Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North spreads across 40 acres of high Sonoran Desert in north Scottsdale, Arizona, opened in 1999 and refreshed with a $13 million renovation in 2018. The resort sits beside the Weiskopf-designed Troon North Golf Club, facing the jagged silhouette of Pinnacle Peak, twenty miles from Old Town Scottsdale and forty-five minutes from Phoenix Sky Harbor. Adobe-style casitas in one- and two-story clusters rise from the desert floor among saguaros, palo verde trees and wildflowers. The 210 rooms and 22 suites are dressed in earth tones, natural stone, and Southwestern textiles. Even standard rooms include walk-in closets, gas fireplaces, and eight-foot-deep private patios opening to desert and ridge views. Suites add plunge pools, kiva fireplaces, outdoor garden showers, and telescopes, Arizona's dark skies need no filter.
Talavera, the signature restaurant, is built around Chef Emmanuel Urban's paellas, confit rabbit with Ibérico pancetta in the meat version, lobster and clams in the seafood — best reserved at sunset when Pinnacle Peak shifts from gold to violet. Proof serves all-day Southwestern fare. Saguaro Blossom handles poolside drinks. The 6,000-square-foot lagoon pool anchors resort life, ringed by complimentary cabanas. The Spa draws on desert botanicals and indigenous healing traditions, from cactus-flower essences to mineral-mud wraps. Tennis, hiking trails, mountain biking, and the Kids For All Seasons program fill the days. Four Seasons Scottsdale does not use the desert as backdrop — it walks you into it, lets firelight and starlight carry you through the day.
