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About Canyon Ranch, Arizona Resort

In 1978, Mel Zuckerman had an A-ha experience that changed his life and sparked the creation of now-acclaimed Canyon Ranch. Overweight and dealing with various health problems, Mel had gone to a California spa for help. His A-ha moment came when he realized how great he could feel by staying active, eating right, and living healthfully. His wife, Enid, was already a health enthusiast, and the couple soon made a commitment to build Canyon Ranch--a haven for wellness and "living younger longer."

The first Canyon Ranch opened in 1979, in the dazzling Sonoran Desert. It has since become an award-winning oasis of health, joy, and vitality. Indeed, Canyon Ranch has defined all that a destination spa can be. Today the sprawling campus with its low-lying adobe buildings can accommodate about 250 guests, both former and new.

The Zuckermans' goal is to inspire each guest to make a long-term commitment to healthy living and to provide the practical tools to do so. Guests flock to Canyon Ranch to take control of their health or rejuvenate. Canyon Ranch is distinguished by its unsurpassed team of wellness professionals including physicians, nurses, complementary health practitioners, nutritionists, exercise physiologists, and more. A stay at Canyon Ranch is an ideal opportunity to fully explore your health potential in a comfortable and unhurried environment. Have your annual physical or explore a concern such as optimal aging, bone density, sleep problems, menopause, and sexuality or heart health--all of this while enjoying an unforgettable, luxury vacation with endless pleasures to explore. You might start a fitness program, ride a bike again, have great massages, fortify your spirituality, try a cooking class, hike a canyon trail, or simply relax. Whatever your interests, Canyon Ranch's opportunities are abundant.

Location

Address

8600 East Rockcliff Road
Tucson, Arizona ,
85750
United States

Call: 1(800) 742-9000

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Highlights

  • Business Type
  • Connoisseur Spa
  • Destination Spa
  • Inclusive-pricing Spa
  • Luxury Spa
  • Medical Getaway Spa
  • Programs
  • Mother-and-Daughter
  • Smoking Cessation
  • Spirituality
  • Stress Management
  • Weight Loss
  • Yoga
  • More
  • Focus on health and wellness
  • Expansive Sonora Desert location
  • World-class spa facilities

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Awards & Accolades

2010 Readers' Choice Awards Winner for:

Best Cooking Classes
Best Cuisine
Best Fitness Program
Best Medical Program
Best for Going Solo
Best for Hiking
Best for Men
Best for Mind-Body-Spirit
Best for Yoga

2008 Readers' Choice Awards Winner for:

Best Brand
Best Cooking Classes
Best Cuisine
Best Fitness Program
Best Medical Program
Best for Going Solo
Best for Hiking
Best for Yoga
Favorite Spa in the United States

2007 Readers' Choice Awards Winner for:

  • Best Medical Program
  • Best for Cooking Classes
  • Best for Cuisine
  • Best for Fitness Program
  • Best for Going Solo
  • Best for Hiking
  • Best for Men
  • Best for Yoga

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    The world-class facilities and incomparable professional staff, including program advisors who help design your stay, make this 80,000-square-foot spa the place for fitness, pleasure, and wellness opportunities. You'll find plenty ways to stay active, including an expansive weight and exercise room, six gyms including indoor cycling, more than 50 fitness classes and outdoor activities daily, and a Pilates, Gyrotonic, and movement therapy studio. There is also the Aquatic Center with pools for Watsu(r), aquatic therapy, cross-training, and indoor swimming, a yoga dome, and wallyball, racquetball, squash, and basketball courts.

    Ready to relax and renew? The soft lights, tranquil music, and inviting decor welcome you to a world of rejuvenation with more than 30 massage and body treatment rooms. The men's and women's locker rooms are complete with steam and inhalation rooms, sauna, cold dip, sunbathing decks, and whirlpools. The beauty salon provides head-to-toe services. Canyon Ranch's skin care department is also located in the spa.

    Learn more about Canyon Ranch, AZ's medical offerings.

    Treatment OfferingsView business treatment menu

    • Non-Surgical Treatments
    • Dermatology
    • Traditional Medicine
    • Sexual-Health Consultation
    • Cardiovascular Medicine
    • Physical Examination
    • Lab Tests
    • Bone Density Testing
    • Nutrition Consultation or Therapy
    • Sleep-Health Consultation
    • Physical Therapy
    • Complementary Alternative
    • Traditional Chinese Medicine
    • Acupuncture
    • Mind/Body Medicine
    • Chiropractic
    • Massages
    • Aromatherapy
    • Couples
    • Cranio Sacral Massage
    • Deep Tissue
    • Hot Stone
    • Lymph Drainage
    • Myofascial Release
    • Prenatal/Postnatal
    • Reflexology
    • Scalp
    • Shiatsu
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Facials
    • Acne/Deep Cleansing
    • Glycolic Acid
    • Men's
    • Body Scrubs
    • Salt Scrub
    • Sugar Scrub
    • Body Wraps
    • Algae/Seaweed
    • Herbal Wrap
    • Mud
    • Hair/Nail Services
    • Hair Styling and Care
    • Makeup Instruction/Application
    • Manicures
    • Pedicures
    • Waxing
    • Water Treatments
    • Hydrotherapy
    • Watsu
    • Other
    • Sunless Tanning
    Rooms & Dining

    After an active day, relax on your porch and let the Arizona sunset astound you. Clustered throughout the lush grounds, the one-story, Southwestern-style accommodations are built in harmony with the desert terrain and colors. In your comfortable private retreat, you'll find the aesthetic touches and thoughtful amenities that make your stay a constant pleasure.

