The Finest New U.S. Resorts of 2025

The Brant, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Rising up, I spent my summers on Nantucket, however I nonetheless return to the tiny island—a mere 14 miles lengthy and three.5 miles huge—for quintessential New England holidays, full with cobblestone streets, cedar-shingled properties, and hearty lobster rolls. This previous spring, a refurbished resort with 26 rooms throughout 4 buildings seamlessly folded into the mould, shingled exterior and all. Whereas the property from family-owned Salt Lodges seems the half, what I discovered throughout my two-night keep was an surprising, and really welcome, air of ease and playfulness. In true Nantucket vogue, I used to be welcomed by two Brant-branded Jeep wranglers sitting within the shell-lined driveway. Behind the automobiles, the luxurious garden was sprinkled with lounge chairs, yard video games, and bicycles parked off to the facet. The bar doubles as a check-in desk, the place I had espresso and breakfast within the morning and cocktails within the night. Room kinds fluctuate from studios to spacious multi-bedroom suites—mine had an out of doors bathe; others have bunk beds for youths or swing seats on non-public entrance decks. The Brant’s location is especially interesting as a result of it’s lower than a 10-minute stroll to the guts of Foremost Road, and a brief bike experience from top-of-the-line seashores to catch a sundown, Steps Seashore. But, it’s nonetheless tucked away; I discovered it an ideal retreat after a protracted day within the solar, like visiting a buddy’s non-public dwelling, the place you’re greeted with a drink and a heat smile. Accessible resort. Doubles from $400. —Jess Feldman

Casa Loma Seashore Lodge, Laguna Seashore, California

Casa Loma was born from a $15-million renovation and whole rebrand of the previous Inn at Laguna Seashore—however that doesn’t imply it’s erased its previous. “What we tried to do with lots of sensitivity, respect, and humility is converse to the roots and ethos of Laguna Seashore earlier than Laguna Seashore turned so acknowledged,” says John Grossman, the president of Marc & Rose Hospitality, the resort group behind Casa Loma. “We went a lot additional again in time to the start of what made Laguna Seashore so particular, and that was the artists.” It’s true: The resort maintains Laguna’s laid-back, bohemian roots, even with a location within the thick of the downtown buzz. A sun-worshipping goddess by the graphic designers at Land fills the primary foyer wall, setting the temper whereas a {custom} radio station performs curated tunes. As we walked the halls, my husband and I had been amused by the best way the playlist flowed seamlessly all through the resort—however we nonetheless couldn’t resist interrupting it with a vinyl on the LP&No.1 file participant in our oceanfront suite. The one facilities that paired even higher with the clifftop sundown view over Foremost Seashore had been the picture-perfect charcuterie board and the agave spirit-only minibar beside it, contemporary lime ready to be sliced. Although it doesn’t have a restaurant, Casa Loma affords a menu of “grazing boards” utilizing native merchandise that pair nicely with its record of natural juices and wines. They are often loved wherever friends discover themselves in want of a snack, together with on the pool deck, the Pacific Terrace rooftop bar, and the (seasonal) cabanas on the seashore. All three are excellent spots to laze the day away, however we spent most of our time shopping the retailers and galleries on our doorstep. “You’ll be able to park your automotive as soon as and by no means get in it once more,” Grossman advised me earlier than my go to, and whereas some may count on to tour Orange County in a flashy sports activities automotive, we discovered the easiest way to see the true Laguna was early morning walks within the sand, self-curated afternoon artwork strolls, and heat cookies earlier than mattress in a quiet little resort that rapidly got here to really feel like dwelling. Accessible resort. Doubles from $529. —Nina Ruggiero

