8 Western U.S. hotels on Travel + Leisure’s ‘It List’ of swanky new inns
Travel + Leisure’s annual “It List” always showcases some of the planet’s most eye-popping, daring new hotels. This year’s just-unveiled list does likewise (although the very idea of opening a new hotel during a pandemic is pretty daring all on its own).
The resulting list of 73 properties in 29 countries is the stuff of dreams — quite literally, because the only world in which we can globe-trot from the Angama Safari Camp in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve to a 19th-century Indian mansion in Jaipur is dreamland.
You can browse the full global lineup at www. travelandleisure.com, along with envy-inspiring photographs, but right now, we’re focused on the eight Western U.S. options on the list. No jetsetting required. They’re all drivable.
The luxurious lineup ranges from Utah’s swanky Camp Sarika, where a sleek glamping experience in the canyonlands near Horseshoe Bend will run you $3,800 a night, to the Cara Hotel ($199) in Los Angeles’ hip Los Feliz neighborhood.
The owners of Paso Robles’ Hotel Cheval have just opened The Stables Inn nearby. Lake Tahoe’s stalwart Sorensen’s Resort has been reinvented as Wylder Hope Valley. And the new Montage Healdsburg resort, which opened in January, is so quintessentially Wine Country, it boasts 15.5 acres of vineyards and its own winemaker, Aperture Cellars’ Jesse Katz. Also: a spa, a yoga lawn and multiple restaurants, including the Hazel Hill restaurant.
Here are the top eight in California, Arizona and Utah:
• Adero Scottsdale, Arizona
• Camp Sarika by Amangiri, Canyon Point, Utah
• Cara Hotel, Los Angeles
• Hotel Ynez, Solvang
• Montage Healdsburg
• Stables Inn, Paso Robles
• White Water Cambria
• Wylder Hope Valley, Lake Tahoe