The Best Things to Do Near {pretty to think so}, by the Record
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Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Catskills and Shawangunks from inside a hammam-style bathhouse that somehow manages to feel warm despite being genuinely stark. This spa at the Inness resort runs about 7,000 square feet, with a saltwater pool for warmer months and the kind of severe, expensive minimalism that ends up being more inviting than intimidating. Vogue put it on their 100 Best Spas in the World list, which tracks.
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A 20,000-square-foot wellness center at a rambling New England inn two hours from New York, Mayflower Spa sits on 58 wooded acres at the Berkshires' foothills and has landed on Vogue's 100 Best Spas in the World list. The spa mixes Eastern and Western treatments, so alongside the standard facials and bodywork you'll find reiki, acupuncture, and Tarot readings, which is either refreshing or alarming depending on how you feel about your future.
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The spa Oprah sold to daytime America is now available to East Coasters without flying to Arizona. The Life in Balance Spa at Miraval Berkshires goes well beyond hot stones and cucumber water, offering treatments so elaborate they're called rituals, including a guided stretch-massage where the therapist hangs from silk ceiling drapes and uses her feet on your shoulders. Vogue named it among the 100 Best Spas in the World, and the forested Lenox setting gives the whole thing a very convincing "I've done the work" atmosphere.