Chapped lips, dry skin, frizzy hair, sore muscles. Let’s face it: Colorado winters can be tough on your body. Whether you ski, snowboard, ice skate, snowshoe, or just walk the dog and shovel the driveway, a lavish spa treatment can melt your anxiety and reenergize your winter-weary bones.

Fortunately, the Centennial State’s ski towns have a flurry of spas offering high-altitude remedies and soothing experiences. Whether you gift one to yourself, go with a group of friends, or book it as a romantic getaway, here are some splurge-worthy spa treatments to consider any time of year.

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Best Spa Treatments in Aspen

Altitude Adjustment Ritual at the Spa at the Little Nell

  • Best for: When you can’t choose just one treatment
  • Location: The Little Nell, Aspen
  • Price: $650 (120 minutes)

Ski right into this sophisticated slopeside spa, where a head-to-toe treatment starts with full-body exfoliation. A facial sparks collagen production and improves skin elasticity, while a steam shower melts away stress. After that, infrared heat and negative ions rev up a hydrating body mask that’s followed by an oxygen-infused Swedish massage. As a prelude or postlude to your treatment, relax in the stylish reception space adjacent to the spa’s three treatment suites and nibble on tiny delicacies created by the Little Nell’s expert pastry chef, Barbara Marcos.

Herbal Stone Massage at Yarrow

An assortment of wellness products at Hotel Jerome.
Photo courtesy of Hotel Jerome
  • Best for: Personalized treatment
  • Location: Hotel Jerome, Aspen
  • Price: $570 (90 minutes); $790 (120 minutes)

Hotel Jerome’s exquisite Yarrow spa invites visitors to kick off their shoes (and their relaxation). Begin with a foot soak that incorporates a custom blend of essences selected to address personal wellness goals while sipping an herbal brew from Colorado’s Moving Mountains Tea Co. Next, enter one of the three treatment rooms, where a therapist applies an herbal Thai poultice—handcrafted from natural ingredients including turmeric, wild rose, lime, orange, and lemongrass—and massages your cares away using heated Himalayan salt stones and cooling marble.

Best Spa Treatment in Beaver Creek

Miner’s Mineral Mud Wrap at the Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch

The spa pool at The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch
Photo courtesy of The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch

After a day spent schussing (or tumbling) down Beaver Creek’s Golden Eagle, you deserve a sumptuous spa break. This earthy experience includes an exfoliating scrub followed by a detoxifying mud wrap that will turn you into a human burrito of tranquility. Then, step into a bubbly hydrotherapy bath to loosen up muscles before a full-body massage. The resort’s 21,000-square-foot spa and fitness facility features a whirlpool, cold plunge pool, steam room, Himalayan salt wall dry sauna, oxygen bar, 19 treatment rooms, and a stone-walled grotto that can be reserved for private parties.

Best Spa Treatment in Breckenridge

Mountain Man Facial at the Infinity Spa

Sunburn, windburn, tight-fitting goggles, and everyday stress all take a toll on your complexion, and this hydrating treatment for men transforms weather-beaten skin with nourishing cold-pressed botanical extracts incorporated into steaming, extractions, a facial massage, and a scalp rub. After your facial, grab a cold eucalyptus towel and soak in the hot tub, take a daring dip into the cold plunge, bask in the sauna in the adults-only Grotto, or grab a cocktail or collagen tea in the Relaxation Room.

Best Spa Treatment in Steamboat Springs

Salt Therapy  at Waterside Day Spa

  • Best for: Respiratory detox
  • Location: Waterside Day Spa, Steamboat Springs
  • Price: Single guest sessions starting at $40 (45 minutes); group sessions for two to four guests from $70–$100; children aged 12 and under are free with an adult.

Wrap yourself in a soft robe, slide on a pair of slippers, and shuffle into the Halotherapy Salt Suite, where a glowing, 750-pound wall of pink and white Himalayan salt awaits. While a halogenerator disperses microcrystals of salt into the air, your job is simple: Cuddle up in a cozy lounge chair and breathe. “The ‘salt sponges’ absorb mucus, bacteria, allergens, mold, smoke, viruses, and other junk lingering in the respiratory tract so the body can expel it,” says spa owner Lexi Machiela. “It’s not uncommon that guests become so deeply relaxed that they fall asleep.” Aside from encouraging a good snooze, salt therapy is purported to help with oxygen absorption, altitude sickness, allergies, eczema, and more.

Best Spa Treatment in Telluride

Mountain Mama Massage  at the Spa at Madeline Hotel & Residences

Pregnant guests can recline comfortably among supportive cushions while they enjoy a special massage using prenatal body oil. This treatment is designed to accommodate all phases of pregnancy—helping to ease exhaustion and nausea in the first trimester, supporting second trimester growth, and assisting with preparation for birth in the third trimester. The spa’s Recovery Lounge offers customized therapeutic foot soaks infused with herbal oils including fragrant chamomile and peppermint.

Best Spa Treatments in Vail

Colorado Leg Recovery Massage  at Manor Vail Spa

Spa room at The Little Nell
Photo by Shawn O’Connor
  • Best for: Après ski
  • Location: Manor Vail Lodge, Vail
  • Price: $145 (40 minutes)

Pry your tender tootsies from those plastic ski boots and settle in for a full-leg recovery session fit for an elite athlete. After dipping your feet in an Epsom salt detox soak to get your blood flowing, a therapist massages your legs and feet with healing CBD-infused products to reduce soreness and muscle inflammation. Then, it’s time to pump up the Normatec compression boots to stimulate your circulation, flush out any lingering lactic acid, and combat muscle fatigue.

CBD Treatments at the Hythe

A spa room at The Hythe
Photo courtesy of the Hythe
  • Best for: Stress relief
  • Location: The Hythe, Vail
  • Price: CBD manicure, $115 (45 minutes); CBD pedicure, $130 (50 minutes); CBD recovery massage, $260 (50 minutes) and $340 (80 minutes); CBD balancing restoring body wrap, $360 (80 minutes)

Cannabidiol is growing increasingly popular in the wellness space for its purported health benefits, ranging from reducing anxiety to easing chronic pain. Get in on the trendy treatment at the Hythe, where you can boost your manicure or pedicure with a detoxifying CBD truffle soak followed by a citrus scrub and a massage with CBD balm. The spa’s full-body CBD recovery massage includes a slathering of CBD and arnica oils, and the CBD balancing restoring body wrap uses CBD balms and oils for exfoliation, massage, and a final wrap that’s a cocoon of restorative bliss. The spa sources its CBD products from Colorado-based CauseMedic.

Five-Star Decadence Facial with Foot Reflexology at Sonnenalp Hotel

  • Best for: Over-the-top indulgence
  • Location: Sonnenalp Hotel, Vail
  • Price: $405 (50 minutes); $490 (75 minutes)

Settle into this spa’s Bavarian warmth and let two therapists work their magic simultaneously. An esthetician applies nature-based Pevonia skincare products during a luxurious facial while a massage therapist tends to your hands and feet with reflexology techniques using organic, wildcrafted aromatherapy massage oils. Not decadent enough? The extended version of the treatment includes an advanced masque application and special hand hydration.