Come for the weekend. Leave a better person.

A nature-first wellness resort on thirty acres of cedar forest, twenty minutes from downtown Austin. Twelve domes named for the stars, a limestone pool fed by a waterfall, and a kitchen that grows its own.

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It started as a home. It became a community project.

The Heavens wasn't drawn up in a boardroom. It grew out of a ranch outside Austin where friends kept showing up — first for dinner, then for the trails, the fire, the night sky. Somewhere along the way, a place to live became a place to come back to.

Now it's being built out for everyone: domes of aircrete and stained glass, a pool carved from limestone, gardens feeding the kitchen — all set inside a living cedar forest rather than cleared out of it.

“People used to come over for dinner. Now it's a place people come for the weekend — go on the hikes, have s'mores, and come back a better person.”
Dan Mages, co-founder — on what The Heavens has become. It's called an experience.
“The health of a species is the habitat made visible.”
Dan Mages, from Tribal Truths

Healthy ecosystems create healthy humans.

Flat illustration: a small wooden footbridge over a creek at midday; a coyote, a bobcat carrying a rabbit and a skunk cross it, with cedars behind. TRAIL CAM · MIDDAY

One little bridge. One week. Everyone crossed.

Behind the house there's a small bridge over the water. A neighbor set up a trail camera, and in a single week it caught a parade — coyotes, skunks, bobcats with rabbits in their mouths. In the middle of the day.

That's the point of The Heavens. We're building inside a habitat that's already thriving, and designing every path, pool and garden to keep it that way.

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Twelve domes, each named for a constellation.

Hand-poured aircrete, Spanish Neo-Gothic arches, stained glass that throws color across the floor at golden hour. No two rooms alike. Hover a dome to trace its stars.

Dome names follow the zodiac constellations — Virgo, Scorpio, Leo and the rest. Final names and suite layouts may change during the build.

The domes

The signature stay: sculptural, cool in the Texas heat, finished with reclaimed cedar and one-of-one interiors.

Waterfall-front villas

Overnight studios on the edge of the pool, close enough to fall asleep to the waterfall.

Nature-preserve tents

Glamping deeper in the cedar, for the guests who came for the stars and the trail at dawn.

Made by hand, on site

Stained glass by Jim Berry of Blue Moon Glassworks. Sinks carved from slabs of reclaimed cedar. Arches, mosaics and limestone set by a team whose creative director spent decades in stone and masonry. The domes are the art — you just get to sleep in them.

Walk in from the beach. Swim to the waterfall.

The heart of the property: a 200,000-gallon, all-natural, beach-entry pool built from Texas limestone, with a twelve-foot waterfall at its head. Cabanas line the deck; villas sit right on the water.

Flat illustration of the beach-entry limestone pool at sunset, with a stacked-stone waterfall, white cabanas and domes among cedars.
200,000gallons of natural, limestone-lined water
12 ftwaterfall at the head of the pool
Beach entrywade in like a creek bank — no ladders, no tile edge

Oeste. Dinner, grown down the path.

The old ranch house becomes a garden-to-table restaurant, with a juice and spirits bar. Part of what's on your plate is grown in the gardens on the land.

  • Organic and non-GMO
  • Cooked without seed oils
  • Six hand-built organic gardens feeding the kitchen
  • From the team behind Old Coyote Cafe
Flat illustration of a converted ranch house with a lit porch, string lights and raised garden beds of vegetables in front.

Gather under the open sky.

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The amphitheater

A 450-seat amphitheater for live music, talks and celebrations — curated by a creative director who has produced more than a thousand live events.

The yoga pagoda

Morning practice at tree-line height, wellness programming through the day, and quiet in between.

Weddings, retreats & special events

Say it under the stained glass, dance by the pool, send everyone to a dome for the night. The Heavens is designed from the ground up for weddings, wellness retreats and gatherings that deserve a whole weekend.

Close to everything. Far from it, too.

Cedar Creek, in Bastrop County — east of the city, where the ranch land opens up. Close enough for a Friday-night escape; far enough that the stars come out.

Downtown Austin~20 min
Austin-Bergstrom Airport~10 min
Circuit of the Americas~8 min
Simplified map: The Heavens in Cedar Creek, southeast of downtown Austin, near the airport and Circuit of the Americas. Downtown Austin AUS Airport Circuit of the Americas The Heavens ATX Cedar Creek, TX

Be here for first light.

We're still building. Join the list for opening news, first-night availability and an early look inside the domes.