    Award-winning Canyon Ranch dining is an adventure in delicious, nutritious cuisine. The dining room staff can seat solo travelers at the captain's tables with other people traveling on their own. In the colorful Southwest-style dining room, you'll enjoy innovative dishes made with the freshest and best ingredients. Choose from favorites such as macadamia-crusted mahi mahi, elephant garlic soup, and hot fudge sundaes. Or dine poolside at the casual indoor-outdoor Double U Café. Because a stay includes all meals, there are no prices on the menus. Instead, you'll find the nutritional content of every selection. In addition to enjoying fabulous meals, you can learn how to eat better for life in workshops, consultations, or discussions with the Ranch's top-notch nutritionists.

    Offerings

    • Rooms
    • 185Rooms
    • Food Options
    • Portion Control
    • Serves No Alcohol
    • Vegetarian
    Activities

    The caring professional staff contributes the enthusiasm and expertise to make every Canyon Ranch experience memorable. Consult with experts in medicine, behavioral health, exercise physiology, movement therapy, spiritual awareness, and more.

    Choose from more than 50 fitness classes and outdoor activities a day. Bike through stunning desert scenery, or join the hikes through magnificent canyons and pine-topped mountains. Play tennis or basketball under sunny skies. Work on your swing at the Golf Performance Center. Stretch, relax, and work out at the beautiful Aquatic Center. Discover the finest in therapeutic bodywork, massage, and skin care services.

    To explore healthy living in depth, discover the Life Enhancement Program. Offered in its own beautiful building, this week-long, small-group experience provides the perfect opportunity to make positive lifestyle changes or explore a health concern. Special-interest programs are presented throughout the year, including: Healthy Heart, Thriving With Arthritis, and more.

    Offerings

    • Fitness & Activities
    • Aerobics
    • Dancing
    • Hiking
    • Personal Training
    • Pilates with Mat
    • Pilates with Reformer
    • Qigong
    • Spinning
    • Tai Chi
    • Tennis
    • Yoga Classes
    • Facilities & Amenities
    • Cold Plunge Pool
    • Hammam
    • Locker Room
    • Meeting Facilities
    • Restaurant
    • Robes Provided
    • Sauna
    • Showers
    • Slippers Provided
    • Steam Room
    • Swimming Pool
    • Whirlpool, Jacuzzi

