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Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States · Four Seasons · Grand Luxury
Four Seasons opened in December 1999 on 40 acres of Crescent Moon Ranch, the 1940s adobe finishing school cereal heiress Lois Kellogg Maury built in the granite and saguaro foothills of Pinnacle Peak. During construction every plant taller than three feet was tagged, stored for two years, and set back almost where it had grown. Next door, Troon North's Monument and Pinnacle courses, both Tom Weiskopf, still set the desert-golf argument.
- 210 rooms
- Opened 1999
- Neighborhood: Pinnacle Peak
- Rooms from 480 sq ft (45 m²)
About Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North
- Braemar Hotels & Resorts paid $267.8 million for the house in 2022, about $1.28 million per key.
- AAA holds it Five Diamond; Michelin gave it One Key in 2025.
- Talavera is the evening steakhouse under chef Gregory James; Proof is the poolside American canteen.
- Entry-level rooms start at 480 sq ft (45 m²).
History
The high Sonoran Desert foothills of Pinnacle Peak, in the northeastern reaches of what is now Scottsdale, were occupied for millennia by the Hohokam people before European and American settlement reached this far into the Arizona desert. The landscape of golden granite boulders, towering saguaro cactus, and rugged ridgelines that makes this corner of the Sonoran Desert so visually distinct has remained essentially unchanged — the resort's design philosophy has always involved working around the natural formations rather than displacing them.
The more recent history of the site begins in 1948, when enterprising homebuilder George Ellis designed and constructed Crescent Moon Ranch for Lois Kellogg Maury, an heir to the Kellogg cereal fortune from Buffalo, New York. Ellis built the main house in adobe with 18-inch walls and 12-inch partitions, a construction style suited to the desert's temperature extremes. Maury used the adobe main house, two guesthouses, and a bunkhouse as a finishing school for wealthy Eastern debutantes — a characteristically 1940s intersection of western landscape romance and social aspiration — while also renting out guest cottages to seasonal visitors. She held the 127-acre property until 1967, when she sold it to Gordon Ingebritson, an insurance executive and philanthropist. Ingebritson held the property until selling it to the developer who commissioned the Four Seasons resort; the original adobe structures remained on site until 1997, when they were demolished to make way for new construction.
Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North opened in December 1999 on 40 acres of the original Crescent Moon Ranch footprint, its 210 guestrooms organized in low-rise adobe-style buildings that blend into the desert terrain. During construction, every plant taller than three feet was removed, tagged, and stored for more than two years before being replanted as close to its original location as possible — an environmental commitment that reflects the resort's abiding relationship to its landscape. The resort sits directly adjacent to Troon North Golf Club, whose two Tom Weiskopf-designed championship courses, the Monument and the Pinnacle, are consistently ranked among the finest desert courses in America. A $267.8 million sale to Braemar Hotels and Resorts in 2022 — at $1.28 million per key — affirmed the property's standing as one of the most valuable resort assets in the Southwest.
The setting
Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North rests at 10600 East Crescent Moon Drive in the rocky foothills of Pinnacle Peak, in north Scottsdale's high Sonoran Desert. The site was once Crescent Moon Ranch, built in the 1940s for cereal heiress Lois Kellogg Maury as a finishing school for wealthy Eastern debutantes before passing to philanthropist Gordon Ingebritson, who ensured Four Seasons preserved the land's desert character when the resort opened in December 1999. Adjacent to the acclaimed Troon North Golf Club and more than 40 minutes north of Sky Harbor Airport, the resort's deliberate remoteness is its central luxury argument — saguaro-studded solitude and dramatic ridgeline views at the outer edge of the Sonoran.
Restaurants and bars
- Talavera — Restaurant · Steakhouse · Chef Gregory James
- Proof, An American Canteen — Poolside
- Onyx Bar and Lounge — Bar
Amenities
- Outdoor free-form bi-level heated pool (6,000 sq ft / 558 sq m)
- 4 pickleball courts; 2 tennis courts
- 35,900 sq ft total meeting and event space; 3 ballrooms; 2 boardrooms
- Hiking trails into the Pinnacle Peak area with guided desert adventures
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Kids' club
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AAA Five Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2026)
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
- World Travel Awards Arizona's Leading Resort (2022)
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