Spa Profile: Strata Spa at Garden of the Gods Resort and Club
Overlooking the beautiful Garden of the Gods National Park in Colorado Springs, CO, Garden of the Gods Resort & Club is a luxury resort that recently underwent an incredible $40 million renovation. The property offers a wide variety of accommodations ranging from spacious guest rooms and suites to residential casitas and cottages with stunning views and premium amenities.
Guests at the resort enjoy multiple dining options and restaurants, outdoor adventures and activities including tennis courts, pickleball, golf, a reflection pool and infinity-edge swimming pool, and a world-class spa. Strata Spa at Garden of the Gods Resort and Club provides a therapeutic and tranquil experience with breathtaking open spaces and magnificent mountain views.
The 10,000-square-foot wellness sanctuary features eight individual spa treatment rooms and two couples’ treatment rooms including a spacious couples’ suite with a private shower; a relaxation lounge, men’s and women’s facilities, a pink Himalayan salt room, dry sauna, herbal steam room, and more. The treatment menu offers an impressive selection of healing and rejuvenating massages, body treatments, facials, and nail services, among others.
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We chatted with Tania McCorkle, Director of Wellness Programming and Development at at Garden of the Gods Resort and Club, to learn more about treatments to try, insider tips, and more.
Why You’ll Love It: The immediate response is how pretty the spa is and its location overlooking the national natural landmark, Garden of the Gods—the view is absolutely amazing and breathtaking. Our providers do a fantastic job and clients are “floating” after their spa treatments. The Salon creates magic in making our clients feel beautiful. Our Salon has many regular clients that return due to the quality of service they receive from the providers. Amongst our amenities the salt inhalation room in the ladies locker room is a favorite of many customers.
Key Features: The spa has lovely retails areas with a large variety of items for purchase including products used in services (facials and hair are the biggest). The locker rooms are comfortable and offer steam rooms with eucalyptus oil, salt rooms, Experiential Rainfall showers including seven massaging shower heads, Relaxation Lounge with snacks and tea assortment, and secured lockers for client use. The ladies locker room in particular offers a Pink Himalayan Salt Room with Infrared Heat that is designed to support respiratory health, lower stress levels, and boost your immune system.
Insider’s Tip: Are you celebrating something? Ask our concierge for a complimentary glass of champagne! Come early and stay late—enjoy the amenities! We can accommodate groups for that special occasion.
Snacks Served: We offer water, tea, and snacks. Beginning in 2024 we will offer a variety of food and beverage options. Have lunch delivered to the spa for you and your friends!
Bonus: Something that guests might not be aware of when visiting Strata is that we are open to the public. Whether a resort guest, member, or visiting Strata purely for a service—you have access to our amenities all day on the day of your service. Grab some lunch at the newly renovated Grand View Restaurant after your treatment and come back for a cup of tea and relax in our Himalayan Salt Room!
Splurge Treatment: Our Ayurvedic Immersion Ritual. This service will balance the mind and body using ancient techniques and tools from India including traditional Abhyanga massage, a facial massage with Kansa wand, balancing foot bowl massage, and ends with Shirodhara. The Glow and Massage is another favorite which combines a massage and exfoliation.
Unique treatment: Mystic Inka Ritual balances the four elements and energies in the body using indigenous plants from Peru with healing and nurturing properties. This ritual helps promote gut health, improve energy, releases tension, and contains skin-beautifying antioxidants.
Insider’s Favorite: Shiro-Abhyanga is my personal favorite! This is a rhythmic massage using dosha balancing oils, paired with a stream of warm herbal-infused oil poured slowly over the forehead and massaged into the scalp to quiet the mind and calm the nervous system. Leave the oil on your scalp for a few hours before washing for healthy, shiny hair!
Featured Products:
Skin Care: Biologique Recherche, Eminence, Environ, EmerginC, Nuface.
Hair, Nails, and Make-Up: Surface, Dazzle Dry, Jane Iredale.
Body: Elta MD, TARA, Conscious Coconut, Coola, Cause Medic, Shankara, TARA, Conscious Coconut, Voya, Latisse, European Spa Source.
Gifts: Tea Forte, Spongelle, Voluspa, Farmhouse Fresh, Freedom, Lemon, Sonoma, Supracor, Sugarfina, Monica Mauro, Mind in Motion, Robes, Luke Adams.
More to come in 2024!
For more information on Garden of the Gods Resort and Club, visit their website and follow on Instagram: @stratawell @ggresortandclub. For deals on your next stay, click here.
[Photos courtesy of Garden of the Gods Resort and Club]
Garden of the Gods Resort and Club
3320 Mesa Road
Colorado Springs, CO 80904
800-923-8838