Texas Lake Austin Spa Resort Wins 2025 Conde Nast Readers' Choice Award

Wellness and nature travel are both surging: the U.S. spa industry earned about $22.5 billion in 2024 (a 5.8% increase) and destination spas such as Texas’s Lake Austin Spa Resort — lauded in Condé Nast’s 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards — are drawing guests with comprehensive spa facilities and all‑inclusive wellness programs. Miraval Arizona, a long‑running desert wellness retreat, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a renovated Life in Balance Spa reopening in November that adds expanded relaxation areas, cold plunges, outdoor desert‑healing elements and increased solar capacity. In the Poconos, Magnolia Streamside Resort markets a peaceful getaway focused on hiking, fishing, swimming and on‑site wellness options for guests seeking restoration close to nature. Outdoor and conservation destinations remain a strong draw as well: Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area, offers pristine waters, extensive shoreline and top camping and paddling opportunities. Tennessee’s Natchez Trace State Park — about 9,000 acres within a larger 36,000‑acre protected area — highlights abundant hiking, birding (135 species), multiple lakes for boating and swimming, and extensive campgrounds and trails for multi‑day exploration.