    Reviews

    Showing 1-10 of 10 reviews
    Canyon Ranch, Arizona Resort
    4.4 out of 5
    Overall rating based on10 Reviews
    9of10 (90%)
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    Life Affirming Experience
    75 of 161 People Found This Review Helpful
    5.0 out of 5
    ByLoisS | September 20, 2011
    Our first visit to Canyon Ranch 15 years ago was truly a Life Changing Experience. It taught my husband and I so much about taking charge of our lives and health and encouraged us to adopt appropriate firness regimines and nuturitional habits. Our most recent visit to the Ranch is best described as Life Affirming. Now in our early 70's, we were in need of a good "tune up" of our fitness, nutritional and lifestyle choices as well as a nurturing vacation that would leave us relaxed and refreshed. Canyon Ranch filled all of our needs and then some! Trading the hummidity, hurricances and earthquakes that hit the East Coast this summer for the amazing beauty of the Sonoran Desert put us in an environment that was condusive to reevaluation and change. Our lovely room with its comfy bed and luxurious linens cradled our worked out bodies at the end of each perfectly filled day. We took full advantage of the large number of fitness classes to explore new and fun ways to work out, stretch, strenghten and relax. Who'd have thought that a Desert Drumming class could make us feel like little kids again? The food was delicious, the treatments amazing & educational presentations outstanding. It's a perfect place to refresh & recharge.
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality5 out of 5
    Service Variety5 out of 5
    Spa Facilities5 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities5 out of 5
    A beautiful day
    175 of 331 People Found This Review Helpful
    5.0 out of 5
    ByNatalieN | June 6, 2011
    I spent a day at canyon ranch and it was wonderful. The grounds are absolutely beautiful and peaceful. There are endless activities to chose from. My massage treatment was great and the yoga classes as well. It is the perfect place to treat the mind/body/spirit and is a wonderful retreat from the everyday.
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality4 out of 5
    Service Variety5 out of 5
    Spa Facilities5 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities5 out of 5
    Amazing Spa!
    295 of 593 People Found This Review Helpful
    5.0 out of 5
    ByMichelleL | September 3, 2010
    I love this spa! Food, service, spa treatments, housing and surroundings are spectacular! It was a wonderful experience and I will be saving my dollars to go back. It is a bit pricey, but in my humble opinion, worth every penny.
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality5 out of 5
    Service Variety5 out of 5
    Spa Facilities5 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities4 out of 5
    Poor Man's Spa in the Summer
    352 of 702 People Found This Review Helpful
    1.0 out of 5
    ByKarenK | June 14, 2010
    Never ever go to Canyon Ranch in the Summer. It is sweltering heat. All the money and time you spend on facials and massages are a waste once the blisterng 104-105 degree hot air dries out your skin like being broiled inside an oven barely could breathe.. Food is just so so. Activities outdoors hah, you must be insane. Any poor schmuck can go there in the Summer its reduced because no one in the right mind would be there. I call it the riff raff spa group in the summer. Loud obnixious women whining and getting drunk. A very unattractive group go in the Summer. I was persuaded to go with friends what a mistake going to cut my trip short and get the first plane out of here. Better to go to Canyon Ranch in MA. This places needs to be bulldozed. Workout room is a hoax and equipment is not clean.
    Would you visit again? No
    Service Quality1 out of 5
    Service Variety1 out of 5
    Spa Facilities2 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities2 out of 5
    Fitness is Fabulous
    359 of 729 People Found This Review Helpful
    4.0 out of 5
    ByDeborahC | March 30, 2010
    Loved the fitness facilities and variety. There were so many classes. I got to try soooo many different types of yoga. Had great massages, and Watsu is a must. We had a bad food week. Loved the food in the test kitchen but did not get good meals in the restaurant. Also scheduling meals was inconvenient. Would go back in a minutel
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality5 out of 5
    Service Variety5 out of 5
    Spa Facilities5 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities5 out of 5
    Once A Year At Least
    393 of 836 People Found This Review Helpful
    5.0 out of 5
    ByMichelleB | January 1, 2010
    I take a group here each fall and it is the best thing we do for each other every year. A trip to the Ranch jumpstarts those good habits that we know are hiding inside. The cocoon wrap makes your skin smooth as a baby. The hands on cooking lessons are such fun and the recipes are great to take home. I just discovered these worthwhile classes on my last visit. Try to schedule massages late in the day to insure a deep relaxation each evening.
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality5 out of 5
    Service Variety5 out of 5
    Spa Facilities5 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities5 out of 5
    Very Relaxing!
    399 of 838 People Found This Review Helpful
    4.0 out of 5
    ByAlexI | December 14, 2009
    This was a business trip turned into relaxation trip...what a perfect place to relax. Beautiful views, quiet personal time without anyone bothering you, great food and great spa treatments. One of the best hot stone massages I have ever had! Some of the resort could look a little outdated but other than that it's great!
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality4 out of 5
    Service Variety4 out of 5
    Spa Facilities4 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities1 out of 5
    Feel Like Oprah!!
    430 of 886 People Found This Review Helpful
    5.0 out of 5
    ByJoanneF | June 10, 2009
    Felt like Oprah while being pampered every which way!!! The food was amazing: they even tailored it to your specific likes/ dislikes if there was something you didn't like on the menu or dietary restriction! The choices every day were mind boggling: so hard to choose~like being @camp~~which class for exercising to take!!! Began early, end late w/spa treatment to get it all in!! They even help w/selecting the correct gym shoe for you & they know what they're doing!! No hesitation I would go again!! FABULOUS!!
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality5 out of 5
    Service Variety5 out of 5
    Spa Facilities5 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities5 out of 5
    Best overall Spa
    444 of 904 People Found This Review Helpful
    5.0 out of 5
    ByRosieB | September 30, 2008
    This is an excellent spa. Everything is first rate.I absolutely love the hiking! There are so many hikes to choose from, you can do it everyday! And the hikes are rated according to your ability.The food is excellent as is the service.The medical services are excellent also. Make sure to use these facilities. They aren't so readily available at home as they are here.Try something new! Something you have never done or would do at home - belly dancing, hypnotism, hydro therapy.IF I could, I would go every year. THis is one vacation for ME!I absolutely love it!!!!!
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality5 out of 5
    Service Variety5 out of 5
    Spa Facilities5 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities5 out of 5
    Still a winner
    449 of 901 People Found This Review Helpful
    5.0 out of 5
    ByHappycustomer | June 11, 2006
    My husband and I have been to Canyon Ranch in Tucson twice. It is one of the most professionally run spas we have ever been to. Loved the food and the classes and the treatments. Some of the areas are a bit dated now but the staff and program are still top notch. Even though the food is healthy and tasty, it isn't that easy to lose weight because there is no portion control but because everything is so healthy we do end up feeling much better. I think it is important to stay 4 days at least to get the most out of the program.
    Would you visit again? Yes
    Service Quality5 out of 5
    Service Variety5 out of 5
    Spa Facilities4 out of 5
    Fitness Facilities4 out of 5
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    • Canyon Ranch Tucson offers a variety of packages from four to 10 nights through Spa Finder Online Booking.
    • Fly into Tucson where Canyon Ranch vans will transport you to and from the Ranch.
    • Pack your hiking boots and casual clothes. Like most destination spas, Canyon Ranch has a casual atmosphere.

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    For more information call 1(800) 742-9000 or visit www.canyonranch.com/…