Inside the silky skin cooling joy of an 8 foot by 3 foot deep galvanized metal “cowboy spa”. You’ll find it right next to the “where have you been all my life” hammock, just inches away from your icy beers and come-to-mama margaritas. The cowboy spa’s just one of the surprises luring you back into innocence and abandon at the most decadently delicious vacation resorts in the heart of cacti and coyote land. Joshua Tree Oasis is where the coolest vacationers go to be cool. True. Surrounded by stunning beauty inside and out, you get to enjoy the heat and magic of the desert while plunging carefree into one gi-normous watering trough and leaving all cares, aches, and baggage far away. This is pure fun in the sun and cool off time in the outside tub, the huge, bubbling Jacuzzi or kicking back cool as a cucumber inside the resort—your entire being refreshed by the modern AC and humidifying swamp cooling system. It could be a sweltering 110 in the shade, but you’ll be dancing naked inside to the tune of 65 or 55 degrees or whatever you choose to feel the coolest. So c’mon and soak up some summer time fun at Joshua Tree Oasis—where the Mediterranean meets the Mojave—and childhood is just a “double dog dare you” plunge away.

Cara-Wilson Granat

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Eating gobs of antioxidants, greens and grains. Downing handfuls of walnuts 40 chews each. Stretching. Running. Pumping iron. Drinking tons of water. And still something wasn’t working. The only kind of running she really wanted to do was to run away. So, calling a few of her equally about-to-implode buddies she gathered them off to the desert like ancient nomads in search of a legendary oasis.

But THIS oasis was real. This was Joshua Tree Oasis Lodging, a vacation retreat that was as good for the body and soul as any 24-hour fitness gym in the world.

These were two, five-star retreats tucked into the heart of Joshua Tree at the edge of the Mojave Desert with everything designed to unwind and rejuvenate and jumpstart and embrace weary spirits.

This was an outdoor lux spa enough for eight to readily turn to mental and physical mush. Soothing jets of warm, bubbling waters calming Type-A’s into Ohhhs and Aaaaaahhhhhhs.

This was nature walks and a cowboy spa with waters warmed by the afternoon sun and margaritas and barbeques under the stars and workouts that required walking a few steps from the blue rocking chairs to the neighboring hammock and cooking and playing and reading and loving together in a place designed for the un-techno side of life to time into what is real and beautiful and truly healthy in every single way.

Joshua Tree Oasis Lodging. Nothing is better nor more effective for your entire mental and physical body—especially for your smile muscles. They’ll get the greatest workout of all.

Cara  Wilson-Granat

Not only did they have the most beautiful desert vacation retreat to create their masterpiece meals, mixing, baking, chopping away together in the welcoming, state-of-the-art kitchen, and then sitting around the warm, rough-hewn tables and chairs surrounded by a lunar landscape not to be believed…but this was where all eight of them eased back under the stars drinking wine and soaking in one of the most extraordinary outdoor spas in the world.

Literally. It was created by Diamante Spas, Inc. and sliding into it was like lulling into the warm bubbling waters of a masterfully-crafted work of art.

Diamante Spas is like the Cezanne, Mastisse, Picasso of spas. The best in the world. And the Joshua Tree Oasis spa is designed for eight enjoying aaahh-inspiring jets here, there and everywhere your body craves it. As the glow of light cast rainbows of color from the bottle wall and the moon lit up the night like behind the scenes of a Broadway show…Joshua Tree Oasis did its magic. Their laughter accompanied by the clink of glasses and bubbling jets, the group let out a collected sigh.

This is what peace sounds like.

No gourmet meal in the world could compete with this feast of the senses…

Cara Wilson-Granat

Its hot bubbling waters are a masterfully hand crafted work of art. Diamante Spas are like the Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso of spas – “The finest in Joshua Tree Lodging!”

The Joshua Tree Oasis spa is designed for eight people, with 46 elite aaahh-inspiring jets massaging here, there and everywhere your body craves.

It also includes two delectable waterfalls.

Photos by Kent Wilson.