The Dunes on the Waterfront, Ogunquit, Maine

For those who’re after that old school, soft-focus imaginative and prescient of summertime in Maine—all white clapboard cottages, lobster shack lunches, and sailboats within the distance—then Ogunquit’s newly revamped Dunes on the Waterfront is the place to be. This seaside haven seems prefer it was plucked from a mid-century memento postcard, however a latest $10-million overhaul by Maine hotelier Tim Harrington has ushered the 89-year-old resort into the trendy period. Scattered throughout a 12-acre stretch of shoreline overlooking the Ogunquit River and the ocean past, the property’s 21 cottages are ethereal and contemporary, outfitted with spool beds, striped- and floral-print accents, and custom-made leather-based trunks that double as espresso tables. There’s no full-fledged restaurant, however sunny, easy comforts are a culinary throughline: I used to be charmed by heat chocolate chip cookies at check-in and pastries and a thermos of espresso on our door every morning, plus nightly s’mores by the firepit and a kitchenette stocked with treats like Topo Chico and Kettle chips. Some resorts preserve friends busy with a dizzying schedule of occasions and actions, however right here, lengthy, idle days felt, to me, like the final word luxurious. At Dunes on the Waterfront, the pleasure lies in flitting from one low-key seaside exercise to the following—studying in your screened-in porch, taking a dip within the heated pool, kayaking the Ogunquit River, and hopping aboard the resort’s natty yellow-striped Cabana Cruiser pontoon at excessive tide and hitching a experience to Ogunquit Seashore. And may languid afternoons lose their luster, you’re only a quick jaunt by way of seashore cruiser or golf-cart shuttle into city, the place a stroll alongside Marginal Manner, a present on the Ogunquit Playhouse, or a day mingling with the likes of Calder and Hopper on the Ogunquit Museum of American Artwork await. Accessible resort. Doubles from $650. —Lila Harron Battis

The Dunlin, Auberge Resorts Assortment, Johns Island, South Carolina

South Carolina’s latest luxurious resort is a love letter to laid-back Lowcountry residing. The newest addition to Auberge Resorts Assortment—and the model’s first South Carolina resort—has 72 visitor rooms and suites unfold throughout a number of buildings that really feel extra like a gaggle of Southern properties, many providing river and marsh views. Surrounded by marshland on Johns Island, the resort is simply 20 miles from downtown Charleston, but it surely’s a world of its personal. The property showcases designer Amanda Lindroth’s whimsical and nostalgic interiors that pair the pure fantastic thing about the coast with a contemporary tackle the traditional Lowcountry aesthetic, full with loads of pastels, wicker, and gingham. The Dunlin additionally has a serene Aster spa, a picture-perfect pool lined with Fifties-inspired umbrellas and loungers, and three eating places, plus a slew of actions that reap the benefits of its Kiawah River location. 

As a local South Carolinian, I’m well-versed within the magic of the Lowcountry. I checked into The Dunlin this previous fall with my sister (a Charleston native) for a ladies getaway. Taking within the sundown over Charleston swizzles on the porch, eating on caviar-topped fried oysters at signature restaurant Linnette’s, and dipping within the marshfront pool had been all highlights, however essentially the most thrilling second of our keep occurred throughout our Into the Salt Marsh tour, when greater than a dozen dolphins jumped and swam throughout our boat within the Kiawah River. Accessible resort. Doubles from $749. —Elizabeth Rhodes

Grand Hyatt Deer Valley, Utah

Rising like a stone-and-glass fortress alongside U.S. Route 40 in Utah, the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley anchors what has been billed because the the latest alpine ski space in North America since 1981.  When accomplished, the ski space, Deer Valley East Village, may have 4,100 acres of skiable terrain, 130 trails, and a base village full of retailers, eating places, spas, and multimillion-dollar properties.

That imaginative and prescient started to take form this winter with the opening of the Grand Hyatt. I used to be greeted by a hovering, two-story foyer that led to a wall of glass framing the mighty Jordanelle Reservoir and the snow-capped Wasatch Mountains. A terrace with blazing firepits invited me to take a more in-depth look, but it surely began to snow, so I explored the nice and cozy and toasty foyer as an alternative. 

