Spa Resorts combine the luxurious spa experience with your favorite recreational activities. That is why they are tremendously popular. You can choose a health resort spa, where healthful spa treatments compliment such vacation activities as tennis, skiing, and horseback riding. Golf resorts and spas are particularly popular because guests can you play 18 or 36 holes of golf and come back to an exhilarating deep muscle massage and spa cuisine. Whether you have a spa weekend in mind, or a full week of play and pampering, you can have your pick of spa resorts. Every city, large and small, has at least one hotel spa and probably a dozen others . Ever popular gaming destinations like Las Vegas, Nevada and Atlantic City, New Jersey are famous for their opulent spa resort casinos. You can find a spa resort that is just right for you no matter where you live or travel.
Top Ten Spas
Destination spa-goers are fitter, happier, healthier, more alert and more agile, have greater cardiovascular health and understand themselves better than non spa-goers and regular vacationers. These are just a few of the findings of a comprehensive study at Cornell University. Destination spas address the whole being by offering comprehensive life enhancement programs that encompass hiking, yoga, massage, acupuncture, weight, stress management and smoking cessation approaches, visualization, hypnosis, writing workshops and other healing and energizing modalities. From the Sonoran Desert to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the following ten properties have consistently won awards, and our own experts agree: these are truly the ten best destination spas in the country.
New York
Copperhood Retreat & Spa
7039 State Rte. 28 (Wettie Rd.)
Shandaken, NY 12480
845-688-2460
www.copperhood.com
Arizona
Mii amo—A Destination Spa at Enchantment
Enchantment Resort
525 Boynton Canyon Rd.
Sedona, AZ 86336
888-749-2137
www.miiamo.com
California
Cal-a-Vie Spa
29402 Spa Havens Way
Vista, CA 92084
760-945-2055
866-772-4283
www.cal-a-vie.com
Connecticut
Mayflower Inn & Spa
118 Woodbury Rd.
Route 47
Washington, CT 06793
860-868-9466
www.mayflowerinn.com
Florida
Acqualina Resort & Spa on the Beach
17875 Collins Ave.
Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160
305-918-8000
www.acqualinaresort.com
North Carolina
Westglow Resort & Spa
224 Westglow Circle
Blowing Rock, NC 28605
828-295-4463
www.westglow.com
Pennsylvania
The Lodge at Woodloch
109 River Birch Lane
Hawley, PA 18428
866-953-8500
www.thelodgeatwoodloch.com
Utah
The Biggest Loser at Fitness Ridge
760 South 200 West
Ivins, UT 84738
888-870-2639, 435-673-6600
www.biggestloserresort.com
Wisconsin
Aspira Spa
The Osthoff Resort
101 Osthoff Avenue
Elkhart Lake, WI 53020
877-772-2070
www.aspiraspa.com
Wyoming
Wilderness Adventure Spa at Spring Creek Ranch
1800 Spirit Dance Rd.
Jackson, WY 83001
800-443-6139
www.springcreekranch.com