Canyon Ranch is taking reservations for stays beginning October 15, 2026, at its new resort in Spicewood, Texas, on Lake Travis. It is the fifth property in the Canyon Ranch portfolio, the brand’s first in Texas, and the first resort the company has built entirely from the ground up. The operator’s own site confirms an October 2026 opening and open reservations; the October 15 date is reported by CultureMap Fort Worth and La Revue des Hôtels from the release materials.
The scale is the story. The resort sits on more than 600 acres at 600 Moonlight Bend, about an hour from downtown Austin, with 141 rooms distributed across three three-storey lodges and nearly 1.5 miles of Lake Travis shoreline. The 40,000-square-foot spa, which the operator presents as the largest in Texas, holds around 37 treatment rooms and more than 100 treatments, alongside a hammam, cold plunges, a cedar sauna, and a signature Vinyl Revival Massage performed to a quarterly-changing vinyl record by a local artist.
A three-star chef in the Hill Country
The culinary program is the headline hire. Estella, the signature restaurant, is led by Val M. Cantú, the Texas-born chef behind Californios in San Francisco, which was promoted to three Michelin stars in the 2026 guide, becoming the first Mexican restaurant in the world to hold three. The more casual Flying X Café and a Music Room with a vinyl bar round out the four food and beverage concepts.
The wellness program goes beyond the spa menu. The resort debuts a women-only wellness collective, which the release describes as the world’s only dedicated practice and program in a resort setting with offerings for women at every stage of life. A 12,000-square-foot medical center with a women’s health division, a 27,000-square-foot barn with gym and fitness studios, five miles of hike-and-bike trails, tennis, pickleball and padel courts, two outdoor pools, an equestrian program, and a private beach with watersports complete the campus.
The Stay Your Way math
Canyon Ranch sells the stay as an all-inclusive Stay Your Way package: accommodation, meals, snacks and non-alcoholic drinks, more than 35 daily activities, spa and fitness access, and transfers from Austin-Bergstrom. Rates checked on the official site on September 30 start at $1,193 per person per night based on double occupancy, or $1,325 per night for single occupancy. Every stay includes a $200 nightly spa and fitness credit; stays of three nights or more add a $300 health and wellness credit. Guests must be 14 or older, and bookings take a two-night deposit refundable up to 21 days before arrival.
The opening calendar is already filling. The first dated event window is a University of Texas versus Mississippi State game-day getaway from October 30 to November 1, followed by expert-in-residence weekends through November and December: yoga with Kristin McGee, the women’s health weekend Sex, Skin, and Sleep, fitness with Kira Stokes and Dr. Stacy Sims, sound healing with Kyle Lam, and a chef-in-residence block with Cantú from December 9 to 11. Beyond the resort, 134 homesites of the Ranch Home Collection are under construction on the estate, from 0.8 to 3.7 acres starting at $3.8 million.
The project has been four years in the making. Canyon Ranch announced the Austin resort in 2022, with John Goff as principal owner and financing from real estate investment trust VICI Properties, and commissioned Texas-based firm Lake Flato Architects for the design. The resort operates on a no-tipping, no-hidden-fees policy, and the Stay Your Way package is built for stays of two to seven nights. Round-trip transportation is always included, with Austin-Bergstrom about an hour away.
“Time at Canyon Ranch answers the call, with stays inspired to help our guests live younger longer,” said Mark Rivers, chief executive of Canyon Ranch, in the release.
The honest caveats: the resort has not opened yet, so the photographs above are the architect’s renderings, not the finished property. And the October 15 date comes from release coverage, not the operator’s own booking pages, which say October 2026. For a brand that opened its Tucson flagship in 1979 and has spent nearly five decades defining the American wellness retreat, the Texas debut is the biggest swing it has taken. The Hill Country will find out this month whether the swing connects.
Photography: Architect’s rendering courtesy of Canyon Ranch
