AAA Four-Diamond Colorado Springs resort — 57 luxury rooms and suites, 12 Casita residences, six cottages, the Kissing Camels golf course and a contemporary-design counterpart to the historic Broadmoor.
"The contemporary-design Pikes Peak resort the Broadmoor is too historic to be. Smaller, quieter, with the better immediate views of the red-rock Garden of the Gods national landmark."
Garden of the Gods Resort and Club opened in its current form after a 2010 reinvention of the original 1951 Kissing Camels Country Club — a private golf-and-tennis club that had been a discreet Colorado Springs membership address since the post-war years. The current owners — the Anschutz-related private investment that also holds the Broadmoor — repositioned the property as a public-facing resort while preserving the members-club tone, the unobstructed Pikes Peak views, and the working golf-and-tennis club at the centre of the operation. The result is a contemporary-luxury counterpart to the historic Broadmoor, twenty minutes north on the I-25 corridor, with the property's principal architectural distinction being the deliberately small key count.
Accommodations are the property's central proposition: 57 rooms across the main building, 12 multi-bedroom Casita residences, and six one-to-three-bedroom cottages on the property edges — each looking either at Pikes Peak or at the red-rock formations of the Garden of the Gods national landmark next door. Standard rooms run a generous 525 square feet with full king beds, separate bathrooms with deep soaking tubs, and Pikes Peak balcony views. The Casitas (1- to 3-bedroom, 1,200 to 2,800 square feet) and Cottages have full kitchens, living rooms, outdoor fireplaces, and the residential-feeling layout that distinguishes the property from larger conventional resort hotels. Every accommodation was renovated through 2023 in the most recent capital cycle.
The Strata Integrated Wellness Spa is the property's most distinctive amenity — a 5,000-square-foot integrative-medicine facility that combines conventional spa treatments with functional medicine consultations, IV-vitamin therapies, body-composition analysis, and the resort's Strata Health Optimization programmes. The Kissing Camels Golf Club operates 27 holes (designed by Press Maxwell, refreshed by Tom Lehman in the 2010s), the Tennis & Pickleball Club runs four indoor and two outdoor courts, and the Spencer's Restaurant and Grand View Dining Room handle the food side. The property's Pikes Peak terrace is the most-photographed view in Colorado Springs after the Garden of the Gods itself.
Garden of the Gods Resort's central distinction is the contemporary-luxury, smaller-scale alternative it offers to the Broadmoor's historic-grand-hotel register. The 57 rooms and 18 cottages and casitas mean the property is genuinely small — it never operates at conference-resort density — and the integrated wellness programming gives the property a wellness-retreat axis that the larger Broadmoor cannot match. For the Colorado Springs anniversary that prefers Pikes Peak views over Cheyenne Mountain ones, for the solo-retreat booking that wants a smaller, quieter base, or for the wellness-driven trip that wants integrative-medicine programming alongside the standard Rocky Mountain register, this is the address.
Garden of the Gods runs the strongest hotel-resident wellness programme in the Rocky Mountain region. Strata Integrated Wellness Spa offers IV-vitamin therapies, functional-medicine consultations, body-composition analysis, the seven-day Health Optimization residential programme, and the standard spa-treatment menu at a Forbes-Four-Star calibre. The high-altitude trail-running and Pikes Peak hiking outside the front door, the on-site yoga and meditation programming, and the resort's culinary collaborations with the Strata wellness team make this the region's wellness-retreat default.
Anniversary stays at Garden of the Gods calibrate well for the contemporary-luxury register: a Pikes Peak Suite for a quiet weekend, a one-bedroom Casita for a milestone year, a three-bedroom cottage for the multi-generation family-anniversary version. Spencer's restaurant handles the formal anniversary dinner; Strata Spa runs the half-day couple's treatment; the Pikes Peak terrace at sunset is the canonical post-dinner activity. Pair with a Pikes Peak cog-railway round trip for the version that includes the day-trip.
Garden of the Gods is one of the strongest solo-traveller bookings in the Rocky Mountain region per dollar spent. The 57-room scale means staff recognise the solo guest by day three; the integrative-wellness programming gives the solo trip a structural anchor (the seven-day Strata residential programme is the strongest version of this); the Garden of the Gods trails outside the front door run from beginner to ultramarathon distance. Standard king rooms are the booking; the seven-day Strata package the recommended structure.
3320 Mesa Road
Colorado Springs, CO 80904
United States
Two minutes from Garden of the Gods national landmark; 15 minutes from downtown Colorado Springs; 1 hour south of Denver International Airport (DEN)
57 rooms + 12 Casitas + 6 Cottages
Pikes Peak rooms from $311/night
Pikes Peak Suites from $549/night
One-bedroom Casitas from $750/night
Three-bedroom Cottages from $1,500/night
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Founded 1951 as Kissing Camels Country Club; reinvented 2010
AAA Four-Diamond
Strata Integrated Wellness Spa
27-hole Kissing Camels Golf Club
Tennis & Pickleball Club
Spencer's signature dining
Grand View Dining Room
Pikes Peak views from every room
Garden of the Gods adjacency
57-room boutique scale
From $311/night for a Pikes Peak room. Casitas and cottages book three to four months ahead for July, August, and Christmas weeks; the seven-day Strata Health Optimization residential programme requires advance medical questionnaire submission.
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