Once I visited the 436-room resort, there have been households seated on plush sofas round a hearth, decompressing after a day of snowboarding and having fun with artisanal scorching sweets with Oreo cupcakes. Children performed chess of their pajamas. {Couples} shared bottles of wine. Down a protracted hallway, youngsters in bathrobes and flip-flops had been operating to the heated outside pool, which overlooks Deer Valley. In the meantime, a gentle stream of black SUVs rolled up, depositing yet one more batch of skiers and their mountain of drugs. All of it appeared like organized chaos. And if it took just a little longer for the s’mores cookies to reach, few appeared to thoughts. Visitors understood this was a brand new resort in a brand-new ski village. Whereas some kinks wanted to be labored out, they had been stoked to be among the many first to ski down the nation’s freshest trails. Accessible resort. Doubles from $799. —Denny Lee

Lodge Saint Augustine, Houston

The 71-room Hotel Saint Augustine, in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, occupies prime actual property, adjoining to the Menil Assortment—a monumental museum with key Twentieth-century works by Picasso, Matisse, and Pollock. There are different nods to Houston historical past and trivia: the restaurant Perseid, named for the meteor bathe, nods to the town’s significance in house exploration; a cocktail, the Noble Night time Heron, with white rum, rhum agricole, lemongrass, pineapple, and lime, is known as after the town’s official chicken. Certainly, the identify Saint Augustine is taken from Augustus Chapman, who helped discovered Houston in 1836. The brand new keep from Bunkhouse Lodges feels true to the vacation spot and is an ideal addition to Houston’s rising hospitality scene. Accessible resort. Doubles from $429. —Taylor McIntyre

Palm Home, Palm Seashore, Florida

Palm House, the primary American property for the London-based Iconic Luxurious Lodges, opened in Palm Seashore not with a bang, however somewhat with a mother-of-pearl shimmer and a pastel-colored splash. The resort, housed in a pink Mediterranean-Revival constructing from the Sixties, looks like stepping right into a whimsical fantasy of Murano-glass chandeliers, shell and coral murals, pink marble, and plush, ruby-colored seating (Minda Dowling, the resort’s artwork curator, advised me it’s “’The Little Mermaid’ meets ‘Alice in Wonderland’” throughout my keep). Muza Lab, accountable for the inside design, labored with Dowling to plan a extra modern model of Palm Seashore’s traditional design codes. The restaurant, with indoor and outside seating, has views of the pool deck and serves conventional Japanese sushi, nigiri, and ​​kushiyaki alongside Peruvian ceviches. The resort’s seashore concierge service is one other spotlight—the staff will arrange all requirements on the close by Midtown Seashore. However it’s the palm-fringed pool deck, with its pink-and-white striped daybeds and a turquoise-tiled swimming pool, that steals the highlight and makes the resort really feel undeniably like a Palm Seashore scorching spot. Throughout my latest go to, my 6-year-old splashed in it for hours whereas I appeared on from a close-by shaded daybed, having fun with chilled drinks served by the pool concierge. Accessible resort. Doubles from $499. —Dobrina Zhekova

Pendry Natirar, Peapack, New Jersey

Excessive on a ridge overlooking the rolling hills of Somerset County, New Jersey, the 66-room Pendry Natirar is a revelation for New Yorkers: a real luxurious resort simply an hour’s drive from midtown Manhattan. The stately manor, as soon as owned by King Hassan II of Morocco, sits on a 90-acre parcel, to which Pendry has added an natural farm, a fancy with two swimming pools and a scorching tub, tennis courts, and an occasion house. I spent a lot of my late-fall go to cozied up by the unique fireside within the Nice Room, Vesper cocktail in hand. The almost 20,000-square-foot spa was one other spotlight, with its salt cave and cedar saunas. Simply as spectacular had been the eating choices, whether or not the distinctive burger at Ladd’s Tavern or my dinner at Ninety Acres, the place chef Peter Rudolph places an emphasis on native merchandise—some harvested simply outdoors the again door. Accessible resort. Doubles from $850.​ —Paul Brady

Regent Santa Monica Seashore, California

The beachside constructing that homes the Regent Santa Monica was constructed in 1989, and—I imply this in the very best means—feels completely of its time. On the coronary heart of the resort, which started as a part of the Loews model, is a multi-story atrium—that quintessential function of Eighties malls and workplace complexes. Right here, although, all these glass panels form an ethereal birdcage that floods the foyer with West Coast sunshine. 

