Top Mountain Spas:
Many top mountain spas earn acclaim for their wide varieties of services, over-the-top amenities and gorgeous facilities. But when relaxation and rejuvenation are the goal, it’s often the small hideaway spas that best fit the bill. The small spas you’ll find below make up for what they lack in size with carefully selected menus of time-tested treatments, personalized service from knowledgeable staff, and intimate settings as comfortable as they are luxurious.
Lodge & Spa
Jackson, Wyoming
What You’ll Love:Treatments designed to counter the effects of a high-country climate, and founder Heidi Harrison’s commitment to using natural, local products and ingredients—like native clay, herbs and wildflowers gathered from the surrounding mountains—in the spa’s new Indigenous Treatments.
Top Treatment: The Stress Relief Package(2 hours/$215) includes a calming massage with hand-blended oils, an Eh-Wah-Kee clay-and-oil scrub, lemon-essence steam bath and hydrating tangerine-rose blanket wrap.
Vitals: 175 N. Jackson Street, Jackson, WY, (307) 733-4455, bodysage.com
Temple Mountain Spa, Post Hotel
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
Top Treatment: During the Thai Stem Massage (85 minutes/$200), herbal stems—traditional massage tools used in Thailand since ancient times— therapeutic herbs and essential oils are used to release toxins, increase circulation, relax muscles and work out painful knots.What You’ll Love: The dim and quiet subterranean space offers warm, soothing colors, a crackling fire, waterfall, and, after your treatment, a cup of custom-blended herbal tea.
Vitals: 200 Pipestone Road, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, (800) 661-1586, posthotel.com
Ancient Cedars Spa, Wickaninnish Inn, Tofino
Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
What You’ll Love:
The couples’ treatment room’s double glass doors overlook the Pacific Ocean, and when tides are high, waves wash under its deck.Top Treatment: Sacred Sea ($180) begins with a full-body exfoliation followed by a session in the 144-massaging-jet Bouvier Hydrotherapy Tub. Next comes a full-body massage and wrap in warm cotton blankets, a foot massage and a stress-relieving scalp massage.
Vitals: 500 Osprey Lane, Tofino, BC, Canada, (250) 725-3113, wickinn.com
Wilderness Adventure Spa at Spring Creek Ranch
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
What You’ll Love:
Starting your day with a private yoga or Pilates class outside on the “vista”: from this perch 1,000 feet above the town of Jackson, you’ll be treated to amazing views of the Tetons and the valley floor.Top Treatment: Perfect after a day on the slopes, a Rocky Mountain Relaxation Massage with Arnica Muscle Repair (60-90 minutes/$120-$155, plus $10-$15 supplement) relieves sore muscles with anti-inflammatory wild arnica and bay laurel.
Vitals: 1800 Spirit Dance Road, Jackson, WY, (800) 443-6139, springcreekranch.com
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