Rancho De Los Caballeros Luxury Spa & Wellness Center

The Spa & Wellness Center. Photo Jill Weinlein

Celebrating its 75th Anniversary, Rancho de los Caballeros is an 18,000-acre sanctuary offering an authentic equine ranch experience. Steeped successful past and tradition, it's a 90-minute thrust from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. A ranch unit subordinate volition prime up guests successful a ranch conveyance astatine the airdrome to whisk them distant to the historical municipality of Wickenburg. Once astatine the ranch, guests volition person a consciousness of play to unwind metropolis beingness and go a cowboy oregon cowgirl.

Guests besides bask playing connected the picturesque 18-hole play people wherever deer, quail, and roadrunners sojourn to respect the verdant title greens.

Two years ago, Rancho de los Caballeros was purchased by friends who met astatine the ranch arsenic young boys. The Cutler, Martin and Kempers vacationed present portion processing blessed memories and a agelong lasting friendship. When the ranch was disposable to purchase, these families agreed unneurotic and bought the property. They enactment unneurotic a three-year program of improvements that includes caller additions to the Spa astatine Los Caballeros.

Nicole Cloud. Photo Jill Weinlein

New Bunk House Wellness Studio

The infinitesimal you conscionable Spa Director Nicole Cloud astatine The Spa & Wellness Center, she lights up a country with her beauteous aura and her healing energy. 'When I arrived astatine Rancho de los Caballeros, I knew I had to enactment here,' said Cloud. 'The onshore that the ranch is connected is sacred. It's connected Hopi land. Magical things hap here.'

She walked into the General Manager's bureau aft seeing the ranch, and shared her imaginativeness of an enhanced Spa and Wellness program. Struck by her vigor and confidence, she was happily hired.

Requesting a caller indoor yoga studio, the owners took a historical bunk location adjacent the equine center, and renovated the abstraction into a welcoming, calm and peaceful wellness studio.

Lavender hangs upside down connected the rafters, and mirrors are strategically placed successful corners adjacent altars of flickering candles. Aromatherapy wafts astir the country to excite each of ones senses.

Walk the Signature Labyrinth. Photo Jill Weinlein

Exploring Wellness

Cloud likes to clasp her greeting Sun Salutation people adjacent to the Labyrinth. 'We breathe, stretch, meditate and afterward locomotion the Labyrinth' said Cloud. 'It's a travel walking guardant barefoot into a ineffable abstraction designed and built by a Hopi pistillate 20 years ago. Guests instrumentality their clip and person a connection earlier walking out.'

She leads sunset yoga classes successful this country too. 'At sunset you wouldn't judge what you see, perceive and consciousness astatine this location,' said Cloud. 'I use indispensable oils for aromatherapy to assistance alteration guests thoughts.'

The spa offers enhanced assemblage treatments, a assortment of massages, facials, clawfoot tubs for a relaxing lukewarm epsom brackish soak, and infrared sauna for symptom relief, improved circulation and flush toxins,

Rancho de los Caballeros. Photo Jill Weinlein

Horse Therapy

The ranch offers a greeting and day two-hour horseback thrust into the quietness of the desert. One whitethorn spot immoderate of the nonmigratory ranch cows, visiting mule cervid and hawks soaring overhead.

Cloud has curated a caller programme 'Horseback to Wellness.' Guests saddle up astatine the corral connected 1 of the gentle horses to a picturesque spot with a level area. Cloud leads a one-hour godforsaken yoga, enactment and agelong people wherever participants volition find communion with the elements. Then horseback to the corral for meal earlier escaped clip astatine the spa.

'Horse to Wellness' is disposable Thursday done Sunday passim the year. Classes see Pranayama workshops for breathing techniques, Restorative yoga for relaxing and healing, and Somatic Pilates for focusing connected assemblage consciousness and mind-body connection.

Rancho de los Caballeros. Photo Jill Weinlein

Water Therapy

When the ranch dug its swimming excavation successful 1947, they designed and built the archetypal non-rectangular excavation successful Arizona. Others thought an oval shaped excavation was excessively daring, but soon much pools were designed and built offering this soothing pond-like shape.

Set extracurricular successful the halfway of the C-shaped main building, it's adjacent the reception lounge, main eating country and lively saloon. 

Soon the ranch is expanding to connection 2 caller swimming pools with cabana service. One excavation volition beryllium an adult-only thigh pool, portion the different volition beryllium an inviting excavation for families. There volition besides beryllium caller eating and wellness areas.

Tennis and Pickle shot courts. Photo Jill Weinlein

Tennis and Pickleball Therapy

The recently resurfaced courts are offered astatine nary charge. Lessons are disposable to guests from a nonrecreational teacher astatine a tenable rate. The ranch has racquets and tennis balls disposable for loan. 

Pickleball is 1 of the fastest increasing recreational sports successful the U.S. It combines the liveliness of tennis with the speedy reflexes of array tennis connected a badminton-size court. There is instrumentality for guests to get for this athletics too.

This family-friendly ranch offers a Los Caballeros Kids programme for ages 5 to 12. Supervised activities see equine visits and horseback riding, swimming, tennis, crafts, and hiking.

Casita 360. Photo Jill Weinlein

Sleep Therapy

Guests volition person the accidental to enactment successful 1 of the caller Santa Fe-inspired suites, oregon spacious remodeled impermanent casitas. Guest casita #360 features Southwestern plan tones with handcrafted furnishing.

Along 1 partition successful the surviving country is simply a pull-down Murphy furniture for families. The casita besides has a fireplace, kitchenette, cloud-like king-size furniture successful the spacious bedroom, and ample bath with a walk-in ablution and whirlpool bathtub.

Gold Course Views astatine Restaurant 19. Photo by Jill Weinlein

Culinary Therapy

Rancho de los Caballeros is reinvesting successful the destination with caller Western eating opportunities. Besides the main eating country and Restaurant 19 astatine the Los Caballeros Golf Club, the owners person breached crushed connected a caller culinary offering astatine the caller excavation area.

Epicurean delights see appealing appetizers, hearty entrees, grilled proteins and vegetarian options.

Tres Amigos. Photo by Tony astatine Rancho de los Caballeros

From November to May is the optimal clip to sojourn Rancho de los Caballeros. There are aggregate all-inclusive packages to acquisition this authentic impermanent ranch and spa. On Cyber Monday and Black Friday, guests volition person 3 nights for the terms of two.

Now is the clip to awaken your senses, respire and acquisition a luxury ranch destination successful Arizona.