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Outside Magazine January 2005

The Outside Guide to Food
The Next Order: Trends Ahead
Life Is a Spa: The Canyon Ranch

By Sally Schumaier


Life Is a Spa: The Canyon Ranch | Fast Food Goes Fresh: Chipotle Mexican Grill | Sugar Busting Is Back | Queen of Celeb Cuisine: Akasha Richmond | Al Fresco Extreme | Slow Mojo: Organic Ingredients | Mix Master: The Bosch Blender | Grow Your Own

Canyon Ranch
You're not in Kansas anymore: CRL's modern hotel rooms model the soon-to-be-built condos.

EXERCISE ZEALOTS, spa lovers, organic-food junkies, and luxury seekers: Welcome home. Canyon Ranch, the Tucson, Arizona–based wellness resort known for seducing people into optimal health, is now spinning its popular get-fit vacation philosophy into the first-ever über-healthy-living residential complex aimed at boomers with bling. Opening next spring in Miami Beach, Florida, Canyon Ranch Living will be the oceanfront health club you never have to leave—nor will you want to. The six-acre property will include 467 condominiums decked out with picture windows and private balconies off the ultraluxe nature-inspired rooms. "Our guests kept saying they loved their Canyon Ranch vacation but that when they went home, they wanted the same access to wellness," says Kevin Kelly, Canyon Ranch Living's CEO. Say no more. Wellness devotees can pick up a 720- to 3,000-square-foot CRL condo for $450,000 to $3 million. Of course, the price includes access to a 60,000-square-foot rooftop fitness center tricked out with a two-and-a-half-story climbing wall, private workout rooms, a spa, and the latest European whirlpools and other "wet-room" technology. When not working out or getting a spa treatment, residents and their guests can chill on 750 feet of white-sand beach frontage and refuel at CRL's café, which serves up fresh, chemical-free seafood, meats, and vegetables, dished out in perfectly balanced portions. Just visiting to check out property? Crash at CRL's David Rockwell–designed hotel. 888-987-9876, www.canyonranchliving.com


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Life Is a Spa: The Canyon Ranch | Fast Food Goes Fresh: Chipotle Mexican Grill | Sugar Busting Is Back | Queen of Celeb Cuisine: Akasha Richmond | Al Fresco Extreme | Slow Mojo: Organic Ingredients | Mix Master: The Bosch Blender | Grow Your Own