... an isolated place for myself to view the stars,” said Algots ...