Thirty acres of cedar forest in Cedar Creek, twenty minutes from downtown Austin: twelve hand-built domes, a limestone pool with a waterfall, and a kitchen fed by the gardens. Healthy ecosystems create healthy humans.
Under construction now. Opening news goes to the list first.
People used to come over for dinner. Then they started staying the whole weekend, out on the hikes, back by the fire for s'mores. Our founders have a short name for what happens here: “It’s an experience.”
The Heavens is built inside a living habitat, not on top of one. The cedars, live oaks and hollies stay. The coyotes and bobcats keep their routes. Everything we add (domes, pool, gardens, stage) is meant to make the land healthier, because the land is what sends you home “a better person.”
“The health of a species is the habitat made visible.”
Every room is one-of-one: aircrete shells, stained glass cut by hand, and reclaimed cedar where you would expect plastic.
The country’s first domed aircrete eco-luxury resort. Each dome is named for a constellation (Virgo, Scorpio, Leo and nine more), with Spanish Neo-Gothic arches, handcrafted stained glass by Jim Berry of Blue Moon Glassworks, and one-of-one interiors in reclaimed cedar, down to the hand-carved sinks.
Overnight studios on the rim of the pool, close enough to fall asleep to the twelve-foot waterfall.
Glamping on raised decks in the cedar hills, out where the coyotes and bobcats keep their routes. Canvas walls, cedar all around, and the forest right outside the flap.
Two hundred thousand gallons, all natural, edged in Texas limestone and fed by a twelve-foot waterfall: the largest all-natural beach-entry resort pool in Austin. Come for the night, or come for the day: day passes and shaded cabanas are part of the plan.
The old ranch house becomes Oeste, a garden-to-table restaurant with a juice and spirits bar. Part of what lands on your plate is grown in the gardens out back; the kitchen is built on organic food experience from Old Coyote Cafe.
A 450-seat amphitheater cut into the meadow, a yoga pagoda in the trees, and room for weddings, retreats and live music. Co-founder Roland Barrera has produced more than a thousand live events and designs the gatherings here.
Behind the house, a little bridge crosses the water. The neighbors set up trail cameras, and in a single week the traffic was astonishing, in the middle of the day. Coyotes. Skunks. Bobcats carrying rabbits. This is the habitat the resort lives inside.
Under the canopy: coastal live oak, cedar, American holly and Ashe juniper.
Cedar Creek, Bastrop County, off Northside Lane and FM 535. Close enough for a Friday-night escape, and right next door when Formula One and the big concerts come to the Circuit of the Americas.
The domes are going up and the pool is carved. Leave your email and we’ll write when the first nights open. No spam, just first light.