In its former life, the resort had 347 visitor rooms—as a part of the Regent’s overhaul, nearly all of them have been merged with their neighbors, leading to 167 double-sized areas. My north-facing room had a spacious residing space with a cool modular sofa and a banquette seating space the place I ate my room-service breakfast each morning. (In a single day oats topped with peanut butter and a banana was a revelation, and has duly been included into my each day repertoire.) My floor-to-ceiling home windows provided a panorama of the neighborhood, with views to the west, overlooking the Santa Monica Pier, and to the east, over busy Ocean Avenue. I had an excellent therapeutic massage on the Regent’s Guerlain spa, the Paris-based perfume firm’s West Coast flagship. (I meant to work out within the spectacular 2,000-square-foot health heart, however lazier impulses prevailed.) However what I’ll bear in mind most fondly is the meals at Orla, chef Michael Mina’s signature restaurant, which hit each candy spot: hearty however not heavy, spiced however not overly so. Mina’s menu pays tribute to his household’s Egyptian roots, and all the things I attempted was knock-your-socks-off scrumptious: prawns wrapped in pastry, fluffy breads, a just-right hummus sprinkled with za’atar and pomegranate seeds, a decadent macaroni slathered in bechamel. It was an ideal confluence of Pacific and Mediterranean. Accessible resort. Doubles from $1,100. —Peter Terzian

Terra Palm Springs, California

Energy strolling down Palm Canyon Drive on an uncharacteristically chilly day in Palm Springs, I had just one aim in thoughts: to get myself again into the Himalayan salt sauna at Terra as rapidly as attainable. The 13-room boutique retreat is the primary resort opened by its founders, a younger staff of architects and entrepreneurs, however you’d by no means comprehend it. Diana Ossa, Soli Cayetano, Josh Dobken, and Carrick Younger have created what they’re calling Palm Springs’ first wellness-focused resort—and whereas their declare sounds daring in a vacation spot constructed for leisure, the reality is there’s nothing prefer it so near downtown. Revamping a poolside motel with fashionable design definitely isn’t a brand new method for the California desert’s hospitality scene (although the staff’s use of natural supplies brings a contemporary vibe). But Terra’s immersive wellness choices make it an space standout. “There are such a lot of boutique inns within the space, however we observed none of them had been catering towards that well being and wellness facet,” Cayetano, the mission’s artistic director, advised T+L. “We needed to deliver that right down to Palm Springs and permit folks to have a extra restorative expertise.” Along with Terra’s inviting Himalayan salt sauna, frequent areas embody a chilly plunge, a Jacuzzi, and a “rain forest room” with a rain bathe, soothing thunderstorm sounds, and plush greenery. The self-led wellness circuit is free and low-key (nobody is judged for including a cease on the pool bar for a craft cocktail or mocktail and a snack catered from neighboring eatery Workshop). Visitors also can ebook an Ayurvedic spa therapy and make use of in-room wellness merchandise like HigherDose infrared Pemf mats, Gracious Minds hydrating sheet masks, Plant Folks mushroom gummies, and Uncooked Juicery cleanses. Floor-floor rooms have non-public gardens, with facilities starting from an out of doors soaking tub and a non-public chilly plunge to a firepit. A movement-themed room comes with yoga gear, whereas one other is outfitted with expertise aimed toward optimizing sleep. A yoga class and sound bathtub is open to all friends on Saturdays. 

“Everybody in L.A. and San Diego is craving that deeper reset,” Cayetano says. “They’re approaching trip they usually wish to have enjoyable, however in addition they wish to reconnect with themselves and disconnect with expertise.” As I exhaled within the quiet sauna, feeling the comforting warmth emanate from the pink partitions round me, I needed to agree—it was precisely the kind of reset this Angeleno was searching for. Accessible resort. Doubles from $400. —Nina Ruggiero